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  • iPhone 15 Pro rumored to get Thunderbolt connectivity

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    I push the BS button on this one. Thunderbolt chips are expensive. Thunderbolt is over-kill.  Take a look at the cost of external USB-C drives vs Thunderbolt drives if you want an idea.
    If you want to drive up the cost of iPhones excessively, then go right ahead and put Thunderbolt in them.

    USB-C as a connector and USB 3.2 Gen 2, USB 3.2 Gen 2x2 or USB 4 are much more appropriate for these devices. 
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  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    jkichline said:
    Simply put, it's an inefficient x86 design with larger transistors. It requires more and bigger transistors to perform the same number of tasks which uses more electricity and consumes more power. The architecture is completely different.
    Don't you also have to take into account that the Intel chips have a RISC-like internal core, and that the chip microcode converts the x86/x86_64 ISA into those RISC-like instructions? 
    darkvaderwatto_cobra

  • Canon ink cartridges become an unexpected chip shortage victim

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    Epson did seem to get it right with their Ecotank printers. It is a pleasure not to have to deal with cartridges and the waste and inconvenience they cause.  I may not be typical but it’s been over 2 years and I’ve not had to purchase ink for my Epson Ecotank printer. And when I do, the ink bottles are way more cost effective.  I have not had the clogging problems with it that I’ve had with cartridge based Epson printers in the past. 
    No more cartridges for me. 
    scstrrfravnorodomwatto_cobra

  • VMware ditches plans to support EXSi on 2019 Mac Pro

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    VMware Fusion does not run on Apple Silicon today, but VMware has stated they are working on it. A blog post by their product manager says they have internal versions of it running. They also say they are planning a public beta. I’m keeping an eye on VMworld to see if they are going to release more details. 
    But set your expectations. When released on Apple Silicon, Fusion will run ARM operating systems, not x86. Same as Parallels. Which means existing VMs of x86/x86_64 won’t run. Both Parallels and Fusion are, after all,  virtualization products for a given chipset architecture and not cross-architecture instruction set emulation. Also consider that Microsoft doesn’t currently sell an ARM version of Windows to anyone other than hardware OEMs and doesn’t support it on Apple Silicon chipsets. 
    Rosetta 2 doesn’t solve the problems that would allow Fusion to run under Apple Silicon. It was designed for a simpler problem : user mode Intel applications. It does not have the full Intel architecture instruction set and architecture emulation that would allow an x86 operating system to run in emulation. The tricks used by Rosetta to get acceptable performance likely would not be applicable to emulating an x86 operating system due to the highly dynamic nature of code execution. 
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