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  • AirPods Max headphones unlikely to get any further upgrades

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    I was in the market for new headphones to replace my Airpods Max, which had become rather unstable.

    If Apple had relessed a new version, I would have bought that on day one,  Due to not bothering to even update the chips inside - or even less solving some of the issues - I bought Soby WH-1000XM5 instead. They suck at naming, but their headphones are very, very good.
    watto_cobra

  • M4 Mac mini vs M2 Mac mini compared: Leaner and meaner

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    Looks nice, the only disappointment is no Wifi 7.

    My current computer is Mac Studio M1 max. On the CPU side, going to a M4 pro looks better - more cores, faster cores. On the GPU side, it would be down from 32 cores to 20 cores - even if the new ones are faster, that might be slower. Will be interesting to see benchmarks.
    ldenningXedAlex1NChris_Pelhamwatto_cobra

  • Top 5 mice for Macs -- for gamers, professionals, and everyone in between

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    john-useless said:
    Since you (AppleInsider) didn't specify that the article was specifically about third-party mice for Macs, I'm surprised that the Apple Magic Mouse didn't get a mention — at least to compare how these third-party mice differ in features and/or design versus Apple's Magic Mouse. Love it (as I do) or hate it (as many do), the Magic Mouse has been the standard mouse for Macs since its first version arrived in late 2009.

    It is about "top 5 mice", and Apple just can't make good mice.  While the magic mouse is better than the hockey puck, it is extremely unergonomic. You can't charge and use it either...

    Apple is the best by far on TouchPads, but mice... Failure.

    I used it and tried to use the Magic Mouse for many years, but it just isn't good. My current mouse is an MX Master 3 for Mac, and it has served me well. Heartily recommended.
    DAalseth

  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    blastdoor said:
    I agree with Microsoft.

    The irony is, we actually have a much more competitive market today than we did 25 years ago. Back in 1999, there was Wintel and not much else. Apple had about a 2% marketshare of the PC market, there was no smartphone market, almost all of the RISC guys were throwing in the towel out of fear of Intel, AMD was barely hanging on, etc etc. 

    Today, we have three major platform companies (Apple, Google, and Microsoft), not just one. We have real competition between Intel and AMD plus multiple very strong ARM-based competitors and RISC-V on the horizon. 

    This is basically a golden age of competition in computing platforms and the EC is trying to wreck it.
    Back then, we had DEC Alpha with multiple operating systems, Sun SPARC, PowerPC with multiple OSes,  MIPS (mostly SGI), Itanium on the way...
    watto_cobra

  • Microsoft blames European Commission for global CrowdStrike catastrophe

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    9secondkox2 said:
    avon b7 said:
    Did the EU make Microsoft do this worldwide?

    The problem last week had nothing to do with the EU. It was sloppy coding, sloppy testing and with little to no resilience built into the whole process. 
    If the EU didn’t FORCE Microsoft to give sloppy third parties like CloudStrike the same security and update status it gives its internal OS teams, then the “sloppy developers” would not even be able to foist this crap on the world. 

    It’s absolutely the fault of the brain-dead EU policies. Today it’s cloud strike. Tomorrow it will be anyone else. 

    And now the EU is hoping to turn Apple into the same kind of disaster by removing the guardrails Apple has invested so heavily into. 

    The EU puts Joe developer over the big companies that are responsible for ensuring critical system stay working properly and disaster ensues. It’s the exact scenario we’ve been talking about since this crap started. 

    The entire set of policies from the EU relating to American tech companies needs to be reset and left alone. The new commission candidates would be wise to trash that nonsense on the first day in office. 

    Otherwise, it will be more of this snd in faster succession. 
    EU forced MS to provide a level playing field - in other words, MS can't sell their security solutions with "only our solution has the permissions to make your computers safe. We don't give the competition that access".

    What they obviously could do is to provide APIs rather than direct kernel access. Like Apple does. It's not like MS hasn't had a decade and a half to fix that.

    muthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra