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  • Brazil orders Apple to pay iPhone buyer $1,000 for not including charger

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    AppleInsider said:

    Judge Pinheiro, however, maintained that it is not possible to use the iPhone's provided charging cable with other chargers, so therefore customers are required to buy Apple's product.


    Well that's just outright false.  I use Apple provided charging cables with other chargers every day.  That judge is either "dirty" or just plain stupid.

    watto_cobra

  • Studio Display includes as much storage as iPad, iPhone 11

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    JBSlough said:
    Be kinda cool if it could be an external drive. Maybe a new Time Capsule 
    A 64GB time capsule for your 256GB (or way more) computer? :). 
    watto_cobra

  • Studio Display includes as much storage as iPad, iPhone 11

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    blastdoor said:

    Another thought -- might these A13s and 64GB be recycled from iPhone trade-ins (or iPhones with busted screens)? 
    Possible, of course, but unlikely.  Apple would have no idea what stresses these chips may have been subjected to while in the field.  I don't think they would want to accept the reliability risk that would go with "used" chips in a new "top shelf" product.  More likely it's just a chip they were laready producing , so just keep the line going for another month and make a pile of cheap (relative) chips for this monitor.
    (or, as Inspired said, maybe they are chips that have defects in unused parts of the SOC, but are still perfectly viable for this limited use case.)
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • 2013 iMac dying. Can I remove the Fusion drive and re-use them as two separate USB drives for backup

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    What Mattinoz said.

    ... but if you thing the HDD is ok, then use it as-is... the "fusion" is packaged as a single device that looks and acts as a single HDD... take it out and use it.

    ... having said that, I'm typing this on a 2011 iMac that had gotten so slow and hesitant that it seemed like it was having issues and near death.  I removed the HDD and replaced it with a SSD and the machine acted like new again... still going strong.  The HDD was a huge bottleneck for running newer (post 2016?) versions of MacOS... the speed of the SSD changed everything in this old machine!


    forgot usernamemdoss

  • Tested: Mac Studio with M1 Max vs. Mac Studio with M1 Ultra

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    crowley said:

    I'd love to hear from someone who would lay down $2,000 extra just for a couple of Thunderbolt ports.
    well... it was only $1400 ... and it gets you Thunderbolt ports AND twice the processing power.  you don't think there are people for whom that would be worthwhile?  You can't see where that would be lucrative without hearing from one of them? :) 


    williamlondon