Month: September 2018

Apple’s September 12th “Gather Round” event: Wild Unsubstantiated Speculation

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Tomorrow Apple will announce some product updates for iPhone, iPad, and perhaps Mac.

The following is some unsubstantiated speculation:

  • USB-C will be announced as the standard connector on all Apple devices.
  • Macs be able charge iPads and iPhone via USB-C and vice versa.
  • Macs will also be able to harness the GPUs of iPads and iPhones using the USB-C connection: eGPU to go!

Now, in all reality I think they’ll hang onto lightning a little more until USB-C saturation is higher… then they’ll opt for USB-C2 😂. The eGPU idea is DOA I’m sure due to thermal issues and battery life of the iDevices. Anyway, just in case it happens: I told you so! ;)

How to determine if your Mac has a T2 chip

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Do you know if your MacBook Pro has a T2 chip in it?
Here’s an easy way to tell:

Goto Identify your MacBook Pro model

Then look for the the murderous autonomous robot. Easy!

You can also run this:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "print :0:_items:0:ibridge_model_name" /dev/stdin 2>/dev/null <<< "$(/usr/sbin/system_profiler -xml SPiBridgeDataType -nospawn)"

<<< – is an über cool “here string”

PlistBuddy is great at parsing data defaults might balk at, it can also take /dev/stdin!