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  • Apple SSD in Touch Bar-equipped MacBook Pro fixed to motherboard, not removable

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    djames4242 said:
    I tend to use my laptops for six years before replacing them. My first-gen MBP is being used by my twelve-year-old for homework. A SSD has a limited lifespan. This is (sort-of) okay with a tablet or a phone, but I'm looking at spending over $3,000 on the new MacBook Pro early next year (to replace my early-2011). I'm highly unlikely to do spend that kind of cash on a machine that Apple is now considering disposable when a part wears out.
    MBTFs on high end flash are so good that the odds of you seeing any kind of serious performance degradation even after six years are low. 
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  • Breastfeeding, T-Rex highlight proposed shortlist of 51 emoji set to debut in 2017

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    I think about 80% of them need to be culled out of the OS. There's too many to scroll through now.
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook urges employees to 'move forward together' in memo on 2016 presidential election

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    spice-boy said:
    Let me take a wild guess that had Hillary Clinton won Tim Cook wouldn't have wrote this letter. I didn't vote for Donald Trump but the country has survived much worse than him. On the other hand if California ever decided to secede I'm not sure the rest of the country would really care. California really is nothing like the rest of the country. If Democrats are to take power again it's not going to come from San Francisco.
    I would love California to secede. Then their transplants would stop infecting the rest of the country with their horrific progressive politics and we could laugh as Governor Moonbeam collapsed the little country on itself. 
    It is richer states like New York (at least the city) and states like California which support the flyover states of America.
    The problem with that thinking is that those states you demean as "flyover country" have budget shortfalls due to all the massive programs forced on them by Big Government.
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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook urges employees to 'move forward together' in memo on 2016 presidential election

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    rogifan_new said:
    Let me take a wild guess that had Hillary Clinton won Tim Cook wouldn't have wrote this letter. I didn't vote for Donald Trump but the country has survived much worse than him. On the other hand if California ever decided to secede I'm not sure the rest of the country would really care. California really is nothing like the rest of the country. If Democrats are to take power again it's not going to come from San Francisco.
    I would love California to secede. Then their transplants would stop infecting the rest of the country with their horrific progressive politics and we could laugh as Governor Moonbeam collapsed the little country on itself. 
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  • How Donald Trump's election as U.S. President could affect Apple

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    red oak said:
    Your obviousluck seething about the election results, being you were so far up the Democrats and HRC's asses

    BTW, it's a 10% tax holiday and then 15% going forward on all foreign earnings. Apple will be all over this and will be able to bring $200B back to the US if they wish 

    More important, it would be a 15% income tax on everything going forward, vs the current 26% Apple has been accruing.  It would be a massive windfall and dramaticallly improve operating results of the company going forward.  Was this too inconsequential for you to mention in your tirade? 


    DED has no interest in being accurate, merely in spewing crap he got from Daily Kos.
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