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crowley said:

Coincidentally, I was just thinking about possibly getting a hold of a virtualization app.  I seem to recall VMWare Fusion being more highly rated a little while ago, is that still the case?

Not in my experience.  I used Fusion for several years before jumping over the Parallels with version 14.  I think Parallels runs far smoother.

payeco said:

What are they hoping to achieve here? Even if they win no government agencies are going to purchase their equipment. 

They don't have any real illusions about the US government purchasing their stuff.  Their aim is twofold:

1.  From a purely Huawei company perspective, they want to put up a fight so their European and other customers around the world don't follow suit.  If the US narrative wins out, they are in big trouble worldwide.

2.  From the perspective of the Chinese government, which make no mistake has a heavy hand in how Huawei and ZTE do business, they want to try and force the US to reveal exactly what they know about their efforts to put back doors in their equipment.  Most of the details of this are classified Top Secret.  They're hoping through a lawsuit to gain a little more insight into exactly what we know and how we know it.

nht said:

pakitt said:

The Mac Mini was launched and intended as an affordable Mac option for migrating PC users to the macOS world. The basic version was less than 500$. It seems that everybody forgets that. Now the Mini is clearly something else. It is not the "most affordable Mac desktop" anymore. Period. The price, the specs, everything indicates their strategy for this product has radically changed. You want an "affordable" Mac? get an iOS iPad/iPhone. macOS for the "masses"? None for you.

It certainly is the "most affordable Mac desktop".  Which iMac is cheaper?  None.

Your comment is demonstrably wrong.

I mean, yes, technically.  But I can get a new iMac with the monitor, keyboard and mouse included for $1099 or a more powerful refurbished one from Apple for the same price.  Once you add a monitor (~$200), Apple keyboard ($99) and mouse ($79), you're at $1177 for the new Mac Mini base model.

So sure, if you either have a monitor, keyboard and mouse already, or you go super cheap on them, you could undercut the iMac.  But if not (such someone coming from an iMac or Apple laptop they'd like to sell to offset the cost of upgrading), you're not really any better off.

There are so many variables to this, I don't know how Qualcomm can really crow much about it.  I switched from Verizon earlier this year to T-Mobile.  My Verizon iPhone had the Qualcomm modem and the TMobile version has the Intel modem.  I know it's supposed to be slower, but my data speeds have been consistently faster with TMobile compared to Verizon.  That might not be true everywhere, but it is where I live and work.  The network, and specifically the network where you use your phone most of the time has way more to do with it than the modem.

And am I mistaken or don't both of these modems exceed what most networks can even deliver to you consistently?  Sort of like having home internet that's 60Mbps and expecting that because your wifi router is capable of 1300Mbps, you'll see those kinds of speeds surfing the web.

evilution said:

Apple have had her albums for years. Her last album was 3 years ago. How have they "lost an exclusive"?

If Apple Music were the only place you could stream The Beatles or Led Zeppelin catalogs, wouldn't that be an exclusive?  They haven't done original music for decades.  Doesn't matter how old the last album is.  If one service has all of an artist's titles and none of the others do, that is by definition "exclusive."