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  • M4 MacBook Pro upgrade could arrive by end of 2024

    I’m afraid that M4 is obsolete already now.
    This is probably the most ignorant statement I've read on the internet today.
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  • Xgrid lives -- a new project resurrects the promise of Apple's dead clustering software

    rob53 said:
    Ok, who's going to try this out with six Mac Studios then try running the LINPACK benchmark (https://top500.org/project/linpack/) to see what kind of numbers the benchmark gives. I'm sure the results will be faster than the original Mac "supercomputer" system of a couple decades ago and know it probably won't come anywhere near the TOP 500 but until someone tries it we won't know how fast this simple cluster actually is. TB4 only allows 6 devices on one "network" correct? Can you daisy chain more than 6 Studios? I didn't see anything on the TB5 website that you could daisy chain more than 6. This article states that you have one master Studio and can add as many more over Thunderbolt as you can afford. My question is the master Studio has six TB4 ports on it. This would mean you might/could attach six Studios to the Master. Does this also mean each Studio client could add five more Studios and keep going from there? As for a cluster computing system, the most important feature is computational power, not necessarily the speed of computer interconnections. Getting the data to each Studio might not be that big of a deal so the 10Gb Ethernet over an ethernet switch might be fast enough.
    In theory, you can use a Thunderbolt hub to connect more. How effective this is, will greatly depend on how chatty the computation that's being done is. TB4 allows six daisy-chains off of one controller, but it doesn't look like you can add downstream Thunderbolt networked worker nodes off of a worker.
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  • iOS 18 isn't any more of a cheater's operating system than Android has been

    You forgot to mention that iMessages may out you to your wife by not deleting those messages from the Mac at home when you delete them from the iPhone.
    We did not. 

    FTA: "Take for example the British man who, in reports from June 13, planned to sue Apple because his wife divorced him. He was caught cheating because, despite deleting messages sent to prostitutes from his iPhone, his wife read them on the family iMac."
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  • Tim Cook may have met with Trump during WWDC to discuss second term priorities

    Trump winning its a given at this point.

    The world needs it.
    It's close, I agree, but your statement about it being "a given" is demonstrably false.
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  • Man ludicrously blames Apple for his wife catching him communicating with prostitutes

    sflagel said:
    I don't quite understand why the article had to be written with such smugness, especially because I doubt that the author has any knowledge about English law and English courts; nor what exactly the case is or under what law section it is being held.  I assume it will be under UK advertising regulation which can be very strict!

    We all know Apple can be quite "literal" in its claims; see for example how it advertises Tags in Notes, but conveniently omits that you cannot add them to Notes created on Share Sheets. In the case, the customer probably did not understand which and how messages get sync-deleted, and to be fair, most people don't understand, including me and a number of people on this thread. Some messages and txt seem to disappear immediately, and some do not. It seems to depend on whether it's an iMessage or a Txt, and whether the iPhone is on the same WiFi network or not. Apple Support pages are not clear about this.

    But maybe the Author of this blog (that's really what it is) could explain it, that would be fab.

    (I do expect Apple may get asked to clarify its messaging but they won't have to compensate anyone).
    The UK lawyers we consulted about it during the process of writing were pretty clear that this guy has no chance.

    FTA: "We, and the lawyers we spoke with before we published this story, are surprised that a reputable law firm would even consider taking this up."
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