Belgarathian

Reading Anandtech's opening remarks it looks like it's something to do with Apple flexing it's engineering muscle on their custom SSD controller design within the T2 enabling 8TB of storage. Other manufacturers have to deal with RAID and 3rd party controllers. Re T2 encryption concerns, they could add it as part of the beautiful setup experience the first time you open your Macbook, and if you choose 'No' you could also have a setting to encrypt your drive later on under 'Privacy' in settings.

If that was indeed recorded using the microphone on the MBP colour me impressed! Definitely contemplating buying the entry 16" MBP as my next laptop... Spec wise it ticks all my boxes. Last MBP upgrade was the late 2015.

$5 this is the replacement Anthony has been waiting for

I wonder if how the scores are calculated differs significantly between your country and mine as mine is 974. Maybe I have more debt.

Well yes, but my understanding is that there is data to support that men are higher risk hence higher premiums. The data surrounding the investigation seems to be that only gender is significantly different, particularly when it comes to credit scores, income, etc as they were all join applications with shared accounts.

Zen 3 2020... Oh boy, here we go.

The auto ban hammer strikes again.

Yeah, D2 LOD was great... D3 was disapointing on release but pretty good 2+ years later after they broke a ton of promises and missed deadlines. Replay-ability was pretty average though with most content driven by seasons and was a massive boring grind-fest.

Pro Duo...

How did this even happen.... *puts prosecutor on the stand* AMD: Does the CPU have 8 compute cores? Prosecutor: Yes, but... AMD: No more questions your honor. I'm not a lawyer. EDIT: We should sue all OEM computer manufacturers for advertising dual core CPUS in the early 2000's as 4GHz when they were 2GHz and also for listing the R295X2 as 8GB VRAM when only 4GB was usable when gaming. And Microsoft for Windows 8.

BRB, investing my life savings in AMD.

Did you guys see their Mini Dune Case? These guys are so getting sued. https://www.dunecase.com/dunecase/

Seems kinda cheap now, dunnit? https://www.apple.com/nz/pro-display-xdr/

Don't know why the NSA is complaining about not being able to access devices of terrorists. Have they even tried Admin/Admin?

Possibly, but he does praise them from time to time and his business repairs MacBooks…. So it would be almost idiotic if he didn't.

I get the feeling you're not a fan of Mercedes.... ?

Welcome to team red... For that kind of money you're probably looking at the Ryzen 5 3600 (X) and either a 5700 XT or 2060 Super. In productivity, AMD reigns king at every price point (I'm pretty sure?) and for gaming only the i7-9700k and i9-9900k win by a small margin, but get stomped in productivity tasks. Given your budget constraints, I would think AMD is going to offer superior productivity performance with equivalent gaming performance. If you go for a 5700 XT you could maybe stretch a Ryzen 3700X or 3800X. Basically: - Ryzen 3600 (X) / 3700X - Radeon 5700 XT - 32GB DDR4 3200Mhz RAM Then with remaining budget be wise about your storage, PSU, case, etc.

Intel still holds single thread performance in some applications by a small margin, but also their L3 is faster so for some applications they may be faster particularly where latency rather than simple raw power is important. Mem Hierarchy >AMD EPYC 7742 >DDR4-3200 AMD EPYC 7601 DDR4-2400 Intel Xeon S DDR4-2666 Intel Xeon E5-2699v4 DDR4-2400 L1 Cache cycles 4 cycles 4 cycles 4 cycles 4 cycles L2 Cache cycles 12 cycles 12 cycles 14-22 cycles 12-15 cycles L3 Cache 2 MB 14 ns 14 ns 22 ns 21 ns 4 MB 14 ns 15 ns 24 ns 21 ns 8 MB 22 ns 44 ns 29 ns 21 ns 16-32 MB 73-132 ns 88-92 ns 29-37 ns 33-79 ns DRAM 384-512 MB 158-163 (nps = 4) 161-168 ns (worst) 96-98 ns 89-91 ns 95 ns

Today AMD has lifted the embargo (by the looks of things) on the Zen 2 EPYC chips and we're lucky enough that Anandtech has a deep dive on the MASSIVE, industry leading, 64 core chips. There's way too much to cover in a post here, but if you're interested take a look at the source link but I'll leave you here with this teaser for the SPEC CPU2006 estimates.. 2P SPEC CPU2006 Estimates Subtest Xeon 8176 EPYC 7601 EPYC 7742 EPYC 7742 Zen2 vs Zen1 EPYC 7742 Vs Xeon Cores 56C 64C 128C Frequency 2.8 G 2.7G 2.5-3.2G 2.5-3.2G GCC 7.4 7.4 7.4 8.3 7.4 7.4 400.perlbench 1980 2020 4680 4820 +132% +136% 401.bzip2 1120 1280 3220 3250 +152% +188% 403.gcc 1300 1400 3540 3540 +153% +172% 429.mcf 927 837 1540 1540 +84% +66% 445.gobmk 1500 1780 4160 4170 +134% +177% 456.hmmer 1580 1700 3320 6480 +95% +110% 458.sjeng 1570 1820 3860 3900 +112% +146% 462.libquantum 870 1060 1180 1180 +11% +36% 464.h264ref 2670 2680 6400 6400 +139% +140% 471.omnetpp 756 705 (*) 1520 1510 +116% +101% 473.astar 976 1080 1550 1550 +44% +59% 483.xalancbmk 1310 1240 2870 2870 +131% +119% BUT WAIT, WHAT ABOUT AVX-512? RIP. I'm truly excited to see what these are capable of in a deployed environment and it's encouraging to see the design wins that AMD has claimed in the last 1-2 years with their Zen architecture. It'll be interesting to see how many monolithic CPUs Intel can glue together to combat this. My favorite comment from AMD: Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14694/amd-rome-epyc-2nd-gen?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dlvr.it

It's not going to be cheap.

Am I the only one who saw this as a positive?

It would be interesting to see if encryption is killed, or if tech companies setup infrastructure to handle encrypted messaging outside of the US for the rest of the world. I'm almost willing to bet it'll be the latter.

Republicans in 2020: We're banning math. Math has indirectly caused the deaths of many Americans, maths is now illegal. Also republicans in 2020: Pres. Cheeto caught using encryption on private mail servers

Only 5950 XT... Oh well, can't wait for the 5970 and 5990 XTX

Navi 21 will have 4x PCIe 8pin connectors and come with a 360mm RAD and 6 fans in push-pull.