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Looks like communist EU has succeeded

I mean iMessage partially works on Windows 11's Phone Link app and it's greenlit by Apple but I doubt they'll keep this any longer. At work most of us use iPhones but we use Teams and Signal, at home we mostly use Whatsapp and both my parents use Samsung phones so the issue of green bubbles being second class citizens is a pathetic US-only issue.

so long and good night

20 minutes ago, Obioban said:

The moment using webkit isn't required, Google can force anyone that wants to use their apps (has to be 90%+ of the world population) to get a Chromium powered browser.

I think that would be much harder to do since web standards are meant to be "open". The only reason I can think of is due to web browsers with their own rendering engines differing which HTML standards they support. This is why I can use Google services on any browser despite Google's warnings that Gmail works better in Chrome, or as to why LTT won't load properly on internet explorer since it's an outdated browser with lackluster HTML standard support even back when it's still supported. Not to mention the fact that Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Mozilla are members of W3C and WHATWG.

On 11/12/2023 at 2:12 AM, darknessblade said:

Why does apple even think they have a Fighting chance to persuade the EU on reversing their decision of barring apple from "forcing" users to use Imessage over alternatives? 

They can easily remove iMessage and FaceTime in EU iPhones and iPads. I mean that's Apple's response when British legislators demanded encryption backdoors.

4 hours ago, HenrySalayne said:

Excellent advice! Before Apple loses 1 or 2 % profit margin, they rather pull out of Europe and just leave their 95 billion USD revenue for their competitors. That will show them!

Knowing the strong cult following of Apple, people will simply buy from the US and have it shipped to their EU address. I mean that's what happened with the first iPhone and with the iPhone 3G.

If you have Windows 10/11 Pro, you can temporarily increase the detection sensitivity using GPO but at the expense of potential false positives. [configure block at first sight] [attack surface reduction]

Netgear is garbage. Ubiquiti is better.

The only reason I think off as to why the base 14" Pro has a paltry 8GB of memory is to push people to buy the 18GB version. But I disagree with Techcrunch's review. The 14" Pro with M3 is a better buy compared to a specced out M2 Air 15"

• More I/O (HDMI and SD card slot)
• Better sustained performance thanks to active cooling of the M3 Pro 14"
• Has Pro Motion display
• Better speakers

But I agree with the RAM criticism. Since Apple made up a weird configuration anyway they might as well shipped the base models with 12GB RAM. Not sure if there are companies that makes 6GB LPDDR5 modules.

Looks like the embargo has been lifted. My YT recommendations are being saturated by M3 Mac reviews.

54 minutes ago, Obioban said:

M3 Ultra is going to be no joke... but imagine if they actually are able to pull off the quad this cycle.

The ultra line remains as two max chips linked together with a 2.5TB/s low latency interposer (or as Intel calls it their version an embedded multi-die interconnect bridge/EMIB). The rumors of a quad chip started way back since the M1 ultra. But some leakers say that the reason Apple didn't do a quad chip for the Mac Pro is apparently that simply adding more chips didn't scale the performance and power consumption to what Apple wants, maybe they're trying to achieve a similar performance as a 4th gen EPYC but at 1/2 of the power but Apple can't deliver so they probably said "fuck it" and put an M2 Ultra on a Mac Pro.

So yeah the Mac Studio basically killed the Mac Pro. In essence, the Mac Studio is what the the 2013 trash can should've been.

i9-13900KS remains slightly faster than the M3 Max in both single and multi-threaded tasks but at the expense of 150W, the M3 Max is almost as fast as the i9 but at around 30-45W TDP.

Meanwhile, this is the Snapdragon X Elite SKU they used to compare against the M2 Max. So yeah at the moment, the M3 Max remains as the fastest consumer ARM chip...at the moment.

1 minute ago, saltycaramel said:

We'll know more about it (in the form of shiny marketing speak) come next spring.

They're probably still gonna call it "Super Retina XDR" even if it's an OLED Mac/iPad because that's what Apple's been calling the OLED on the Pro iPhones

20 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Like I mentioned OLEDs in 2023 aren't the same as 2016, people acted the same way about NAND wear for example. People still do even.

I think that OEMs do to mitigate the issue of retention and burn in is by shifting the pixels. But tbh I'm not yet confident on an OLED laptop not having display problems in a few years especially the macOS dock or Windows taskbar being always there compared that to a phone that has full screen apps where in the content changes everytime.

49 minutes ago, leadeater said:

But really really I'd wait for ASUS Zenbook 14X OLED Ryzen 7000 update, currently only Ryzen 6000 if you want AMD and the way better battery life.

Good thing that Lenovo is already using R7000 in their laptops

15 minutes ago, saltycaramel said:

Nice table with every (M-series) Apple Silicon chip 

 

https://x.com/remo_pr0/status/1719266477348470993?s=46&t=uhBUIuZsslNKMlHtFg23AQ

 

The M3 family currently comprises a total of 7 “SKUs”, could easily pass 10 once the M3 Ultra is unveiled.

 

That’s some binning.

Interesting. Apple reduced the E core count on the M3 Pro by 1. I'm guessing the yields on the TSMC N3B remains low so yay for crazy core counts. Judging from TSMC's page it looks like the iPhone 16 Pros and Q4 2024 Macs will have the tock process/3 nm+/N3E and N3P which will provide significant performance and efficiency gains.

Apple seems to have listened to the complaints of slower SSD speeds (though still remarkably faster than SATA SSDs) by putting two NAND flash on RAID0 on the base 14" Pro M3. The M3 SKU of the 14" will only have a single fan which is fine perhaps because it has less performance cores and lower clock speeds than the Pro and Max.

2 minutes ago, thechinchinsong said:

Also interested to see how the XElite chips compare, but I'm not holding my breath too much. At most they have similar perf/watt and perf in general, but Apple's software is still ahead. At worst we get repeat of Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 and anemic windows on ARM.

Even if Qualcomm manages to make a chip on par with Apple's, the major obstacle would be Windows itself and developers. Windows itself is bloated because it cannot let go of legacy stuff that enterprises uses unless they want a major outcry from PCMR cavemen to businesses. 32-bit applications for instance are still supported in Windows 11. Also, will devs both big and small be willing to do the work in porting their programs into ARM64 instructions.

Apple on the other hand can easily change their OS without major outcry. Is there anyone who complained when Apple axed 32-bit on Macs? I bet Apple could make the upcoming 2024 macOS an ARM exclusive and not a lot of people would raise a stink about it. I think the 1st gen PCs with Snapdragon XElite would become a hard sell because it'll probably be priced more than their Intel/AMD counterparts.

3 hours ago, saltycaramel said:

The base memory for the M3 is still 8GB. (but part of it is now used more efficiently by the GPU thanks to dynamic caching I guess? Silver linings..)

 

Keyboard/Mouse/Trackpad for the iMac are still Lightning.

 

Base RAM for the M3 Pro went from 16GB to 18GB. (double that for the Max)

I'm guessing the reason as to why Apple axed the 13" Pro in favor of the 14" Pro with the M2 chip is because of probably sales figures. The 13" Pro still uses a 720p webcam and still has the touch bar but doesn't offer more I/O. It's very likely that the base 14" Pro M1 Pro/M2 Pro sold well because it has 16GB/512GB, bigger brighter screen than the Air and has a full size SD card, HDMI port, and three TB ports not to mention Pro Motion.

This will make the 15" Air a tough sell even if it gets an M3 update. 15" Air (8GB/512GB) is also $1500 but it only has an LCD display, and two TB ports. Compare that to a 14" Pro (M3 chip, 8GG/512GB), Pro Motion display, two TB ports, HDMI, and full size SD card slot so one less dongle to carry.

So it's an "Apple MFi certification" but Xbox style

3 minutes ago, saltycaramel said:

The base memory for the M3 is still 8GB. (but part of it is now used more efficiently by the GPU thanks to dynamic caching I guess? Silver linings..)

Was hoping the rumors were true which said that the base M3 Macs would start with 12GB ram

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Bummer that the MacBook Air didn't got the M3 update. So I'm guessing they're going to kill the 13" MacBook Pro this time since the 14" will now start with the vanilla M3.

Edit: Yep the 13" Pro is gone

24" iMac is just a chip swap

14" MacBook Pro now starts with the M3, not M3 Pro, all chips of the M3 fam supports ray tracing

5 minutes ago, hishnash said:

They are going fast, directly into it all at once... M3, M3 pro and M3 Max! 

M3 fam now supports AV1 too

On 10/29/2023 at 3:59 AM, starsmine said:

apple was mad at Intel not improving power yes… because Intel was stuck at 14nm for far longer then expected, not because of the ISA.

Not just that. An ex-Intel engineer once said one of the reasons why Apple ditched Intel aside from the failure to shrink transistor size are the bugs that Apple engineers are finding

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ex-intel-engineer-apple-turned-away-from-intel-over-skylake-cpu-bugs/