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Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by talldayo »

hmottestad wrote: post #234
adrian_b wrote: post #181

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If you do not care about speed, pretty much everywhere. On any other computers with integrated GPU you can have more memory than on Apple computers, where memory is abnormally expensive. The main advantage of the current Apple computers is a wider interface with memory, which provides a better memory throughput for their integrated GPUs. In 2025 it is expected that others will catch up with Apple even from this point…

Let's hope that AMD Strix Halo will allow for 128 GB of VRAM when it releases next year. That's what Apple has to offer at the moment. > On any other computers with integrated GPU you can have more memory than on Apple computers, where memory is abnormally expensive. Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro?

> Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro?

No, but there are absolutely laptops with more than 128gb of addressable RAM. If you did your research you might have found them, at a literal fraction of the Macbook's price:

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th...

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/precision-16-768...

Really, this is what I mean by wondering whether anyone even cares anymore. When you work long enough in the tech industry, you end up sitting next to people that just do not care about anything they interact with. People that use a paid GUI to write git commits, people that pay Pakastani developers to do their work for them, people that brag about computers and smartphones like jewelry. Do you actually research the domain that you claim to care about, or do you just own things and then find reasons to get defensive when people attack your insecurities online?

If you have not used a non-Apple laptop since Apple Silicon released, do not pretend you're in a position of authority to make comparisons. I had an M1 Pro for work, and while it was nice for day-to-day browsing I would have never bought one for myself. It's GPU is truly one of the least appealing parts, both from a performance perspective and considering what little it actually supports.

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by replete »

jeffbee wrote: post #22

Gotta be honest, I find the idea of a bootable backup disk to be defective. What if it was an OS bug that wiped out your volume, and booting the backup does the exact same thing to the backup, because of the same bug?

It's actually insanely useful. Weekly clone to disk is something I value because if the machine dies I can use my clone on another machine and boot my real desktop without fuss and Continue Doing Things

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by hmottestad »

talldayo wrote: post #331
hmottestad wrote: post #234

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Let's hope that AMD Strix Halo will allow for 128 GB of VRAM when it releases next year. That's what Apple has to offer at the moment. > On any other computers with integrated GPU you can have more memory than on Apple computers, where memory is abnormally expensive. Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro?

> Are there any laptops that support 256 GB of RAM that cost less than a fully speced out Macbook Pro? No, but there are absolutely laptops with more than 128gb of addressable RAM. If you did your research you might have found them, at a literal fraction of the Macbook's price: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadp/th... https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/cty/pdp/spd/precision-16-768... Really, this…

I did eventually stumble upon the Thinkpad one which supports 192 GB of ram. So that is better than the MacBook. I still can’t see where it says that the Dell machines support that much.

The Lenovo one comes with a decent GPU, but you can’t get it with more than 16 GB of memory. But the 5000 ADA should be a lot faster at running smaller models compared to the M4 Max. It does cost a lot. The one with 128 GB of RAM costs 5519 USD compared to the MacBook at 5999 USD. So it’s not that much cheaper.

GPU is great, for smaller LLMs, but the CPU is not that great. The i9-13950HX is quite behind the M4 Max.

Battery life isn’t half bad either. PCmag was getting close to 10 hours, but then again they got 27 hours out of my current laptop and I can say that I get much closer to 10 hours with my workload, so then I would be getting maybe 4 hours out of the Lenovo, which is not exactly great.

I’m glad that you’ve found a machine that works for you.

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by pabs3 »

noprocrasted wrote: post #284
inetknght wrote: post #77

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> to the cloud to locally Requires payment for backup of any meaningful size. > locally to your own storage I don't own a mac. I own Linux. How do I backup iOS to my device? How do I restore it?

> I own Linux Does idevicebackup/idevicerestore not work anymore? But agreed, there's no technical reason why the phone can't just accept normal USB-connected storage and store a file in there (in whatever proprietary/encrypted format it wants, but at least the _storage_ is standards-compliant).

The backup part definitely works, I haven't tried the restore part.

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

Cumpiler69 wrote: post #187
tonyedgecombe wrote: post #161

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>I own Linux. That's the trouble with these niche desktop platforms, people don't write software for them.

Is windows also niche?

You can backup your phone to a Windows machine (using iTunes).

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

pjmlp wrote: post #326
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #305

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I'm not quite sure what you are saying here but Valve can beat Microsoft at almost any game.

Really? Steam Machines weren't exactly a success. And apparently the only way to get games on GNU/Linux is to build on Microsoft's work with reverse engineering APIs. If they can beat Microsoft so easily, where is Valve's own platform, without Microsoft dependencies?

Its called SteamOS

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by saagarjha »

makeitdouble wrote: post #320
saagarjha wrote: post #272

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No, that does things like Hey Siri.

I'm failing to find the offical docs, but from the release reporting: > One of the lesser known facts about the Apple M1 chip is it has an always-on processor. This means that even when your Mac goes to sleep, it isn't really completely asleep. Macs with Intel chips have had a feature called Power Nap for a while now. M1 Macs don't need that feature because it's built-in and automatically running at all times. https:…

The processor is limited and can't take general tasks from the AP.

Re: macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive

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Post by sinfulprogeny »

ofalkaed wrote: post #260
sinfulprogeny wrote: post #131

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> GIMP (or Glimpse, if you want a more modern UI) or Krita can definitely do pretty much anything Acorn can. I'm fairly certain that anyone who recommends GIMP hasn't really used GIMP.

Gimp and Libreoffice both seem to go out of their way to do everything their own way and ignore what has been demonstrated to work well and has essentially been established as a standard, this is one of the major issues with OSS for me along with trying to offer more than is reasonable and put in time on niche features (MORE MORE MORE) instead of working out the issues with what is already implemented. LibreCAD is a…

> I have used nothing but linux for over two decades now but it is getting harder and harder to justify using linux

At least in the context of windows vs Linux, Microsoft is making it incredibly easy. Once again pushing MS recall, integrated ads, and user hostile updates made me finally switch to Linux again. I absolutely hated having a computer that seemed to have a mind of its own. I had a dual boot setup that defaulted to Linux, and very frequently I would be doing something in Windows, leave the computer on with programs or games running, and come back to find that it had rebooted into Linux.

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