“Paleosurgeons”

I believe the correct term for this sort of job is Rocket Surgeon…

More interesting is that the DRAM looks like it’s mounted on the same substrate as the A12X (ie not directly on the PCB like earlier iPads), so slightly closer to the PoP of iPhones. Is the substrate Si, or something else with lower capacitance than PCB?

“Here we have all our exes erm, tens lined up”

How does that country song go? “All my ten’es live in Tennessee?” :-)

Why is this called a Recovery drive and spoken of as a last resort?

On Mac I can use an external USB SSD to run the system full-time. This might be done to speed an old (pre-SSD) machine, or to keep using a machine whose internal HD has died and it’s a pain to crack the machine open to replace it.

Can one not do the same thing on a Windows machine — ie create a REAL external boot drive (preferably USB-3 SSD) and run from that full time, ignoring the internal drive?

This is not an attempt to score points. I honestly want to solve this problem — run some windows machines faster by using an external SSD.

So Richard your assertion is that the silvered bumps all around the two boards are the vias? With a pitch of, what, 300µ?

The MacRumors article yesterday referred to an interposer between the two main boards, but I don’t see any such. Was MacRumors wrong, or am I missing something?

Does it have a second mic? Or anything changed about the mic?

Siri on Watch works much less well than Siri on iPhone, and I suspect it is primarily a mic issue.

Geekbench shows all the Apple TV's at 1GHz apart from an outlier at 1.5GHz

http://browser.primatelabs.com/geekbench...

That suggests it's running at 1.5GHz...

I know you're joking, but calling QAM256 "four times the modulation" is deeply misleading.

Speaking very simply, QAM64 packs 6 bits (ie log in base 2 of 64) into a "single Hz" of bandwidth, QAM256 packs 8 bits into the same "single Hz". So the jump in performance from this particular change is a factor 8/6=1.33 --- nice but not 4x.