@streakmachine I spotted that you were not going to grace us with your presence from a post by mullerbiker on Slack & deleted the post here.
@matigo That article was wrong, it turns out. See: https://www.imore.com/no-apples-not-locking-you-out-linux-macs-t2-chip
// @gtwilson
@gtwilson I worked for a Federal election in a combined-seat polling booth a few years ago. The nearest main road to the west was the boundary between the two electorates. We had a fellow at the door directing voters to the right for one electorate & the left for the other. There were some folk too thick to even know whether they lived to the east or west of the boundary.
@matigo Geekbench for the 3 is 326 single-core/559 multi-core vs the 4’s 803 single/1250 multi.
The 4 had a 1.4 GHz A6X vs the 3’s 1 GHx A5X. The 4 was the first big iPad with the Lightning connector.
My iPad 3 was always a slow pig of a thing.
@matigo Give it a restore from a backup. The transformed my iPod Touch from a poorly responding sluggard into a nice smooth bit of gear.
@matigo I bought a basic 16 GB iPad Mini (512 MB RAM) a few months after buying a 32 GB iPad 3 - aka “The New iPad” - which had 1 GB of RAM.
I ran the Geekbench app and the non-retina Mini had a better score.
All that extra RAM was used up by the 3’s retina display. Both had 1 GHz processors, an A5 in the Mini & an A5X in the 3.
Attn @matigo @gtwilson The URL says it all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/11/06/booting-linux-is-impossible-on-new-apple-hardware/#683f74107e1e
Booting into Linux is impossible on Apple hardware that uses the T2 chip.
@matigo You’ve got your wires crossed there. ’twas the iPad 2 and original iPad Minis that had 512 MB of RAM.
@variablepulserate Alledgedly they go bonkers over KFC at Christmas.
// @matigo