jeromec

Used it twice in Beijing, China in the last few months (each a time the 5GB/30 days plan).
1300 (no typo) less expensive than roaming with my French operator.
Worked great.
Furthermore, no chinese firewall, plus, I was identified as connected from the US (it probably assigned me a US IP).

This has been going on for a few weeks now, first with episodes 6, now with the whole series (all but Dickinson)

The episodes are actually in Dolby Vision (which you can check with the Playback HUD, which you can activate via Xcode), but make my Dolby Vision TV switch to HDR.
If I disable "Match Dynamic Range" they play beautifully in Dolby Vision, just as they should.

I read somewhere that some older Dolby Vision TVs had big issues when playing these Apple TV+ shows - that might be why Apple forced the shows ro display in HDR10 instead of Dolby Vision via Apple TV 4K.

The shows still appear as Dolby Vision on my iPad mini.

I have had serious overheating issues with iOS 17 betas on an iPhone XS Max.
They do not seem to have totally gone away with the release version of iOS 17.

So IMHO it might be more of on iOS 17 problem than an iPhone 17 Pro/ A17 Pro problem.

Thx.
It would be nice to change the title from "Intel has a faster processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?" to "Intel has a faster laptop processor than M2 Max, but at what cost?"
Intel also makes processor for desktops ...and servers. I have no doubt that many of them are faster than M2 Max.

I do question the relevance of the benchmarks, in particular regarding the optimization (or lack thereof) of apps for Apple Silicon, and in particular the use or not of dedicated silicon on Apple Silicon.
Apple Silicon has many dedicated units (such as the neural engine, ProRes or HEVC encoders/decoders) and optimization for those is not just a question of compling for Apple Silicon.

For example, I am pretty sure that Final Cut Pro is way faster than Premiere Pro on Apple Silicon, because it uses the dedicated ProRes/HEVC encoders/decoders on Apple's chips.
Similarly, I only use Apple Compressor for HEVC exports - it uses VideoToolbox and all the available silicon and that makes a big difference.

So, adding a comparison with similar tasks made on Apple software (or software used with all Apple Silicon optimizations) would add a lot of context to these benchmarks.
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I have to disagree about Ted Lasso - it is a phenomenal show!
You have to go through the first 3 episodes which rely mainly on the differences between American football and soccer. 

Unrelated question: when will Appleinsider's commenting system work properly with Safari on iPad or iPhone ?

Crow2 said:

jeromec said:

Comparing only CPU performance does not make a lot of sense.
M1 Pro and M1 Max have the exact same CPU performance (unless the entry level M1 Pro with 2 disabled cores).
Same for M2 Pro and M2 Max.

...and yet every user/reviewer says that the Max versions are way faster than the Pro versions.

So saying that a M2 Pro Mac mini is faster than a M1 Max Mac Studio on the basis of CPU performance only is not serious at all.

Do you think cores are a measure of performance?  M1 cores and M2 cores are not the same.

They are not the same. M2 cores are better than M1 cores.
But M1 Pro and M1 Max have the exact same performance.
And M2 Pro and M2 Max have the exact same performance.

GeekBench has a Compute benchmark to compare GPU performance.
In GeekBench 5 Compute Metal, the best score (manual search) for a Mac mini M2 Pro (Mac14,12) is 52933,
the best score for a Mac Studio M1 Max (Mac13,1) is 71492, which is 35% faster.

9secondkox2 said:

Good article. 

Also, in my experience in a variety of use cases, even great TV sets seem to have a vastly inferior aliasing setup for the finer details such as text and fine lines, such as window edges. 

That is probably because the default chroma subsampling for TVs is 4:2:2 or 4:2:°, which means that chrominance data is at half the luminance resolution horizontally and/or vertically.
This is fine for video sources (even 4K Blu-Rays are encoded in 4:2:0, which means that chrominance is only encoded in 1920x1080, as luminance is encoded in full 3840x2160) ...but is terrible for text, which appears blurry.
That is why TVs usually have a PC mode which sets chrominance subsampling to 4:4:4 (no subsampling).

This setting can be hidden- for example on LG TVs you need to change the icon for the input(!) to the PC icon in order to engage PC mode and its 4:4:4 subsampling.

From the relase notes, what is new is the ability to set up recurring automations via voice.
Like "Hey Siri, close the living room blinds at 5:30pm every day"