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appleinsideruser said:

Not contradicting your post 22, but passkeys make me uneasy. Give me a password that is strong that I store in keychain and I’m in charge of my own destiny (and access to the resource). 

Loose a device or an invisible crypto passkey and you’re buggered. #luddite  🤷‍♂️ 

Stored the way Apple, Google and MS have implemented it I agree you essentially never have direct access to the private key. I can see why they designed it like this essentially to stop people handing over their credentials to all and sundry like they do with passwords.

In the Apple world at least you don't have to use iCloud Keychain you can store the passkey in anything which implements the correct bits of the autofill API. Right now I know that Strongbox can do this and store the passkey in a Keepass kdbx file. That at least you can access directly and store and more importantly backup wherever you like.

At that point the usage of the passkey is similar to a sequence of the same entropy stored in keepass except with the advantage that because the passkey relies on a cryptographic transaction it's secure against a bunch of attacks the password isn't.

Firstly Parallels is not a 'Windows Emulation App' it's Virtualisation program. Emulation and virtualisation are radically different things.

Secondly this writeup completely misses the most important new feature which is use of Rosetta inside Linux virtual machines, including docker containers, is now enabled.

JamesCude said:

It's a relic from another era. Mac Studio covers 98% of the use-cases and sorry but the remaining folks who "need" these really don't- they just need to update how they handle I/O and seek more efficient processing. 

Um no, Thunderbolt does not have enough bandwidth for 8K video it has to be done via PCI-E.

All the people panning these machines expected their idea of a workstation. This was never on the cards what was on the cards is what we got a very niche machine to host AVID HDX cards for ProTools and SDI video I/O cards for Resolve/Premier/Final Cut.

This machine only exists to service a small segment of the market which needs Avid HDX cards and Blackmagic Decklink or AJA Kona SDI video io cards.

If you don't have either of those needs then the Mac Studio is Apple's solution.

They could have completely abandoned that but chose to make a machine that they will probably make a loss on developing to service it.

The MFI program never went away for example the reason a YubiKey 5ci works fully on an iPhone but not an iPad is because in order to do some of what it does it needs to be MFI certified. However currently MFI is not defined at all over USB-C currently thus those features do not work on iPads.