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mavemufc said:

Why don't you get more data on your plan then? I've got 100GB on my new iPhone 10.

How much does that cost and what carrier are you on?

We've got 5GB and it costs nearly $100 on AT&T, that is if we don't go over but we often do so it costs even more.

deminsd said:

macseeker said:

Now we can burn through our data plans in a few minutes time. NEAT! Still will have the same low amount data plans. 5G really not worth it.

I've tried, but cannot figure out how people think that faster service will use MORE data?   

When I'm on the road I use my iPhone as a personal hotspot for my MBP. I need secure encrypted WiFi and many airports, hotels and restaurants just have a free no password open WiFi. I definitely go through a lot more data with a laptop than I would just using the iPhone. One reason is that many websites have a simplified lightweight version of pages designed for smartphones whereas a computer gets the full heavy version. The other factor for me in this scenario is that I spend a lot of time logged into a remote desktop VPN to the office which is a very heavy use of data. It would be great to speed that process up, but it will definitely use more data because I can get more done. As it is now the connection stalls often. Furthermore if you are using Maps in CarPlay the tiles will load and update much faster with 5G and you will consume more data.

AMD denies its processors have the same vulnerability.

Email from Tom Lendacky SMTS Software Engineer - ‎AMD

VRing said:

If you're using Premiere Pro, well, you probably shouldn't be using a Mac anyways. 

I use Premiere almost everyday on a iMac 5K with 32 GB RAM. Works fine for me. I'm not doing 4K video though, only 1080, but still a lot faster than my 8 core cheese grater also with 32 GB RAM. In my situation, I'm doing a lot of design tasks, not just video, so as a general graphics productivity machine using a lot of Adobe CC apps, the iMac 5K beats any computer running Windows by miles. I have two Windows machines here and they suck at file management and searching compared to macOS. On my Mac I can find any of 100,000 files in less than a second. On Windows, most of the time it searches for several minutes and more often than not it never finds the file I'm looking for. I have to go looking for it manually. We use ISO file naming conventions so I'm searching for a known ISO number in the file name. PC just doesn't find it. Any speed gain you might have with faster hardware is completely lost due to the crap Windows OS that wastes your time.

gatorguy said:
Sounds almost a bit FUDical. Have you seen any evidence that Google or Amazon or Apple can listen to everything going on in your home, or is "listening" to and connecting your profile with every sound in the background when you make a request? Anything is possible of course but encouraging everyone to worry over "possible" but lacking any evidence for "probable" amounts to no more than fear-mongering doesn't it? 

I was watching a TV news show about this either yesterday or the day before. I can't remember which network and I couldn't find it online but during an interview with a security expert Alexa piped up unexpectedly without anyone prompting her to do so to the surprise of both the expert and the interviewer. Anyway, the main topic of the interview was the "potential" for security and privacy issues. No proof was offered just an observation that it was possible.