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R2DHue
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Unapologetic Apple fanboi since birth.
Amazon’s bold new hardware strategy is to not to lose money on its Alexa ecosystem.
March 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Hell is other people.
March 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I hope Apple can pull this off and diversify its manufacturing base without pissing off China, which could easily rug pull Apple and deal them a fatal blow. China has ZERO respect for US & international law and could outright BAN sales of Apple products in the company’s 2nd (I think) largest market.
March 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
And if this did come to pass, the first thing I’d do after buying a new Mac with its now “zero-travel ‘solid state’ software keyboard” is go out and buy the biggest, thickest, chunkiest, THOCKIEST keyboard I could possibly find!

I like key travel! And tactile keypress satisfaction!
👎 +👃+ @ = 😛 ⌨️ 🖥️
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I’m quite familiar w/the “NEVER think, ‘What Would Steve Do’?” injunction— STILL! —I STRONGLY believe if Steve Jobs were alive & Apple CEO today he’dve waved his magic wand widely—seeing mechanical keyboards as anachronisms—and FORCED all new Mac buyer to use “software keyboards” à la iPhone & iPad.
March 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
2/2 FWIW Scuttlebutt fr: weibo, Reddit, message boards, murky websites suggest, Apple, not being ready in 2025 for TSMC’s SoIC-MH 3D packaging tech, will try to make up for this failing by using DDR5-8533 ≈ 8800 MT/s RAM and 800+ GB/s memory bandwidth for BASE M5, from suppliers SK Hynix and Micron.
March 17, 2025 at 1:12 AM
I remember using some sort of PDP-[##] computer as a dumb terminal to a VAX 11/780 superminicomputer.

The DEC PDP “smart” minicomputers are said to have inspired the designs of both the Intel x86 and Motorola 68000 CPUs.

So the unique design of a whole computer inspired the design of CPU chips.
March 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
I’m just gonna have to see one “in the flesh,” that’s all there is to it.

But for VERY fine graphics/video work, every pixel counts (even on a Retina display), and I can’t afford ANY graininess — at all.

Guess I’ll just have to suffer with some extra reflectiveness!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
March 15, 2025 at 5:56 AM
I can’t help but notice, Google sounds very “Scooby-Doo-ish” in this response…

I wonder if the Feds would allow Chrome to exist as an autonomous franchise under “Alphabet.” 🤔

Like Meta…sorta…
November 20, 2024 at 8:40 PM
To anyone who has firsthand experience with Apple nanotexture: does it create a graininess to the display/image? I’ve seen plenty of anti-reflective screen covers and they all totally RUINED the “Retina display” experience.
November 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM