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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by uniqueid on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:35PM (#25985578)
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.
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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by neotek on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:21AM (#25987032)
What’s your use case, if you don’t mind me asking?
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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by lilSebastian on Monday February 01, 2021 @07:12AM (#25987980)
By the sounds of it, cooking....
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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by ubermonkey on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:16AM (#25988860)
Well, if so, then the M1 presents even bigger problems given its heat management.
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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by uniqueid on Monday February 01, 2021 @11:01AM (#25989786)
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?').
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Re:That’s Big Sir to You by my123 on Monday February 01, 2021 @06:36AM (#25987759)
They can boot from external drives, it's just that it's a bit buggy right now.
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