Everyone's different, but for me, a Mac that can't boot from an external drive might as well be an expensive hot plate or a cutting board.
What’s your use case, if you don’t mind me asking?
Re:That’s Big Sir to You
by lilSebastian on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:12AM
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By the sounds of it, cooking....
Re:That’s Big Sir to You
by ubermonkey on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:16AM
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Well, if so, then the M1 presents even bigger problems given its heat management.
That's a fair question, but I don't want to answer it. It's a little like asking 'what's your use-case for scissors?' in that it would take a couple days of prolonged reflection to answer comprehensively. Whatever I come up with in twenty minutes won't be the half of it. The effect of appending use-cases later, even if they are important ones, will be to make them sound as though they aren't (ie: 'if that's important why didn't they think of it immediately?').
They can boot from external drives, it's just that it's a bit buggy right now.
Apple is making a lot of unpredictable moves in the name of security and a lot of uncertainty now surrounds the future of bootable backups as protection against catastrophic data loss and/or transformation.
It’s good to see SuperDuper have a partial path forward. I’m crossing fingers Apple will be able to reshape its security paradigm while enabling third-party backup software to create bootable backups for Apple Silicon machines.