And replied to with another wall of text himself....
You seem to have completely misread that and missed the point. My point is that none of us should need ANY dongle or adapter to do anything on a Mac or iPhone. Apple's trend for the past decade has been to make dongles for everything and replace Macbooks like my 2008 model's plenty of ports with a few ports that need adapters to connect anything at all from Ethernet to a Firewire audio adapter to even a mouse now. Apple has become the KING of Dongles and it's SO unnecessary. They'd have plenty of room for connections and other things if they weren't so insistent on FLAT FLAT FLAT.
Apple had a notebook for flat and it was called the Macbook Air. It's now redundant/pointless as the regular Macbook IS the Air now. But then this started about the time they put the name "PRO" on everything when many models like the 13" clearly are not. But then this is the same company that hasn't updated the Mac Pro in over 3 years (after turning it into a freaking trash can with all external expansion, thus KILLING "PRO" use for most people.
In its class. Ultra-thin crap.
I think we've been over this. But since you have no argument, just keep saying it.
MOST stuff still uses a USB-A connector including the 4TB 2.5" drive I just picked up the other day brand new (and it's the same speed). They're not going to make USB-C connectors on devices until enough computers have the ports. Until such time, it would behoove Apple to keep at least ONE USB-A connector on their computers for backwards compatibility without having to use a dongle/adapter. I'm sorry that's SO HARD for you to comprehend. By the time most devices have switched to USB-C, this notebook will already be outdated and hence my logic. Your 'arguments' show no logic at all.
Comparing a smaller symmetrical connector to an entire drive system is so mountain-to-mole hill it's just utterly UTTERLY RIDICULOUS.
First of all, you can't just use an adapter to put back a floppy drive. We're talking about an end connector here, not ditching a parallel printer port for a USB connection even.
I'd say that borders on flaming. You don't even want to know my opinion of you at this point.
What you
hear, eh? In other words, you don't know a damn thing about it. I was referring to the past decade of Intel machines where Apple was regularly 3-6 years behind the current standard. Even now, there are games not being made because Apple never finished the standard to its final version.
Metal has its own problems. The first and biggest is that it's
proprietary once again. NO ONE ELSE IS USING IT. That means a game maker who wants to release a Mac version has to create their own Metal drivers and tools and separate programming to make a game work. That probably explains why there's like all of ONE game available for Metal right now after almost two years and maybe 1/10 the game releases of two years ago from people like Aspyr. They're either spending all their time trying to get a working game engine for Metal (before they can do any amount of conversions) or they've abandoned the Mac because Apple can't be bothered to use a freaking STANDARD (as per usual). They should either use Valkyrie or pay Microsoft to license DirectX. Metal is a disaster. They aren't keeping it up-to-date and there's isn't JACK SQUAT for it on the Mac.
If only 100 people are using NFS with something like Kodi, it's because Apple pushes people away from the platform by not properly supporting SMB (still doesn't work with a lot of older code) after abandoning a 3rd party driver that worked perfectly.
LOL. I'm not using a Macbook as a server dude. I've got a Mac Mini Quad-i7 for that. The point is that if no one is watching a movie or using the computer, it should be able to go to sleep to save electricity. I HAVE been keeping it on 24/7 to avoid the issue. It's ridiculous that I'd have to do that. I finally reconfigured everything for SMB only after Kodi got it working with the Mac's newer SMB, but there's still a couple of issues I feel worked better with NFS, but thanks to Apple it's either waste electricity or make do.
Go ahead and try to turn that isn't a Pro Apple RANT again! Go Apple!
You don't even know what NFS is for do you? It sure as HELL has NOTHING to do with Torrents. Unlike you, apparently, I actually buy my movies.
The point of sleep is to save electricity. I've been doing what you're suggesting when I was using NFS. It's a waste and easily solved by Apple. I've sent them THREE bug reports. They refuse to lift a finger when they certify macOS as UNIX and NFS is part of the Unix standard distribution and fully supported (as in the DO keep it up to date). But the left hand and right hand at Apple don't talk to each other much so the guy that could fix that in two minutes flat is the guy that doesn't even realize it's an issue.
I've had Caffeine on my Mac since the PPC days. Again, you miss the point. I want the computer to sleep to save electricity and be more "green". Apple claims they're all about "green" on the one hand but then they keep making disposable products on the other.
Like I said, you god damn well missed the fracking point. I'll say that instead of calling you a name.
It's not even an issue on those platforms dude and thus I'd need no bug report!
Fanatics like you calling things "non-issues" that don't affect you personally or your electricity bill just shows what a narrow little view you have of the world around you, as if everything revolves around you and your computer uses and tastes. A lot of people have issues with some of the more recent Apple products, but to you it's just whining because you're not using it that way and clearly don't care about anyone but yourself.
Have a nice day.
