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  • iPadOS 18 review: making iPad better for everyone but the pros

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    AppleZulu said:
    charlesn said:
    Since MacOs can now run many iOS/iPadOS apps, it would seem the solution would be to have a MacBook with touchscreen and detachable keyboard. 

    What am I missing?
    Here's what: the LAST thing the Apple world needs is touch capability kludged onto MacOS, which was never designed for it. Here's a dffferent solution: since the M-chip can boot into both iPadOS and MacOS, give us a tablet that can boot into either one, depending on user choice. Boot into iPadOS and you get a normal iPad. Boot into MacOS, and the tablet screen loses touch capability and must be operated with a Magic Keyboard and trackpad, just like a Macbook. What am I missing? Only that Apple will NEVER give us one device that can do both. Not because it can't but because it won't, choosing instead the increased profits from selling two devices. 
    Once again, look at an iPad. It has no ventilation. Running MacOS on an iPad would melt the iPad. If you want a device that functions as both things, albeit in a compromised fashion, Microsoft has a product for you. Why do people want Apple to turn well-designed, highly successful products into compromised, inferior products just to fulfill fan-fiction fantasies?
    No. The SoC would just throttle as it does on a MacBook Air when pressed into high performance over an extended period. Sure it would throttle more than a MBAir but so what? It will still be faster than a MacBook from 4 years ago. 

    Apple has a ready made solution if they want to allow macOS on an iPad Pro; just re-enable VMs and include the macOS virtualization libraries that already exist. Apple doesn’t do this because they don’t want macOS on an iPad Pro to cannibalize MacBook sales not for any technical reason. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Right-to-repair advocate urges Apple to let resellers bypass security protocols

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    Anyone that advocates this is untrustworthy. They are advocating allowing access to stolen laptops (or in this case devices earmarked for destruction being semi-illegally repurposed) not only for a working laptop but also all the data on that laptop. Hard no!
    JaiOh81RhythmageFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra

  • First M2 Pro benchmarks prove big improvement over M1 Max

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    "Previous Geekbench scores for the M1 Mac mini, then, have scores of 1651 single-core and 5181 multi-core."

    This part makes no sense though it is interesting that MacRumors copied it but then later updated the scores to be correct. The actual scores for the M1 Mac mini are: SC: 1715, MC: 7442.

    Anyone awake at AppleInsider? You need to update the article with the actual GB 5     scores.
    williamlondonwatto_cobraanonconformistfastasleep

  • iCloud outages resolved after nearly every Apple service went down globally

    jdb8167jdb8167
    So the status page finally shows some outages but it still isn't complete. It is showing iCloud web apps as available but clearly they aren't if you try to go to iCloud.com. Again, what is the point of the status page that doesn't show actual service availability?
    muthuk_vanalingamAlex_V

  • iCloud outages resolved after nearly every Apple service went down globally

    jdb8167jdb8167
    What is the point of the System Status page if it is just going to always report everything green. Right now, as far as I can tell, anything requiring AppleID authentication is down. According to Find My on my Mac, the last time I was able to contact that system was 11:35 AM. So almost 2 hours later and everything is still green? 
    JaiOh81Alex_V