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  • Apple's moves point to a future with no bootable backups, says developer

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    I feel my love affair with Apple is ending. I love the fact I can boot from a super fast SSD, it made it easy to cross grade from my MacBook to an M1 Mac mini as I can still boot the laptop drive from an older iMac I’ve kept. The loss of target display mode on that iMac was significant too. There is a progressive loss of convenience happening here. 
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  • YouTuber builds 'first' Apple Silicon iMac using old iMac & M1 Mac mini

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    Newer iMacs such as my 5K 2017 model lack target display mode which is a pity as they would make great external monitors. 

    I’d be interested if there was a way to hook them up to an M1 Mac Mini to extend their usefulness.
    watto_cobra

  • Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro now available to order

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    I couldn't get the web version of the store to work when I initially tried to order, so by the time I'd got through (a day later) I could only get a mid-late May shipping date for a keyboard costing nearly $500. 
       
    With SwiftUI,  Swift, Playgrounds...  could iPadOS 14 bring us some increased capability for app development at WWDC 2014?  I would very much enjoy extended code development on the 12.9" model for when I'm back in circulation after the lockdown.  With the power in the iPad Pro and the nice new keyboard, it's begging for extended productivity uses. 
     
    watto_cobra

  • Apple unveils new iPad Pro with 3D scanner, trackpad support

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    melgross said:
    Hypereality said:
    The iPad Pro 3rd Gen is HOBBLED by its data transfer speed from the USB-C port. 

    I would buy the new one in a flash if this has been solved.  I guess it hasn't as Apple have not made it a feature. 

    I know a lot of professional photographers/videographers disappointed that they could not use the massive 1Tb storage in the iPad Pro for transferring in their daily shoot for editing on the move and I'm with them on that. It was disappointingly slow. 

    Another use case imaging pro's have is on the go backup.   Using an external SSD on a USB-C hub, to be able to transfer files from a camera to the external SSD for backup, and transfer data into internal memory for editing. This should be possible with two simultaneous operations. 


    I believe it’s 20Gb/s for a short cable, and down to 10 or 5Gb/s with longer cables. That’s not bad. Most laptops out there don’t do any batter than that, and plenty do worse. Getting Thunderbolt on an ARM device will be complex and expensive now. At some point that could change.
    TBH it is probably worth trying again with a more recent iOS version.  Those figures were nowhere near achievable with very fast external SSD's, cards and a short expensive cable that was designed for high speed, I was achieving maybe 10% of those theoretical speeds. In addition the connections were not reliable.  When attempting to transfer folders containing many image files the transfer failed to complete. Perhaps this was a firmware issue rather than the hardware. I will have another try sometime.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's two new ads show what the iPad Pro can do

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    StrangeDays said:
    OutdoorAppDeveloper said:
    So why can't an iPad Pro run Xcode? What is the fundamental failing of iOS that Apple is unable to correct which prevents it running a full development environment? It has a keyboard and track pad. It has plenty of RAM and storage. The CPU and GPU are well up to the task. So the limitation has to be in iOS.
    In apparent eagerness to diminish iOS, your statements make assumptions that are not facts. 

    Personally, as a full-time developer, I have little interest in ditching my desktop IDE for a puny tablet screen. It's simply a matter of inches. 
    Sure but in the good times to come when we can move about again, I would love to work on apps on  my iPad Pro as I sat on the train even if I prefer my 32" wide monitor in my office.
    watto_cobra