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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by fsflover on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:30PM (#29085462)
> Apple is targeting the population that has no need for upgrades.

And also those who very frequently do backups, because restoring the data from a failed SSD would be problematic.

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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by lotsofpulp on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:37PM (#29085573)
Yes, Apple is also probably not targeting the population of people who cannot backup to iCloud and also not backup regularly to a NAS or USB via Time Machine.
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by kube-system on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @04:10PM (#29086757)
Time Machine takes hourly backups. Setup consists of selecting a target and checking a box.
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