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such an apple-y article. "genius", "just work", "holy shit", "incredible"

I love how they sell their Mac studio as being "modular" /s

It is. Just you have stick the modules on the outside. Hmm.

TBF at least it’s not another iMac. I see so many of them stacked up for recycling where the logic board or power supply is duff. They still have perfectly good 5k 27” screens attached which are not duff.

I bought a studio display yesterday because I suspect it’ll outlast the iMac it’s no longer attached to.

And you connect those modules to each other via industry standard cables. Perfectly modular, see!?

Common mistake.

Modular as in buy-one-of-our-displays-and-connect-to-it modular. Not replace-or-upgrade-a-part-in-it, modular.

If this is "holy shit", what would they call it if someone made quantum computers perform practical work?

They'll pretend they didn't know that was a thing until Apple "invents" it

Really depends if it was milled from one piece of aluminum and how thin this quantum computer is

Man, there are some cynics in this thread. So it's a feature they loved and found incredible. So what? If you don't agree that's fine, no need to be so negative.

Yeah i was thinking the same thing. Sure it a cute little feature if it works, but to say that "it breaks your brain." is taking hyperbole to a whole new level. Either this person is very easily amused or has been drinking the apple kool aid for a very long time.

Maybe this is a legitimately cool feature, and you’re just used to it by now from other ecosystems and products. Then both your and the author’s reactions can valid.

It will completely break my brain if it actually works.

I have used Synergy, Mouse Without Border, Multiplicity, and more. They all suck. They. ALL. Suck.

Every single one of them needs to be reconnected multiple times a day. I fix this by using a schedule task that restarts them. lol

They ALL have clipboard issues where the clipboard stops working at some random point in the day.

Some of them have system breaking issues like the Synergy login screen issue. Where if you are at the lock screen (as happens throughout the day) and you move your mouse to another screen, your mouse is 100% stuck on the other screen. The only way to recover your client computer is via the power button. So take all that work you left when you got up to go to the bathroom, take it all and flush it down the toilet. Thanks Synergy. Fuck you Synergy.

They all have issues with more than two machines. Sometimes you can only access the left 100 pixels of a certain machine. Who knows!? It's fun isn't it!? Sometimes a specific screen will just... stop working. Who knows!? You were just sitting there. And now your workday has stopped.

Fuck you Synergy. Fuck you Mouse Without Borders. Fuck you Multiplicity. You all suck. You are all half-ass attempts at something that very much needs to "just work".

But this is exactly how Apple products are (and some others, like Dropbox and Toyota). It’s the same core concept as what you can get elsewhere, but much more reliable with less user fussing/configurability.

> with less user fussing/configurability.

Why is it so popular among hackers then?

Because they’re mostly working remotely. Most hackers using Macs aren’t writing Mac software, they’re writing server side software.

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