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good thing i ditched Windows 10 for macOS and Windows 8.1....
 
*laugs in Apple and old Microsoft*

Consider that maybe the old inventory isnt of 1080ti's?

Apple went right into the Mac today starting the event with the MacBook Air.
 
First building the foundation of Mac what the Mac does for the creative oriented
Then bracing about their sales: Over half of Mac buyers are 1st time with over 100,000,000 active Macs and the Mac is #1 in customer satisfaction (macOS is why)
Tim Cook then went into a Recap of macOS Mojave’s new features
 
 
Apple then recapped of the history of the MacBook Air and significance that Steve Jobs revealing the Air from that envelope would have on the industry and the world
 

MacBook Air Features
Retina Display: glass bezel with 50% less bezel, 13.3”, 4x the resolution of old MacBook Air at 2560x1600 , 48% more, FaceTime HD camera located up top still, TouchID, T2 Security chip with secure boot and on the fly encryption, Hey Siri support, 3rd Gen backlit Butterly Keyboard, 20% larger force touch trackpad, 25% louder stereo speakers with 2x more bass, 3-mic audio array, Dual Thunderbolt 3 ports on the left side, 8th gen dual core processors with Intel UHD 617 across the board, 60% faster storage, all day battery life with 13hours of video playback, 17% less volume than previous MacBook Airs, 15.6mm thin, weighs 2.75lbs 25% lighter
 
Yes, it has a headphone jack. And yes, it’s actively cooled.

 
Made from 100% recycled custom aluminum alloy.
 
Colors: Silver, Space Gray, Gold
1.6GHz Dual Core 8th gen, 8GB, 128GB
Price: $1,199 for the base model, order today, available Nov 7.
 
Old MacBook Air still available for $999 for some reason
 

 
Mac Mini features
Starts at 4 cores with 6 core options desktop class Intel 8th Gen processors for up to 5x the performance of previous Mac Mini, Intel UHD 630 across the board, up to 64GB of RAM on SO-DIMs, all flash storage with 4x faster and up to 2TB, T2 Security, 30x HEVC encode, new thermal system with 2x airflow, GB Ethernet up to 10GB, 4 Thunderbolt 3, HDMI 2.0, 2x USB 3.0, can daisy chain them together to improve render tasks and make compute pools for data centers and render farms. (Hinting at Apples plan for the Mac Pro, to my dismay.....)
 
and yes, it does have a headphone jack
 
Made from 100% recycled aluminum
 
Base: 3.6Ghz Quad Core 8th gen, 8GB, 128GB
Price:$799
 
Order today, available Nov 7
 
[Update] Apple has uodated their website to show the cooling solution for the Mac Mini with up to 2x better airflow.

 
Thanfully the Mac Mini should be ok in terms of thermals. 

iPad Pro features
Edge to edge LCD with same pixel masking as iPhone XR, P3 color, Pro Motion 120Hz, TrueTone, 1lb, same 10.5” footprint but with an 11” display, 12.9” option available in the size of a standard piece of paper, 5.9mm thin, 25% less volume than previous model, FaceID with 7mp front camera and works in all orientations, gesture control like on iPhone, Apple A12X Bionic 7nm w/ 10B transistors and neural engine, 8 core CPU (4P,4E) with all 8 usable at once, 40% faster than previous, 90% faster multi core performance, faster than 92% of all portable PCs sold in the last 12months, new 7 Core Apple GPU with 2x performance, all day battery life, up to 1TB of storage, USB-C with power out support and video out for a second monitor, 2nd Gen Apple Pencil which is magnetically attached to the iPad Pro and automatically pairs and charges wirelessly, customizable double tap behavior on Apple Pencil, new keyboard cover, 4 speaker audio system with woofer and tweeter pairs
 
And no, it doesn’t have a headphone jack
 
10.5” 64GB base
Price: $799
12.9” 64GB base
Price: $999
 
Order today, available Nov 7
 
AutoCad is now on the iPad, NBA 2K Mobile with better than console level graphics now possible at 60hz
 
Adobe Photoshop now available on the iPad Pro with full layer stack support. Uses real .psd files with a no-lag experience. Zoom/out to the pixel level with a double tap of Apple Pencil.
 
Project Aero, Adobe’s AR development app is now possible on iPad Pro (most likely available on older iPad Pros)
 
Both available in the App Store in 2019
 
iOS 12 installed on 60% of iOS devices
 
iOS 12.1 available today
 
Overall it was a great event, though I am salty that there was not Mac Pro teaser and that the Mac mini does not have a dGPU option. 
 
[Update] Apple has announced new Vega GPUs coming to MacBook Pro with up to 60% faster performance


Sources: @DrMacintosh (and his somewhat reliable note taking skills), Apple

Samsung's experience on top is already slow enough, they don't need to further do it.

If only they made phones worth keeping that long. Currently the Pixel line only has its camera and timely updates going for it. 

It cleans less than CCleaner, but a better question is "Should I care?"
Because cleaning "junk files" nowadays only really means that you're freeing up disk space. Windows 10 now has Storage Sense which is Disk Cleanup in disguise + automation. It takes care of everything for you on a schedule that you pick.
 
Nothing more is needed IMO.

Why are people still using CCleaner. How many times do they have to bend you over before you listen. 

thanks for the help!

No, it won't deactivate. The moment you connect to the internet, your machine will activate itself. No need to worry!
 
If anything goes wrong, open the Activation troubleshooter by going to: Settings > Updates & Security > Activation. Let it attempt to diagnose the problem, and click "I recently changed hardware on this device."
 
Best of luck!

I mean some see it as a platform restriction. Orthers see it as an 
 
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lmao 

intel cpus strike again
 
 

Source: The Verge
 
I can think of few reasons why Intel intervened or should I say "begged" Microsoft to use the Pentium Gold CPU instead of ARM:
Intel knows that ARM + Windows 10 = shitty performance (especially with SD835) and they want to shake Microsoft out of their tunnel vision. At the moment, ARM powered W10 tablets sucks. But Intel knows that ARM-Windows 10 tablets won't suck forever and they definitely see ARM, especially Qualcomm which is poised to encroach on Intel's ultrabooks. Remember that later this year, the SD850 will be available and next year it's the SD 1000 chip with 12W TDP which will definitely go head to head with Intel's U/Y series chips. Let's not forget the fact that even Apple is rumored to use ARM in 2019. At the moment, the 2018 MacBook Pros still use Intel chips but for hardware based security, they're not using Intel's built in encryption acceleration but they moved that to the custom T2 chip (Apple's ARM chip) which contains the Secure Enclave co-processor (like the one in the iPhone) and also handles the SSD controller that's why enabling FileVault full disk encryption on the 2018 MacBook Pros offer very negligible performance penalties while keeping data secure at rest not to mention that all 2018 MacBook Pros have file level encryption enabled by default.
 
While I'm pretty sure that the 2018 refresh of the MacBook Air will still use Intel processors, just a few months ago Apple hired former Intel engineers in Oregon.
 
Plus Apple is making iOS apps available to macOS natively. Perhaps all Apple needed to do is make macOS universal binary again just like in 2006.. If Microsoft and Apple can deliver very good performance and battery life with ARM in 2019, Intel might need to go back to the drawing board.

My Apples plan is almost complete..... 

Holy run-on sentence!  I lost my breath while reading that!!!
 

I don't think anyone is surprised. Google knows more about you than you do. 
The problem is that "option" isn't really an option, at all.

Android Pie is out! The vast majority of Android users can't wait to update to it in 4 years! 
 
 

I am personally not hating on the company. I'm upset at the quality of customer service Quinn received for a $5,000 product.

RX 580 gets my vote. I've got the Sapphire Nitro+ version. extremely silent, extremely cool. 

Yeah I know hehehh. Actually I can manage to get some trident z ram in the future heh

Yes there is. I want to upgrade to 16GB 2x8 in the future because I don't have the budget rn and I don't want to pay double because my mobo has 2 Slots.

Seems good. Looking forward to more benchmarks after everyone installs the macOS update.

GG 10/10.
 
I can't defend Apple on this shit. 
 
Make the damn 15" models a little thicker, fit a real cooler in them and a bigger battery. 
 
(Still only give Thunderbolt 3 though because is best port)

I generally don't like apple but tbh it's not "a very long time" like they say. I find it kinda laughable that September is a very long time. Honestly if you get a Mac that is malfunctioning within that time frame you should get a new one.