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Compared: New Apple Silicon Mac mini versus Intel Mac Mini
cloudguy said:"Now the RAM is what Apple calls unified memory ..."
Unified memory was invented and named by Nvidia - back in 2013 - and is a widely known and used technology. So their options for calling it something else were a bit constrained. -
Apple scrutinized for 'Find My' restrictions placed on third-party developers
DAalseth said:bageljoey said:I have reasonable confidence that Apple isn’t going to use the information for tracking me—not because I’m a wide eyed sheeple, but because Apple makes their money from selling premium hardware and increasingly by selling associated services. Loss of user trust would cost them tremendously.
Poof all of your credibility is gone. -
How Apple Pay beat the odds because of great design
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Kuo: Both iPhone 16 Pro models will use tetraprism camera in 2024
charlesn said:Even after a lifetime of of photography as a prosumer hobby to the point of having a home color darkroom, I'm finding it hard to understand what's going on with lenses in Apple's latest Pro cameras. I assumed, for example, that the new Pro Max tetraprism lens was handling the optical zoom range not available in the regular Pro: 3.1x to 5x. Nope! A professional camera review of the lens that I read this weekend noted that the new lens only does 5x. Everything from 3.1x to 4.9x is handled on the main camera sensor. Which means what, exactly? A crop? Apple isn't helping things by claiming that its three lens set-up is actually seven lenses. A true zoom lens covers all of the focal lengths within its range optically and uses the full sensor size within the camera regardless of the focal length you're using. In theory, the 3 lenses in the new Pro Max set up can cover all focal lengths from 13mm to 120mm. But how much of that range is achieved through the use of true zoom optics and how much is achieved through cropping of the full image on the sensor? To go back to my earlier example: how is the main camera handling 3.1x to 4.9x if not by cropping, since the main camera does not have that optical range?
When shooting FHD (1920x1080, 2 MP) video on a 48 MP sensor, the lossless digital zoom actually yields more information up to twice the focal length. Sensor zoom is used from 3.1x - 5x and again from 5.1x - 10x or 12x, and digital zoom beyond that.
Of course, the range for sensor zoom is less for UHD video and none for 12 MP photos shot on the 120 mm camera's 12 MP sensor. But shooting 24 MP photos on the wide camera's 48 MP sensor yields lossless sensor zooming up to 4x. I think the bad spot is shooting photos between 4.1x - 5x as it's just cropping and enhancing the 4x photo until 4.9x. Even in that range, with sufficient light, the upscaling is slight enough that pixelation will be minimal in the final result.
Feel free to correct anything I said. -
Apple AirTag anti-stalking features aren't working in a lot of cases
crowley said:Kill the product, own it as a mistake, and work with Google on a solution to digital stalking that works across both platforms for as many tracking devices as possible.
Can't believe Apple were so stupid as to think this was a path worth walking.
Unless you're trolling, I don't understand your logic. Why kill a successful product because it's abused by only a fraction of a fraction of users? -
Are the iPhone 13 differences that noticeable?
AppleInsider said:The cameras largely remain the same 12MP wide and 12MP ultra-wide cameras as the iPhone 12.
A minor, but beneficial change, is that Apple has upgraded image stabilization. It's gone from optical image stabilization to sensor-shift image stabilization. This moves the sensor itself rather than the lens and results in sharper images. But most people won't notice this -- it's an incremental step up.
So even the cute little iPhone 13 mini has the best smart phone camera on the planet, by a wide margin. -
'Captain America' star Chris Evans misses the Home Button, says new iPhones too heavy
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Linux for Apple Silicon adds first conformant M1 GPU driver
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Unity's self-sabotage with pricing will be a long-term problem for Apple
Damn, this is THE legendary Peter Cohen on Apple Insider! I've been reading the rumor sites since they started decades ago. From MacOSRumors to AppleInsider. I also used to read David's articles on MacCentral and MacWorld (still haven't gotten around to deleting my MacCentral bookmark).
Back in '98, the founders of MacOSRumors and AppleInsider and I used to be in the #Macintosh IRC channel and all met up at one of the MacWorld parties in San Francisco.
Never did I expect AppleInsider to grow its reputation to the point of attracting established journalists. -
Apple iPad Pro vs. Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 - compared