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Apple's Newest Macs Seem To Have a Serious Audio Bug (thurrott.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple's new Mac products might have a serious audio glitch for professional users. The company's newest Mac products with its T2 security chip suffer from a software-related bug that leads to issues with audio performance. The issue seemingly affects devices with the T2 chip -- that includes the iMac Pro, Mac Mini 2018, MacBook Air 2018, and MacBook Pro 2018. Although Apple's T2 chip is designed to offer improved security, it's affecting users in the pro audio industry.
As CDM reports, there is a bug in macOS that leads to dropouts and glitches in audio whenever a Mac automatically updates its system clock through the system time daemon. Users have been reporting the issue across a bunch of different pro audio forums for months, and it seems like the issue has never been acknowledged by Cupertino. The issue here is pretty simple to understand, as explained by a DJ software developer on Reddit: whenever the system time daemon automatically updates the system time, it somehow sends a 'pause-audio-engine' message to the kernel, leading to dropouts and glitches in audio.
As CDM reports, there is a bug in macOS that leads to dropouts and glitches in audio whenever a Mac automatically updates its system clock through the system time daemon. Users have been reporting the issue across a bunch of different pro audio forums for months, and it seems like the issue has never been acknowledged by Cupertino. The issue here is pretty simple to understand, as explained by a DJ software developer on Reddit: whenever the system time daemon automatically updates the system time, it somehow sends a 'pause-audio-engine' message to the kernel, leading to dropouts and glitches in audio.
We get all the reports of Apple bugs here but never Dell bugs?
Because Dell doesn't talk shit like "you're holding it wrong", and because Dell hasn't tried to build a reputation as making computers which are easier to use than everyone else's. Also, because Dell seems to have less gigantic fuckups than Apple, per unit shipped.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Because the T2 chip blocks access to the internal SSD when the security level is set to off,
I thought you could disable secure boot on the Mac, which should let you install any OS you like on the internal SSD...
I fully admit I've not tried that though so it could be there's some other aspect to that I did not know about. But this article sure makes it look like that setting has the effect of letting you boot into Linux on a T2 Mac.
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