Later: see first comment.
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iPad Pro
I was talking to a chief operations officer / IT officer for a Fortune 500 company over the weekend. He had grown up with non-Apple products and had built his own computers while in college. He never cared for Apple all those years. He certainly was not, and is not a fan boy.
For work he carries a very, very thin Dell notebook/laptop and works with other non-Apple products at the office. But within the last 60 days he bought a iPad Pro (with keyboard and blue-tooth pencil) and says that the iPad Pro is the closest thing he has seen that beats any other "computer." It's interesting: he doesn't even call the iPad Pro a computer. It's gone beyond. After much research, he even thinks the iPad Pro is better than the Surface.
That's says a lot, coming from a diehard-non-Apple user.
I haven't looked at an iPad Pro in a long time. So let's look:
- wow, this is interesting -- thinking differently -- the site scrolls left-to-right, not down -- very, very interesting ...
- all-screen design
- 11" and 12.9"
- liquid retina display, edge-to-edge
- Face ID
- A12X Bionic chip: most powerful chip Apple has ever made
- Neural Engine: runs 5 trillion operations per second
- translation: faster than most PC laptops
- graphics: 2x faster
- the new Apple Pencil
- and then this -- this is quite remarkable -- a(n) USB-C slot
- two cameras equipped with Smart HDR:
- a 12MP camera for photos, 4K video, AR
- a TrueDepth camera for Portrait selfies, FaceTime, Animoji, Memoji
- "just" over a pound in weight
- ten hours of battery life
- holy mackerel: look at the price
- both base models come in under $1,000
- the 11-inch display: $799
- the almost 13-inch display: $999
- for the 13-inch display:
- 64 GB: $999
- 256 GB: $1,149
- 512 GB: $1,349
- 1 TB: $1,749
- The pencil: $129
- The keyboard: $199
- Total for the one I would get if getting one:
- $1,477 x 1.08 = $1,595.16
- / 12 months = $135/month
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Apple Watch
Reports:
Apple plans to launch new ceramic and titanium Apple Watch models as early as next month. The firmware assets clearly reference a 44mm titanium case and a 44mm ceramic case.Comments? mostly snarky.
Most ridiculous: folks comparing smart watches with a Rolex. That might have been important for Epstein. In the end, his Rolex outlasted him.
What evidence do you have that there will be a 2019 Bakken update? Seen you mention that a couple times but can't find USGS or other document saying there is some planned release.
ReplyDeleteNo "evidence" that a new USGS survey of the Bakken will be released in 2019. Just my inappropriate exuberance. About a year ago, the tea leaves suggested that a 2019 survey would be released but it appears that's not going to happen. Until you wrote, I just carried that meme forward, but now that I've checked again, it looks bleak. I'll update the post. Thank you.
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