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Comment Re: The Mac Pro died in 2019 (Score 1) 89

"Apple has never offered a product that justified a large chassis. It used to be lots of slots, hard drives and other storage that justified it. Macs have never been about that"

I see you don't remember the 68k Macs OR the PPC Macs. Apple offered machines with lots of slots ever since the Macintosh II line. HTH.

Comment Re:Is anyone surprised? (Score 4, Informative) 84

They gave the Chinese government access to Chinese user's data years ago. They don't seem to have an issue with governments gaining warrantless access to their systems.

Chinese law doesn't require a warrant for such access and it may be done in secrecy (i.e. without informing the user) if necessary to perform duties. The problem with Apple in China isn't that they aren't following the law, it's that they are and the law is openly fascist.

Comment Re:Nobody (Score 1) 89

Eh traditionall the big "need many hdmi" tasks was multicamera editing.

I know that at some point Multi Camera support got broken or removed but apparently it came back? Honestly its been a long long time since i've been anything close to knowledable about FCP

Comment Re:Our last, best hope for peace. (Score 1) 31

As an australian Solar is a genuinely viable solution for energy (like it is in most sunny places), and we do have a lot of it.

But the whole industry is getting a bad rep, largely not of their own making due to the relentless illegal spam phone calls that most australians get a couple of times a day offering "access to the government solar rebate". I've had to completely block phone calls from melbourne (most seem to come from that area code) and inform my melbourne friends to just text me on social media and I'll phone them. And its made people very sus on the industry, despite the fact the vast majority of solar installers are just regular tradesmen honest dealers.

Comment Re:will apple lock down 3rd storage card flash swa (Score 1) 89

I would hope not. Apple will apple I guess, but they are probably well aware that extensibility is a marketing plus not a negative , particularly with tech crowd, I'd argue in recent times a lot of the lock down has had more to do with manufacturing and performance efficiencies and that it has actually harmed them commercially, and they know it, but the commercial harm is outweighed by the manufacturing savings as well as the general speediness of on-chip memory. That said I *think* the latest mac minis can be storage upgraded, so it seems apple isn't too worried about it.

Comment Re:Nobody (Score 1) 89

To be fair, outside of GPUs there really isn't much need for third party cards, and arguably even GPUs aren't a show stopper with third party GPU cages. But really for 99% of the use cases the Apple silicon GPUs are good enough. Nobody sane is buying a mac pro to run games, and for AI thats a whole different complicated set of reasonings (for training you'll always be better off with a datacenter server and abank $15K datacenter GPUs.). For everything else, the Apple silicon GPU seems to punch above its weight class.

Oh I suppose there is also video intake cards. I know my father was consulting on a job (he's an audio and video engineer who designs radio and TV studios) where they had mac pro and some black magic cards that had a whole boatload of hdmi signals coming in, and they've had to migrate to a PC. But I think increasingly there are viable thunderbolt solutions for that.

Comment Re:Was that a spot the difference competition ? (Score 1) 88

"And yet you cannot be bothered to show us even one.

I personally don't know a damn thing about her other than that she has showed bad judgement across large swaths of her life (hanging around Epstein, marrying Trump, staying married to Trump)."

Why would you suggest someone might have difficulty finding an example and then immediately cite three of them off the top of your head? I assure you there are plenty of other examples if you just do a modicum of research.

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