Posts by werdsmith

Re: Not the main issue

A single chip design as a workaround for semiconductor shortages in what will be the top selling version.

Re: No horse race

https://isapplesiliconready.com/

Plenty of decent software.

Re: Heat throttling

I think the examples of the CPU hitting 108 C was exporting Canon raw video footage, which is a task probably better suited to a desktop Mac, but still something a Macbook Pro user might be doing.

Re: Inexplicable...

2 year warranty is for defects present at the time of manufacture, like those dodgy keyboard a while back.

If there is a unique case of a component failure after 370 days, you are going to have your work cut out proving it was a fault present when the product was manufactured.

Re: Not the main issue

It maybe that there are problems sourcing the faster SSD in the 256GB size.

That 1.2k M2 model with 8GB RAM and 256GB SSD is not doing particularly well.

That's the Pro. This article is about Air. I suspect most Pros will have 512GB and up or in future won't even offer 256GB. It's still a decent performing machine with a very long battery life.

Re: Inexplicable...

Not the only reasons, VAT, volatile currency exchange, cost of fulfilling Uk consumer protection laws.

People are also ignoring that these machine have a decent resale value so the cost is offset somewhat by that.

Re: Heat throttling

It won't sustain performance, it's not expected to. Throttling will happen sooner on the Air - as it is built for lighter tasks. The pro is for the heavier tasks.

Re: Inexplicable...

It's a dollar based company so there is also a cushion to absorb exchange fluctuation.

Nothing inexplicable about it, natural born whingers just love to whinge.

Re: Remote Desktop Connection

RDP desktops or applications give you two concurrent sessions for free, need any more then you have to pass over some $$$ to MS. I don't know about the situation with this thing. But it's not the first of its kind so there is some demand somewhere.

Personally I've used a lot of IDEs and Editors. Never actually settling because there's always something not quite right, from a bloaty nightmare of Eclipse right through to simple text editor and shell script build.

When I tried VSC I first thought it was awkward, until I found the right extensions, and I haven't looked back, it's ideal for me. Cross platform, relatively lightweight, not especially associated with a particular language and its 3p extension options are seemingly endless.

And I'm not alone in finding this, which leads to the availability of loads of tutorials in how to sites and videos that are standardised in this one environment. Which makes my communication easier too.

I know there is an underlying bias in some people because it's associated with Microsoft but objectively, for me and a lot of other people it has been the best thing to happen to our development situation for years.

Re: I/O

It has 2 x UART, 2 x SPI, and 2 x I2C controllers, plus programmable PIO so you can make up your own IO interfaces if those don't do what you want.

Plenty sensible stuff gets done with it.

Re: While the Pi 4 Model B remains resolutely sold out at time of writing...

Don't tell everyone!

Re: Did they build a little robot to yank the battery?

If it even has a battery. It should be powered from the satellite power supply, so it should be easy to power cycle it by remote command if required. Add your command into the next upload sequence. Easier than on a Kayak.

Re: Satellite

Join your local AMSAT.

Re: Eh?

A developer has to decide how to do something, and follow that direction. It is not possible to design a project to please everyone. If it was changed to follow the requirements of a particular user then they might then break the requirements of another user.

The only salvage mission would be to sample to dust cloud after impact and analyse for trace metals.

Re: Am I the only one

Yes, the current state of EV technology has room for improvement, it is in its early stage but as a bridge to the future it should be much better in time..

But there isn’t much further to go with improving the impact of the ICE, particularly when you sharing a high sided urban street with hundreds of foot-born air breathers.

Re: Low bar?

I’m still concerned about loss of good cabbages.

Re: Long and thin eh?

A380s are popular with passengers. But airlines don’t give a shit about what passengers want.

I recall in my memory when flying was exciting. Now it is something to be endured and dreaded.

Re: iPhone 4 bricked by "upgrade"

Never buy any phone that might brick after a software update? I'll just go without a phone then.

It didn't throttle in normal use. The problem was that the aged batteries couldn't cope with a sudden high power demand and this would cause a restart. So to fix this Apple prevented that by throttling those power demand peaks, so when a phone needed to do something that required full power where the battery couldn't cope, it ran slow. Phones with good batteries or new batteries didn't have the problem.

But they put it in full time instead of putting a switch in settings somewhere so that people could choose to have phones that hung or turned off under load if they preferred.