Soli

There was a lot of sidestepping of environmental laws and safe guards, especially with the water to be taken from Lake Michigan.

gatorguy said:

ttollerton said:

I’m curious whether some modern hardware (such as eero or Google Home) can be flash updated to support WPA3, or if this requires specific hardware certification. 

Word is that it can be. 

Hopefully Eero doesn't charge you for it. I've had great experience with their product but I see they have an in-app purchase to get more features, but I haven't looked into what that actually offers. If Eero (and others) want to charge for improved security I'll be disappointed in them as a company, but maybe I shouldn't if they've never accounted for this eventual cost in the device's sale. Remember when Apple charged $1.99(?) for getting 802.11n flash to a NIC?

melgross said:

lmac said:

If the new MacBook Air is in the pipeline, it will likely have the new, flawed, butterfly keyboard and the USB-C ports that nobody wanted.

Everybody wants USB C. So that’s not true. But one port on the Macbook isn’t enough. If they had two, most people would be happy. Apple has also been looking into what they describe as “stuck” keys. Possibly they have a solution. They certainly will for a new model.

While I never did get use to the 12" MacBook's keyboard during a trial run (which is fine as not every product should be geared toward my specific needs), my biggest complaint was only having a single USB-C port when it's such a versatile port interface. Long before that MacBook was announced I suggested the USB-C on each side of the device would offer a great number of advantages moving forward. I was glad to see that Google's first foray with a USB-C ChromeBook came with a USB-C port on each side.

Between 802.11ax and WPA3 I hope that Apple is just waiting before they launch a quality mesh router system. I'd also like to see an option (from anyone) to plug in an iPhone for a backup cellular connection from the router, as well as VPN from the router itself, but I'm not holding my breath.

cropr said:

Soli said:

cropr said:

commentzilla said:

In all fairness, the lack of 32GB on any model and 4-Cores on the 13" are squarely on Intel. They have a low-power 4-core chip perfect for the 13" but that just arrived this year. This cannot go on much longer. I'd really like to have something new by this time next year or sooner, preferably before Xmas.

If the 32GB is purely the fault of Intel, how does Dell manage to have 32GB in some of the XPS configurations ?

Those laptops weren't using LPDDR4 RAM.

That is a totally irrelevant technical detail, when one needs a lot of RAM

It's not irrelevant. There's a core difference in the power draw between DDR and LPDDR. Apple doesn't use DDR in any of their laptops and to expect that that they should because Dell does is poor thinking. This notion that "Dell does it so Apple should do it" is as foolish as looking at a 10lb gaming laptop with a desktop-grade CPU and 1 hour battery life and saying "Alienware does it so Apple should do it."

As it's been shown repeatedly macOS is more efficient when it comes to managing RAM and the use cases for needing more than 16 GiB of RAM at the expense of battery life are fringe cases. It may very well be what think you need, but don't claim that it's what Apple needs to do because WinPC vendors are throwing shit at a wall.