Subj : Re: Running linux in vm o
To : Nightfox
From : Derision
Date : Sun Oct 21 2018 06:50 pm
Re: Re: Running linux in vm o
By: Nightfox to Chai on Thu Oct 18 2018 09:31:19
> Ch> Just read an article on this. The author claimed Apple will be closing
> Ch> their desktop line in the not so distant future (rumor). I think it
> Ch> would be strange to invest in a new processor design, then close shop
> Ch> on desktops. Apparently, iPad Pro's, iPads, and other IOS devices are
> Ch> their bread and butter. They're not making that much from desktops.
>
> eh... It would seem like a very strange decision to drop desktops
> altogether. And by "desktops", does that also include laptop computers? I
> can't imagine that not enough people would want those that Apple would
> decide to drop them. There are still types of work that I think are easiest
> on that kind of device. Also, I could see people adding a keyboard and a
> mouse to a tablet, and at that point it becomes basically like a laptop
> anyway.
>
> But then again, Apple has made decisions to drop things ahead of their time
> in the past. The first iMac didn't have a floppy drive, at a time when
> people still used floppies, and I was also surprised when Apple decided to
> remove optical drives from their computers (and they never did even have
> blu-ray drives).
My Mac has a blu-ray drive. Er, though I grafted it in there myself. It didn't
come with it.
Just a few months ago, there was an interview with Schiller where he
acknowledged that they dicked things up with the trash can Mac Pro, and that
they were going to be releasing an actual, modular, upgradeable Mac Pro that
would be more mainstream and what pro consumers actually wanted. Since that
machine hasn't arrived yet, I can't see them dropping the desktop line.
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