The new 6K Apple Retina Display is insane looking, and having the cheesegrater on the back in a nice touch. HOLY SHIT!
1000 nits of brightness and 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio! XDR, ProDisplay XDR!
And Rotation for Portrait mode! WOW!
Again, going to cost a mint!
Yup $4999, a fucking mint, and $5999 for the higher end one!
OK, so HOLY SHIT!
The new MacPro looks like a Cheesegrater, and while it doesn’t support NVIDIA, it looks powerful as shit. Room for 4 32 GB Video Cards, and a Video Processor card! And up to 1.5 Terrabytes RAM! And over a gigahert of power! FUCK ME!
And realtime 8K color correction with FX in DaVinci! WOW!!!!
And it looks like a cheesegrater! And a rack mounted version!
This thing looks amazing, though is literally going to cost a mint!
OK Starting at $5999 is not a bad actually!
And I just got an iMacPro as my old MacPro finally died, so won’t be getting one any time soon, but OMG!
So Y.M. Cinema Magazine has a supposed leak of an internal slide showing info on the new modular MacPro 7,1. And not only is it powerful, but it has 3 pci slots, thunderbolt 4, and NVIDIA support! If this is true, holy shit!
I will be sad no matter what since my 4,1 passed and I now have an iMac Pro, but this bodes very well if it is true.
So The Week is back on Apple News+, though I can’t access it. And it isn’t in the News+ section, neither under The Week or Week. It does seem to be available, from it’s liked section in News, but I can’t access the issues.
I can’t download any of the available issues though. When I try to I get this message:
So I was excited for Apple’s News+ magazine service and signed up for the free month after doing the math on my current subscriptions, and the $9.95 Apple News Plus. It was released on March 25th, and it is April 25th, and already it seems the service is already losing magazines! AND I DON’T SEE THIS REPORTED ANYWHERE ELSE! My biggest selling point was The Week magazine, which I have read for years, but as of now, The Week is no longer available!
In fact when I look at the lost today it seems there are only 109 magazines, though that is not including the couple of newspapers that show up differently, but is far short of the release list that MacStories put out that shows 251 magazines! In fact the magazines that used to be split into 2 pages are all on one page now in the app!
And the service while cool, does have issues. The Apple news app always opens to the news portion and you have to select news+ which is very slow to load. And after selecting to download the magazines I want to read only a select few show up in the My Magazines section. Shouldn’t all the ones I chose show up? Why should I have to go back to the full list to find the magazines I already chose to download? And what about notifications? I get tons of news notifications, but not a single one for when magazines show up! I just have to keep looking to see. This is not user friendly at all.
And why does my phone have different magazines than my ipad? Why is the xbox magazine on my phone, but not my ipad, honestly WTF!
In one month half the magazines are gone, and the news+ should have it’s own dedicated app with notifications of new issues, or this service just isn’t worth the cost! Especially if it is going to keep losing magazines at this rate!
Now I use Firefox as my primary browser, and I have for years. I have enough if my life in google because I use a gmail account, and google search is too much of my life so I don’t want to use Chrome, even if it is marginally faster. And Safari I don’t really use on my mac, because I use Firefox, but I have to use it on my iPad and my iPhone.
9 to 5 Mac has pulled images of the rumored Powerbeats Pro headphones out of ios 12.2. It looks the rumors are true and they remove the wire and charge in their case. I have the previous versions of these and think it is a huge mistake. I think the cable is a feature! It keeps them together and you can take them off and let it hang around your neck! Sure the around ear pieces keep them in your ears better, but I still knock them out once in while! And these had better be truly waterproof!
Also with my orevious ones sometimes the bluetooth messes up, will this now happen more often with individual ears? I think this a downgrade. I do hope they have actual waterproofing now though@
So a YouTube Channel called Tailosive Tech has released a video on an inside source from apple on the new 2019 macpro.
And AppleInsider has also covered it (easier to read, especially since the edit is very trimmed, but not very covered and hurts my brain a bit as an editor).
Not only does this cover the new rumored 6K 31 inch monitor, but the new macpro, claiming the modular mac works like stackable legos, with a brain module with a soldered in cpu, and 8 slots of upgradeable RAM. Then you can add GPU modules, and storage modules, possibly modules with the unanounced thunderbolt 4, and eventually possibly third party modules eventually. Each module with it’s own power supply and cooling. And possibly not available until 2020.
This would seem to cover “modular” and why it has taken so long. Giving people an upgraded cheesgrater would not have taken this long, but Apple wouldn’t have made money off every upgrade in that scenario, while with this stackable design they would, including third party modules from licensing their propriety connector. And upgrades likely won’t be cheap. Instead of just a gpu, you are also getting a case, the custom connector a power supply and cooling system (and likely a reason for dropping NVIDIA support, as NVIDIA doesn’t like customized boxes and shapes, but AMD is all in with that).
And depending on the modules, this could be a very cool machine, though also very very expensive. Lets hope they have sone SATA modules as large ammounts of SSD storage are still prohibitively expensive. And let’s hope third party support comes quickly as a blackmagicdesign module for video i/o would be essential. And a sledless 4 drive sata raid module wouldn’t be a bad thing either.
I know this is all rumor, but it makes total sense. This lets Apple give expandability, but lets them control it completely and make money off of every bit of it. And Apple will have delivered what they said, and can charge what they want for it. It will not make everyone happy, especially since it will not be easily user upgradeable, and will be significantly more expensive than a machine that is user upgradeable, but it will ge a true pro machine.
I just hope they show it off at WWDC on June 3rd, but if they aren’t releasing until at least December 31st 2019, that may be way too early.
I picked up a camranger mini for my wife for christmas to use a a director’s monitor for a dslr.
The Device is mainly used to control a dslr for still photography, but also works for video, though at a very low frame rate. It is works by connecting a small device to your dslr via a USB cable and then connecting your iOS or Android device via wifi. And you can nominally control the camera from the device.
As a director’s monitor it works from framing, but not performances as the frame rate is just too low.
Still cool to be able to see without an attached monitor, especially if the camera is in motion, but a higher frame rate would be welcome.
Maybe the announced Camranger 2 which comes out this year will do better.
William Gallagher and Mike Wuerthele at AppleInsider hacve an article on how someone at Apple Management doesn’t want NVIDIA support in MacOS.
I have been talking about this for years. Apple doesn’t care about the pros. They care about what they want. And they want the companies that kowtow to them.
And the new “modular” macpro is obviously not going to be what Pros want if you can’t use the components that you want. It seems any new MacPro will only work with AMD video cards. And many video pros want NVIDIA and CUDA, as well as for science people who need proprietary CUDA support! Honestly it means that likely there will be no accessible pci slots in the new MacPro, and not even thunderbolt support for NVIDIA.
There were all these rumors that the exclusivity with AMD ended as of 2019, but it seems Apple is done with NVIDIA. Hell there were even rumors that 2xxx series work with startup unlike all non-supported apple cards, and if that is true Apple is actively supressing NVIDIA!
Now I hear from friends that the new iMac Pro is awesome, but I hate no PCI slots or extra internal storage! Hell you can get PC’s with built in Raids that don’t even require sleds for spinning hard drives. I mean a macpro with an external raid would blow people’s minds! Even if it was a “module” you could add on!
I don’t want to move to Windows. I love my surface, because I can run real photoshop, but would rather have it be a mac, and I want my computer to ge a mac, but am more and more scared that a mac will not be great for a pro.