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williamh said: I've used Apple Airports for many years now and I am generally happy. I expect the high marks are because most people are intimidated by the idea of the setup of other brands (although they're mostly easy enough.) Airports ha…
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Full size? Oh, I would buy the hell out of that thing.
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said:Apple has never had two "current" architectures for the macOS lineup at the same time. It's always been a transition from one architecture to the next one, followed by dropping the old one entirely. Yes, t…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: You'd need some sort of emulation. No.Aha! Well, then. You really want to split the lineup among two architectures with differing software compatibility attributes?I don't want to do anything. This is abo…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: Soli said: durandal_1707 said: You're forgetting backward compatibility, which is important. Based on that statement Apple should never have moved from Motorola, never have moved from PPC,…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: Are we really going to be pedantic enough to bring clearly irrelevant things like watchOS and tvOS into this? I think it's pretty clear what I meant. I see nothing irrelevant about these OSes or their as…
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spheric said: The difference between iOS and macOS (and tvOS and watchOS) is NOT what processor architecture they run on, but how we interact with them. "Adding a mouse pointer to iOS" is not a trivial thing; it requires pretty much exactly t…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: You're forgetting backward compatibility, which is important. Based on that statement Apple should never have moved from Motorola, never have moved from PPC, and never should have stripped macOS down an…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said:However, among the operating systems that Apple owns, iOS is the one with the existing ARM-based architecture and software library. Again, you're wrong. What part of that statement is wrong, that iOS's ex…
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hmlongco said: durandal_1707 said: You can't take the macOS version of Pages and run it on iOS. It's a completely different app, running on a completely different architecture. Apple's previous processor jumps have been to processors suf…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: Soli said: durandal_1707 said: Soli said: :sigh: You can't fucking add a piece of HW to the iPad and make it work like a windowed OS or have the same functionality as a traditional PC. …
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: Soli said: :sigh: You can't fucking add a piece of HW to the iPad and make it work like a windowed OS or have the same functionality as a traditional PC. If and when Apple moves to an ARM-based tradi…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: misa said: durandal_1707 said: blastdoor said: Well, it's Apple's fault that they keep using Intel processors instead of something based on their wind-storm ARM cores. ARM still h…
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misa said: durandal_1707 said: blastdoor said: Well, it's Apple's fault that they keep using Intel processors instead of something based on their wind-storm ARM cores. ARM still has not caught up to Intel in terms of perform…
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Soli said: durandal_1707 said: This. If Apple makes an ARM-based laptop, which I still find unlikely, it would probably be more closely aligned with the iOS architecture than macOS. Making an ARM-based Mac would be a huge mistake, since…
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spheric said:Donvermo said:I wonder why they chose to remove it. It is not like people reboot their MacBooks constantly throughout the day that it would be a problem. Granted it takes up space while it isn't being used often. Software real estate is…
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brucemc said: Soli said: macplusplus said: Soli said: blastdoor said: Well, it's Apple's fault that they keep using Intel processors instead of something based on their wind-storm ARM cores. I would like to se…
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blastdoor said: Well, it's Apple's fault that they keep using Intel processors instead of something based on their wind-storm ARM cores. ARM still has not caught up to Intel in terms of performance, so claiming about the performance of Ap…
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val1984 said: Transintl makes aftermarket SSDs too and these are faster than OWC's http://www.transintl.com/super-blade-flash-storage-ssd.html Which controller do they use?
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macseeker said: Greetings Soli and thewhitefalcon; When the Touch Bar MacBook Pros are released, should be interesting when ifixit does their normal teardown. If the storage device (SSD) is replaceable, hope soon someone like Crucial or oth…