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by p_ing 7mo ago
You can buy three socks for the price of one set of casters. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mx572zm/a/apple-mac-pro-w...
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by p_ing 7mo ago
The kernel is technically inferior to NT, especially with memory management (see OOM on macOS while NT will keep going).
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by p_ing 7mo ago
APFS is not designed for spinning rust, so that tracks.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
The reason the Windows 11 menu changed was to solve for this exact issue.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
If your benchmark is file systems, this is due to the file system filter model that NT implements, not the file system itself.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
You've defined every OS that doesn't let you customize what services run, which Windows certainly does. As you strip away certain services, functionality is going to be limited, but the capability is there and has been since NT wa
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by p_ing 7mo ago
> So many software developers have gotten so lazy with RAM usage in the past few decades. Fewer developers want to write ASM or C, today. Slower to market, slower to roll out features, etc. While that may seem like a good thing, and prob
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by p_ing 7mo ago
It's the signal integrity and applies to desktop class boards, as well. A fully populated four DIMM Intel or AMD board will need to run at a slower mega transfer rate than a two DIMM board (or a four DIMM board with only two DIMMs popu
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by p_ing 7mo ago
The definition of bloat is something that you don’t use, even if someone else does.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Ask me about my PowerBook G4 Ti! Loved that laptop. Too bad about the titanium.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
This is typically with multiple 48MP photos (3 - maybe 10) loaded staged between RAW and somewhere in the editing process. The additional 5K monitor doesn't help. macOS WindowServer is a pile.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
I don't see any ads on my retail Pro install.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Rectangle (Apple's implementation is not as good), Balance Lock, Mos, Ice, Monitor Control.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
It's not. That being said, aluminum will suffer from dents and scratches. Every material is a trade off. You're not going to pull a "gotcha" comment, here.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Affinity Photo [1/2] / Affinity
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Generally you can see the Windows fee. Just go to an OEM like Lenovo and configure a laptop without Windows. It'll be some -$ amount.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
The zeitgeist exists on forums like this. Outside where people touch grass now and then, they largely don't care. x86 OEMs are a race to the bottom because that's how the PC market has been for eons as PCs are a tool, not a status
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Not all plastics are brittle, even after time. It is highly dependent on the plastic used.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
And here I am on my M2 w/ 24GB RAM and a couple of RAW 48MP photos will bog the system down. And if Time Machine kicks in, there goes any form of performance since Apple can't seem to figure out what a 'background task'
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by p_ing 7mo ago
An all metal build doesn't stand up well to abuse versus higher quality plastics. Looks nicer. For a time, or if taken care of.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
I would call them open access. Apple doesn't accept contributions.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Been using macOS for years, even main it for both personal and work. It has a LOT of UX issues and requires many 3rd party tools to "fix" it. macOS has plenty of it's own OS adverts.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
Windows 11 has 1 Billion+ installs. That's not a decline and hardly a crisis. That's a huge install base.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
That’s you ad blocker. They’re still up.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
You need to factor in the data center, power, cooling, hands-on support, future growth, etc. You're never just paying for the hardware.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
> Because it created a lot of problems. Please elaborate. NTFS is still the better choice for common desktop usage. ReFS goals are centered around data integrity but it comes at the cost of performance.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
NTFS has a database, the MFT. It can index attributes, such as file names, which are a b+tree. A file's $DATA is also placed into the MFT, unless it doesn't fit, then NTFS allocates virtual cluster numbers (more MFT attributes) wh
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by p_ing 7mo ago
This is effectively what macOS does. It presents any end user GUI programs (or Terminal.app if it's a CLI program) to elect to kill by way of popup with the amount of memory the application is consuming and whether or not it is respons
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by p_ing 7mo ago
NT has been able to overcommit since it's inception.
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by p_ing 7mo ago
The same behavior exists as far back as NT4 Server, which does not provide a foreground priority boost by default.

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