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tnet-primary said:

How ironic…given that Australians aren’t allowed the leave their houses.  Yuck yuck   😂

Just Melbourne has the hard lockdowns still, everywhere else is open.

Also I wouldn’t mock a system that works. Australia has had 60 deaths/1M pop as opposed to other developed countries like USA which has 2200 deaths/1M pop.

tjwolf said:

"HiSilicon advised it was planning to spend a minimum of $300 million on a system-on-chip design using 7-nanometer technology, illustrating the potentially high costs involved in working at that level."  I have no idea what the author is talking about here.  Why would it cost any more to *design* at 7nm than at 10nm?  I'm pretty sure the high costs/complexity is mostly on the manufacturing side.

What do you mean? He said it has a high cost, doesn’t say that 10nm or larger weren’t also expensive to develop. I think he’s trying to make a point that shrinking your designs costs a massive amount of money.

I’ve had this MacBook since launch day and the keyboard does get debris stuck under the keys easily but it hasn’t failed on me.

I’ve had to spray compressed air under some keys two times only.

However I don’t like the key travel, it’s really shallow. This needs to be addressed.

I don’t know how they can fix the issue with debris screwing the keys up.

A good outcome for me would be if Apple setup up a replacement program for the keyboard affected models and an updated problem free keyboard in future models.

It would be could if existing models could be retrofitted with a V2 keyboard if possible.

I think the issue is blown out of proportion however it is a real issue and needs to be addressed by Apple.

The lack of HDMI for ARC (Audio Return Channel) is absolutely ridiculous for a $699 device.

Which is why he had problems changing the volume.

Should have a sub for that price too.

It should have got 3/5.