knowitall

I expect the transition to ARM to be swift (pun intended) and complete.
Intel will be readily forgotten like Kodak and other dinosaurs.

Intel got its Kodak moment because it developed a bureaucratic grind down and lost all interest in innovation. Instead they performed a Bubka (minimal uninspired improvement) once in a increasingly longer while.
Intels x86 design is inherently handicapped (nee! politically correct: challenged) by its internal hardware translation to RISC and its slow transition to smaller feature size.
What happened is that designing a new chip became more and more a software issue (the right VHDL tools and combined physics calculations) and making the hardware (steppers) more and more an order for ASML.

Apples ARM processors will be the best high end processors you can buy, only at a fraction of the cost and as part of a device.

hentaiboy said:

YvLy said:

" ... protect your battery's longevity by not constantly charging to 100% and holding it there ..." ... Oh. So it is a good idea to not charge to 100 but only to 80?.?

Yes apparently keeping it between 20% and 80% is optimal. "Charge little and often".

Would be nice to have ‘max 80%’ as a setting then.

I see only one problem with the Mac.
It isn't ARM based.
This makes its price point artificially high.
Once intel is eradicated prices will start to fall $400 to $20000 or so (for Intels absurdly priced 28 core chip, that can be produced for $40 or so when based on ARM and a 7nm production line with high yield ).

I would be worried about quality.
I they couldn't deliver while part of Intel, why would they be able to when bought by Apple?

asdasd said:

there is probably some way to disable network shares in offices, the rest of us won’t see them. 

So this exploit is. 

1) if you have a nfs share mounted (that is you mounted a windows server deliberately). 
2) if the attacker knows you have a network share mounted and knows the exact path to it. 
3) if you then download a zip file it will automatically open the zip (actually you can turn this feature off per browser). 
4) and if then the zip file contains a symbolic link to that exact path it will open it as a folder in the finder. 
5) if you then open a document on this folder (which is on the server) somehow the remote terminal has access to something or other, apparently on your machine. 

Not really sure about 5. Or how that works. 

This isn’t going to keep me awake at night. Nor is it anything to do with gatekeeper. 

1) windows shares are samba not nfs (thas a Unix network file system share)

5) what I read is that mounts are automatically made (automount feature) and possibly made to a point on a external server the hacker knows of.
This server contains malicious files which when clicked on do all kinds of nasty stuff.
The user doesn't necessarily notice the mount point (thats transparent in finder) and files on the external server may have the same name as common apps tricking the user which is looking for a specific app (name) ...