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42 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:
It is impressive, but we really need to remember that Apple has been underdesigning their cooling solutions so badly for so many years now that performance of the same chip in their laptops is way worse than in anyone elses. Almost as if to intentionally make this comparison look stronger....
But change the order a bit, close the gaps, it's still impressive stuff. With or without the "win".
(I do think it's extremely important to note that Apple has literally been doing a disservice with how bad most of their chassis designs have been, and literally everyone in the industry knows it, so giving a free pass over that is not fair).
Or alternatively, Intel has been consistently letting Apple down on the development front so that their hardware doesn't have sufficient cooling capacity. Hence the M1 we have today.
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2 hours ago, Spindel said:
FCPX performance on M1 mac compared to iMac Pro:
Exporting H.264 Sony 10 bit 422 footage with just one rec709 lut takes:
- 11 minutes and 30 seconds on iMac Pro with Vega 56 and 128gigs of ram.
- 10 minutes and 20 seconds on M1 MacBook Pro with 8gigs of ram.30 seconds long H.265 canon 10-bit 422 footage at 100fps takes
- 80 seconds on iMac Pro
- 45 seconds on new MacBook Prohttps://forums.macrumors.com/threads/fcpx-performance-on-m1-chip.2268919/
Well okay then.
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11 hours ago, FloRolf said:
This makes me wonder though, why are their higher priced models still on Intel CPU's when the M1 is apparently much faster?
I would imagine it's because the use cases for the entry models and air are far more general than the higher-end models, and as this is a first generation product Apple will want to test the performance and stability in the real-world before slowly replacing the whole line up with the M2, and eventually M3.
I work for a manufacturing company and we do the same thing, except we'll usually pick a region to release a new product, test it in market for a year or two, and then release it globally.
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This is what I'm excited about by Apple's vertical integration. The power of the M1, not the power of it's CPU cores, but the utilization of the whole chipset which is something that is typically done very poorly.
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I'm so excited for reviews to start coming out about the new range of products, and for Anandtech's deep-dive into the M1.
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3 minutes ago, SlimyPython said:
whatever libquantum is looks like it likes many cores
More information can be found here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint
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Their claims, while ambiguous, probably aren't far from the general truth... I mean here is single thread perf from the A14.... a 5W SoC.
Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive
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7 hours ago, Sudarstark said:
Summary
Razer launched their new Razerbook 13 laptop that is focused on productivity.
There is a design change
It comes with a 16:10 aspect ratio display with fhd+ or uhd both at 60 hz with touch optional.
You get a 11th Gen i5 and i7. The i7 is evo certified.
My thoughts
It's actually nice that razer is giving more options. I would love to see a 16:10 display on their stealth and blade lineup.
I'll bet they built this for internal use and decided to sell it too.
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Well based on leaked info about Ryzen 5,000, Intel is going to need that double-digit IPC improvement to match Ryzen 5,000 on single-thread performance, if not marginally scrape back their crown.
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18 minutes ago, Vitamanic said:
It’s still proprietary AFAIK, at least AirPlay 2. There’s DRM involved. HomeKit support was the more shocking thing to hear for me.
Even with the AirPlay TVs that license it now, they’re not competing with Apple. Roku on the other hand is a direct competitor and now Apple is weirdly making Roku a more attractive device than it was before for Apple users.
Not really that shocking... Is the Apple TV really that important to them, or would they rather sell more iPhones and iPads that integrate seamlessly with a wide range of devices and own the content that you stream?
Previously the stated purpose of the Apple TV was to have access to the main display in most homes, the TV, but they were losing that battle. So by making it an app on every TV and streaming box they get access to a much larger potential market for Apple TV, and give a bigger reason to all the iPhone and iPad buyers to buy them.
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That IP68 rating....
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Isn't Xilinx the company they're using to design their MB chipsets?
Edit: Nope, never mind. It was ASMedia, but the 570 was mostly done in house with some ASMedia IP.
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10 hours ago, NotTheFirstDaniel said:
Checkm8 is a real exploit with real repercussions. This renders all iPhones 4s-X and all Macs since 2018 completely vulnerable, and it's not like a "theoretical" thing like Spectre, for instance if someone steals your iPhone 7 or something and you iCloud lock it, they can unlock it and sell it. Checkm8 goes past all in place security measures since it's chip level.
So yes, this is a big deal, and hopefully this goes mainstream so people will 2nd guess buying used iPhones on craigslist.
Sure, but in this instance it doesn't really do much since it's not persistent and you still wouldn't have access to encrypted files.
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I guess the boost clocks aren't impossible... RDNA 2 PS5 clocks are 2.23GHz, so it's conceivable they might be able to push them higher.
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On 9/15/2020 at 1:43 PM, Kisai said:
Well I can think of some long-term problems.
1 - Fire. If something fails and explodes, and takes out the entire unit. Can probably be solved by not having the unit filled with O2 but something else that doesn't burn.
2 - Damage from shipping (eg anchors), or communications lines being severed. You can't just send someone down there to fix it, you have to retrieve the entire whole thing.
3 - Theft, nothing really stopping someone from just hauling it up and running off with it.
4 - Must be maintained at large expense , just how long do you think one of those containers will last before it corrodes straight through?
Advantages
1 - More secure from law enforcement and criminals wanting to sabotage individual machines.
2 - Likely lower cost of operating if it can be tied to tidal power.
3 - Lower failure rate of hardware if appropriate hardware is selected from the beginning. 5 years is not really a long time in terms of data center life. 15 years is more of a typical time, as hardware is typically never retired until no longer bootable, and the thing that fails with servers the most is the hard drive, and SSD's are nowhere near as reliable as HDD's given the same length of time. Presumably this can be solved by having two spare drives in each server for each SSD in case there are premature failures.
So all of your long-term problems are moot...
- They're filled with an inert gas, Nitrogen which helps with longevity and will previous fires
- They're not deployed in shipping channels, but there is a small potential for smaller craft and fishermen to cause damage however depending on the local authorities these are usually marked as no-go zones. Similar to where fiber and power cables make land.
- True, but you'd need some very expensive and specialised equipment to do so. Also you'd know pretty quickly once someone unplugged your sever, certainly enough time to get someone to respond to site before they'd made away with your container.
- You don't maintain them.... You drop them in the ocean and pull them up a few years later. Any failures that occur are accounted for and compensated for in software I guess? Or there is more redundancy? Also most hardware is replaced regularly anyway, so you'd pull the container up, slide in the new racks and cables, and put the container back down. Corrosion wouldn't be an issue, it would take decades for corrosion to do enough damage.
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11 hours ago, Mateyyy said:
They better ditch the SUPER branding
I prefer the super branding. It's clearer for consumers.
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So according to the contents of Apple's clapback, Tim sent the following e-mail before updating the Google Playstore and App Store apps to include direct payment methods.
Also can we appreciate for a second that Tim Sweeney has 0 skills in contract management and that he signed off an e-mail to Apple C-Suite with ""... Apple is not willing to make changes necessary to allow us to provide android customers..."
Souce: https://twitter.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1296918541627793411/photo/1
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7 minutes ago, mr moose said:
No, I expect modern tech with last decades quality. I don't like that people are accepting what is clearly a reduced quality in product across the industry while be asked to pay more.
Quality is not the word you want to use, quality to you means reliability and durability. To me it means higher resolution, better contrast ratios, peak brightness, darker blacks, full array back lighting, and refresh rates.
So I would argue that quality has improved over the years even though the durability has decreased. Reliability IMO has also improved as early touch screens were finicky and had a tendency to work intermittently.
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2 minutes ago, mr moose said:
So without the protectors the phone would have need new screens. shouldn't have to buy protection, the device should be built better like they used to be.
I can't blame the phone or maker for that.
Agreed, but equally if someone was going to offer me the indestructible crappy touch screens from 2003 or a modern phone that I need to spend $20 on a protector for, I'd take today's phones all-day every-day.
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6 minutes ago, mr moose said:
lucky is all i can say. I've seen more broken screens in the last 5 years than I have over the entirety of smart phone history (2003).
We all use glass screen protectors of which we've broken plenty, but the only screen that got destroyed was my brother's when he ran over it with a tractor.
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2 hours ago, mr moose said:
Does any modern phone even last 3 generations anymore?
iPhone...
- Mum 6S+ - History: 3GS
- Dad 7+ - History: 6, 4+, 3GS
- Brother 7+ - History: 4+
- Partner X
- Me Xr - History: X, 7+, 6
Not an iPhone, but I still daily drive an iPad Pro 1st gen
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34 minutes ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:
But that negitivly effects users. Apple is in a bad possition, and a worse one if they decide to remove all unreal engine games.
So what you’re wanting is to have Apple shoulder the cost of curating the App Store, payment processing, hosting and distribution, and development?
I’m having trouble following your train of thought. You want a free market place to do what you want, don’t want the end user negatively effected, and want Apple’s App Store to remain profitable but you’re not suggesting how they do so?
What if they made every App Store download cost $10 as a one-off fixed fee, would that work?
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1 minute ago, TheTechWizardThatNeedsHelp said:
But thats the problem. You should just be able to get a account in app, like as in android, though like @mr moose said, android is not a saint here.
You can, Apple isn't preventing you from doing so. Apple will just take a 30% cut. Crunchyroll offer this option as a premium over subscribing through their website to cover some of the cost.
M1 Macs Reviewed
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The latest 16" MBPs all benched fine for thermals and the Mac Pro is mint. No idea what the dude you're responding to is on about.
Also it's well known that part of the reason for the M1 is because Intel has consistently under delivered on their roadmap, so it's entirely possible that part of the reason for the underwhelming thermal performance in previous generation Macs is at least partially because they were designed for a more efficient chip that never arrived in time for the launch.