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  • Intel to consumers: 'Go PC!' - Intel to Apple: 'Good God do we need your business!'

    robabarobaba
    DAalseth said:
    lkrupp said:
    Well, Intel can’t even do 7nm yet so how do they expect to get to 5nm in order to make chips forApple?
    LOL My first reaction when I heard that Intel was interested in making Apple’s chips was “But who wants a 14nm M2?”
    Exactly, it’s all just talk until they demonstrate that they’ve fixed their process.  Less talk and more action please.
    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple stops selling 512GB, 1TB 21.5-inch 4K iMac options online

    robabarobaba
    Torn between replacing my ( increasingly banged up) iPad Pro or my mothballed iMac.  It would be good to have a desktop to host files and backup my iPads work.  It would be nice to be able to transfer legacy files still on my old 21” Intel iMac.  But I crave mini LED in a handhold-able format!
    watto_cobra

  • Unreleased Apple Silicon iMac leaked by Xcode Crash Reporter

    robabarobaba
    Looking forward to Apples high end Mac Mini or a low end compact Mac Pro.  Both are probably overkill for my needs, but I like the idea of buying an upper midrange cpu that will be useful for many years after decades of having to subsist on used, low end Macs that quickly age out.  

    It’s about time to upgrade my iPad Pro which is my sole computing device right now.  12.9 with mini-LED looks supremely tempting right now.
    watto_cobra

  • Intel is now making 'Mac versus PC' ads with Justin Long

    robabarobaba

    • Boy where to begin with this one?  Might as well do commentary in bold...
    darkvader said:

    I mean, the gaming ad isn't wrong.
    I rarely play games.  When I do, I play games that used to run on Mac.
    • By all means buy what you want, I’m not going to tell you what works best for you
    Used to?  Yep.  When Apple screwed us by dropping Classic support, some of them stopped working.  When Apple screwed us by Dropping PowerPC support, more of them stopped working.  When Apple screwed us by dropping 32-bit support, ALL of them stopped working. 
    • I’d LOVE to be playing EV Nova right now, alas, it’s pr gone for good
    Those same games work on Windoze 10.  MS has no announced plans to dump 32-bit app support, and even some 16-bit apps will still run.  They never had to suffer through an architecture switch, we're now suffering through our third.  (Or not.  I have no plans to buy a M Mac, macOS 11 is awful, and if I can find a non-Apple laptop with a decent trackpad I may well end up running Xubuntu as my primary OS, with Mac OS of various flavors and Windoze in VMware.  Apple's current laptops are pretty dismal anyway, the thin fetish has gone too far, they're ridiculously fragile, as evidenced by why I now own a 2018 MacBook Air - the previous owner broke the screen.  Oh, and if you replace the screen on a 2018 MBA with one from ebay, the keyboard backlight won't work because the ambient light sensor won't talk to the T2 chip, another completely asinine move on Apple's part.)


    • This just sounds like Apple hate.  You realize that the pruning of old code is what allows Apple to move from architecture to architecture and that it’s been to Apples benefit to do so each time.  I mean come-ON, Apple would be dead 4 times over if they had stayed on 6802!



    There is NO technical reason Apple can't maintain legacy support, there's no technical reason we can't run Motorola 68k apps on M Macs.  (And we actually can at least do that, no thanks to Apple, but big thanks to the good folks at SheepShaver.  )  But of course PPC and 32-bit Intel OS X apps are still no-go, because Apple needlessly broke them.  You can virtualize 10.6 on Intel hardware and sort of get back PPC and 32-bit support, but that's gone for M Macs.
    The old excuse was "MS is a much bigger company, they can afford to have people maintain legacy support."  But that garbage won't fly any more, Apple is now a significantly bigger company, and Apple has significantly more cash on hand.  Oh, and in  the Linux world, the controversy is about dropping support for 32-bit hardware, it's unlikely 32-bit app support will ever go away.
    Apple's pig-headed attacks on legacy software haven't just hurt gaming, of course.  They've wreaked havoc on business workflows that rely on legacy apps that will never be updated.


    • There most definitely IS.  The level of backward compatibility you are requiring prevents making your system portable between architectures.  Just ask MS how easy it is to get complete backwards compatibility between all flavors of x86 and their Windows-on-ARM solution.  There is no such thing as a free lunch.


    (I don't get the gamer on a laptop thing, though.  If you're at a desk, why would you want a tiny screen on an underpowered, likely thermally throttled box?  Desktop computers exist for a reason.)


    • If laptops aren’t your thing then don’t buy them.  Doesn’t mean others don’t find them useful.


    muthuk_vanalingamFidonet127watto_cobra

  • Senate seeks to spur U.S. processor manufacturing with $30 billion fund

    robabarobaba
    Encouraging insourcing of a product critical to our economy and security as a nation should not be considered swamp material out of hand.  Sure it COULD BE structured that way, but they could just as easily build in verifiable metrics and claw backs with teeth to ensure domestic production is increased and not just the manufacturers bottom line.  There must be a decades long commitment, though.  One short term bill won’t move the needle.
    baconstangDogpersonwatto_cobra