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  • Apple CEO Tim Cook personally invested $1 million in Trump's inauguration

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    ike22w said:
    Tim Cook did the same thing with Biden. Also, why did Wesley coin the President-Elect as controversial? He won in an electoral college landslide and also won the popular vote by over 4 million votes. I’d say the country clearly stated who they wanted. No controversy here folks. Maybe let’s just stick with tech news and not show our biased political views in a tech article. 
    He won the popular vote by 2,284,323 votes. The country stated who they wanted, but for perspective, Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by 2,864,974 votes in 2016. It’s not a big margin in the scheme of things. 
    Actually, just 1.5% ahead of Kamala, not even 50%, just 49.8%. The country decided they did not care about corruptness, narcism, bulling, retribution, criminal acts, insurrection, nor misogyny.

    Last time around Trump lost to Biden by 4.5% and he decided not to accept results and urge an insurrection, creating a huge controversy. Kamala lost by less and graciously accepted the results. Now Trump had to rescue Mike Johnson so he could certify the results of the election to allow him to be president. Will see how long Trump lets Mike Johnson be speaker.

    Now everybody knows that to get something done, you have to pay for acces and favors. So greed and hate won this time. It will be interesting to see how many MAGA fanatics are thrown under the bus every day for lack of money, access, brown-nosing, or influence.
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  • AirPods Pro crackling issue target of new class-action lawsuit

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    I had an Airpods Pro 1st generation that was denied the fix because their service program had expired. I had not used them much while exercising or in calls. The buzzing got worse if I used the airpods while moving or spoke. When i found about the service program it was too late. 

    The Apple staff acknowledged it was a common issue and recommended buying new AirPods rather than repairing them since they were no longer covered by the service program. 
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  • Why Apple uses integrated memory in Apple Silicon -- and why it's both good and bad

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    melgross said:
    Ok, so the writer gets it wrong, as so many others have when it comes to the M series RAM packaging. One would think that’s this simple thing would be well understood by now. So let me make it very clear - the RAM is NOT on the chip. It is NOT “in the CPU itself”. As we should all know by now, it’s in two packages soldered to the substrate, which is the small board the the SoC is itself soldered to. The lines from Apple’s fabric, which everything on the chip is connected with, extend to that substrate, to the RAM chips. Therefore, the RAM chips are separate from the SoC, and certainly not in the CPU itself. As we also know, Apple offers several different levels of RAM for each M series they sell. That means that there is no limit to their ability to decide how much RAM they can offer, up to the number of memory lines that can be brought out. This is no different from any traditional computer. Every CPU and memory controller has a limit as to how much RAM can be used. So, it seems to me that Apple could, if it wanted to, have sockets for those RAM packages, which add no latency, and would allow exchangeable RAM packages. Apple would just have to extend the maximum number of memory lines out to the socket. How many would get used would depend on the amount of RAM in the package. That’s nothing new. That’s how it’s done. Yes, under that scheme you would have to remove a smaller RAM package when getting a larger one, but that's also normal. The iMac had limited RAM slots and we used to do that all the time. Apple could also add an extra two sockets, in addition to the RAM that comes with the machine. So possibly there would be two packages soldered to the substrate, and two more sockets for RAM expansion. Remember that Apple sometimes does something a specific way, not because that’s the way it has to be done, but because they decided that this was the way they were going to do it. We don’t know where Apple is going with this in the future. It’s possible that the M2, which is really just a bump from the M1, is something to fill in the time while we’re waiting for the M3, which with the 3nm process it’s being built on, is expected to be more than just another bump in performance. Perhaps an extended RAM capability is part of that.
    Having the memory as close as possible to the CPU allows the memory to be clocked faster and less latency. Also minimizes other issues that slow down the system like electromagnetic interference, signal integrity degradation, and complexity of routing to many signals on a board. Moreover, every time you turn or pass through a via on a board, add solder joint from connectors and connections to memory boards, it adds more delays and areas where the contact might fail due to corrosion, cracked solder joints, flex from heating and cooling, etc..

    Routing on the package and die mounting allows most density, faster speed, greater reliability, and reduces cost since you do not incur in additional cost for extra memory packages, large packages with many pins, complicated board routing and simpler cooling of CPU and memory due to proximity. However, you give up flexibility for future expansion. Nevertheless, by the time you outgrow your system the CPU is so dated, you end up buying a new computer..
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  • Apple renews comedy 'Acapulco' for third season

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    Good show. Has some really funny lines and a little lesson on each episode. Glad it got renewed. It has been a family favorite. 
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  • Google pokes fun at Apple's Jony Ive design videos in new headphone jack ad

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    It was silly funny. But, I am one glad for wireless headphones. Really in 2021, Google is pushing for headphones!

    Should have added clips of the people dealing with those nasty headphone cables:
    • Coiling and uncoiling those cables that tended to form knots. 
    • Trying to hastily put those away by bunching them into a pocket or a bag, 
    • Snagging the cable on a door handle, exercise machine, or some other object and ripping the headphones out of your ears or strangling you with the cord
    • Breaking a plug in the device due to the previous snag.
    • The constant bang of the cable on your body while running and how it was pickup by your headphones
    • Forgetting you left your phone on the table, getting up and pulling the phone with force so it sails crashing into the floor.
    • Needing adaptors because not every device had the same connector
    • Trying to connect the device to the car cable in the dark at night


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