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iPadOS 16.2 now available with external display support
The prior external display feature was mirroring. Whatever was on your iPad display was mirrored on the external display. Specific apps could be designed to use the external display to extend the display area. Eg, a video editor could display video on the external display while showing its UI on the iPad.jeromec said:I am a bit confused.
It seems to me that external display support has been here forever for iPads.
I believe the new thing is external display support with Stage Manager, which is a big deal, and could be called "full" external display support.You couldn’t have one app on one display and another app on the other display.With Stage Manager, you can have 4 windows simultaneously displayed on one display and another 4 windows displayed on the external display. So up to 8 apps simultaneously displayed or a less number of apps with multiple views open. This makes it much more useful and increases productivity.The windowing scheme still needs to be improved, bugs fixed, apps updated. Right now, it’s basically designed for novice users who want to display up to the aforementioned number of windows per display.There is still a ways to go. No word from anybody, for all the freaking complaints, there’s no word from anyone on background multitasking. Multiple streams of sound and video needs to supported, include to and from peripherals. Shell access needs to be supported.It’s getting there.
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Twitter Blue will cost more on an iPhone, than through a browser
No. The software unlock is per model per account AFAIK.danox said:
If you sell your model 3 on, does the new owner get to keep/use those features too?tht said:
These are the current aftermarket software unlocks Tesla is offering for my Model 3.mikethemartian said:
I’m not sure but I think they charge a one time fee to unlock features but I don’t think it is an ongoing subscription.tomowa said:Just asking, as I am not a Tesla car user.Does Tesla sell subscriptions for "enhanced features".Does Tesla allow 3rd party software/firmware access to its car's operating systems? Or does Tesla control the whole environment?
Is there any irony in Musks position, regarding Apple here?
One time items consisting of:
$2000 Acceleration Boost
$6000 Enhanced Autopilot
$15000 Full Self Driving
Subscriptions consisting of:
$199/mo Full Self Driving
$9.99/mo Premium Connectivity
Tesla's on-screen software platform is obviously Tesla only with contracts for games and services. I'm not sure if, say, they are getting a cut from Spotify subscriptions. They might be. It's not a free for all App Store. You get what you get from Tesla. I don't know what their cancellation policy is.
The software unlocks are at a per-owner level too I think, but perhaps that has changed. The software locks are linked to the account holders, not the car. So if you sell the car to someone else, they may not get the software unlocks and they would have to buy them. Not sure where that landed.
I buy the acceleration boost for $2k for my Model 3. Enjoy it for a few months. I then sell the car to someone else. That new owner will not have acceleration boost. Same policy with FSD.
If you trade in you car to Tesla or a dealer, the software unlocks will most certainly be erased, and new owners will have to by the software unlocks for that vehicle. It's per account per vehicle. -
TSMC triples Arizona chip factory investment to $40 billion
TSMC uses 300mm diameter wafers, which is about 70000 square millimeters. An Apple phone SoC is about 90 sq mm. An Apple Mac SoC is about 120 sq mm. Using 100 sq mm per SoC, that equates to 700 SoC chips per wafer. Not all chips are functional coming off the wafer, and assuming yield percentages are on order 90% -Lower at the start, higher after a few years - there's about 600 usable chips at 100 sq mm.king editor the grate said:How many processors can 600,000 wafers yield?
(Mmm. Wafers.)
600,000 wafers, presumably per year here, is 360 million SoC chips at 100 sq mm. Quantities get exponential worse as the chips get bigger. Ie, a 200 sq mm chip won't be a straight linear decrease to 180 million chips. It may be only 100 million usable chips of that size. It will be a bigger decrease a 400 sq mm chip.
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iMac could have been made without a chin, proves new hack
No, A taper is unnecessary. The have a M1 processor in a 6.5 mm thick device that's been shipping for over 18 months now, and that device has a miniLED.22july2013 said:A tapered design where the monitor is basically thin at the top and thicker at the bottom could avoid the need for either a chin at the front or a bump at the back. And Apple has done it before with iMacs, which had a really fat middle, tapered to the edges.
The only reason the chin is there is because they want it there. It's not a technical issue. They certainly can put a fan behind the display in a 11 mm thick device like the iMac 24 if they wanted to. They can put an M1 Pro or M1 Max in the iMac 24 if they wanted to.
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iMac could have been made without a chin, proves new hack
Yup. The chin is part of the Apple's AIO brand identity save for one model, the iMac G4. Every other model has a "chin". The chin in the late 2013 to 2020 iMac models were basically perfunctory as opposed to the iMac 24 chin, where they out the compute components. There was basically nothing in the 2013 form factor, and Apple put it there for the sole purpose of having a chin.designr said:I'm thinking that the "chin" is a little bit of a part of Apple's legacy Macintosh "identity" and design language. I think it's a long shot to go away.
It doesn't mean that Apple won't do anything different. They have. Just look at the iMac G4. As an AIO form factor, they are going to have something in the industrial design to make it unique and familiar. That's the chin. The iMac G4 display section was awesome though. A clear, symmetric frame around the display. An iMac like that panel, with glass instead of plastic, and the computing guts behind it would certainly be unique.
