Could you be talking about Firefox’s Reader View, activated by the open-book icon in the Location Bar? I think it’s integrated into Firefox itself now, but it may have started life as an add-on.
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I found it: it was Readability, and it was a bookmarklet rather than a plug-in.
It still exists, but the focus now seems to be on its new browser-extension and mobile-app variants: the bookmarklet page doesn’t seem to be linked from its home page.
I don’t know about Firefox, but according to the blurb on its site, Readability forms the basis of Safari’s Reader feature.
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Man, what a difference a day makes. I’m totally bummed out, the price hike is ridiculous and the hardware is worse than mediocre; they’ve even dropped the wonderful backlit logo and magsafe, all in a quixotic quest for thinness.
Nope nope nope. I dropped a bit of the budget I had saved on a new SSD for my 2012 MBPR and a Thunderbolt dock, and will ride it out as long as I can. This is not the shot in the arm the Mac line desperately needed.
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I’m weirded out that the top of the line new MBP can apparently only take up to 16 GB of RAM. I mean, I can niggle about ports and backlights and such, but not being able to effectively run Photoshop is kind of a deal breaker for their entire target audience.
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Yeah, that was half the deal-breaking for me (I don’t do PS, but I do need the ram for other stuff). There are direct competitors on the market that already ship 32gb in a similar shell, so it’s not like they had to make a huge engineering effort or anything.
TBH I could have tolerated the ram, the loss of ports, the loss of style, the mediocre GPU, the huge trackpad I’ll hit every time I type – if their prices had stayed put, or even increased a little bit. But they jacked it up big time and priced themselves out of sanity. I don’t expect Apple to have Dell prices, but the difference should be 20 or 30%, not 100%. It’s just not worth paying almost twice what you pay elsewhere and get a sub-par machine, just because it’s marginally thinner. You wanna sell an Air, sell an Air; don’t sell me an Air saying it’s a Pro.
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I’m not sure I follow you here. I mean, I bought my old 15" MacBook Pro in 2006 with these specs:
- 2 GHz Intel Duo
- 100 GB HD
- 1 GB (!!) RAM
And back then it was $2400.
The new MBPs aren’t as beefy as I would’ve liked, but they’re a whole lot beefier than that old machine, and less expensive too.
While they’ve raised their prices overseas to compensate for the weak pound, their domestic pricing has actually gone down.
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Different comparison points. The 2012-15 mbpr was top in its category.
These machines are clearly not that good now. If they had given me another
market-beater at the same price, or slightly more expensive, i would have
no qualms; but they have a worse proposition, compared to current
competitors, and higher prices.
Apple doesn’t exist in a vacuum.
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Something weird has been going on for a while. Microsoft are making interesting, innovative hardware and Apple are doing sod-all.
Still not enough to jump to Windows…yet.
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I want to know why in the ever loving fuck the base model 13" MBP had multiple storage options (up to 1TB) but not the high end 13" model where your only option is 256GB. It’s crap like this that Apple does with its configurations that’s just infuriating.
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But your argument was that Apple had massively increased their own pricing. And they haven’t, at all. They’ve lowered it.
I agree that their “top of the line” machine is weirdly lagging way behind what their competition is doing, performance wise, but they haven’t increased their prices.
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