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- autoflavour0
was reminded today my 2017 MacBook Pro is old. went to book a battery replacement and they told me its a legacy device and no longer stock batteries..
like fuck off, apart from the battery it still runs everything I need..
- Still has USB C charging? Gaffa tape a 20,000mah battery pack to the back of it?slappy
- You can do a DIY upgrade from OWC, or hire a tech to do it since disassembly isn't fun: https://eshop.macsal…evilpeacock
- ifixit and let your kid do the assembly.uan
- ...+1 for any/all OWC upgrades. Take your time AND reward yourself heavily once complete!ideaist
- NBQ00-2
How long until MacOS takes over as the most used desktop operating system globally?
- Not in my lifetime, by a long shot. I'd bet on ChromeOS before MacOS. Windows just crushes it, though, no threat to them.formed
- https://gs.statcount…formed
- Never, losercrazyprick
- Macs are too expensive to take over globallyFNP14
- Is it even on a real up tick?monospaced
- Yes. I think ever since the iPhone introduction the iPhone "glow" helped Mac sales. Windows is declining year after year.NBQ00
- Bullshit. Windows spits on MacOS year after yearcrazyprick
- iPhone came out over 15 years ago. macOS gained a couple percent of market share.monospaced
- Mac (OS) marketshare used to be 2%-5% at some point. It's now at 20%: https://gs.statcount…NBQ00
- In 2009 OS X market share was 4%, so that's a substantial increase: https://gs.statcount…NBQ00
- So give it another 100 years, assuming that initial momentum is sustainable (it's not).formed
- grafician-10
"EXCLUSIVE: Apple is developing generative AI tools and an internal chatbot app called "Apple GPT" that could take on OpenAI and Google"
- Okay who downvoted this!? This is very good news, are you dumb?!grafician
- I did. AI can suck a dickcrazyprick
- You do realise that when Apple gets in the game is usually with a very high quality product that beats everybody else, so running local LLMs uuuh sweetgrafician
- Btw have you tried Apple Maps these past years? It's above Google maps in almost any way today, just sayinggrafician
- Yes, the did fantastic wheels for Mac Pro. Absolutely stunning, cutting edge stuff.crazyprick
- disagree on Apple maps... Apple maps was largely useless in both Taiwan and Japan when I traveled there this year... google maps hands downjonny_quest_lives
- apple maps is utter garbage.hans_glib
- Of course Apple maps sucks ass and grafician is a dirty, stinkin' Apple fanboy.crazyprick
- "Our Best AI GPT" Ever!" - Tim Cookutopian
- He said, you’re an idiot if you downvote this. Because Apple is the BEST. Morons.monospaced
- DOA, just like Siri is now. Their "privacy" bs killed any possibility here, unless they let another company do the dirty work, which I doubt.formed
- Someone always calls it DOA before it’s released and is a huge success. No doubt Apple will use AI as a major Siri updatemonospaced
- sausages0
Brand new M2 MBP with all the upgrades and the spacebar squeaks like I'm fingerbanging a mouse repeatedly.
I use a wireless keyboard in the office but I'm at home today so using the laptop keyboard for the first time.
Un-fucking-believable.
- is this good or bad?oey_oey
- My left cmd key broke when my mbp was 9 months out of warranty, apple fixed it for free anyway. Inconvenient, but at least you know there will be no pushback.slappy
- Have the M2 Pro MBP too, no issues at all. The keyboard is amazing and huge improvement over the past ones.NBQ00
- yep, squeak. no squeak issues squeak at squeak all.kingsteven
- Brand new? Send it back, why whine here?comicsans
- Dude, send it back! The squeaky keyboard gets the grease.jmckinno
- Word on the apple forums is they won't de-squeak because it is "cosmetic" issue. It has to break to be considered faulty.sausages
- finger banging mice is never a good lookautoflavour
- Manufacturing problems are common. That is why they have warranties.comicsans
- _niko0
Anyone grab an MacBook Air m2? Any problems running Adobe cc?
- Mine arrives this week, I'll let you know. Two week wait if you want the extra RAM (AUS).slappy
- Problems with latest MacOS
don't upgradegrafician - @niko, I'm running 13.4, the currently latest version, and I see no issues, and neither do the other 150 people on our team. No problems running Adobe CC.monospaced
- cheers guys, grabbed it and yeah no issues, runs really smoothly, fingers crossed it stays that way_niko
- No issues here either.slappy
- crazyprick-1
Apple is a bunch of faggots:
- NBQ000
Underrated but such a time-saver in MacOS: Being able to select text from images and from videos directly in any type style is so useful.
If you think back just 5 or so years ago this wasn't really possible or thought of.
- How? I've still recently used fee /OCR online services. My iphone does it really easily though.HAYZ1LLLA
- *free OCRHAYZ1LLLA
- What do you mean how? All you have to do is select text in images or videos, that easy.NBQ00
- It's a hidden setting:
Sys settings->General->L... & Region ... LIVE TEXT
Make sure its turned on.Centigrade
- grafician-3
"So Apple’s new #VisionPro headset is out, and it looks like a cool product. I happened to work on it five years ago, so here’s a number of thoughts on the gadget. This is long and rambling, and all of my first-hand information is five years old, so make of it what you will.1/"
- This kinda reminds of the first iPhones stories - if history repeats itself with this new tech Apple will again change the world...grafician
- * for the worsebogue
- those that need glasses, have to pay out a shed load for lenses to use this thing... then consider prescription updates...shapesalad
- sted1
- shapesalad-2
The Vision Pro is still no iPhone.
When the iPhone came out, it just made sense compared to all the mobile phones we had at the time. It was instantly desirable and seemingly the solution we had all been looking for from a mobile phone device.
The Vision Pro from a tech and UI/UX perspective is top tier and highly refined and considered... but it's not an "ahhhh... that's what we want!" sort of solution.
- Yup. I was no Apple fan but I saw its value and bought one.formed
- exactly, it's the segway of devices. Great tech but unneeded and dorky as fuck._niko
- hot takekingsteven
- Perhaps, but there were plenty of naysayers and people mocking apple for the iPhone back theninteliboy
- Also no one really saw in the future that it basically ended up being a social media computer and rotted societyinteliboy
- The vision - who knows what it will look like in 10 years.inteliboy
- ^ https://i.imgur.com/…Squiddy
- Perhaps its more like a 'trackpad'.. great tech that in the future is combined with something else, then it makes sense. eg now we have touch screen phones etcshapesalad
- to be fair, iPhone was supposed to be a better version of what everyone already had, a mobile phonemonospaced
- this isn't that, it's just an apple version of a very niche market, and a niche price, and isn't meant to disrupt an established industrymonospaced
- shapesalad-1
So it has 10 cameras and 3 screens on it?
- Centigrade2
There are LOTs of use cases.
Patient 'distraction' in heath care is a good example.
– CT scanners where people get claustrophobic.
– EVERY kids dentist (and adults too!) is going to want one etc. etc.- Interesting. Have any existing headsets that have been around for several years been used for these use cases?monospaced
- My kid's dentist just has a 14" monitor on the wall and that is more than enough for most kids it seems ;)monospaced
- can't use them in a CT scanner... i mean the thing is a giant ass magnet...jonny_quest_lives
- "Man Dies of Gunshot Wound After MRI Scanner Pulls Weapon from Waistband During Mother's Procedure"jonny_quest_lives
- stop trying to make the Apple VR headset happen... they had no choice to release it spent too much money. corporate ego at this point...jonny_quest_lives
- sell them @ $999 and this would be an entirely different discussion but at nearly 2x the price point of an 8K 65" QLED TV... normies ain't buyingjonny_quest_lives
- autoflavour described it best below... too much money spent on R&D and tooling had to release it.. they may see what sticks...jonny_quest_lives
- A CT scanner is not an MRI machine.Centigrade
- if they were bold or believed in the space $999 price point but as it stands it's priced to fail unless you have a niche use casejonny_quest_lives
- Sony has sold 38.5 million PS5 consoles to date and has only sold 600,000 PS VR2 headsets at a price point of $549. VR is a niche product in any ecosystem.jonny_quest_lives
- dunno how Apple overcomes that at Three thousand four hundred ninety nine dollarsjonny_quest_lives
- sorry *Starting at $3499jonny_quest_lives
- Still can't have metal on you during a CT scan unless it's internal and even then you need to disclose at it effects the imaging...jonny_quest_lives
- CT is Xrays. The only thing metal is going to do it show up as opaque.monNom
- I want to meet the hospital insurance underwriter that will let you take a headset with a lithium battery back into an x-ray environment or MRI areajonny_quest_lives
- Microsoft has sold 300,000 units of its HoloLens headset since launch in 2015 https://www.microsof…jonny_quest_lives
- VR != ARaliastime
- @alias, acting like it's one or the other is silly. These would obviously do both and very well. Calm down. Of course they're for VR too.monospaced
- It's not like you look through them. Everything you see is a screen. It's 100% virtualmonospaced
- monospaced2
Final Cut Pro will be supported in Vision Pro at launch. There's an interesting creative use right out the gate, and not just gaming.
- A filmmaker can actually experience how it would feel in a theater, while editing. Pretty cool :)monospaced
- I actually think people are framing it as a VR, gaming, watching TV/film/porn but the “work” side of it could be epic. Even if a little sad where we’re goinghardhat
- mg333
RE: use cases.
At SXSW last year when demoing a bunch of VR experiences, one company told us that they're used in a few places in burn units where patients are getting skin grafts and other painful procedures. The VR environment distracts them and reduces their conscious awareness of the pain of it in a big way.
Thought that was pretty cool.
- https://pubmed.ncbi.…jonny_quest_lives
- These results suggest VR requires a significant time commitment from staff for implementation. One clear disadvantage was the lack of on-site technical supportjonny_quest_lives
- gotta keep costs low to preserve the healthcare markupjonny_quest_lives
- Western healthcare has never been about quality patient carejonny_quest_lives
- "Further research is needed to determine if VR benefits are worth the implementation costs."jonny_quest_lives
- shittiest timeline material right there...jonny_quest_lives
- yeah for sure the medical world is going to be using them, also for mental health things, trauma etc.shapesalad
- prophetone-3
- fack af with tiktokmilfhunter
- lol time to get tt’s embedded right on the queube... to the future!prophetone
- _niko6
Has anyone here actually enjoyed using a VR headset? beyond the novelty of it?
I used it a couple of times and it's kind of cool for like a minute, then you feel so weird that you don't know what's going on in your real surroundings. With a group of people it's even weirder.
You also want to be able to enjoy things as a family or a group, movies, video games etc...are we suppose to gear out the whole family for 20k just to look like a bunch of morons pretend swimming in our living rooms?
- But this is spatial computingNBQ00
- +1fadein11
- I have 4 headsets, the Oculus Rift S is pretty awesome, Half-Life: Alyx is sooo dope, but you need a really fast machine to run itYakuZoku
- I have 2 Quest 2's that I play with my daughter w/ .they suck in comparison, graphics be like "What Year Is It?"YakuZoku
- My Vive set up in the bar/hangout room, mirror on TV so everyone could see what the player sees, had a blast and got friends to try that never wanted.BabySnakes
- did that stuff cost 3.5K a piece?fadein11
- and that's extreme gaming, not general usage. I didn't see much promotion for playing games.formed
- I've only played with a nexus 5 in a cardboard VR set up (lol) and it made me feel intensely ill. I really want to try contemporary offerings.Nairn
- My best pal spends a % of his day in VR and he seems to love it. Take that how you will.Nairn
- yup, VR can be pretty dope but the good stuff aint cheapYakuZoku
- Quest is for kidsYakuZoku
- I've done some VR Arenas with friends. It's fun for an evening. People without Quake II experience get lost in VR was my take away.uan
- I got the quest pro. Not that far away from what apple showed...inv
- PSVR2 here and I love it. Yes it’s solo but the PS has output to tv so everyone can see what you’re falling into.MrT
- Also of note, PSVR2 was not well received at $5-600, so Apple is either arrogant AF or haven't read the room very well.MrT
- yeah exactly..autoflavour
- I've bought the cardboard one years ago for experimenting. VR is not for me, sorry. FFS! My priority is to spend fewer hours in front of the screens...OBBTKN
- Makes me motion sickdrgs
- shapesalad-1
What happens when you want to scratch the side of your eye while wearing these things?
- autoflavour1
my take is this a legacy project from the whole Metaverse hullabaloo from last year but they already threw too much at it to just pull the pin..
this feels like a giant mistake on Apples behalf.. especially on that price point..
Also the whole USA first release thing is so 2007 .. I get it, your an American company but your a global brand..
for sure interested to try it, there is no way in hell will be buying ..
at almost $5300 Australian .. I would sooner be buying a new laptop..Also what's with that stupid battery pack?
- also further to that, our kids have been at us to get the PSVR2 for the PS5 .. and we haven't as the last thing they need is MORE screen time.autoflavour
- anyone know the time line of the homepod? vaguely recall it was a pet project of sorts and then without Jobs around (?) to axe or edit it, it became what it isSquiddy
- kinda agree with Autoflavor is what im sayingSquiddy
- maybe these could work as part of some immersive augmented experience gaming where groups of people play together and pay 29.99/ hour long game in some warehous_niko
- but at 3500 US a pop I don't see how these will fly as a consumer products, way too niche._niko
- 2 hours per battery pack, they'll be selling lots of battery packs if watching media is an intended use case for this device.BuddhaHat
- I think you can just plug it in too.monospaced
- that said, we have multiple home pods are they are awesome. we use them for everything from kitchen lights, turning off the internet for kids etc.. and musicautoflavour
- also not to be the devils advocate, but Macs and gaming are two words which don't often go well togetherautoflavour
- my 12 year old needed a laptop for high school and wanted a MacBook Air.. was so so hyped. then after he got it was so crestfallen when it realised it wasn'tautoflavour
- going to be the new gaming machine he anticipated.autoflavour
- 2 HOUR BATTERY PACK.. SO DUMBautoflavour
- Apple price anchors while developers create quality applications (medical, design, engineering). Autoflavour of your post aligns with their desired perceptionSlashPeckham
- In two years time it will lower prices and make far more off app subscriptions, events and contentSlashPeckham
- NBQ00-2
- Not sure what's worse the product itself or youtube being flooded with tubers falling over themselves to find something to say about it, without even trying it.shapesalad
