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  • Exclusive interview: Austin Mann on photography with the M1 iPad Pro

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    Great interview.  On the limitations of non-powered TB3 peripherals, I wonder if OWC or the like might not come out with mobile TB3 devices with their own rechargeable/swappable batteries built in.  The M1 iPad Pro will create a demand I'd think.
    thedbawatto_cobra

  • Flying with Apple's AirTag: When 'boring' is genuinely high praise

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    MplsP said:
    chadbag said:
    I always groan when some app opens Apple Maps instead of Google Maps. 
    I always groan when an app tries to open Google maps and goes to the Google maps webpage instead of using Apple Maps , which for me, works much better than Googles maps product, which has tried to guide me on all sorts of non existent paths in the past.  

    On my iPhone, other app’s should open Apple Maps. 
    Ditto - overall I’ve found Apple Maps to be quite accurate. The one exception is for traffic incidents. I’ve yet to have an Apple Maps warning be true. 
    I use Apple Maps exclusively, always have. For the most part it’s via CarPlay. I have no issues so I wonder what terrible things I’m experiencing and unaware of that Google Maps and Waze would relieve me of.

    What do you mean by ‘traffics incidents’? Do you mean the orange and red lines that appear to indicate a slow down or stop? I get those quite a bit and most of the time they are accurate.

    By the way, since the most recent update that allows reporting of speed checks, accidents and hazards I have reported a few speed checks. However, since I’m doing the reporting and driving away from said speed check I have no idea if it’s populating for travelers behind me. I have also yet to see a warning of a speed check before I got to one, or I’m unaware of what it looks like. Any ideas?
    WayPoints!  Apple maps as far as I can tell doesn't let you add multiple legs to a journey with details of each leg.  I drive from Florida to New Hampshire and back and as an oldie take three days each way to do this, staying at hotels along the way.  In Google Maps I can plot each leg, even adding drag markers to pull the trip off the main route slightly for a hotel. It is invaluable to be able to have the entire trip on one map like this.   This has been possible for years with Google Maps and every year I wait for Apple to add this. 

    p.s. If it can please explain!  :)
    patchythepirate

  • New 14-inch and 16-inch Apple Silicon MacBook Pro, redesigned Mac mini in pipeline

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    sennen said:
    I think it’s a good move to shift the thermal load of the power supply out of the computer proper. And I like how the power brick is possibly evolving into a hub: Ethernet now on the iMac, perhaps another port or two in the future.

    Really hoping for an announcement at WWDC, and orders to open before the end of June (EOFY down here). I’ve loved my mid-2015 15” rMBP, but it is starting to show it’s age at times.
    Apple could add foot peddles and buttons to the brick, like a guitarists effect box. ;)
    docno42watto_cobra

  • Australian retailer pulls AirTag over battery safety concerns

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    Not invented here mate!  The French will probably follow suit. Mon Dieu, La Pomme fait de l'argent encore une fois!
    Hopefully, it is nothing of the sort and just procedural red tape.
    llamawatto_cobra

  • Intel Windows not coming to M1 VMware Fusion, ARM Windows licensing unclear

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    dysamoria said:
    lkrupp said:
    If you need to run Windows then buy a Windows PC.
    Sounds simple to you, doesn’t it? Thing is, I don’t want to have TWO computers to maintain.

    Unfortunately, gaming on Macs is nowhere near the level of gaming on Windows. It used to be that we could have a Mac for both Mac OS and Windows. That was cool. The setup didn’t need to be 100% equal to a Windows PC in performance, just be comparable.

    Sadly, there hasn’t been a suitable desktop Mac in almost a decade (GPU, heat, etc). Now Apple is moving away from Macs even being able to run intel Windows software at all. Result: own two computers again (consoles can bite my shiny metal ass).

    It would be nice if Apple at least sold a standalone display [for an affordable headless workstation-class desktop], so that when I finally can buy a new gaming PC (GPU shortages & pricing are insane), I don’t ALSO need to have TWO displays on my already-crowded desk. Guess I need to find a usable USB KVM switch, soon. Most affordable KVM switches I’ve seen are trash and the well-built ones are rarely happy to work cross-platform & USB.
    JFYI; booted into Windows 10 Pro using an external, SSD over USBc from an iMac 27" i9 with the Pro Vega 48 and 64 GB RAM gives me nearly the same performance as my PC with an i7 and a GTX 1080 GPU and 32 GB RAM, both running Steam games at 4K on 27" monitors.  I don't use Boot Camp per se but I do add the drivers to my own Windows installations.  'Nearly the same' is totally unscientific comparison I know, but around 30 fps at 4k is OK with me.  But it means I can just take my iMac and a few 1 TB SSDs with me when I drive to our summer home in New England and leave my gaming PC in Florida. I do have an M1 Mac and Windows ARM is running with no problems, it can even run Steam and play GTA V but not great frame rates and only at 1080p so no use for gaming.  Other than games it runs Windows apps very well.
    roundaboutnowdysamoria