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  • Leaked M1 Ultra Mac Studio benchmarks prove it outclasses top Mac Pro

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    viclauyyc said:
    sflocal said:
    viclauyyc said:
    Well, it looks good on number in the presentation. But let’s not forget the Ultra is comparing with a 2 year old Xeon. 2 years is a lot in computer technology. Not to mention, arguably AMD’s Epyc is the fastest CPU in the PC world. 

    Let’s hope the future Mac Pro will be even faster with 4/8 sets of CPU. But it might cost $8000 on the entry model.
    Intel's offerings until just recently have remained stagnant on the Xeon side.  It's only right to compare it with Apple's current Mac Pro offerings, even though it's 2 years old.  It's still incredible how Apple has pushed the performance envelope in those two years where Intel was nowhere to be seen.

    While AMD's offerings is also impressive, when compared in terms of performance-per-watt, ASi outperforms them both.
    Honestly, I don’t understand why Apple is so emphasis on performance/watt. Sure save energy is good and less noise from fan. But no one really care if their $100000 sports car use much less gas than the next car. People care about how fast it can go and how it handle the corner, not gas/miles.
    Many reasons to be energy efficient. Apple is pushing and being pushed to be environmentally friendly. More efficient computers is less power, fan usage, and cooling needed. One computer isn’t significant, millions of computers are. More efficient computers allow longer run time on UPSs during a power outage. Solar is still expensive, so. Using less power, means less solar is needed. Think about racks of these computers. I’m warmed up behind a half rack of servers in a cold room. Power efficiency is a huge deal when dealing with a rack or more of computers. 
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  • Smart TV adoption outpacing streaming devices like Apple TV, Roku

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    Beats said:
    rob53 said:
    Every “smart” TV is android based so no thanks. My Sony has android built in and it’s a pain. Give me a monitor and let me decide what to connect to it. 

    Not even. A lot are WebOS, Roku, and a few other OSes.

    Fidonet127 said:
    This is really another Apple vs Android kind of thing. Market share is smart TVs, quality is Apple TV. Smart TVs are cheaper, bad UI, updates are questionable, often spy on you or are poor security, thus allowing others to spy on you. We love our Apple TV’s. 

    I want Apple to go all the way and release an A14 Apple TV or even an Apple Silicon based one. If Apple wants to stay relevant and deepen us into their ecosystem they need to start doing something with Apple TV.

    Also maybe Apple can have contracts with certain TV manufacturers to run tvOS with A-chip hardware because everything else is garbage.
    AppleTV has been using Apple silicon for a long time. 
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  • The bell is tolling for Intel Macs with the arrival of the first Apple Silicon specific fe...

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    omasou said:
    Once the M# chip(s) support dual monitors, I'm all in.
    Apple Silicon has always supported dual displays. With the Mini, it is two monitors, everything else, it is the built in display plus a monitor.
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  • Sleep apnea in, hypertension out for Apple Watch Series 10

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    kellie said:
    Apple is more interested in profits than helping their customers lead healthier lives. The licensing fee they would have to pay for O2 levels is a pittance in the overall scheme of finances at Apple. They got caught violating a patent and their ego is preventing them from admitting it which is preventing existing and future customers from the health benefits of monitoring O2 saturation. 
    A) the other company is large, why shouldn’t they just make the patents free to use to save lives?

    B) the other company’s CEO said Apple’s implementation was so flawed that it shouldn’t be used. If it was so flawed, then it wasn’t the same. 

    C) it is likely Apple was charged a large amount. That large amount isn’t coming from Apple. It will come out from consumers buying Apple devices. This means less people will buy these life saving devices. 
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  • Intel takes aim at Apple, instead shoots itself in the dongle

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    I hope it wakes the morons at Apple up.
    My 2020 Mac Book pro barely qualifies as pro.
    A "pro computer" that I need a dongle to hook up to an external projector, monitor or ethernet.
    A pro computer that ditched the brilliant mag safe power cable.
    A pro computer than no longer allows me to stick an SD card in it.
    A pro computer that requires a dongle to connect a USB A jump drive- the industry standard way of walking files.

    And- they gouge me on the price of RAM, Storage by 3 to 10x what everyone else charges.
    With no user replaceable parts- and barely serviceable.

    And that was my Intel machine.
    Now- my M1 MacMini- can't connect to my Drobo- which is a 72 TB paperweight.
    Gee - thanks Apple.
    You keep saying that your Drobo is a paperweight on several threads. Drobo says their Dashboard software is compatible with ASi Macs as of November. https://myproducts.drobo.com/retrieve/s3/knowledge/AA/New%20Mac%20M1.html

    Second, you can share your drive from your Intel Mac. 

    Third, if you have unusual hardware, always check to make sure it is compatible. 

    My ThunderBay is compatible. 
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  • TikTok monitors everything users type when using in-app browser

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    Remember this when you hear developers complain about not having their own App Store and full control. Things will get worse. 
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  • When will Apple upgrade all of its Macs to M4?

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    mjtomlin said:
    Apple’s gonna want to release some new Macs alongside the next version of macOS so Apple can put Apple Intelligence in front of some Mac users. I think we’ll see the desktops updated much sooner than people think; new mini and studio models will arrive this Fall. laptops in the Spring. iMac, new iMac Pro and Mac Pro at WWDC
    All Apple Silicon Macs can do Apple Intelligence. The only difference I have found so far, is Xcode requires 16gb ram for predictive text. 
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  • Sleep apnea in, hypertension out for Apple Watch Series 10

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    Other rumors say that Sleep Apnea will not be in because the blood oxygen sensing is banned still.
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  • Smart TV adoption outpacing streaming devices like Apple TV, Roku

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    This is really another Apple vs Android kind of thing. Market share is smart TVs, quality is Apple TV. Smart TVs are cheaper, bad UI, updates are questionable, often spy on you or are poor security, thus allowing others to spy on you. We love our Apple TV’s. 
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  • iPhone users still aren't rushing to buy the latest models

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    I don’t think Apple’s strategy is to get most users to upgrade every year. That puts a tremendous impact on the environment and I don’t think Apple is setup for that much manufacturing. Apple is setup to gain from people sticking around, buying services and when they are ready to upgrade, upgrade. The phones are built to last a bit, so why is it bad to Apple of users that people keep their phones for longer?
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