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  • M1 MacBook Air review: nearly as transformative as the original

    isidoreisidore
    Sorry to be pedantic but the m1 macbook air is 60% faster in single core and 200% faster in multicore or if you prefer 160% and 300% as fast. To be be 160% faster it needs to have a speed 2.6 times that of the intel version. Great machine and a great leap forward- once they sort out the number of ports it will be truly unchallengeable choice unless you need to run  windows, and even that might well be solved. 
    entropyswilliamlondonDetnatorneilmwatto_cobra

  • Doug Field returns to Apple's 'Project Titan' after stint at Tesla

    isidoreisidore
    What short memories people have! His experience with safety critical electric vehicle systems goes back long before Apple. He was of course chief technical officer for the design of the Segway.
    SpamSandwichRayz2016watto_cobra

  • This new gadget can instantly find a hidden AirTag

    isidoreisidore
    What a great gadget.... for car thieves!
    mark fearinglollivercaladaniang-med

  • Apple's Crash Detection saves another life: mine

    isidoreisidore
    Speedy recovery! Well done for posting your unfortunate and frightening experience. 

    A couple of points: if you look at the safety statistics you will find that driving a car is very much safer than any 2 wheeled device in terms of risk per mile, especially if you wear a seatbelt. The real problem is head injury which is what you got. You can even just about kill yourself by running into a wall so an electric scooter is plenty fast enough. 

    As well as the hugely antisocial aspect of rental escooters, (Paris has just banned them as a failed and dangerous experiment) the lack of a helmet provision is frankly immoral- would you rent a car without seatbelts? One point on the crash detection: it seems very oversensitive. I find it triggers remarkably often- even a slightly mis-hit tennis stroke will trigger it and skiing can definitely trigger it when you have not fallen. A great idea but not quite there yet.
    coolfactorAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • EcoFlow Advanced Kit review: Power your whole house with batteries

    isidoreisidore
    Sorry, one other really fundamental error:

    “How fast the battery drains depends on how many appliances you have running on the unit. A regular generator will use the same amount of gas no matter how many devices you run.”

    No, no and no! A gas generator has a speed governor so that the generator runs at constant speed to give you the constant frequency that  ac devices need. If there is no load, the throttle is only just open enough to overcome the generator’s internal losses. As you add load the throttle has to be opened more to keep the speed the same so more fuel is used, and so on until you reach full throttle, maximum power output, and maximum fuel use. What he suggests is like saying a car dribbling along a flat road at 30 mph uses the same amount of fuel as doing 30 mph up a steep hill!
    appleinsideruserradarthekat

  • Plugable TBT4-UDX1 Review: Harnessing Thunderbolt 4 for maximum connectivity

    isidoreisidore
    Your review very carefully avoids giving one important piece of information: does this dock have an enormous power brick like most of these docks have, or is the power supply internal like the better ones? If you have any intention of using this as a portable dock this will really shape its utility. 
    teaearlegreyhot

  • Apple rebrands OS X as macOS, announces Sierra with Siri, plus focus on Continuity & iCloud

    isidoreisidore
    Cloud? Without end to end encryption and a cloud server outside the US? Not of any use in Europe if you work in any industry the demands confidential docs are kept confidential- it wouldn't even be legal to use such a service!  I hope they haven't broken anything like local sync of iTunes to make this work. or looks like I'll have to stay on 10.11.whatever is the final version of El Capitan
    cnocbui