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What do you mean by "Didn't last long." Are you talking about the pace of technology advancement, or the actual working lifespan of the part? Because even my OLD stuff that is more than a decade old STILL works fine. heck, I have an entire Intel C2D e8400 with mainboard and I think 8GB of ram that technically STILL works. I have another AMD A10-7850k APU mainboard with 16GB of ram that works too...etc. There is nothing wrong with the hardware other than its age. But if I found a PSU and case for it, it would still boot up and work like new, a very slow new, but new all the same.

I’m well aware of the crappy usb naming conventions. Which is why I quoted the actual connection speed. And while I have used both BITS and BYTES in my posts I have not accidentally used mbits(Mb) where I meant Mbytes(MB). my Mini M1 has no issues with any of my current cables and peripheral connection speeds. They are all 10Gbit/s rated cables, or 40Gbit rated TB3 cables. I have two TB3 docks to expand the mini’s ports. Through the testing I have determined it is not a cable issue. for Music sync speed I have verified both my monitoring how many songs/ second as well as actual disk transfer speeds via activity monitor. It never exceeds 60MB/s. No, I’m inclined to agree with Hishnash’s explanation. As I’ve already verified that the iPad can do 5Gbit rated speeds to USB-c connected external drives. it’s not broken or using bad cables, it’s operating as expected ( even if I think the limitations are stupid).

When people ask me to help them build a PC, I ask them two questions. What do you want to do with it? How much money do you have to spend? Sometimes the answers to the questions do not align. If the budget is more than enough to do what they want, I let them know and then focus on their priorities to fit within or below the budget. I'll build a machine up and present a few options where the extra money in the budget can be used and what they'll get for it. And thanks to the way the market changes, the answers to what parts to use 6 months from now will be different than what you'd use today.

CVT's the DEVIL!

Well sadly that is both expected and sucks at the same time. kind of makes me want to return the mini and get the m1 air instead.

I'm thinking this is basically Apple BS and artificially limiting it, or not disclosing limitations of the hardware. I'm not using the included cable in these tests. I've used several known good USB-C 10Gb rated cables, and a Startech Thunderbolt 3 cable with a fast external NVMe enclosure. The enclosure I'm using is a Pluggable NVMe toolless enclosure with the RTL9210b chipset. No issues hitting realistic 10Gbit USB speeds. It has a Samsung 970 Evo 500GB drive installed, about 60% full in the test below. https://plugable.com/products/usbc-nvme

Has anyone else experienced this? I recently had to retire my iPad as it was a work owned asset and I changed jobs. But thanks to the new money, buying a new tablet was not an issue. Picked up a new iPad Mini 6 256GB, didn't want a larger tablet, as its basically for web-browsing, mail, and reading. The reading bit is why I went with a smaller tablet. According to Apple's spec page, its capable of USB 3.1 Gen 1 5Gbit/s. https://support.apple.com/kb/SP850?locale=en_US However the first time I tried syncing it with my Mac and getting all of my music over, it took FOREVER. Now, I have nearly 200GB of music, so I expected this to take some time, but I noticed it was taking way longer per song than it should if it was USB 3 speeds. Pulled up System info, and I noticed it was only connecting at USB 2.0 speeds. Connected the iPad using the same cable to my work MacBook Pro, again USB 2.0 speeds. And again to my Gaming PC, Device Bus Speed 0x02, aka USB 2.0. Confounded I started looking around and saw a few other people asking the same questions, but no answers. To test transfer speeds I decided to connect an external NVMe drive to my iPad and transfer a file that way. I created a 5GB test file using DD with URANDOM to ensure its incompressible. Then I copied it to a USB-C Pluggable NVMe Enclosure with a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB inside. This drive is about 60% full, and via USB-C on my Mac it reads/writes around 800MB/s. Using the exact same cable as in the above test, the 5GB test file copied from the NVMe drive to the iPad's internal storage in 18 seconds for an average speed of 290MB/s. If the port and cable were limiting me to USB 2.0, it would never have exceeded 60MB/s. Not quite USB 3.1 Gen 1 speeds, but way faster than USB 2.0 480Mbit. However, using the same USB-C cable I connected the iPad all 3 of my home computers, my M1 Mac mini, work MacBook Pro 2019 (intel), and my Windows gaming PC (ryzen 5800x). All 3 of them report the connection speed as USB 2.0. This is frustrating, as they advertise USB 3 speeds, but it appears that like the newest iPad, it doesn't fully support USB 3 speeds in every case.

The issue I have with it is that the costs to develop the new more efficient engines gets laid at the consumer's feet. Cars are already outrageously expensive compared to what they were 20-30-40 years ago. Even after you account for inflation. This pushes more people out of the market, or into longer term loans. I'm fine with a gradual increase in CAFE, but this is a massive bump and will significantly affect the market.

I currently have a TrueNAS server I use for Plex. ~100TB of storage in a Norco 4224 case with an 850w Corsair RMx PSU. The server idles around 140w right now with about 20 drives (12 3.5" 8TB, 3x 1.2TB 10k SAS, 8x 2.5" SATA SSD), and at full load its around 200w, so well short of the PSU's capability. Current server is an old i7-4790k CPU, 32GB of DDR3 running TrueNAS Core. The goal is to have enough CPU and HP to run the Plex server constantly in a VM, while also having a Lab environment where I can play with things like SCCM and other enterprise toys. I can get the installers through work, and they'll work in a trial environment for a bit, I'll probably have to wipe/reload it often, but it should be easy enough to build a template. With I'm really familiar with TrueNAS Core, been running FreeNAS since version 8. Scale is obviously different under the hood since its Linux Based. I can get away with building this combo for about $2800 to fork-lift the current server chassis. Only thing I haven't looked at yet is coolers for the EPYC. Its a 4U chassis, with a max height of I think 150mm. And the EPYC might generate some heat. Not even really sure if I'd need 128GB of ram. I could probably get away with 64GB. Also, with that much CPU on-board, I could probably move my 3080Ti into the server, and virtualize the gaming box, but the PSU would have to get upgraded to handle the 3080Ti on top of EPYC. Plus the over-head would lose me some performance. Could be fun to build though. Long ago I replaced the 4224 case fans with Noctua iPPC 3000rpm PWM fans, there are 3 of them. So those alone can move plenty of air in this case. AMD EPYC 7443P CPU 24 cores, 48 threads 2.9ghz base, 4.0ghz boost. Supermicro MBD-H12SSL-CT-O 8x 288pin DD4-3200mhz ECC Rgistered, up to 8 channel memory config. Dual 10Gig-E Ethernet Ports IPMI 2.0 - Remote Management via LAN interface, no monitor needed for anything. 8x SAS 3008 SAS3 12Gb ports. 8x SATA3 Ports (not really needed beyond 2 SATA for mirrored boot drive) 5x PCIe 4.0 x16 Slots 2x PCIe 4.0 x8 Slots 2x M2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 for 2280, or 22110 length M2. 7 PWM fan connectors with dual zone control. 128GB of 4x32GB DIMMS of ECC Registered DDR4-3200mhz memory.

I had a triple screen before I got my 34" LG. I definitely don't want to go back to multi-monitor setups. One Monitor to Rule Them All as it were.

In this case, the the original parts, and the replacement parts behaved the exact same way (as shown in the video). its an unacceptable problem in a monitor at any price point, let alone what was the God Tier gaming monitor it was advertised as. There is hard core flickering in every game, but in Subnautica, and ME2:LE it was especially noticeable in the Project Overlord DLC when driving the hammer head, and in firefights. At this point, I'm going to let them replace the monitor once, and if the new monitor does the exact same thing, they are getting a call immediately and I will want both my money back, and some form of compensation because at that point it will have been going on for 2 months or more. I have already started looking at alternatives, and honestly I don't want to go back to a 16:9/10 monitor. And while I liked my 21:9 LG, I really do love the 32:9 with the massive curve. When its not flickering its amazing. that said, as much as I love the 32:9 ratio, I will probably take a look at the Aorus F048U as more reviews come out. Due to HUDs, not sure about the OLED aspect due to burn-in. I kind of figured that I'd keep this G9 around for about 5-7 years and let the CPU/GPU hardware mature around it.

The really frustrating part is almost no actual review mentioned the Scanline / flickering issue as a headliner. If they did mention it, it was some off-hand unexplained comment. Its one once you dig into forum posts that you start reading about it. I've seen pictures, but here is a slow mo video of the Original G9 I just took. One that Samsung has yet to rectify, its been over a month of calling support and "oh, we don't have a record of your issue" but when I throw up the ticket #'s its "oh yes, we have your ticket, the Refunds / Exchanges department is really busy" Then the Refund Exchange department is all about "oh, who told you we are issuing refunds or replacements?" Honestly, really put off by Samsung. The sheer quantity of complaints means this MUST have been seen in development. And yet it was released as is with major problems. And Samsung has apparently ditched the product entirely leaving owners without a resolution other than basically taking them to task for another refund. Does the new Neo G9 do this crap too?

My default view is the regular thumbnail one, not the 'expose' or whatever they call that view. The reason there are so many is that as the tree counts down, I hold the button down for burst mode and catch all of the launch. Mainly so I can catch shots like this without having to time it. Love the way those slicks wrinkle.

Definitely don't care. You can view by thumbnail and that's easy to do.

They aren't duplicates. They are sequences. That way peeps from the rental can pick the best picture out of the bunch. You've heard it all the time in movies. When the camera guy takes the shot and you hear multiple exposures.