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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.
Because Dell doesn't talk shit like "you're holding it wrong"
No instead they have Michael Dell saying shit about Apple like "I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders" which turned out to be remarkably arrogant and increasingly foolish since he said it.
and because Dell hasn't tried to build a reputation as making computers which are easier to use than everyone else's.
Because they couldn't. Dell doesn't make the software that runs their PCs so they don't control enough of the process to even try. Apple more or less succeeded in doing that exact thing. Several times in fact with various iterations of MacOS and iOS. There is a reason Windows mimicked the Mac and Android followed the iPhone. Like them or hate them you cannot deny that Apple does do a good job making comparatively well designed and easy to use interfaces to their products. There is a reason every other PC and smartphone maker follows Apple's lead at least some of the time.
Also, because Dell seems to have less gigantic fuckups than Apple, per unit shipped.
Not historically they haven't. Dell's hardware is fine in general but they've had plenty of problems over the years. Measurably more than Apple most years if you believe the PC reliability rankings over the years. I'm not bashing Dell here (in fact I'm typing this on one of their PCs which I purchased with my own money) but let's not pretend they are something special among big computer makers.