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  • Testing thermal throttling and performance in the 2018 i7 Mac mini

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    tboy said:
    Hello, Is the new macmini graphic card able to handle à 4K screen @ 2160 x 1440 resolution ? Thank you
    A 4K screen will work fine for desktop and apps, but 3D games will not work very well.
    williamlondon

  • Apple confirms T2 coprocessor blocks some third-party Mac repairs

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    Why accuse Apple of doing it for monopolistic reasons when the T2 is security chip and there are perfectly good security reasons for insisting on certain parts? For example macOS needs some assurance that the fingerprint reader is genuine if its granting access to the system partially based on its input.
    racerhomie3doozydozenwilliamlondonbb-15fastasleep

  • Apple launches replacement program for 13-inch MacBook Pro SSDs, warns of data loss

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    entropys said:
    Guys, the SSD is soldered on. Apple claims this is for performance reasons, which might even be true. It would seem based on benchmark comparisons with the XPS there might be at least a bit of a speed benefit, although that might be because of the T2.

    However, while it all so very conveniently for Apple substantially raises the cost at initial purchase for anything above base configuration, but it also means the user can’t service their own machine, and as this example demonstrates, raises the cost of repair if anything goes wrong. Not only cost of repair, but look at this example: a person could just replace the SSD themselves, or a thirty second job at an Apple store,  but no, this requires a job where the whole logic board has to be replaced. How inconvenient.

    Apple really needs to rethink this soldered SSD strategy, if nothing else because it is costing a hell of a lot in good will.  
    They're not just taking an SSD and soldering it, as opposed to plugging it in to an M.2 connector though. On an Apple computer the SSD controller is part of the T2 chip and the things that are solderer are just the memory part. So even if they made those socketable you still couldn't insert PC SSDs on your Mac.
    racerhomie3boboliciousStrangeDayswatto_cobramacplusplus

  • Review: The iPhone XR isn't a $1,000 flagship, but isn't any less of a premium experience

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    But psychologically you know it wasn't the best one.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's Face ID component supplier Finisar acquired for $3.2B

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    I would have thought any supplier to Apple would be raking it in and not in a position to be acquired.
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