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  • Kuo: Redesigned MacBook Pro models with MagSafe, no Touch Bar, more ports coming in Q3

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    rcfa said:
    I love the Touch Bar, especially the version with a discrete esc key.

    The only issue with it: it doesn’t default to function keys during boot, but is blacked out. This makes dealing with booting a boot-camp partition in Windows recovery mode problematic without external USB keyboard.
    And that’s a problem the ARM based Macs won’t have to worry about until M$ officially releases Win10-ARM.
    So, yeah, I’d miss the Touch Bar! 

    Also: who needs a stupid proprietary MagSafe power cable, when there are plenty aftermarket USB-C MagSafe-like cables?
    The reason why people like the MagSafe connector is that the laptop disconnects if you accidentally trip over the power cable.  I know first hand that it happens quite often and having the MagSafe does come to the rescue.  But I also see your point in that one must buy a proprietary power cable.

    I wish that if they do use MagSafe, that we aren't REQUIRED to use it and we can use a USB-C cable instead, we just lose using that port for something else..  AND, if they do have MagSafe that they make the cable detachable from the power brick so if the cable needs replacing, we don't have to replace the power brick along with it..
    razorpitchiawatto_cobra

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise leaving Silicon Valley, moving to Texas

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    designr said:
    razorpit said:
    Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.
    THat's exactly what's happening in Colorado. Bail out of California. Come bid up housing in Colorado. Then start re-creating CA at the political level.  :'(
    Actually, I can't think of anything good the Republicans have done when CA had a Republican Governor..  Reagan shut down mental hospitals to save money and all it did was put mentally ill patients on the streets.   Way to improve California..  

    watto_cobra

  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise leaving Silicon Valley, moving to Texas

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    steven n. said:
    razorpit said:
    Only problem is the company will pull all the people that made the same bad governmental decisions in CA to TX. Eventually Texas will eventually end up ruined like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, etc.
    In AZ, it’s like watching a slow train wreck. 
    I've been to AZ several times over the years.  All I can say is, turn the heat index down by 20 or 30 degrees and maybe it would be a nice place.  It's just too dang hot and it's a freaking desert.  90 degrees at midnight isn't exciting for me.  It's just too dang hot..

    watto_cobra

  • What the PowerPC to Intel transition tells us about Apple Silicon release dates

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    gmgravytrain said:
    I'm am fully betting on Apple Silicon MacBooks to crush sales to students and people needing to work from home.  However, Apple will need to set some reasonable prices to attract the cheapskates who are willing to settle for Chromebooks.  Apple absolutely must gain laptop market share against Windows laptops running Intel processors.  A powerful, super-slim MacBook design with all-day battery life should be extremely attractive to consumers.  Apple better not blow this opportunity.  It would be too much to hope for if Apple can upset the entire X86 processor laptop market with its Apple ARM processors.  Those power-sucking Intel chips have just about hit a wall but the AMD chips have a much better chance.
    The ARM chips used in the Developer's units are probably too expensive to use in a Chromebook killer, at least the $200 to $300 models.  I don't know if Apple's going to ever go after the no profit business model.  I think they are just going to use the iPad Air to cover that crowd and just add more functionality to iPad OS instead..
    watto_cobraronn

  • First ARM Mac said to arrive in 2021 with custom Apple chip

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    Until a report comes directly from Apple, I am only going to believe that any new ARM processors are going to be for iOS based devices, not macOS...
    watto_cobra