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There’s no alternative; something needs to bring up the chip when it comes out of reset.
its called storage
How you know know how to read storage? Something needs to load drivers and such, does it not?
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Yes, I'm after 15"+ too.
They also have a 15” version, but it’s much less performant. They will probably present a new model soon with the same specs like the one above.
I really hope so. I'm even willing to give up the Apple trackpad if something else comes that lines everything else up. I tried so hard a couple of weeks ago to find something non-Apple that ticked all the boxes, and was shocked my existing MBP was the only one that ticked enough of them. I'm waiting and waiting for an explicitly Linux-supporting manufacturer to offer a truly high end and Linux-friendly laptop. It's a holy grail right now.
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Oh, prepare to be mind-blown. Let me tell you how it works. Someone goes to the US (such as a direct flight to NY or ATL), they hop off the plane, load a backpack full of laptops, then fly back and resell them without paying import taxes or VAT. It works even better if the person flying is flying for work and someone else buys the ticket. It's not scalable, but works pretty good when a group of friends purchases them…
You have to get rid of the packaging, and dump all the manuals etc or otherwise you might get a date with customs to explains why you have 10 unopened MBP's in your backpack and you get a nice import fee + VAT or you can leave them at the customs office. Also, you get about 10% tax added when buy.
>> You have to get rid of the packaging, and dump all the manuals
Good thing Apple laptops don't come with manuals. There isn't much much more than a couple stickers and a microfiber cloth in the box.
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#174Hi guys, I am part of the team working on all things T2. [1] The checkra1n support is just in a PoC state, it will successfully exploit and boot the T2. The payload support is partially broken, but being worked on. Additionally, we have SSH working over usbmuxd from a tethered device [2] and SSH working from macOS on device, with an SDK in the works [3]. Some key takeaways from the T2 being jailbroken: - Custom Bootl…
Why do you believe it's moral for you to do work which is making people's data less secure, helping law authority crack iPhones, etc?
Imagine if their "evil twins" working in the dark or for the NSA, KGB or Red Army, have cracked this but not tweeted about it. Now the Apple security is just as broken but you don't know about it. Is your data more or less secure?
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#175I'm torn on this; on the one hand, the prospect of being able to circumvent things like unauthorized repair prevention down the line is neat, and who knows what people may be able to tease out of this (apparently quite powerful chip). So that's neat. But it also breaks Apple's security platform in a big way, since this should make Apple's biometry scheme in their Macbooks much weaker and FileVault a lot easier to cra…
As an Apple customer I'm 100% happy with public developments like this. I really believe Apple tries to take hardware security seriously and an exploit it the open like this is surely to be addressed in the next generation of devices.
Apple consumer devices have been shown to resist state-level actor threats in the past and even if current devices won't be 100% resistant forever I trust Apple to be a couple of steps ahead every gen.
Of course, I'm jumping ship as soon as 100% open-source and verifiably secure HW+OS stack is available. But until then, it's Apple :P
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You mixed that reputation up with Lenovo thinkpads. Apple keyboards break down after several years with the touchpad and butterfly keyboard disasters are even unusable afresh. You cannot replace anything, and are way overpriced. Thinkpads on the other hand are like Toyota's
One could say that you're mixing Thinkpads from IBM era, where they were really well made (my first A21m holds a special place in my heat till this day), Thinkpads from Lenovo that are plastic piece of garbage and MacBooks from Apple post keyboard change, that was indeed faulty, but it isn't anymore. There you go, I've fixed it for ya ;)
That’s going back a very long time. Early Lenovo ThinkPads like the X60 were also excellent.
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I'd guess many in third-world countries buy second-hand Macbooks, as they have a reputation (at least in the past) for lasting a long time? And are there any first-world countries (except maybe the US^^) where a 13" Macbook is several times the average net monthly income? In Germany, for instance, the monthly average net wage (MANW) is €2500, while the price of a 13" Macbook starts at €1300. Italy: MANW is €1700, Spa…
Can you please provide a source from where you got your numbers as I have a feeling some are quite wrong. Maybe in Switzerland , but in Austria the MANW is definitely not 3000+ Euros a month. As a developer I don't earn nowhere near close that NET every month and salaries here are lower overall than in Germany.
I am also interested in the numbers but you aren't earning anywhere near 3k net a month? thats roughly 56k pre-tax. doesn't sound too high to me?
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Can you please provide a source from where you got your numbers as I have a feeling some are quite wrong. Maybe in Switzerland , but in Austria the MANW is definitely not 3000+ Euros a month. As a developer I don't earn nowhere near close that NET every month and salaries here are lower overall than in Germany.
I am also interested in the numbers but you aren't earning anywhere near 3k net a month? thats roughly 56k pre-tax. doesn't sound too high to me?
Where did you get your 56K pre-tax?
3k/month NET here means almost 70K/year pre-tax for a single person with no children.
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Second hand devices they may, although I'm not sure how many people are shipping Apple products out of the Country given the large scam risk.
Oh, prepare to be mind-blown. Let me tell you how it works. Someone goes to the US (such as a direct flight to NY or ATL), they hop off the plane, load a backpack full of laptops, then fly back and resell them without paying import taxes or VAT. It works even better if the person flying is flying for work and someone else buys the ticket. It's not scalable, but works pretty good when a group of friends purchases them…
I do exactly this for our US/EU startup, which is located a few countries away from the nearest Apple Store.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh, prepare to be mind-blown. Let me tell you how it works. Someone goes to the US (such as a direct flight to NY or ATL), they hop off the plane, load a backpack full of laptops, then fly back and resell them without paying import taxes or VAT. It works even better if the person flying is flying for work and someone else buys the ticket. It's not scalable, but works pretty good when a group of friends purchases them…
You have to get rid of the packaging, and dump all the manuals etc or otherwise you might get a date with customs to explains why you have 10 unopened MBP's in your backpack and you get a nice import fee + VAT or you can leave them at the customs office. Also, you get about 10% tax added when buy.
Last time I did this, when the officials saw the number of laptops in my carryon they sent me over to the diplomat line for faster processing.