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  • The groundwork is set for Apple 'Pro' ARM Mac chips

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    elijahg said:
    ARM is great for power saving, and in some tasks they exceed the slower Intel CPUs. But there are other tasks they're much slower at, and generally even the best ARM CPU is miles off the mid range Intel ones. I don't really see the point in switching architecture again, people aren't complaining about the battery life on MacBooks, which is really the only advantage x86 in a laptop has.

    Moving from x86 not only means switchers to the Mac won't have the "safety net" of running windows, whether natively or in a VM. The vast numbers of utilities for x86 Linux would also become incompatible, people who want to dabble in the occasional game can't reboot to Windows either. We used to dual boot Macs at the school network I ran for various Windows apps. Switching would mean developers would need fat binaries again (apart from MAS distribution) and no doubt it would be another chance for Apple to apply even more OS restrictions. There are a lot of downsides for essentially no upsides. Don't get me wrong - x86 is a crap architecture and if it wasn't for AMD bodging 64-bit support on we'd probably be back to a form of RISC architecture now, like Itanium, but ARM's disadvantages way outweigh the advantages imo.
    Windows 10 is already ARM compatible, so is much of Linux. This is long overdue, ARM Macs should’ve been here already 
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  • Apple Maps could soon integrate curated travel recommendations

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    Off topic, but as I was following navigation on CarPlay the other day I asked Siri to “find a coffee shop on the way” and it did!!
    This is such a big deal especially when traveling long distance, it used to show results all over the place and I had no way of telling wether it was behind me or ahead. 
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  • Internet Explorer 5 developer describes frustrations of working with Steve Jobs

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    spheric said:
    It's amusing that they claim that IE5's interface design was "almost indistinguishable". 

    No. 
    Exactly! It looked like a badly aped OSX design. 

    The IE icon. “... and for the final touch I’ll add a generic photoshop emboss filter, aaaaand there you go! That’ll be fifty bucks thank you very much.”
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  • Review: Promise Pegasus R4i and J2i add massive storage to the new Mac Pro

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    melgross said:
    They make good stuff. But since I decided to put off buying a new Mac Pro until late next year, when I hope they will go to PCIe 4, I can’t consider it. So for now I bought an iMac. To get all of the stuff from my old Mac Pro, I got an OWC Thunderbay 4 32TB RAID, which I set as a 10–two raid 0s. This way I can use it when I get the Mac Pro.

    it’s always hard to decide how to do this. I love internal drives, but you still have to back a raid up. With raid 5, you have a write cache. If something goes down before that cache is written, then you can lose a lot of data. So with raid five, your raid and computer need to be on a ups. Or, you can disable the write cache and accept the slower writes. Dell Business Solutions doesn’t recommend raid 5 for business data. Instead they recommend raid 10, which would use two raid 5s.

    just want to say that for critical data, and medium term storage, ALL raids need backup. In our video operations, we used raid 0, for capacity and speed, with another raid 0 as backup, with a third out of the room.
    If you’re gonna invest in a RAID, a UPS is not an option, I actually use two, one for each power supply, all rack mounted. I’m not a fan of Promise but that’s a different story. Anyway, instead of using RRAID10, just get a massive drive to mirror your raid, this way in the unlikely scenario where power is lost during writing a file, you’ll still be able to recover your data. With raid5 you can attach two failover drives. I believe raids are better kept in a rack and not inside the computer.
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  • Review: Nimble's Bottle Case looks good while helping the oceans

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    Andrew_OSU said:
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    What percentage of this product is from recycled material?
    I looked at their website and couldn't find any mention of that.
    It is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles 
    Where does it say that?
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