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Reading this press release was almost physically painful, because of how much Apple loves to use the phrase "up to". In total it appears 46 times.
by osmukka 22d ago
Reading this press release was almost physically painful, because of how much Apple loves to use the phrase "up to". In total it appears 46 times.
- theanonymousone 22d agoup to 46 times, you mean?
- zirkonit 22d agoUp to 47.
- alfanick 22d agoThat would be oddly precise. More like "up to 50", or depending on speaker, "up to 100". /s
- fwip 22d agoIt would also be incorrect. "Up to" doesn't mean any possible upper bound, it describes the top of a known range. I can't say a car I'm selling goes "up to" 900mph if it tops out at 120mph.
- atoav 22d agoWell, depends. Maybe it can go up to 900mph¹? ¹ drivers are responsible to get the car into a low earth orbit themselves and need to be familiar with the orbital maneuvers needed to accelerate the car to 900mph
- totetsu 22d agoWhats an up to dog?
- addaon 22d agoA lot of those "up to"s are expressing user options, though -- "up to" 512 GB RAM means that there are configurations that include that, but also cheaper configurations that don't. That's a pretty different beast than "up to 4.3x faster performance", which means (presumably) that exactly one benchmark showed a 4.3x improvement and the rest showed less -- which is to say, means very little.
- freehorse 22d agoExcept for the prices of course, where they use “starting at 5,499$” instead of “up to 18,299$” to indicate user options.
- seviu 22d agoThe cleaning cloth went down in price about 50% There is some consolation there
- HumblyTossed 22d agoOnly because it doesn't contain RAM.
- datakan 22d agoDon't give them any ideas
- garbageman 22d agoMoore's Cloth
- fl0ki 22d agoBut was the compatibility table updated?
- m463 22d agoI thought it was funny years ago when apple would report the power in watts of some systems like the mac mini. But for the mac pro, they would say something very obscure. "100-120V AC or 200-240V AC (wide-range power supply input voltage)" and the maximum current is "12A (low-voltage range) or 6A (high-voltage range)". They're trying NOT to say it had a 1440 watt power supply.
- gib444 22d agoThat's probably up to 300% of an increase from 'previous' press releases
- setgree 22d agoI enjoyed "up to an 80-core GPU, and a staggering 512GB of unified memory" Staggering?? I can count on no hands the number of times that a fact or figure has caused me to stagger.
- mgfist 22d agoIdk 512GB of (essentially) ram is pretty damn insane for a consumer machine
- setgree 22d agoThis thing is going to cost >$10K, probably, which I think means it's not in the consumer segment
- FireBeyond 22d agoFor the 512GB? You're going to be over $20K, fully specced.
- HumblyTossed 22d agoYes, but you've surely met people who giggled when they read that.
- icedchai 22d agoWhen you get that credit card bill for the 80 core, 512 gig, 16 TB storage box, you might stagger a bit.
- edschofield 22d agoThanks for the laugh!
- geophile 22d agoA silly hobby of mine has been to track Apple's use of the word "computer". They don't use it. The only use of the word that I can find, on apple.com, is in legal boilerplate. I want a computer dammit, not an appliance.
- jagged-chisel 22d agoThey also don't use "appliance." Nor do their computers behave as appliances. It's just branding - they don't want to sell you a generic "computer" - they want to sell you a Mac. It's really not all that different from a computer. Might look a little nicer[1]. Uses a custom processor. But you can write software for it like a computer. And it can display things on a monitor like a computer. They do have wrist, pocket, and tablet versions of computers, but those might be considered more like appliances. 1 - taste being subjective and all
- knollimar 22d agoWhat's a computer?
- smugma 22d agoIt appears up to 46 times.
- mihaaly 22d agoI am sure I'd love computer products more without the nauseating marketing bs. With dry boring technical facts only. I am repelled now, need more self drive and effort getting to the cashier, than without it. (Scroll-oriented web pages see me running away fast. Not only Apple, which is a champion in it, but articles in general. That make me a passive spectator eating what they want me to eat, the way they want me to. Rather than a free discoverer. I hate being pushed into something. I like freedom.)