hackintoisier

jcs2305 said:

hackintoisier said:

Nowhere does the leaked slide say Intel is targeting m1 max.  Alder lake already beats m1 max at many tasks. With arrow lake-p, Intel is targeting whatever chip apple will have in-market in late 2023/early 2024. 

What’s not mentioned in the slide is arrow lake-H. Intel’s p-series are it’s low power series. Intel’s h series are it’s high end mobile chips that offer desktop class performance. 

If an intel low power p-series chip beats apple m2 max or m3 max, then the h series will have even more performance still. At a higher wattage of course.  

My take: Arrow lake-p seems to be designed to match a similar performance per watt as apple’s m series chips. Arrow lake-h seems to be designed to leave apple in the dust. But only time will tell. The benefactor of this competition will be us, the consumer. 

Intel has already claimed to be producing processors that exceed the performance of Apple's M1 Max. However, the difference is within a margin of error while at the same time, Intel's processors require dramatically more power.

Now the company is reportedly aiming at a new processor that will beat Apple's 2021 chips by early 2024 at the latest.

What are you talking about?

The introduction of the article states: “ A presentation slide claiming to show Intel's projected future roadmap includes plan for Arrow Lake processor to outperform Apple's M1 Max by late 2023 or early 2024.” 

However the leaked intel slide states: ARL-P is targeting Apple 14 premium inch designs. Nowhere does the intel slide claim that intel is targeting the 2021 m1 max with a 2023/24 product. 

Any option to format empty/un-initialized media into HFS, APFS, or exFAT? If not, then before you can use an empty disk with the iPad and its Files app, you still need a computer first.  What about the option to unmount media, so as to protect from data loss? Android can unmount.. can the iPad safely unmount media?

Why not just include a charger in the purchase for those who request one, and for others who don’t need one, no charger required. 

Seems frivolous. 

Anyone know if this expensive cable enables a m1-based Mac to directly connect to an m1-based iPad Pro? Cheaper thunderbolt 3/4 or USB4 cables result in a failed connection between the two Apple devices. 

Wesley Hilliard said:

hackintoisier said:

Any option to format empty/un-initialized media into HFS, APFS, or exFAT? If not, then before you can use an empty disk with the iPad and its Files app, you still need a computer first.  What about the option to unmount media, so as to protect from data loss? Android can unmount.. can the iPad safely unmount media?

Most drives are going to be compatible with iPad out of the box. I'd assume if you have a drive that is in an incompatible format, it means you formatted it in the first place and can do it again on your PC/Mac. It is unfortunate that iPad can't do it, but I'd be willing to guess that the number of people who need to do that in 2022 is in the dozens, if that.

As far as un-mounting a drive? You technically don't need to given how modern file systems operate. They run at a buffer to prevent data loss. The drive eject system is archaic and outdated and I wish I could disable the warnings on my Mac. I don't think I've ever unmounted a drive or SD card from my Mac.

The reason you wanted to eject attached drives was because of write caching. But now, unless you're actively writing to a disk, there's not really any need for caching since SSD speeds are so fast.

Do what you like, but I personally don't eject any drive and have yet to run into corrupted data. Don't think I will either.

Most is not all.  Some drives do not come with any filesystem... they're completely uninitialized with no filesystem and need to be formatted first.  Hence the question, can the files app in iPadOS16 format an uninitialized drive in a relevant file system? If not, then you need to format the drive using a computer first... I don't know why iPad doesn't have a format drive option.

Second, regarding your comment about not needing to unmount drives before disconnection... I politely disagree.  If you disconnect a drive while the device/computer is writing to the drive you risk data loss.  That is why modern OSes including Linux, Windows, macOS have a disk unmount option.  There is a risk for data loss, even with iPad. Also, consider the fact that there are different filesystems which have different levels of resilience to a sudden disconnection without a proper unmount first... NTFS, APFS, exFAT, HFS+, etc.  APFS seems to be very resilient but other filesystems like exFAT and even NTFS can be more finicky.  macOS has had an unmount option for decades, so why doesn't iPadOS? Since the iPad now has the ability to read/write to thunderbolt storage (which could contain gigabytes of data), you'd think Apple would give iPad users the option to safely manage their data (i.e., disk unmount) and minimize the risk to data loss.

This case filed when Trump was still in office.  Let's see if the new Biden admin will refile with actual tangible evidence.