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shrave10 said:

Don't trust the emf radiation field around these things.  It has not been mass tested enough.  Will let other guinea pigs test it out for me and maybe revisit the tech in ten years.  

I’m impressed you’ve been brave enough to suffer the emf field from whatever device you have used to make your post. In view of the fact that anything that uses electricity, or has electricity flowing through it, generates an emf field, I do hope, for your peace of mind, that you don’t have electricity in your home. 

https://www.who.int/peh-emf/about/WhatisEMF/en/index3.html

Meanwhile officials have an easier time spotting those smuggling the Samsung Note 7.

VRing said:

macxpress said:

Hey @VRing, does that supposed magical and revolutionary custom build of yours that is SO much better than an iMac Pro do this? Didn't think so and never will! 

I know you're just flaming, but TPM chips have been in the vast majority of Windows computers and motherboards for enterprise use for years. As well, a number of these types of computers have a self-healing BIOS to restore a corrupt or potentially attacked BIOS.

Apple has been using EFI/UEFI right from its first Intel-based Mac in 2005, it may have even been the first to ship consumer x86 Intel systems that used EFI/UEFI.  No production Mac has ever used BIOS; can’t vouch for what was used on the computers in Apple’s labs for their Star Trek project, the one where they ran System 7 on PC-compatible hardware.

It amuses me that VRing conflates UEFI with BIOS.  UEFI is far more advanced in what it does compared to outdated BIOS.
I knew the moment that Windows PC manufacturers started making their systems using UEFI that people would continue to lazily and confusingly use the term BIOS in systems where it’s absent.

knowitall said:

pakitt said:

Although based on Unix, macOs is far from being a Linux-like OS.... 

Try spotlight, that will work.
macOs isn't based on Unix, its Mach.
It does have a compliant bash shell which is seen by many as Unix.
And (to help you a bit) Linux users like bash too. 

Not so knowitall, macOS is a fully compliant UNIX:

UNIX 03

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3648.htm

saarek said:

rotateleftbyte said:

The unanswered question is... Will the £30.00 limit on transactions still apply?

If you are using an NFC terminal, such as when paying for groceries then the limit will usually be in place.

For online purchases this limit is not present, at least that’s always been my experience.

Actually, my personal experience in the UK is that retailers with poorer quality of goods and/or service, tend not to have Apple Pay and thus their NFC terminals limit the contactless payment to the £30 limit.  Those who offer a better quality of service, goods and experience have Apple Pay and thus take payment above £30 with Apple Pay devices.

I have a couple of friends and acquaintances with their retail businesses.  Each of them independently told me they have set Apple Pay on their NFC terminals at a limit of around £750 before further authorisation is required; the nature of their businesses are such that it will be exceptional to have a transaction approaching that limit.

Total lack of critical thinking: his rampage will be far far more costly for him than buying a replacement for his defective product...

entropys said:

It is a dilemma. I would want to buy MBPs for my daughters, but I am sure the younger one would probably want the gold MBA. Maybe the money and weight saved would go to a USB hub so when inevitably one of her friends want to give her something on a USB stick she can actually use it.

on the touchbar issue: I think adoption would be easier if Apple actually went all in. Where is the magic keyboard with a Touch Bar? Will the Mac Pro, iMac pro and the iMac end up with the touchbar? because i suspect one reason there is still grief about it (apart from raising the cost of the notebook) is it isn’t universal enough for a critical mass of developers to bother taking advantage of it.

As someone who six months ago, purchased a refurbished 2018 4 port MacBook Pro 13", after ten years of using a 2008 Metal Unibody MacBook, I'm very glad for the much lighter weight of the new computer when lugging it around: it's much lighter, even when you're carrying around together with a USB-C hub that's about the size and weight of a disposable cigarette lighter.  I'm very happy with the total flexibility in port functionality that ThunderBolt 3 provides; I've had to buy adaptors each time I've changed my Mac over the years, in fact when going from my desktop Performa to an iBook with the newly introduced USB ports I even had to ditch peripherals too: a printer and a Zip drive.  If anything, I've had to get the least number of adaptors with my most recent transition, only a USB-C hub and a USB-C to DisplayPort cable, to be able to fully use all my existing equipment.

As for USB sticks, it really isn't a problem keeping a cigarette lighter USB-C hub inside your laptop bag for if and when it is needed.  There are also many readily available flash drives that now have dual connectors for USB-C and USB-A:  https://www.sandisk.com/home/mobile-device-storage/ultra-dual-drive-usb-type-c

I myself love the TouchBar and am surprised by the variety of functions which it conveniently offers: for example, in Safari it shows small graphics depicting the open tabs of a window, enabling the user to rapidly switch tabs with a touch of the finger.  It's useful for word and emoji suggestion in Messages, being able to scrub back and forth through   a movie for playback or editing.  I'm still learning what apps offer as developers start writing more and more for it.

Six months on, the keyboard for my 2018 model is still going strong.  I've seen how many people criticise the shallow depth and feel of these current keyboards.  Whilst I recall my surprise and dismay as to the feel of the keyboard when I first purchased the MacBook Pro, it is true that you get used to it, and I am currently very happy to type on it, if anything I have found it far more accurate and responsive than the keyboard on my 2008 Unibody MacBook.

As for the choice presented in this article?  Well, I would have purchased the 2019 MacBook Pro with two Thunderbolt 3 ports and Touch Bar, if it was available six month ago, especially as I rarely use more than two ports on my machine (It's wonderful to be able to plug everything, power,  hub, monitor and external drive all into the single thunderbolt 3 port).
Nevertheless I'm happy for the six months of use I've already had from this insanely fast but light MacBook Pro, hand on my heart it is the best Macintosh I have ever bought.

GeorgeBMac said:

Meet my grandson.  He asked for a MacBook for Christmas so I got him one -- thinking he would use it for school (little knowing that Corona Virus was coming right around the corner).   But soon i saw it sitting all lonely in a corner by itself.   It turns out both he and his mom hate MacOS and refused to use it.

So, I installed WIndows 10 under Bootcamp.   Now he uses it everyday and his mom wants one too and has been trying to steal his -- but he'll have none of it!  They both love his MacBook Air now that it runs Windows 10.

That's a damning indictment of Windows laptop manufacturers: it means Apple unintentionally makes better Windows computers than makers for whom Windows is their primary focus.

baconstang said:

I wonder if they'll be offering a USB-C to 3.5mm dongle for the new phones?

https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MU7E2ZM/A/usb-c-to-35mm-headphone-jack-adapter

StrangeDays said:

Ugh. Disappointing. 

Now I need to return my wireless-charing AirPods for the normal...if a mat can't do all three devices it isn't worth it to me.

https://www.makezens.com/shop/zens-dualwatch-aluminium-wireless-charger/