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  • Updated Firefox 103 adds improvements for ProMotion displays, Mac performance

    ciacia
     I hop between Safari and Firefox.   Firefox is my sandbox browser.  Set to delete all cookies at close, JS disabled, and only open when my VPN is active.  It does nicely for general browsing when I don't want advertiser cookies following me around all over.


    bandits1watto_cobra

  • TSMC plans more 3nm chip factories in big Taiwan production push

    ciacia
    One plant in Arizona doesn't mean squat when the chips still need to be shipped to China where the actual computers are being built.
    wxchaser

  • TSMC plans more 3nm chip factories in big Taiwan production push

    ciacia
    When China takes back Taiwan it's going to really hurt the west.  All these chip facilities will disappear overnight.
    entropysB-Mc-Cmartenf

  • Everything the rumor mill got right -- and wrong -- about the M2 MacBook Air

    ciacia
    I predict in My supply chain sources are telling me that in March 2024 Apple will release the new M3 based MacBook Air.  The case will remain the same.  You heard it here first.
    h2pwatto_cobra

  • Sonnet introduces McFiver PCIe card with 10-gig ethernet, USB-C, SSD slots

    ciacia
    atonaldenim said:
    Wow, this would have been a dream card for my Mac Pro 5,1s four years ago when I was still putting money into them. I currently have all 3 of those cards filling up all my PCIe slots - 10GbE, USB 3.2, NVMe. Although the Sonnet’s x8 PCIe connection would limit the bandwidth on the MP 5,1’s PCIe 2.0 bus.

    It was definitely not designed for the old old Mac Pro but rather as a budget option for single-slot Thunderbolt enclosures to upgrade Mac Minis etc without taking up all their TB ports, and for PCs with few PCIe slots available. On the PC side this could give new life to a lot of older machines that don’t have Thunderbolt ports for a TB dock. Like the old HP mini tower I tinkered with turning into a TrueNAS 10GbE server. Really cool combination of useful upgrades in one card for a pretty reasonable price actually! I only wish they’d given it a x16 PCIe connection for maximum speed with older PCIe 2.0 machines.
    Amen to that.  This card would have been incredible in 2015-2016 for my old 5,1.  Yes about the limited bandwidth of PCIe 2.0 though.   Perhaps a version with just the NVMe slots and 10Gbe port wouldn't be bottlenecked too bad.  Back then (and even now really) I could survive without the USB C ports.
    watto_cobra