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lkrupp said: georgie01 said: Unsurprising, but also surprising. 5G isn’t even of particular significance right now. I keep 5G off on my iPhone 12 Pro to save battery because there is currently no gain from using 5G. I know technologie…
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commentzilla said: jdb8167 said: MacQuadra840av said: jdb8167 said: These still won't be processors for the Mac Pro or iMac Pro. Those are probably coming next year. The Mac Pro will be using Intel chips for a few mor…
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mrconfuse said: It's not that hard to understand the issue. The problem is that developers has no other avenue to sell their apps to IOS users. You have to use the app store if you want to sell anything that can be installed on an IPhone or I…
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commentzilla said: robaba said: Limited to 16 gig memory? Nah, that makes no sense. As the computing power increases, Apple will need to bump the memory and bandwidth of the on-chip fabric in order to prevent bottlenecking. I also e…
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CX226 said: „It's not clear whether Microsoft intends to remove those, and they do not appear to have any functionality that is lacking in the new unified version.“ What about split screen? In the unified version, you cannot have an Excel sp…
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InspiredCode said: Tim Sweeney said on Twitter that they had nothing to do with this. It was an independent action by the coalition for app fairness. He also has some great land in FL and a bridge in NY he can sell you.
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MacQuadra840av said: jdb8167 said: These still won't be processors for the Mac Pro or iMac Pro. Those are probably coming next year. The Mac Pro will be using Intel chips for a few more years because Apple's M processor can't beat …
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MacQuadra840av said: Anything M1 related is low end for Apple. Any iteration of the M1 would be for improved models of the existing low end 13-inch MacBook Pro, Air, or mini. The M1 might have 3x the performance of the low end models they r…
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mr lizard said: nosleepapnea said: Please clarify if this will run with 8GB ram on the M1 or does it need 16GB to be practical? Especially since one of your reviews implied 8GB of ram on M1 was similar to 16GB ram on Intel Mac. You…
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DuhSesame said: jdb8167 said: There is very little chance that the next update to Apple Silicon will be limited to 16 GB of RAM. The current 16" MacBook Pro and the top of line x86 Mac mini can go up to 64 GB. Apple is unlikely to rele…
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There is very little chance that the next update to Apple Silicon will be limited to 16 GB of RAM. The current 16" MacBook Pro and the top of line x86 Mac mini can go up to 64 GB. Apple is unlikely to release new ASi models that have less RAM. If th…
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larryjw said: Why can't ARM just exist as a stand-alone company? I don't get the "ownership" issue. In a significant way, it's just a standards organization, like the RFCs defined the protocols for the Internet, or the standards for relationa…
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cloudguy said: danox said: Apple’s need cause them to roll up their sleeves and (go back to the 1980’s) the iPhone/iPad/Mac in house cpu was the result and the introduction of the M1x, M2 in June 2021 will put the final nail in the cof…
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imagladry said: Usually I see government industrial subsidy as a good thing but… I have a question. Five years ago the technology to do what TSMC was doing existed since as they were doing it. Instead, the US chip companies rested on there la…
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beowulfschmidt said: mike1 said: beowulfschmidt said: Just so I'm clear, developers paid for the DTK (and leasing is paying), did a fair bit of Apple's QA on the device for them, and now Apple wants it back? I'm kinda in the "w…
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commentzilla said: lkrupp said: sflocal said: As a developer myself, this inaction by other developers really irks me and gives us a bad rap. I know conversions can be a pain. I've done a few myself over the decades. It's ine…
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Wgkrueger said: Unfortunately (at least as far as I can tell based on a recent search) Homebrew still has the security issue around /user/local/bin so I’m still thinking it’s a bad idea for me to install it. What is the security issue? For…
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MplsP said: commentzilla said: darkvader said: I touched a M1 Mac today for the first time. S L O W. Completely what I expected, but with all the "no, really, they're fast" hype, I thought maybe I'd be wrong. Nope. They're slow…
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bobolicious said: Heat shrink tubing can effect a makeshift repair - I've even had a Thunderbolt monitor cable split (you don't want to know how much they cost) also requiring monitor disassembly for replacement and suspecting heat from a min…