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  1. D13H4RD

    Well, I did it... #iSwitched

    Yep. It's a 13 Pro.
    1. DrMacintosh
    2. DrMacintosh

      DrMacintosh

      Btw what did you get? Looks like a 13 Pro? 

    3. D13H4RD

      D13H4RD

      4 hours ago, DrMacintosh said:

      Btw what did you get? Looks like a 13 Pro? 

      Yep. It's a 13 Pro.

  2. Seriously "Hot" Take (Hehe, see what I did there?) 

     

    I think everyone sharing the meme of the 12900K beating the 5950X "by 7%" (in what, exactly?) whilst consuming about double the power has little idea of the context behind it. 

     

    The 12900K (and only the 12900K) seems to exhibit this behavior, and only in applications that actually stress all CPU cores to a high degree over a long period of time, such as rendering. Anything "bursty" or lean such as gaming shouldn't really see this wild consumption of watts over an extended period. Power consumption in gaming applications is pretty tame by comparison, and it looks like the 12600K (and 12700K) are comparatively tamer in terms of power consumption even when rendering. Is it more efficient than Zen 3 in these workloads? No, but it is significantly moreso than prior generations of Intel desktop products. 

     

    So why did Intel do this? Had a look at Igor's piece where he tuned a 12900K to 150W and lost very little performance and had a chat with a reviewer who is currently testing the 12900K in various PLs and the hypothesis is that Intel were prioritising a very high yield rate, so whilst the 12900K is capable of achieving its rated performance at 150-190W, it may have required a significantly lower yield rate. 

    1. Moonzy

      Moonzy

      Hating on Intel is cool

    1. SpikeSpiegel

      SpikeSpiegel

      Just now, D13H4RD said:

      Welcome back, Intel

      😞 AMD will be back again give them time....

    2. TopHatProductions115
    3. genexis_x

      genexis_x

      Well they didn't lead a lot unlike what I expected, compared to a year old Ryzen

       

      i have concerns of ADL in laptops. So power hungry even at PL1, that requires even more cooling and beefier VRMs. And probably RIP battery life.

  3. D13H4RD

    .......ROFLMAO What the heck though @SnazzyLabs

    On iStat, it actually puts stuff behind the notch. Resolve doesn't but because there's so many menu bar options, it ends up hiding some status bar options. Though iStat isn't exactly the most brilliantly coded piece of software.
  4. .......ROFLMAO

     

    What the heck though @SnazzyLabs

     

     

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    2. D13H4RD

      D13H4RD

      6 hours ago, soldier_ph said:

      So there actually is content behind the Notch or was he joking ?

      On iStat, it actually puts stuff behind the notch. 

       

      Resolve doesn't but because there's so many menu bar options, it ends up hiding some status bar options. 

       

      Though iStat isn't exactly the most brilliantly coded piece of software. 

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    3. Cyberspirit

      Cyberspirit

      I'm sure they'll fix that asap but that's good. 🤣

    4. TopHatProductions115
  5. D13H4RD

    TIL, it's possible to make the menu bar in macO…

    I've always felt like they could've put an all-black version of the menu bar in full-screen mode for easier access. IMO, it would actually look pretty cool with MiniLED's sweet contrast.
  6. TIL, it's possible to make the menu bar in macOS completely black.

     

    There you go. Notch problem solved...

    1. DrMacintosh

      DrMacintosh

      Well it’s also an exclusion zone pretty much. Notch will turn off in full screen and since the display is slightly taller than 16:10 content won’t get cut off and apps can’t put UI up there. 

    2. D13H4RD

      D13H4RD

      26 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

      Well it’s also an exclusion zone pretty much. Notch will turn off in full screen and since the display is slightly taller than 16:10 content won’t get cut off and apps can’t put UI up there. 

      I've always felt like they could've put an all-black version of the menu bar in full-screen mode for easier access. IMO, it would actually look pretty cool with MiniLED's sweet contrast.

  7. It should be pretty strong. The last MacBook Pro 16" had pretty good battery life for its class, so the new one should be even better, theoretically that is. But I personally love the fact that they didn't gimp the 14" by much and can be specced in much the same way as its bigger counterpart. So you don't have to give up much if portability is more of a factor.
  8. Hear me out here. I think the 14" MacBook Pro is going to be the new meta for on-the-go photographers/videographers who need a powerful machine to handle all of their high-resolution photo/video files and still be portable. Considering that you can spec the 14" in the same way as the 16" with the M1 Max, 64GB of unified memory and up to an overkill 8TB of storage, I think it's a no-brainer for those kinds of people who can justify the cost. As a photographer myself, the 14" is extremely appealing to me for that reason, and since I am going to upgrade to a higher-resolution camera in the future and doing a lot of ultra-high-res panoramas, that sort of power in a compact package is tempting. And seriously, I think people are caring way too much about the notch. Yes, it looks hella goofy, especially in the product renders. But you also need to remember; In macOS, the area around the notch is specifically reserved just for the menu bar. macOS was always designed to have a persistent menu bar on the top of the screen. With the notch, they thickened that menu bar so that it is basically slightly thicker than the notch so that it wouldn't cut into content. Speaking of cutting into content, all of the apps shown in fullscreen mode had the area around the notch completely blanked-out and made black, basically turning it into bezel. So it's not going to be an issue in regards to cutting into content. They wanted slim bezels but they also wanted to stuff in a webcam with a larger image sensor along with a lens that has a faster maximum aperture, basically a webcam that doesn't suck. If they didn't want a notch but still wanted the thin bezels and the better webcam, it was either stick it on the bottom bezel (which would have the camera look up your snout) or eliminate it entirely and have it be a separate accessory (which ASUS got flak for). So they had to go with the unfortunate compromise of a notch, but unlike iPhone X, they seem to be trying to make it much less of a visual hindrance than on the iPhone.
  9. D13H4RD

    Also, mega hot take I think everyone is making…

    It looks like the area around the notch simply gets blacked-out in full-screen mode, basically turning it into bezel. Might be different as time goes on, but all of the apps shown did that in full-screen mode.
  10. D13H4RD

    Also, mega hot take I think everyone is making…

    I get that. At the same time though, I feel like a lot of the complaints are overblown. I agree it looks stupid and it introduces more challenges. But I also feel like you just begin to not care too much once you actually focus on doing stuff on it.
  11. Also, mega hot take

     

    I think everyone is making an overly big deal about the notch on the new MacBook Pros. Yes, it looks pretty stupid especially on the official product renders, but seeing how the space around it is reserved for the menu bar, and how every full-screen app they showed doesn't make use of the area around the notch, I don't get why this is such a big deal.

     

    I legitimately feel like once you start using it, you just stop focusing on it and just move on...

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    2. RockSolid1106

      RockSolid1106

      For the most part, unless you're using a light theme, I don't think it will be noticeable. But I'm kinda curious as to how full-screen apps work with that. Do they just not use the top part at all or just ignore the notch and display contents under it? IMO it'll take quite some time for apps to get updated for the notch.

    3. D13H4RD

      D13H4RD

      18 minutes ago, RockSolid1106 said:

      For the most part, unless you're using a light theme, I don't think it will be noticeable. But I'm kinda curious as to how full-screen apps work with that. Do they just not use the top part at all or just ignore the notch and display contents under it? IMO it'll take quite some time for apps to get updated for the notch.

      It looks like the area around the notch simply gets blacked-out in full-screen mode, basically turning it into bezel.

       

      Might be different as time goes on, but all of the apps shown did that in full-screen mode.

       

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    4. TopHatProductions115

      TopHatProductions115

      What if menu elements could directly interact with the camera notch? 🤔

  12. "And, more importantly, what will you do?" 

     

    - Closing sentence, M1 Pro/Max MacBook Pro ad

     

    Trying to put a decked out M1 Max MacBook Pro to its knees by making a panorama stitch from the 102mp Fujifilm GFX100S. Lol

     

    Seriously, the new MacBooks look like an absolute beast 

  13. Possibly one of the best deals I've gotten ever. Just randomly browsing through the classifieds and came across a RRS BH-55 for the equivalent of $137. Was initially hesitant but eventually took the plunge simply because it was a deal too good to just let it slide. For reference, a BH-55 retails for $455. This is an older revision featuring the previous RRS logo, as the current model features minor refinements like a redesigned knob for the tensioner. Otherwise, same great ballhead.
  14. Exactly why this whole "nm" nonsense just doesn't make sense when we're doing comparisons between wholly different manufacturing processes. 10nm SF in terms of density is more akin to TSMC 7nm, but because 7 is lower than 10, and apparently, lower nm is automatically better, then we're in a situation where CPUs are memed because their transistors nanometers aren't lower...
  15. Yep, that's the way it usually has been. Though I will admit, having a laptop that largely maintains its performance off the charger has been nice for photo-editing on the go, especially in places where charge points aren't easy to come by, but I also understand that my usecase is quite specific. For what it's worth, I don't think Intel's approach is any more or less "wrong", or "correct". It's just different, so they really shouldn't claim superiority, especially if they have to sacrifice runtime for it.
  16. 10 hours on that machine is pretty good. I average around 7-8 on my 1135G7-equipped machine, likely due to the smaller 50Wh battery. This figure was attainable if I put a muzzle on the processor so that it didn't go ham on the turbo through the use of a power saver plan. In balanced mode, I got closer to 5 hours. If AMD had let the processor run in a similar way to my 1135G7 on balanced, the battery life differences would probably even out. Because they didn't, they were able to squeeze extra hours out of the battery, even though performance was sacrificed as a result, but in terms of perceived performance, the difference shouldn't be noticeable. I certainly didn't have much issues using my muzzled 1135G7 for normal use.
  17. I think another new part is how a lot of new Windows machines, especially from Tier-1 OEMs, have begun moving the power plans from the Windows Control Panel to whatever pre-installed utility is supplied by the OEM. So it's possible that a lot of these tests were done with the power plan set to "Balanced", even with the slider set to whatever. I've noticed that those tend to have a larger impact on power draw.
  18. Some users report that the Blade 14 can feel somewhat sluggish off the charger in the Windows desktop. So APU throttling?
  19. Wonder if that's what's causing the sluggish performance on the Blade 14 off the charger.
  20. Yeah, the cooling solution sounds like shit if it's that bad. I doubt it would fare much better with a Ryzen processor if it's really that bad. Sadly, a lot of gaming laptops have mediocre cooling solutions. My old ASUS GL502 had a pitiful cooling system.
  21. The Tamron. The GM is good but I would only go for it if you really, really need that extra 1mm wide-end and the 35mm long end.
  22. From what I understand, the "TDP" rating on a CPU's box or ARK page isn't necessarily what the CPU will follow. On Intel for instance, the TDP rating is its PL2 power limit. Since Coffee Lake, how it works is that it will blow past that PL2 rating to go much higher on what's called a "PL1" rating when a workload which demands that boost period fires up. So your 45W CPU might actually be chugging much more than that, for a predetermined amount of time. Once that time is reached (assuming it doesn't thermal-throttle), it throttles down to PL2, and stays there until the task is finished. This also means the cooling demand is much higher, so they tend to run warmer during extended workloads, especially for the time limit that the CPU is in PL1. Some AMD laptops do also have overheating concerns, but in those cases, it's usually more of a case of poor design on the laptop manufacturer's part.
  23. Yep, pretty much any Windows laptop from a Tier-1 manufacturer like MSI, ASUS, Lenovo, Dell and HP, etc. would have the power plans inside whatever utility they've bundled in. I kinda wished they were just a part of Windows to begin with due to that slider, but...hey ho.
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