That's my experience as well, but the ones which have wear leveling are almost as expensive as SSDs and I only use them in devices which have no other storage option. For a new SBCs I would definitely prefer an SSD or NVMe drive.
To be honest, I've rarely lost any functionality because of a new feature release of any software. I can't even think of a security update that caused any problems in the last few years.
The article mentions iOS and macOS updates and I can relate to that somewhat, though. OS X 10.7 at the time was horrible. It had known memory leaks that never got fixed and you _had_ to update to 10.8 to fix it. There was also a version that introduced a new DNS forwarder which was so broken that Apple rolled it back in a point update.
It still seems weird to me to reject any software updates based on broken functionality.
Oh, I actually do stay away from updates on one device. My HP printer would reject my third party toner if I would update it and that's why I keep it disconnected from the internet.
> It still seems weird to me to reject any software updates based on broken functionality.
Does it seem weird to you because you've never suffered due to a change in the feature set? I can understand that. If you haven't felt the pain, it's hard to be very sympathetic.
Slow charging etc. is nice for laptops, but for phones I wouldn't even bother. If you use your phone for navigation in summer, it's very likely your phone's battery will degrade rapidly anyway due to the heat.
The RAM that is available is faster and the SSD is also quite fast, but it's a little bit misleading to claim that an Apple Silicon Mac with 8 GB of RAM performs similar to an Intel Mac with 16 GB RAM. The Intel Mac will actually almost always perform worse and run hotter with CPU-heavy (but not memory-constrained) tasks, no matter the amount of RAM it has. But if the Apple Silicon Mac has to read / write constantly to and from swap and the Intel Mac doesn't (assuming whatever you do doesn't require an Intel Mac with 16 GB of RAM to swap), you will still notice a difference.
Overall I would still prefer an Apple Silicon Mac especially if it's just for testing purposes. It's not like one Electron app will require constant swapping. An M1 Mac mini with 8 GB of RAM is perfectly fine for that.
>[...] but I guess it senses a short across some of the pins inside?
Most lithium ion chargers have (or should have) some kind of short circuit protection. It would make sense that the internal charging unit could make this information available to the operating system.
I would wait until it's actually confirmed that it has 6 GB of RAM. There is also an A15 in the iPad mini 6 which is based on the A15 in the 13 Pro, but with only 4 GB RAM. If this is the case a discounted 13 Pro could actually be the better option (also because of the 120 Hz screen).
That's a good point. According to wikipedia, there are 3 different A15 chips already.
The iPhone 13 and 13 mini have 2.93ghz high power cores and 2.02ghz low power cores.
The iPad Mini 6 has the same 2.93ghz high power cores and underclocked 1.82ghz low power cores, I believe because of the extra heat from the larger screen.
The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max have higher clocked 3.23ghz high power cores and the same 2.02ghz low power cores as the regular iPhone 13.
The iPhone Pro's also have the extra 2GB of ram compares to the others and the iPhone 13/13 Mini are the only ones with the 4 core GPU rather than the 5 core GPU.
All we know now for sure about the iPhone 14 and 14 Plus are that they will have the 5 core GPU. We will have to wait for a hands on to know more about the specifics of the A15 they are using.
That said, I doubt that they will have the underclocked low power cores that they iPad Mini 6 has so I think the path of least resistance is for them to take the same A15 from the 13 Pro, with more RAM and overclocked high power cores, and just keep using it in the iPhone 14.
Otherwise they have to introduce a fourth A15 variant which seems like more work than using one they already are manufacturing.
I don't know shit about CPU manufacturing though so I am mostly just talking out of my ass.
