Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

I need to clean up and consolidate some hard drives to get rid of duplicate files and free up storage space, what software do people recommend? Ideally I'd like something which is semi automated, but if push comes to shove, can do some of the heavy lifting myself.

I have daisy disk already for general freeing up storage things already, but haven't used it recently

Thanks

I've often used Gemini for finding duplicates.

yeah Gemini has been recommended by an editor friend, only issue I have is the most recent reviews on the app store are awful.

Apple Vision Pro just announced, welcome to the future

https://youtu.be/YJg02ivYzSs

It's just that god awful desktop again and again, it's like being stuck in the same nightmare forever.

If anyone can make it work, it's Apple but the whole thing felt like a black mirror episode.

The bit with the guy staring at his kids wearing ski goggle with shining lights, so he could capture the moment, only so he could watch it back again in the dark by himself was bleak AF.

Felt the same way about that moment. The whole thing is such a solo experience though, it all seems a bit sad. The hotel room facetime conversation was another bleak reminder of a sad sci-fi future that's now within our reach.

That was a scene from Minority Report, wasn't it?

I've been flip flopping on pulling the trigger on a mac studio for the last few months, all the talk was that they weren't going to update the studio but my indecisiveness has finally paid off.

Guess at that type of price it will be competing with the Hololens. I guess it may end up with the Vision Pro in more "creative" areas and the hololens in industry.

It's not something I can get excited about, that's for sure.

Would be interesting to see if they've solved boring problems like eye-strain.

Could it make economy feel like business class on a flight to Australia? If so, maybe it’s worth it

It looks like he’s done something sinister, like he’s buried them in the porch or something.

Imagine how many tabs you could have if you weren't contained by screen real estate?!

This is the future.

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Could it make economy feel like business class on a flight to Australia? If so, maybe it’s worth it

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. If it means you don't have to buy things like a massive TV and in general makes content consumption much better than it is at the moment, then maybe it's more interesting to folks.

If it means you don't have to buy things like a massive TV

My mate said this earlier but I suspect it's only going to be an option for the bachelors.

Because you having a headset does nothing for the person sitting next to you on the sofa. Exactly. Augmented reality but only for you.

Long term, the money in this is for them to track and "augment" everything you see, all the time. So they need it to be at least as lightweight as Google Glass. On the way there, they may well sell this to a lot of (mostly bachelor) nerds with homes full of smart devices. With this, you could point at a smart device to call up a config menu or make further gestures to control it. Get enough engagement there and we could start seeing devices where this is the only way to control them. Fun when it's your front door...

Apple's model has never been user data though - hence the hefty price. Several portions of the presentation were dedicated to detailing what data was / wasn't available to apps and eye tracking, room tracking, camera data, voice and audio are all local / secure and on a separate layer to app data at a system level.

Google / Meta for sure. They would love you to wear these things everywhere.

Anyone interested in a 2020 11" iPad Pro - 128GB - Silver

Apple will give me £240 trade-in ebay is 400-450 - collected in central London £350

they may well sell this to a lot of (mostly bachelor) nerds

Batchelor nerds who augment their environment to resemble the playboy mansion.

The user often looked like a lab rat in yesterday's presentation, the reverse of being empowered by tech. A good point made afterwards was that no presenter was presenting using or even wearing the device.

Having used HoloLens 1, HoloLens 2 and Magic Leap 2, all of which are clunky Web’95 dogshit, I can well imagine these Apple goggles pissing all over them and making them all even more irrelevant.

I’m a remorseless kool-aid slurper, and want to believe that Apple wouldn’t release something like this without making the experience a significant leap ahead of the state of the art.

Apple wouldn’t release something like this without making the experience a significant leap ahead of the state of the art.

Yeah, I think they did this. They made it look like a viable product, which is intentionally damning it with faint praise. The state of the art is and always has been jokes from what I've seen.

Will probably go the way Apple TV has gone, i.e. badly, but not badly enough to kill it.

Will probably go the way Apple TV has gone, i.e. badly, but not badly enough to kill it.

I think this will ignite a prosumer market for AR / VR as it's genuinely a leap above what's been available for a while but it'll all depend on a affordability of gen 2 or 3 or the 'SE' version.

Anyone want a 2013 27” iMac with wireless keyboard for £100?