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Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra

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int_19h wrote: post #674
musicale wrote: post #650

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You can play 64-bit macOS Steam games using ... Steam for macOS. This works fine (at least until they kill Rosetta2), though you are still translating x86. And most Windows Steam games (32- or 64-bit) via Crossover. (Expect about half the frame rate of a native ARM/Metal port at the same settings.) But you may be asking whether you can run Proton well in a Linux VM. I think it would depend on having a good Vulkan imp…

> You can play 64-bit macOS Steam games using ... Steam for macOS Assuming they are kept updated. Unfortunately, the way macOS works is that Apple expects developers to constantly update their apps to keep them working on newer macOS versions, and for games especially this is often not the case a few years after the release. Worse yet, many titles are marked as working, but if you actually try to use them, various th…

Yes, Apple's notorious contempt for backward compatibility raises its ugly head again.

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ActorNightly wrote: post #645
VerifiedReports wrote: post #447

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They don't. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't use a Mac.

They absolutely do. If you don't have a paid iCloud account, you get spammed urging you to upgrade for example. I really don't know why you feel so comfortable just blatanly lying when this is easily verifiable.

I don't have a paid account and don't get spammed. I don't know why you weren't able to specify WHERE you see all this "spam."

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fortran77 wrote: post #573
VerifiedReports wrote: post #447

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They don't. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't use a Mac.

I open settings on my iPhone (settings!) and it says "Don't Miss 3 Free Months of Arcade" and a misleading notification red circle icon.

First... the comment was about the Mac.

Second... I just opened settings on my iPhone and not only didn't see any ad, but not even a place to put an ad. Where in the UI would an ad appear?

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Post by hoistbypetard »

strobe wrote: post #680
hoistbypetard wrote: post #663

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The piece I linked, along with the parts for sale in the iFixIt shop seem to contradict your assertion. The piece says: "The Neo has the same modular bits and bobs we’ve applauded in recent MacBook designs. The USB-C ports are modular, so a damaged charge port doesn’t turn into logic board work."

good that they improving but I have one 2019 macbook died because of that issue, probably my M1 also could die because of that.

The M1s have the modular ports, if iFixIt is to be believed:

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+14-Inch+2021+USB-C+...

I've only changed a battery on that model, not the ports, so I haven't verified, but those steps are detailed enough and consistent enough with what I observed, that I believe them.

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coldtea wrote: post #512
throwaway2037 wrote: post #502

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> I can recall the horror on reading articles how Raspberry Pi boot was working I am confused by this comment. RPi is legendary for their driver support. A large portion of the company is dedicated to it. I would say this is the primary reason that they can fend off cheap clones from China, whereas 3D printers are all but defeated at this point.

The bootloader boot/process however is not related to driver support. Not that I know what's nightmarish about it in the Pi.

Bootloader doesn't count?
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