Linked List: June 14, 2020

Sunday, 14 June 2020

My thanks to PressureWashr for sponsoring DF last week. PressureWashr is unlike any sponsor I’ve had before — all they do is review and recommend pressure washers. Sort of like Wirecutter but specifically for pressure washers — and, in fact, Wirecutter called upon PressureWashr to help with their own pressure washer guide.

Pressure washers make your dirty things clean again — everything from driveways, to your car, to your deck and patio furniture. But there are a ton of pressure washers on the market, and a lot of them are lousy.

PressureWashr has been researching, testing, disassembling, reviewing, and recommending pressure washers since 2013. They know their pressure washers, so if you’re interested in buying one check out their list of the 7 best — just updated for 2020 this month.

Brendan Shanks on the ARM Mac Transition: ‘Re-Engine, Not Re-Imagine’ ★

Brendan Shanks, speculating on the transition:

Apple will announce a Developer Transition Kit at WWDC, which will be available this summer. The DTK will use an A12Z (the current iPad Pro SoC), inside a Mac mini chassis. Or, I think less likely, an Apple TV chassis with added I/O.

I don’t think it will be a laptop: that would require full power management to be implemented, would be more expensive, and would result in battery life figures for semi-prototype hardware being reported all over the press. That’s really not how Apple rolls.

I wish I had thought about this before I predicted that maybe the developer kits would be laptops. There’s no way Apple wants prototype battery life to speak for the actual transition. Really, that just leaves the Mac Mini.

Great post overall — I think Shanks is largely spot-on.

The Case for ARM-Based Macs ★

David Shayer, writing at TidBITS, offers a terrific overview of the issues.