In Praise of iMac

Beer & Queso
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Honestly, she sounds pretty familiar.

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HH is the mellow one?

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WWDC Product Updates (will edit this to add additional items):

  • New 15" M2 MacBook Air, starting at $1299 (price reduction on existing M1 & M2 Air models)
  • Mac Studio updated with M2 Max and M2 Ultra chip options
  • [Nerdgasm Alert] New Mac Pro with M2 Ultra, starting at $6999

Note: They zipped through these announcements pretty quickly. Much more to come then.

  • iOS 17: buncha tricks and tweaks to Phone and Messages; new AI engine for predictive text with suggestions inline; new Journal app; new Standby “nightstand” mode.
  • iPadOS 17: tweaks to Widgets; customizable Lock Screen, now with Live Activities; Health app added; improved handling of PDFzzzzzzz.
  • MacOS “Sonoma”: new screensavers; Widgets can now be placed anywhere on desktop; can now add iPhone widgets to a Mac; Game Mode focuses CPU/GPU resources to games; improved video conferencing; Web apps (turn favorite websites into an app).
  • AirPods: adaptive audio adjusts noise cancelling based on sound environment in real time; will lower volume automatically when you start speaking.
  • AirPlay can connect to hotel TVs to play your porn content on the big screen.
  • TVOS 17: control center redesign (thank god); FaceTime.
  • WatchOS 10: new watch faces; quick access to Widgets; improved cycling and hiking trackers (with topographical maps which is pretty cool); Mindfulness app tracks and advises on mental health.

New OSs Coming “this Fall”.

Here we go…AR headset…I’ll start a new post for this.

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Now Limey can view porn the way it was meant to be seen!

(Note: by “porn”, I mean his particular kink, the Apple website and CNET)

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I am the Dude compared to her.

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If he ever saw Marques Brownlee in fishnets his head would explode in rapturous delight. We’d never get him out of his bunk.

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I guess the new buzzword is “glanceable.”

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The entire Safari update was “check out all these new porn mode features that we can’t call porn mode features.”

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So I’m always looking to up my porn game. How did I miss these?

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So…what are these features?

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Asking for a friend?

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Ok Waldo, what can we expect here?

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“VisionPro” AR headset.

  • Looks like ski goggles
  • Real Iron Man stuff - you can put windows of any size anywhere in space and manipulate them with gestures, looks and voice commands.
  • No other hardware required (although it does have a wire hanging off it which presumably goes to the remote battery pack)
  • Goggles project your eyes to the outside world, which looks more than a little spooky
  • Yes, there is a virtual keyboard, although it can work with Mac keyboards and mice/trackpads
  • It can pull in your desktop

I know I’m a fanboi, but this looks absolutely fucking awesome!

  • Truly home cinema experience. Can make the screen seem 100ft wide, and add whatever epic background you want.
  • Same for games.

Tech specs:

  • glass lens
  • aluminium case
  • up to 2 hours battery life with wired battery dongle
  • 23 million pixels
  • New R1 chip for sensor inputs paired with an M2.
  • VisionOS, can run iPhone and iPad apps.
  • Creates 3D rendering of your face for FaceTime and other video conferencing (welcome to the uncanny valley)

$3499, coming next year.

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Good because the old one suuuuuuuuucks

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I assume it’ll be the same as what’s been available on iOS/iPadOS for a while.

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You can set private windows to auto-lock when you’re not using them, also you can set up separate “profiles” on Safari with entirely different histories, bookmarks, extensions, caches, etc so you can access your ‘nog more conveniently.

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Built in lotion and tissue dispensers.

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So the VR headset is a monitor replacement, okay. Probably useful for work, especially WFH if you won’t want a bunch of monitors on your kitchen table.

I do think it’s hilarious how they show the “great FaceTime experience” with the three others on the call floating in midair and they don’t show what the headset user looks like on video with her dork ass space helmet on.

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Firefox and Chrome (and probably Edge) have had this for years now. I especially like Firefox’s containers feature, which lets you basically mix and match tabs from multiple profiles in the same window.

It’s indispensable for keeping work and personal cookies separate. And porn, I guess, if you’re an amateur.

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I just tuned into this keynote. Maybe VisionPro is something I’ll have to try myself to see the value of it, but right now I don’t see the attraction of wearing something like that. Can’t wait for them to say the probably laughable price.