Mike Wuerthele

john-useless said:

Mike, if "a buckle or connector right on my wrist flat on my desk" is uncomfortable, the third-party band you bought doesn't look like it would be much better. Why don't you get one of Apple's Solo Loop or Braided Solo Loop bands, or a third-party equivalent, which have no buckles or clasps at all?

Because the tightening connector is on the side of my wrist facing away from me, and not downward-facing. You can see the edge of it in the article's picture.

One of Apple's Solo bands is on my list, but $8 or so for a proof of concept seemed like a pretty safe gamble.

They can't all be winners.

We get pitched absolute loads of products, and we have limited time. The one- and two-star products are generally weeded out before we ever get a loaner. I'm not going to lie -- I had high hopes for the D5, but that software is just so bad, I can't recommend it for the advertised RAID, and $699 is too much for a JBOD enclosure, even Thunderbolt.

I like Promise's stuff.

sully54 said:

Why was the discussion thread for the review for Physical deleted? I know it was mostly negative towards the review but it seems disingenuous to delete the thread. I mean, a writer presented an opinion on something, people should be able to agree or disagree with it. 

While I didn't close the thread, and Stephen doesn't have moderation permissions, it was very clearly not the opinions about the review that was the problem. It's the forum-goers that decided to go out of bounds and attack the writer, instead of attacking the opinion.

Nearly the entire thread was this, and not discussing the points that Stephen made.

It seems a little embarrassing that adults that frequent the forums can't follow the rules as it pertains to discussing the piece versus declaring the author being "rusty" and worse, causing threads to get shut.

As a reminder, we don't have infinite manpower. If a thread is no longer cost-effective to moderate because of forum-goer behavior, it gets closed and deleted.

And seriously -- personal attacks because a critic wrote something that you (generally speaking) didn't agree with? Talk about petulance.

If you don't like Stephen's reviews because your opinion varies, that's fine, fine a different reviewer. That's the nature of reviews -- find a reviewer whose opinions dovetail with your own, and you're good to go. There's literally no reason to mock a reviewer's name, his family, his taste in viewing, his perceived editorial bent, a perceived political slant, his choice of computers, his sexual orientation, and so much more just in that thread, simply because you see a review with his name on it. Exactly zero of these things had anything to do with the review.

Absolutely ridiculous behavior from a forum of adults.

Oh, and for folks who decided to try and have this spill into another thread, calling it "mostly positive" reviews elsewhere? Try again. While there are some positive reviews, it is certainly not "mostly" anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/18/physical-review-rose-byrne-appletv
https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/physical-review-rose-byrne-apple-tv-plus-1234987791/
https://www.avclub.com/apple-tv-plus-physical-has-a-lot-of-issues-to-work-out-1847030248
https://www.cultofmac.com/736175/physical-review-apple-tv/

rundhvid said:

Any info on compatibility with the Apple Afterburner card?

Doesn't work. Would be cool, but nope.

I suspect macOS is expecting the card in a native PCI-E slot.

mknelson said:

That's interesting timing.

Does Sonnet think eGPU support is coming to Apple Silicon or was it such a simple conversion it was worth the risk of that model only working with Intel Mac minis while they are still available?

Based on my conversations with Sonnet, this has been in the works for some time. The single-module enclosure has been available for a while, and the new modules are just being released now because of incredible chip shortage issues and international freight problems.