I mean, they can be fanbois, too. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.
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I’ve always heard it pronounced as vee-suh going back to the days of VESA Local Bus video cards.
Wikipedia confirms pronunciation:
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There’s plenty of guillotines to go around.
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Well … crap.
I just assumed it would rhyme with Vega.
The shittiest thing about this is that it’s a $5000 monitor that you can’t use out of the box because you either need to pay $200 for a VESA mount or $1000 for Apple’s proprietary stand.
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I do the same with Fitbit bands. Fitbit wants $30-80 for their branded bands but there’s a thousand leather bands on Amazon for $10-15. Also woven, bangles, M-loops… If I didn’t hate the silicone bands so much I could buy a dozen for $10 and Swatch my Charge 3.
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And Apple wonders why their flagship product is the iPhone and no longer desktop/laptop computers?
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ok…so put a pin in all of that and focus on the shear fact that I CAN DO BOTH. I can be pissed and want the asshole in chief gone AND I can also be pissed at a tech company for price-gouging the consumers.
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Miraculously, iPoop is included.
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Yes, but the iPooperscooper is an extra $999.
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If I was a betting man, I’d be betting it’d be John Gruber.
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That wasn’t even the worst designed mouse ever.
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They don’t wonder about that. There has been a pretty obvious effort from Apple to push as many people as possible to iOS devices. Up until recently smartphones were an area of growth, especially compared to the personal computer market which has at best been flat as of late.
The thing is that they need to sell Macs to developers so that they can make iOS software, you can’t develop on anything else. With this new refresh they have leaned too hard into the “pro” aspect and created workstations without any real entry level model. They seem happy to push iMacs on small independent shops and freelancers. Basically Apple changed the idea of what Pro means to them.
The other problem with rescuing retro hardware, aside from all the other ones: power consumption. If you need 480V three-phase to run it, good luck running it at home.
As fun as I thought it might be to rescue a PDP-11 like one my high school had, I realize that a Raspberry Pi Zero can run circles around it, even when it’s running SIMH to emulate a PDP-11.
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Feh. He should have moved house.
@beschizza Here’s a follow-up post idea: $1k Mac Pro monitor stand unboxing video.
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A thousand bucks for a stand isn’t so bad when you realize you put the first monitor on the stand and your second monitor leans up against the box.
Another mouse to add to the bad mouse pile: https://www.oldmouse.com/articles/hawley/DEC-VAX.shtml I had a bunch of those back in the early 2000s. Awful things to try and use. Until I saw that OpenOffice mouse, I thought it was the worst, though very close to the Apple puck. The Sun one that required a specially printed metal mousepad was pretty bad too, now that I think about it.
I just realized I know way too much about legacy input devices with terrible ergonomics/usability.
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Apple released a gold-plated watch for $15,000 that had exactly the same features as the $500 watch and people bought it.
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