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No need now. We have secure and encrypted Signal on all platforms now. Too late. Also iMessage should have never steal telecommunication identification to use Apple network. Phone number is phone number - Apple ID is proprietary Apple ID. Two different things. Now Signal uses phone numbers, but it does not steal SMS/MMS and it does not interfere with telecommunication standards.

I cannot wait until hackers prove we have yet another processor with Spectre or Meltdown problem. Only now it is proprietary secret to Apple. Low power consumption, but user passwords widely available. So far I am paralyzed by stupid ideas on checking even Apple own applications and tools on macOS by Apple security solution. The system is slow because Apple abuses spinning drive and expects AFPS to work on it the same as on SSD (no we do not have SSD always and the same hardware used with newest Linux desktop flies like jet aircraft on steroids without security issues if patched properly)

Hubro said:

seanj said:

If you have a 9 year old Thinkpad then you’re probably either running XP (good luck browsing the Internet securely) or you’re running Linux. If it’s the latter then if you happy with a limited number of professional applications then that’s fine.

No. An old (4 core) TP runs Windows 10 just fine, and there's quite a few things you can do with then professionally with Linux on them too. 

The caveats wrt performance CAN be boot-times, editing images and movie stuff, compiling code and working with big documents/spreadsheetsystems/presentations and so on. 

OS and applications are more and more oriented towards more cores and more threads, so you might get acceptable performance for 4 cores + 4 threads, but the applications are increasingly capable of handling way more and handles it differently with more cores.

And what happens when the performance gets better? They add more and heavier functionality, higher GPU demand, AI-esque stuff and so on.

Welcome to molasses. 

More thread does not mean faster. It actually means abuse of CPU (cannot steal more cycles). Adding cores improve, but only when there is better multithreading management. These days people stop using threads in development of applications and start using asynchronous programming paradigm for performance. When I see Firefox opening 430 threads on my old macOS and gets chocked blocking my system I wonder what ignorant wrote that software. On the other way same at Google people think that computer has endless amount of resources and opening new Chrome processes is the way to go (I am not sure if they have good practical engineers like we do in financial trading where we have to use super efficient and fast algorithms and methods ... or they just have theoretical scientists with attempts at practical processing solutions).

Anyway as old engineers say it is not how fast you are spinning in loop waiting for network to respond (or backpressure issues these days).

dk49 said:

mattinoz said:

Great fairly predictable what will be interesting is what direction M2 goes?

Eating the top Intels and AMDs for lunch! 

Dream on. AMD has just came out with new processor and line of small low power computers. Apple should have really consider AMD before proprietary CPU. We know how fairytale of G3 and G4 ended 15 years ago. I still have QuickSilver home for nostalgia collectible.

This is exact reason why financial data that are required to be stored for seven years are deleted after seven years and CEO's who are overzealous to keep them longer are not smart and will face liability issues. You never store any information on systems beyond required regulatory period for risk and legal reasons. Apparently Mark Zuckerberg cannot learn this principle. I could help while I was in process to get hired by Facebook, but I decided it is not worth my nerves to work for people who need some maturity and experience first. I started long before Zuckerberg was even planning to attend proper schools.