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After three years I finally lost my Apple Pencil reverse Lightening charge adapter. I’d prefer that the Apple Pencil just charge wirelessly/magneticically from the iPad Pro. 

The 12.9” iPad Pro’s battery is so big it charges an Apple Pencil in 10 minutes. Inductive charging should be good enough with the small charge the Apple Pencil needs. No more one of a kind adapters. No more sticking out of the Lightening port. Just go for it. Keep it easy. 

Great day for Apple. Mac Mini is awesome. iPad Pro is awesome. Well done. What’s the price? A little worried. 

mac_128 said:

Seems like the headphone jack is gone?

Personally, I hope so. I use an audio interface anyway cause those cheap 3.5mm parts are just not up to pro studio quality in terms of ruggedness. 3.5mm is a nightmare in recording studios and live venues. 

Ok. Apple nailed the iPad Pro. They really are listening to us musicians and other creative pros. Everything they added is exactly what we needed. Lightening was too slow as an I/O. It limited how much audio I could stream. USB-C can pass 100s of audio streams, especially with that A12x! 

A12x, USB-C, and what they did what the Apple Pencil! Yeah baby. Now, how much? I’m worried. $1,500 loaded? 

I use my 12.9" iPad Pro a lot more these days mainly because nobody makes phone calls anymore. I text all of my clients and they too. So, I'm still rockin' a 6 Plus. The only reason to upgrade is for the 8 Plus' camera, but that's an expensive camera. If I can get a cheap 8 plus I'll take it, but I'm waiting on the 3rd gen 12.9" iPad Pros.

This is interesting to hear, especially after all the “YouTube opportunists” came to the conclusion that it wasn’t thermal throttling at all, but was in fact an Apple design issue in which they were sloppy in their implementation of supplying the correct amount of voltage to the CPU to keep it from needing to throttle. Glad Apple quickly resolved this. 

Many of you may have seen this but in case you hadn’t here is the summation. 

“In my opinion, Apple seriously screwed up here. The testing that I did was easily within Apple's capabilities, and it is highly irresponsible of them to ship these machines out this way. As far as I am aware, the MSR is set to the intel's default ... and clearly Intel expects that if you are going to use this default, you will have a machine capable of delivering 100 Watts of power steady state. Intel does not expect that you must have thermal capabilities of shedding those 100 Watts, as the chip will thermally throttle if it reaches TJunction (100C), and that thermal throttling would not be nearly as painful as this type of VRM throttling. Most likely, if Apple wanted to handle things that way, they could have figured out a way to attach the heatpipe to the VRM. Even if they did not want to handle things that way, they should have reduced the MSR value from the factory to something that the VRM is actually capable of delivering (ie: My settings).”

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/91256u/optimal_cpu_tuning_settings_for_i9_mbp_to_stop/