Mike Wuerthele

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  • 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 review: Where the 'Pro' starts

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    waveparticle said:
    I have no experience with HDMI port. Can you use it such that the external display is an extension of the home screen? 
    Sure can.
    waveparticlescstrrfwatto_cobra

  • OWC Thunderbolt Hub review: Three Thunderbolt ports from one host connector

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    persona1138 said:
    Article says that this Thunderbolt 4 dock is “the only game in town” that’s currently shipping, which isn’t exactly true.

    I got my Sonnet Thunderbolt 4 dock last week, and it works great.  And offers 90W of power.  And slightly faster SD card read speeds.  And it has stayed very cool to the touch.

    https://www.sonnettech.com/product/echo11-thunderbolt4-dock/overview.html
    I’m glad that they’re shipping and have some in stock. On Monday, when I asked, neither they nor Sonnet expected to have any until January.
    rundhvidmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobrascstrrf

  • OWC Thunderbolt Hub review: Three Thunderbolt ports from one host connector

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    planetary paul said:
    The ones I got came with 110W power bricks. The big TB-dock I got came with an ever bigger 135W one.
    I just checked and the OWC site specifies these power bricks.

    Strange then that 60W power bricks show up.
    This is 60W power delivery to the host. The brick is more than that, but it will only ever deliver 60W to the computer it is connected to.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Move over Apple polishing cloth - Samsung has Z Flip jeans

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    bluefire1 said:
    Silly? Apple’s cloth is sold out through at least January.
    Yeah, it's absolutely silly, and I stand by it.

    It's not a requirement for a product to be good or make sense to be sold out.
    Why is it silly to buy a $19 cloth guaranteed to work well on a $6,000 nano-textured pro monitor? I imagine that’s what it’s designed for, considering it cites the nano-texture displays in the product description.
    1. Because the Pro Display XDR and the iMac 5K customized with the nano texture comes with it.
    2. Because Pro Display XDR owners and the iMac 5K customized with the nano texture can get one for free through Apple support periodically.
    3. Because it is a bog-standard microfiber suede cloth, available for about $7 per yard.
    4. Because literally no other product requires it.
    So it's a replacement for the one that comes with the very expensive nano-textured displays, right. You're assuming you can always get one from support for free for life, but I'm not. (Support hasn't ever given me anything for free, so I'm dubious about that policy)

    This is clearly a product aimed at those customers buying the high-end nano-texture displays. It's not for your iPhone, thus there's nothing silly about buying it for your high-end nano-textured display if you've lost yours, and don't seem able to get one for free from support, which you may or may not have, at some point in its lifetime.

    I'm also perplexed by those who believe every available product is intended for them, and that if it isn't, it's silly. Apple sells lots of things you may not need, and some of them may be over-priced, too. This is not noteworthy.
    I don't believe the product is intended for me, and there's lots of Apple products that aren't. That doesn't stop me from thinking, saying, and approving of Malcolm's remarks that this particular offering is silly. For example: The Mac Pro tower is not for me. Yet, I don't think that's silly. The iPhone 12 or 13 mini isn't either, nor is the current iPhone SE. Neither of those are silly.

    Given what you know I've said about people doing the same for the last six years here, and five in a previous venue, it's ludicrous to attach that "not for me = silly" sentiment to me. You're welcome to believe that it isn't noteworthy all you like, of course, and you can believe what you want about Apple's present service policies regarding the cloth.

    You skipped my point #3, fwiw. $7 per yard. Of course, that doesn't have an embossed Apple logo.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingam

  • OWC Thunderbolt Hub review: Three Thunderbolt ports from one host connector

    Mike WuertheleMike Wuerthele
    golftango said:
    with two sandisk ssd's plugged into the two tb ports on the m1 mini and using striped raid, i get approx 1500mb/s throughput. when i use the owc dock this drops to approx 1000mb/s. a single standalone ssd which clocks at about 750mb/s when plugged into the mini drops to about 550mb/s. owc basically blew me off after i sent them reams of test data and tried everything they suggested by saying the problem was the monterey os. first bad experience i've ever had with owc and now i'm stuck with a boat anchor. /guy
    I haven't seen that problem. On a pair of NVMe-based drives I also bought after testing that did 2400 megabytes per second read and 2000 megabytes per second write, I got 2400 with one connected, and about 1500 megabytes per second with a read to one and a write to another. I haven't done SSD RAID testing, though. Which SanDisk drives?

    That does feel like RAID-driver related in Monterey, but I can't say for sure, as I haven't tested it beyond finding no native support for RAID 5 in Big Sur on M1 versus having it on Intel.
    rundhvidwatto_cobra