PROTIP for Android users, and I think iPhones have something similar.

Press the power button 5 times rapidly to enable "emergency mode" or whatever they call it. Biometric unlock will be disabled and you will have to enter your password/PIN to access the device again.

You can configure what else it does. I think the default is to call the emergency services, so you might want to disable that. You can have it record video and text people too.

More interesting than the benchmark is the conclusion that Framework's Windows support is poor. If you are thinking of buying one to run Windows, it might be a good idea to wait for them to improve the drivers and firmware.

In most tests there is no advantage for either Linux or Windows when compared on well supported hardware. Which is hardly surprising, since performance depends 99% on the hardware and by extension drivers, and 1% on the OS scheduler and file handling performance. Unless you are looking at some edge case that one happens to be optimized for, there should be no real difference.

I find Reddit is useful about 50% of the time, maybe a little less. Unlike Microsoft and Quora, which are always a complete waste of time.

You have to take what you read on Reddit with a bucket of salt, but sometimes it does at least hint at the right answer and get you on the path to it.

And where else are you going to go? StackExchange? Sorry your question was closed and your account banned, not that there is anyone with half a clue there anyway.

PROTIP: try adding "before:2023" to filter out all the AI generated spam.

Gaza has been under Israeli blockade for decades.

Less than half of them voted for Hamas back in 2006, and half the population of Gaza hadn't even been born when that vote happened. So the number of people who voted for Hamas and alive in Gaza today is some small fraction.

That too, but being physically close and keeping the connections equal length is really important for high speed parallel.

Fox News is less sensational?

It's such an issue that Dell created a new form factor for laptop RAM that was mostly designed to reduce the distance between the RAM and the CPU, as well as improving signal integrity a bit.

PCI switched from parallel to multiple serial lanes with PCIe, because it was getting to the point where handling 32 parallel data lines with a single clock over a few centimetres was a problem, even for the top dedicated GPU slot (AGP). CPU's can't switch to multiple serial lanes for RAM though, they have to have extremely tight timing and carefully laid out connectivity. DDR5 actually incorporates two separate RAM channels on a single module to help alleviate that, like you used to do manually back in the day by having two physical sticks.

That's also why you can get 48GB DDR5 sticks. They are actually a 32GB and 16GB module on a single stick, and each module must be a power of 2 size.

Anyway, simply soldering the RAM chips down as close as possible to the CPU is always going to be better for very high speed parallel signals than a socket. How much difference it makes depends on how important RAM timings are to your CPU and iGPU.

There is a technical reason for integrating the RAM into the CPU package. Having it very close coupled does allow for very tight timing. Some other manufacturers solder in RAM too, particularly on AMD laptops where SO-DIMM sockets would limit the maximum RAM speed and thus the performance of the CPU as well. The performance hit isn't huge, in fact in workstation/productivity tasks it's basically zero, but in synthetic benchmarks and a few games it is noticeable.

Apple's Mx chips need a lot of memory bandwidth and as low latency as possible. Partly because they share it with the GPU, and partly because the ARM architecture just needs more than AMD64.

But of course it was a choice for Apple to do it that way. They could have used a different architecture, the could have traded some performance for RAM sockets, or they could have switched to AMD whose CPUs are better than Intel's.

And there is no excuse for soldered in SSDs.

I mean zero competition for Mac RAM. You can't upgrade it, you can only buy more RAM direct from Apple at the time of purchase.

On an Mx Mac? The RAM is integrated into the CPU chip package, and the SSD is flash chips soldered to the motherboard.

Apparently you can upgrade the SSD with a proper SMD rework station, but it's expensive and difficult work, involving BGA parts.

It's upsell. Back when you could upgrade it, a lot of people would just pay Apple prices to avoid the hassle of finding compatible RAM and dealing with potential warranty issues arising from/with it. Keep the base price low for the headlines, so people are interested and can talk themselves into the upgrade.

Nowadays you can't upgrade the RAM, or the SSD, so there is even more pressure to take the upgrade. Apple have zero competition so the prices are ridiculous.

Safari isn't magically efficient. It just unloads stuff you are trying to use, and then reloads it when you switch to that tab again. If the delay is tolerable to you, fine. It's slower than not unloading and reloading, and in any case Chrome has an option (enabled by default) to do exactly the same thing when there is memory pressure on the system.

The real problem with 8GB Macs is that they can never, ever be upgraded. If you could upgrade them when your needs increase, no problem. But you can't, and the same goes for the pathetic 256GB of SSD you get on the base model.

Maybe their contribution will be an IKEA Esabnom flat-pack moon base.

Japan is already providing the rover, probably a modified Toyota Tank Custom G-T that runs on hydrogen. Sadly they didn't offer toilets though.