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I started surfing the net in the 90s with 8MB. :D
BRB gonna fire up Netscape on my brand new MacBook Air
Netscape?! That's for the kids, we used NCSA Mosaic and liked it. I suspect lynx is still around in some form.
Introducing the next generation of Mac
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Re: Introducing the next generation of Mac
#742Have they said anything about hyperkit on the new platform? And being able to run stuff like Docker for Mac? I've seen lots said about the lack of Bootcamp support but I've actually never even used Bootcamp, Linux VMS are much more relevant for me and I imagine many other developers.
From their roadmap, it does not appear they have really investigated this yet. [1] Rosetta 2 translates Mac apps and can deal with JIT, but I do not believe it will work through virtualization. It should be relatively light lifting to make Docker for Mac run an ARM linux installation and ARM-built containers. From there, you likely would want to strategically add multi-arch container support to the docker runtime. Th…
Rosetta is all emulation, there’s no virtualization involved.
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#743When I was a kid I worked with my father building custom cars. We customized a car for the guy who owned a famous brand of liquor. He had a vanity license plate on one of his cars that said something like "3 Stars" on it and I asked him what that stood for. He said it was less expensive brand of the liquor he sold and then he went on to say "it's the same as the expensive stuff and if you tell anyone that they'll cal…
Maybe some people buy more expensive Apple products after dependability problems with competitor products.
(Happened to me with a brand new Sony Vaio and a Dell, for example.)
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#744Any new security implications to having memory shared by everything on the chip?
Memory protection is still a thing ;)
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#745I don't understand the pricing of the MacBook Air vs the 13" Pro. The Air ($1249) vs 13" Pro ($1299), you get: - same CPU - same GPU - same Neural chip - same RAM (8gb) - More storage for the Air (512gb vs 256gb with 13" Pro) - You get Touch Bar with 13" Pro So if you don't care about the Touch Bar, you actually get with the Air: - better specs - smaller device footprint - and $50 cheaper. Am I missing something?
The pro comes with fan cooling. With that, the pro can run for much longer without hitting max temperatures . The air is fanless so in an intesive task, you will hit thermal limits very soon and the cpu will be slowed down .
Maybe the 5nm process just runs much cooler?
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I bought a 16GB MacBook Pro in 2013. It’s still going strong. Today I wouldn’t buy less than 32GB. Performance is always better and the machine will last much longer
> and the machine will last much longer. At the moment, that's debatable, since the only 32GB Macs you can buy are Intel ones...
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There was a model even with the touchbar that only had two ports and one fan. the four port model got you more cores and two fans, quite a different computer internally despite sharing the same shape and 13" macbook pro label. very confusing for consumers.
Apparently confusing for me as well, because I'd never known of that device and I'm reasonably familiar with Apple's lineup. Sure enough, it does exist: https://support.apple.com/kb/SP799
It’s fairly recent, to be fair.
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#748Apple mentioned in the event that these Macs will have hardware verified secure boot. Since I’m not very knowledgeable in this area, can someone explain (or even try to guess) what this would/could mean for running Linux on these? I use Macs way beyond Apple’s support timeframe with OS X/macOS, and Linux is the one that runs on some of the older Macs and provides adequate security and security related software update…
Take action: buy a Mac, and return it. If they want to know why, tell them¹. Repeat for every new model. ¹ They will have to give you a full refund: it's your right as a consumer. Note that this may not work for companies.
Great, very productive, and mature.
You probably turn around and then criticize people for contributing to the e-waste problem, and polluting the planet with carbon emissions.
Can't be satisfied just not to buy someone's offering, you actively need to go sabotage them.
Actually sounds quite right-wing in philosophy.
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#749By the way, does anyone have info / advice on whether to stay away from the very first release of brand new hardware from a buggy point of view? Or manufacturing kinks still being worked out?
Re: Introducing the next generation of Mac
#750By the way, does anyone have info / advice on whether to stay away from the very first release of brand new hardware from a buggy point of view? Or manufacturing kinks still being worked out?
Maybe I'll have to eat my words in a few weeks but I can't say I'm super concerned. M1 seems a lot like the A14, which is a lot like the A13, which is a lot like the A12, etc...
I'm more concerned about how long it will take for most apps to have full support for both macOS Catalina and Apple Silicon. When the 2012 retina MacBooks came out, quite a few apps were awkwardly pixelated for a long, long time.