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  • Man ludicrously blames Apple for his wife catching him communicating with prostitutes

    40domi said:
    Most people on here seem to be judging the man and his actions, rather than a valid point, I've been an Apple user for 7 years now and this is news to me!
    Whenever I delete an iMessage on my iPhone it seems to delete it on my Mac as well and vice versa, am I missing something here?
    iCloud sync should work that way, otherwise it's not a sync, ie; one action on one devise being mirrored on all devises in iCloud, I wouldn't be too sure this guy has no leg to stand on with this suit!
    He has no leg to stand on. The TOS that he agreed to are clear, servers aren't always immediate especially if a machine, in this case the iMac, has been off, and the inciting event for the divorce wasn't the message discovery, it was the infidelity.

    That's like blaming the paper and pencil if a letter got read after you tossed it in the trash.

    Also, what's the argument if the wife was on the iMac and getting the messages in real-time when he was using iMessage?

    He's going to lose, and lose big.
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  • iPad Air (2024) review: Not the cheapest, and not the best, but still great

    AppleInsider

    We have to give one score, thanks to the overlords at Google. But, broken up, we give the smaller 2024 iPad Air a 3.5 out of 5, and the larger form factor a 4.5 out of 5.

    Wait, why are you hindered by Google at all here? Also, thanks for the review. Things are definitely starting to blue together so it's good to hear the plus/minus of this specific model and accessory support.
    In short, Google search penalizes reviews that does not have a single score. It's dumb, and it makes little sense, as there is no way to give a product a single score that encompasses the pros and cons of any product for every reader.
    muthuk_vanalingamnubuswatto_cobra
  • AI computer showdown - MacBook Air vs. Microsoft Surface Laptop Copilot+ PC

    KITA said:
    KITA said:
    KITA said:
    y2an said:
    Given the Surface has a fan, why compare it to the MacBook Airs rather than the MacBook Pros?
    Surface Laptop 15" is $1299 for Snapdragon X Elite with 16 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD

    MacBook Air 15" is $1299 for M3 with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD
    Microsoft doesn't mention unified memory in its marketing, so it could be DDR for the Surface which is approximately 50% as efficient as unified memory. If so, the RAM difference in this comparison is negligible. I also wonder what the SSD speed is for the Surface. The M3 MBA SSD has a read speed of 2880 and a write speed of 2108. 
    8 GB of RAM is still 8 GB of RAM.

    Apple 8GB

    The NPU may take 8 GB of RAM just for itself at times. 16 GB was chosen as the minimum for a reason.
    How do you explain this video? It compares a 16GB $2000 Mac laptop with unified memory versus a 16GB $2100 Windows laptop with DDR. If what you were saying were true, then the results could be expected to mostly similar. Instead, the Windows laptop isn't even remotely close to the performance of 16GB unified memory. There are other tests by the same channel where an 8GB unified memory system is only beaten by 10% or 11% in performance versus a 16GB DDR system. 

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al1OAg9Gin8
    The comparison was 8 GB vs 16 GB. When the ram usage is maxed out, clearly, unified or not, it has to swap with the SSD. Hence my statement about 8 GB still being 8 GB.

    If you want to pay even more for 16 GB on the Mac, that's fine, but that's not what I wrote in my earlier post, nor is what you quoted.

    I'd also point out the test I listed was done by the same channel as the video you posted:

    "So you guys can see that 8 GB is not the same as 16, especially when you're actually going to be using the system" 


    I urge you to exercise caution with this YouTube channel.

    They generally start with a conclusion that they want to prove, and concoct a scenario to get there to "prove" it.
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  • TerraMaster D8 Hybrid drive enclosure review: Lots of data, not enough bandwidth

    dewme said:
    Curious whether this NAS can be configured to use some or all of the NVMe M.2 SSDs as a cache rather than hot storage? I suppose this type of device is inherently aimed at sophisticated users but as mentioned in the article deciding what should be "hot storage" versus what should be "cold storage" would seemingly require some level of app profiling to see whether there is any benefit. If I'm using the NAS as a media streaming server it seems like hot vs cold storage decision would be moot since the network and communication performance becomes the primary bottleneck.

    I can envision that having an SSD on the receiving side may provide some performance benefit for large data transfers depending on how multi-packet data is reassembled and stored on the receiving side. But again, this is probably something that would be done as part of a cache or buffer before committing to persistent storage. The hot storage option takes things up to the application level with dependencies on application data access patterns, which may benefit ever so slightly by having dedicated SSD storage. But still, without a fast pipe like Thunderbolt or USB4 the whole hot storage thing seems rather limited in use. Only one way to find out - measure / benchmark the performance.
    I think this would very much depend on the software on any external NAS, as this is not one. This is direct storage.

    The enclosure appears as individual drives, or not, as configured by that rotator switch.

    And, like I said, stripe those hard drives and if you have relatively new drives, you're going to saturate the USB-C 3.2 connector. So much for "hot storage" versus cold.
    dewme
  • iPad Air hands on: A return to an affordable large-format iPad

    So when I read the “sticker shock” response from your Navy buddy it made me think that maybe Apple should offer military personnel discounts like they do for education. 
    They do. 10%.
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