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Not showing up on MacFixit.com.au, which is the OWC/MacSales affiliate in Australia, but it looks like MacSales might ship it to Australia.

I only have 256GB in my MBP, and so have been looking at a TB3 SSD for additional storage. My Samsung T5 isn't quite fast enough for some of the things I'm trying to do (VMs etc). This could be an interesting option, as the price is lower than some of the similar offerings I've seen on Amazon or Aliexpress (at least some of which also claim to be certified by Intel for TB3).

If only this week wasn't a bad week to be ordering stuff from overseas for me.

zimmie said:

Edited to add: I suspect they aren't thinking through any implications of this. Once tech exists for one country to compel a manufacturer to decrypt a device's data, all countries will have the same access. Several countries notably have very low thresholds for warrants. What do these senators think would happen when China brings a phone to Apple and says "Here's a warrant. Decrypt it.", and it turns out the phone actually belongs to the US ambassador or some large business interest?

I think they're thinking that the law won't apply to them, because they'll have government encryption that will be exempt. Remember the fuss we've had with recent presidents over using consumer hardware like a Blackberry, or an iPhone because they don't meet DoD or Secret Service security requirements? They think if they use the special government hardened phone, they won't have any problems with their secrets leaking.

It is quite possible that all it would take for this bill to die is one Senator or Congressperson to be forced to hand over their phone to police. As long as it's the right Senator or Congressperson.

Rayz2016 said:

I suppose you could run Windows in the Cloud

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/overview

That can get pricy, to the point where it's probably cheaper to just buy a Windows box and be done with it.

There is an opportunity to start a business selling cloud computing to consumers. Anyone got a few million and an empty warehouse with good internet?

Doesn't seem to be particularly enforceable, but then it never is.

Looking at the wording, I can't tell if it's saying it can't translate x86_64 virtualisation apps passing through x86_64 code, or if it can't even translate x86_64 code for virtualisation apps written for ARM. It looks like it might be possible to write a virtual x86_64 environment as long as it doesn't use Rosetta, and runs entirely in ARM, but I could be missing something.

I fully accept I may be clutching at straws, but Windows virtualisation isn't that big a deal for me. At worst I run my current Windows apps on my current MacBook Pro until I get tired of them.