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The Seagate 5TB external disk at this size has been available for three years. Not sure why WD is so late to the party. The only place I can find the WD at the moment is at B&H for $160. The Seagate is currently under $100 at Amazon. I have…
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Big discounts and multiyear contracts with high early termination fees are really just a way to buy a phone over time. Apple has dealt with the end of subsidies elsewhere by simply offering good financing options. This seems like no big deal.
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Metriacanthosaurus said: What I find remarkable about blogs like this, is that on subject you know a lot about (like Apple, and their history, and their day-to-day performance) you can rail against the mainstream media and their outrageous fa…
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GlobalFoundries is a practicing entity, though not nearly as large as TSMC. It's a conglomerate of a bunch of formerly-US chip companies, now completely owned by the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. TSMC is ranked in the top 10 of all patent assignees in the …
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AppleInsider said: "The greatest mistake is whatever mismanagement I engaged in that caused Microsoft not to be what Android is," he said. "That is, Android is the standard non-Apple phone platform." Android is free, and Google makes its …
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Nice review! Could you please add a pic of what the unit looks like installed?
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georgie01 said: Meaningful change requires sacrifice.... What Trump is trying to fix is a good thing. He understands that making sacrifices, sometimes significant sacrifices, to accomplish good things is the most effective path. But we as a …
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SpamSandwich said: The question is: Can China afford both the short-term and long-term economic losses? If they are eventually kicked out of the WTO (as should’ve happened many years ago), they will be in far more trouble. Trump is effective…
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matrix077 said: One of the better Touch Bar implementation is physical ESC key. If you want a physical ESC key, remap it to the capslock key:system-preferences>keyboard>keyboard>modifier-keys>caps-lock>esc I'm very happy with…
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StrangeDays said: normm said: StrangeDays said: GeorgeBMac said: Amazing the power of propaganda to, in short order, and without evidence, label an entire country a dangerous enemy. While a country that actually attacked…
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StrangeDays said: GeorgeBMac said: Amazing the power of propaganda to, in short order, and without evidence, label an entire country a dangerous enemy. While a country that actually attacked us and continues to attack us is labelled a…
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slurpy said: I'm very curious about something. Do you ACTUALLY think that even if Apple allowed 3rd party appstores on iOS, that they would get ANY kind of mainstream usage? Why the hell would 99.99% of people want to use these stores, in…
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I wrote:I'm very happy with "scrn", which replaces iTeleport (same people). It has a Mac app and an iOS app (and even a Web app). The Mac app makes all your Mac desktops accessible to each other and to your iOS devices. This works both locally an…
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Apple tends to solder the processor to the board directly, rather than using any sort of holstering system, as a means to prevent processor changes after purchase, as well as potentially saving space by not needing the slotting mechanism. The…
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dasanman69 said: mjtomlin said: Pretty silly that Apple is included here. Especially since this about the practices of handling user data. It's understandable that they want to know how Apple handles the data, but Apple's been pretty v…
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I'm very happy with "scrn", which replaces iTeleport (same people). It has a Mac app and an iOS app (and even a Web app). The Mac app makes all your Mac desktops accessible to each other and to your iOS devices. This works both locally and remote…
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imagladry said: Did anyone else have a problem with the update? Airport Utility said the update failed and the basestation disappeared from my WiFi list. A WiFi diagnostic came up and that appeared to fix the problem.I was truly hoping that i…
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shompa said: Since I live in the area: The REAL reason why there is campaign against Apple in SEA is Tim and his politics and values that are not shared in the area. I understand that the US media tries to brainwash the people that Apple loos…
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It would be nice to have a more objective idea of what an x-nanometer process means for Intel and TSMC. Do we have any information on relative chip sizes for designs that Intel has partly offloaded onto TSMC, and what each called the process size?
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jbdragon said: Ya, I new Apple was going to use that T2 chip to screw over the users to stop them from fixing their own computers. With what Apple is doing, I'm all on board with right to repair. This isn't currently an issue, as the a…