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Your Mac could wirelessly power keyboards and mice at a distance in the future
StrangeDays said:
Wrong. Two minute quick charge. Do you pee or get water or coffee?ElCapitan said:Metriacanthosaurus said:
Yea but what you’re using isn’t even current. The newer Magic Trackpad is a dream. Entirely force touch, and recharges via Lightning, maybe once per 2 months. Keeping a lightning cable dangling nearby isn’t exactly uncommon or inconvenient either.jmgregory1 said:It's funny, I just had to replace the batteries in my iMac's trackpad yesterday. For whatever reason, it's been burning through AA batteries and I thought that it would be great to have a more seamless process for keeping it charged. For the small amount of charge needed to run a keyboard and trackpad or mouse, the wireless charge may actually be enough to keep the devices running with just a very small battery to make startup happen faster.
The mouse has a tendency to only alert you at 2% remaining charge and then you have to go
for half an hour in the middle of a work session. I'd prefer a mouse that could have a cable attached for charing while being used.
An answer fresh from the "Can't innovate, my ass" Department?
Do you have any idea how annoying and disruptive it is when the mouse goes belly up on you in the middle of a concentrated debugging or coding session? You completely lose your train of thought. – Makes you wanna pee on the mouse.
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Your Mac could wirelessly power keyboards and mice at a distance in the future
Metriacanthosaurus said:
Yea but what you’re using isn’t even current. The newer Magic Trackpad is a dream. Entirely force touch, and recharges via Lightning, maybe once per 2 months. Keeping a lightning cable dangling nearby isn’t exactly uncommon or inconvenient either.jmgregory1 said:It's funny, I just had to replace the batteries in my iMac's trackpad yesterday. For whatever reason, it's been burning through AA batteries and I thought that it would be great to have a more seamless process for keeping it charged. For the small amount of charge needed to run a keyboard and trackpad or mouse, the wireless charge may actually be enough to keep the devices running with just a very small battery to make startup happen faster.
The mouse has a tendency to only alert you at 2% remaining charge and then you have to go
for half an hour in the middle of a work session. I'd prefer a mouse that could have a cable attached for charing while being used.
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Microsoft brings formerly Windows-centric Defender antivirus to macOS
In the mind of Mac users Microsoft is NOT a trusted brand! - Maybe in a parallel reality...lkrupp said:
It’ll sell like hotcakes. In the mind of the public Microsoft is a trusted brand. You’d be amazed at how many Mac users have anti-virus software installed. You see them all over the place in the Apple Discussion Forums asking which AV is the best. When troubleshooting in the forums tons of people have AV installed. With any bug, glitch, malfunction, etc. the typical user assumes right away it is caused by a “virus” without even knowing what a virus is. That’s the fact of life with the general public. So while Mac tech blog forums will be full of snickering and sarcasm the typical Mac user will probably jump on it.petri said:If there was any form of anti virus I was less likely to install on my Mac than any of the current crop, it’s Microsoft anti virus.
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Google up to $9.4 billion in total fines to EU, with latest $1.7 billion AdSense penalty
Good!
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Google premieres Stadia, an online cross-platform game streaming service
Chrome browser - not interested in a million years to install that spy on my systems.DAalseth said:
On Cult of Mac they are saying yes it will run on macOS/iOS. According to them it will run on anything running a Chrome browser: https://www.cultofmac.com/613308/google-stadia-cloud-gaming-service-mac-iphone-ipad/racerhomie3 said:I want something like this to be subscription based. Hopefully they bring this to iOS,tvOS or Mac.
