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  • Compared: Apple's Developer Transition Kit versus Mac mini

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    rob53 said:

    melgross said:
    You see, it’s the lack of thunderbolt that’s worries me. I know some will say that it’s “just” a developer machine. But that doesn’t explain it. Thunderbolt is part of the PCIe bus. But it’s also an Intel product. It’s the same problem we have with the iPad Pro not having it. I’m sure that I’m not the only iPad Pro user that badly wants this.

    if Apple can’t get thunderbolt on ARM Macs, that will be a big problem.
    Isn't USB also an Intel product? Isn't USB-4 supposed to merge USB and Thunderbolt? What about Thunderbolt wouldn't be covered by USB-4? I know right now they're both using the USB-C port but also that there are technical differences between the two. 

    As for not including Thunderbolt right now, I don't see that as being that big of a deal except for those developers who want to access their large TB disk arrays for testing. I'm sure Apple will be upset if/when a developer decides to open one of the test Minis and shows a kludged together iPad motherboard with external RAM and SSD. Maybe Apple actually built a "real" Apple Silicon (is this what we're going to call the new line of Macs?) Mac mini motherboard without anyone actually knowing about it. I haven't seen any rumors about an AS mini (better?) popping up on the web so either it's a totally internal breadboard build or Apple was actually able to get the manufacturer to keep their damn mouths shut this time. 
    Apple had USB keyboard, mouse, and accessories back when they were using IBM/Motorolla PowerPC CPUs, i.e. before they switched to Intel.  
    watto_cobramattinoz

  • Apple TV+ promotion tours 'For All Mankind's' lunar base

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    Oscilloscopes are useful for debugging tiny computers now.  Any computer found in a remote research base in that era lmight be like a semi portable computer of 1975, before the Apple ][ or Commodore 64.  An oscilloscope would be a likely tool found for debugging such a thing or checking control output.  A directional antenna which must track a moving object might be steered by such a computer and debugged using an oscilloscope.  Logic Analyzers of the day were not common tools of electrical engineers like oscilloscopes were.  
    tracerHank2.0llamarandominternetpersonwatto_cobra

  • How to work from home during the coronavirus outbreak

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    My computer was subpoenaed about a patent dispute at the employer.  If you use your home storage or computing with storage hardware you can lose your computer and your privacy over something your employer is tangled in.  I suggest not mixing your employer’s data and your private documents on the same device.  
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  • iPhone 11 location services controversy quelled with new UWB setting in iOS 13.3.1 beta

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    According to the TV show NCIS, a GPS chip talks TO the satellite and therefor every GPS chip in the world can be located.  It’s on TV! It must be correct.  
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's new 16-Inch MacBook Pro: Everything you need to know

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    Is there a specification for battery consumption while sleeping? 
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