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  • New Apple Silicon has arrived with M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips

    skiwiskiwi
    “Dynamic cashing” must be a new form of retail therapy….
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    ”Dynamic caching” please…..
    williamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobrakillroy

  • iPad Pro hands on: Luxury technology in an impossibly-thin package

    skiwiskiwi
    One of the reasons for me to upgrade from an iPad Pro M1 would be the keyboard, but there is nothing in this review that shows the keyboard and explains how it is in practice when compared against the old Magic Keyboard. For example, the new function keys, how do they fit under the display - are they hard to reach? Are the keys the same size as the old keyboard? Is the trackpad bigger? Etc etc.
    dewmeAlex1NAnilu_777

  • Compared: New Apple Silicon Mac mini versus Intel Mac Mini

    skiwiskiwi
    k2kw said:
    beeble42 said:
    I'd like to see actual benchmark results, especially for graphics performance, including against a mac mini with an egpu with a reasonable card in it, like a vega64 or something. Saying the integrated graphics are 6 times faster than the previous intel one is fine, but that isn't a particularly high bar when you're removing any option of more powerful gpu technology which the previous one had. The new integrated gpu is competing (from a performance perspective) against the fastest gpu you could get in an egpu box that was supported by the previous model. I doubt the new model is actually faster than that, but it may well be fast enough to beat a moderate egpu setup, and without the expense, meaning a win for Apple. Or maybe it isn't and people will wait longer to upgrade until performance catches up to what they're leaving behind. Or switch platforms.
    Without the eGPU support this feels unfinished.   More like 0.8 version.   And why can’t they have 32 or 64 GB RAM .   Step backwards.   Are they trying for it to be no so successful.
    You're overthinking it.  And you are stuck with your ISA glasses on.  Unified memory is just a buzzword, but what it actually means is the the memory interface is not nearly as constrained as with the ISA, both in width and depth.  Ditto the GPU.

    This is a deeply impressive piece of silicon. Granted it's an 8th-generation design (since the 64 bit Cyclone), but the Firestorm microarchitecture is extremely impressive compared to those of AMD and Intel.  A few examples:
    1) 8-wide decode block (2x AMD, Intel a 1-4); 
    2) 192KB L1 cache (6x Intel , 3x AMD), with a 3-cycle latency (Intel 5-cycle, AMD, 4-cycle);
    3) Re-order Buffer; 600+ instructions (!!!) = Intel Sunny Cove 320, AMD Zen 3 - 256;
    4) 4x FADDs and 4x FMULs per cycle with 3 and 4 cycles latency. 4x Intel, 2x Zen 3.

    There is a bunch of other stuff that the tech sites are unpicking, but as I said, Apple would not BS the numbers, as they have WAY too much to lose.  I expect that you will find the opposite in actual fact, that the chip performers better than expected.  Yes, really.

    Note to the author of the article, you need to make clear that the M1 chip is NOT the same in the MBA as the Mini.  The use of the fan in the MBP and Mini speaks to a different implementation philosophy so you would expect that the M1 is engineered in the MBP and Mini to have higher wattage,     which means that the performance will be better on the cooled platforms.
    jdb8167philboogie

  • Canva's Affinity deal will shake the Adobe status quo

    skiwiskiwi
    Appleish said:

    Less than one hour of freelance time pays for the power and Dozens of apps/services I receive with my Creative Cloud subscription each month. 

    First prize for missing the point!

    The actual POINT being made is that the VAST majority of users are not “freelancers” charging fees, but casual users who, you know, LIKE photography ad graphic arts but most of whom earn FAR BETTER money doing other work, and so won’t swap careers….

    For those users susbscription pricing sucks. Big time.

    End of.
    pulseimagesramanpfaffmuthuk_vanalingambeowulfschmidtgatorguy

  • New York passes functionally toothless Right to Repair bill

    skiwiskiwi
    y2an said:
    … it has been watered down to effectively make it worthless for consumers.
    A wholly unjustified statement.
    Louis Rossmann seems to be stuck in the 70’s. A quick look at the mobo of an iPhone, iPad or Mac will tell you that it is practically impossible to replace any individual component short of a highly specialized operation with a flow-soldering  machine. Which is also ignoring the elephant in the room - how do you diagnose authoritatively to the individual component level? I’d wager Apple can’t do that. 
    baconstangwilliamlondonstrongy

  • Australian shoemaker business has been transformed by iPhone, says Apple

    skiwiskiwi
    R>M> Williams make boots that last your lifetime if you respect them, and probably even of you don’t. Each of my children got a pair when they got their first job. I’ve seen this technology at first hand and from a POS perspective it works well.
    mattinozwatto_cobra

  • 16-inch MacBook Pro M4 Max review: The pinnacle of the portable Mac

    skiwiskiwi
    I’d like to know about the battery life and also the “lugability” of the machine…..
    watto_cobra