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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

  • 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

  • 15-inch MacBook Air vs 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro -- compared

    skiwiskiwi
    Th article didn’t cover the main difference between the Air and the Pro as far as most users will be concerned - namely the connectivity to an external monitor. As far as I am aware, the new Air still has the limitation of limiting connection to a single external monitor, rather than the 2 or 3 allowed with the Pro’s.
    williamlondon

  • 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_vanalingambeowulfschmidt

  • 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

  • New York passes functionally toothless Right to Repair bill

    skiwiskiwi
    My rights start where yours end. Full stop
    Nope. Not even close.

    Please explain how component-level repair is supposed to work in a Mac, an iPhone, or an iPad? And how much would you expect to pay someone for this?

    I mean, your rights are all important, right?
    williamlondonstrongy

  • Apple's claims about M1 Mac speed 'shocking,' but 'extremely plausible'

    skiwiskiwi
    Rayz2016 said:
    rotateleftbyte said:
    red oak said:
    Fun seeing washed up “ consultants” out there trying to push back the sea of Apple Silicon performance that is going to wash over x86
    Some are saying that the M1 chip is not an Apple design at all and that they 'bought' it in. Oh well, it takes all sorts does it not?

    Well, if it makes them feel better about things then they can go right ahead believing that.

    Not really going to make any difference though is it?

    I guess what they could do is start GoFundMe campaign to raise money to pay someone to claim that they've been doing all Apple's chip design from their fold-down table in the dining room.
    The first true Apple design was the A4.  This is the 8th generation of 64 bit design. They have led the mobile SOC space since at least the a5, and the A7 (the first 64bit design) was years ahead of anyone else.

    This is all Apple, one of the giveaways is how secretive they are, and also how much they stress "SOC" performance - they are not building discrete CPUs as their competitors do (noting that AMD and Intel have no choice due to the constraints with the ISA), they are building SOC with as much specialisation and as much integration as they can.  
    cornchip