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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ximeng on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:43AM (#16744497)
Until the screen breaks and you can’t turn it on...
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by hvidgaard on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @10:16AM (#16744786)
If that kind failure recovery is important, then no tightly integrated device is a good choice.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by ximeng on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:37PM (#16761336)
Had two surface pros fail just out of warranty, if that’s the price of a tightly integrated device it’s too high for me. No more surface devices here.
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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by hvidgaard on Thursday April 05, 2018 @02:49AM (#16762454)
That is indeed poor reliability. The SP4 I used and others I know people have had since launch, are still working fine.
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