Mike Wuerthele

jeromec said:

"Macs can only drive 8K displays at 30HZ as they lack Display Signal Compression"
May be true for M4 Pro and M4 Max.
But Apple's own Mac Studio specs page begs to differ, indicating, for M3 Ultra Mac Studio:
"Four displays with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at up to 240Hz" (clearly of Thunderbolt and not HDMI, because four.

commentzilla said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

commentzilla said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

commentzilla said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

I haven't had any issue with self-powered drives, it's just not a present workflow. I don't think capacity full is relevant, but I'll try it again in the next week or so. I'd still talk to CalDigit about it, if I were you.

There should not be a workflow problem.

You may be misunderstanding. It's not MY present workflow. It wasn't commentary on yours.

I'm commenting on the performance of the dock. It should not be failing, right?. That's the point.

blastdoor said:

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sflocal said:

Sounds like a great time for Apple to do a massive stock buyback.

Mods... get rid of these political BS comments.  If I want that, I'll go to CNN or Fox News.  

Oddly enough we haven't had to delete that much. As if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

I appreciate the greater tolerance for comments being shown at this site relative to the past. Or at least it seems more tolerant to me, anyway -- maybe I'm wrong. 

These are unprecedented times and the idea that we should all restrict ourselves to commenting on technology, even though I obviously understand this is a technology-oriented site and the site owners can clearly moderate as they see fit, just seems tone deaf to me. 

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charlesn said:

Marvin said:

This is what the government spending cuts and tariffs are about. If there's a better way to fix the debt issue other than cutting spending and trying to make up trade deficits, they'd probably like to hear some ideas. These moves suggest they don't have any better ones.

In mid-October last year, the widely respected financial journal, The Economist, ran with this headline and cover story: "The American Economy: The Envy of the World." And the sub-head was: "The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust." Not bad for the country that Trump has would have the brain-dead believe is in an "economic emergency" and the trading partner punching bag of the world. If so many countries are taking advantage of us, it would seem they're doing a pretty bad job of it! 

The last time we tried tariffs this insane (Trump's are actually worse than Smoot-Hawley), they helped usher in the Great Depression. So there's your "proof of concept" and the reason high tariffs have been discredited by economists left, right and center ever since. It also goes without saying that triggering a recession and stagflation with this stupidity will cut growth and revenue, thereby driving up deficits even higher. And spare me the BS that Trump, the self-styled King of Debt, has ANY interest in solving the debt problem. In his first term, his unpaid for tax breaks to the richest blew up the national debt by more than all 44 previous presidents COMBINED. 

As for spending cuts: the Pentagon budget is nearly $850 billion dollars and for decades has been spending more each year than the next 8-10 largest militaries in the world COMBINED. So how is it that we're always falling behind our adversaries? Why are so many weapons systems wildly overbudget, hugely behind schedule and never work as advertised? Seems like a place that's rife with waste, fraud and abuse. Musk, himself, has excoriated "idiots who are still building the F-35" and has pleaded, "...in the name of all this is holy, let us stop the worst military value for the money in history, which is the F-35 program." Did DOGE stop it? Nope. Where are the mass DOGE firings at the Pentagon? Why hasn't DOGE taking over the Pentagon computers? Why hasn't DOGE limited Pentagon credit cards to $1? Instead, DOGE is devastating health care and services for the veterans who risked their bodies and lives in defense of this country. Nice! DOGE isn't looking for waste, fraud and abuse--it is indiscriminately taking a chainsaw to the government to free up more money for tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires. 

Big BS about veterans, I am DV and not lost a single cents, in fact my health care is far to none. Stop your big BS about veterans please

So, you're saying that right-wing media aren't reporting the massive cuts and layoffs DOGE is making at the VA? Do you have any clue what is going on around you? That last question was rhetorical, I know you don't.

it’s called efficiency. Cutting waste to maximize organizational health. That’s a good thing. 

Any business knows this. 

Bloat is bad. Lean, mean machine is good. 

We prune trees and bushes to redirect the flow from dead, useless branches to healthy, productive ones. That’s what going on here at organizations in the government. There is literally only good to come of it. Americans are shocked to see where our tax dollars have been wasted. It’s finally being addressed. 

Veterans now will have a better shot of money actually going to their care instead of dead end pointless endeavors. 

ssfe11 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ssfe11 said:

Maybe I’m missing something but Tim meeting with Trump and in Feb and then both announcing the 500b US investment has total exemption written all over it. Again am I missing something? Would welcome comments. 

You're missing the fact that the President said yesterday that there were no exemptions.

And, you're missing that the $500 billion investment wasn't new investment, and instead was already-announced projects and business as usual.


No I think you are getting it wrong Mike. Trump 1.0 he also said no exceptions to tariffs until Tim talked him out it. Second trump is under the impression the 500b is def new money(maybe it is only Apple knows) because he brought it up again yesterday. Tim is the savviest CEO out there. He walked away with a 500b tariff exemption. It’s just pathetic fear has caused irrationality. No way there is not going to be an exemption and Trump will use some excuse like”well Apple needs to make money to pay the 500b” to justify it.