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  • MacBook Air with M1 chip outperforms 16-inch MacBook Pro in benchmark testing

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    cloudguy said:

    Huh? Samsung released a $999 fanless Chromebook with an Intel i5 CPU (in Linux mode a great development and otherwise productivity device, and oh yeah is quite good for Linux apps and PWAs too), 2-in-1 design, AMOLED 13' 4K touchscreen with built-in stylus way back in April. The Google Pixelbook is a fanless device with configurations that include an Intel i7 CPU,13' 4K screen and a 16 GB of RAM that was released way back in 2018. (The Pixelbook 2 was delayed to 2021 so that it will have Whitechapel - the SOC jointly designed by Google and Samsung and manufactured by Samsung for smartphones and Chromebooks - instead of a 10th gen Intel CPU in it.) Who cares about ChromeOS? You should as it surpassed macOS in market share this year - and it surpassed MacBooks in market share years ago - and as these devices are going to start featuring much better AMD, Intel and ARM CPUs starting in 2021 due to Google and its various OEMs promoting them as development and productivity devices, it is going to increase. Google in particular is already positioning Chromebooks to replace MacBooks that will no longer be able to virtualize Windows among enterprise companies and has already attracted their first (small) batch of buyers.

    But as for right now, there are already plenty of fanless Windows 10 - and I mean real Windows, not Windows on ARM that tries and fails to emulate x86! - laptops out there. Consider the Acer Switch 7: 16 GB of RAM and Intel i7 processor. There are also a couple of Dell XPS fanless laptops and a couple of Asus ones in addition to more Acer ones.

    Get this: folks are kicking around the idea that the new Intel Tiger Lake CPUs with integrated Iris XE graphics will allow fanless gaming laptops to become a thing (because Tiger Lake is Intel's low heat/low power design and Iris XE GPU - which is integrated in all Tiger Lake Core i5 and higher chips - is supposed to provide gaming performance on the caliber of the Nvidia MX350).

    So seriously, you guys need to pay attention to the wider tech world more. If you are thinking that Apple Silicon is going to result in these magical devices that the rest of the tech world can't comprehend let alone compete with that is going to result in Apple quadrupling or more its market share and influence, prepare to be sadly mistaken. The tech media might not know this - as Apple devices are all that they use and as a result truly cover - but actual consumers do. 
    This had clearly gone completely over your head hasn’t it?

    Apple was the first years ago to pioneer a fabless laptop in the 12” MacBook. But being based on Intel it had mediocre performance because it only had passive cooling.

    The difference is this MacBook Air is not only fanless but still outperforms those Windows laptops that have fans, that is the difference of a modern chip design.

    As for ChromeOS, well I’ve yet to even see one in real life. But then I only work in the IT Dept of a technology company...
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  • TV versus Monitor: The pros and cons of using each with your Mac

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    You’re forgetting that I’m many countries, you have to pay an annual license fee to the government to own and use a tv…
    I dumped using a tv years ago. I have a Phillips 40” 4K monitor which is excellent for working from home and is pretty good for watching movies etc on. And in the 7 years I’ve been using it, the saving in tv license fees more than covered the original purchase.
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  • Apple's AirTag uncovers a secret German intelligence agency

    seanjseanj
    A busybody discovers that a democratic nation has an intelligence agency to protect it. I’d suggest any democracy lacking one would be incompetently complacent, and probably non-existent too. 
    Only paranoid conspiracy theorists freak out over this kind of thing.
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  • MacBook Air with M1 chip outperforms 16-inch MacBook Pro in benchmark testing

    seanjseanj
    cloudguy said:
    We have always known that this was possible, as modern (meaning a ARM Holdings design base and not the Sun Sparc and other early RISC servers that go back to the 1980s)
    WRONG AGAIN.

    The ARM design, just like the other RISC systems you deride, also dates back to the 1980’s. I saw a demo of the very first desktop that used an ARM chip, the Acorn Archimedes, in a consultancy in Cambridge, U.K. - where it was developed - in 1989. Even then, it blew away everything else on the market.
    Sadly it’s technical and performance brilliance want enough to withstand the WinTel monopoly stream roller.
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  • Apple design chief Jony Ive to depart later this year, create new studio with Apple as cli...

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    It’s understandable, this allows Ive to design products for a greater range of markets, not just technology. Perhaps designing the stores and Apple Park whet his appetite to design more than just technology gadgets.
    Looking forward to seeing what cool products he designs outside of Apple, though relieved he’ll still be consulting for them.
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  • Huawei may be open to selling its 5G modem, but only to Apple

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    hentaiboy said:
    Now with embedded spy chip!

    NO THANKS.
    Lol... while the world is absolutely suspect of Huawei’s credibility In the security realm ... they want to sell to the The Biggest Ani-Huawei brand, Apple ...lol
    The Brits are happy enough to use Huawei.

    https://www.reuters.com/article/us-huawei-europe-britain/britain-managing-huawei-risks-has-no-evidence-of-spying-official-idUSKCN1Q91PM
    I’d say that is a simplification. 🇬🇧
    The Huawei that was in EE’s 4G network is being replaced and GCHQ experts in the last few days have said their are huge security issues just down to the really poor standard of coding in Huawei’s devices. (GCHQ have a unit that scrutinises all of Huawei’s firmware.)
    Huawei have even admitted to this and have promised an improvement programme.
    Given the other members of the Five Eyes alliance have banned Huawei from 5G networks, I’m pretty sure the U.K. will do the same.
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  • Apple's ad agency recommends a stop to Twitter campaigns

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    9secondkox2 said:
    So now that Twitter is finally being taken seriously, NOW Apple wants out? These advertisers should be ashamed. Nothing but a political shove. 

    They can't take about trust and safety while trying to boycott Twitter to ensure it gets hurt. As if their tactic isn't blatantly ovious.
    Only an idiot would ever take Twatter seriously.
    It’s always had a low user-base and failed to grow like other social media networks. But because of its design, is ideal for unhinged rants, which is why it gets a disproportionate amount of media coverage.

    These companies don’t want to ‘hurt’ Twitter. They don’t give a monkey’s about Twitter, they are simply concerned about their brand value. All companies number 1 concern is to keep their shareholders happy, otherwise the leadership can be ousted by the shareholders.
    Being associated with neo-fascists of either the extreme right wing or extreme left wing of politics is bad for business as most people are somewhere in the centre. 
    Musk is correct, free speech is an important right, but with rights comes responsibilities. The fear is that Musk is going to allow nut jobs back on the platform who don’t take responsibility for the things they say.
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  • Why Apple's Macs can now ditch Intel x86 and shift to ARM

    seanjseanj
    “the ARM architecture which was originally designed for mobile devices”

    Err no. The ARM architecture, or using its original name the “Acorn RISC Machine” architecture was developed in the very later ‘80’s for desktop machines - the Acorn Archimedes was the most advanced desktop in the world when it launched.
    Sadly PC domination had begun.

    the main thrust of this article is correct, Apple has suffered in the past from being let down by the development efforts of suppliers, and is now focussed on total independence and vertical integration.
    But it won’t switch until it can replace every Intel processor across its entire range of machines; including the insane multi cores than appear in the new Mac Pro. So while Apple could slip A series chips into Airs right now, it’s range of processing power isn’t sufficient to equip a Mac Pro... yet. But give them time, I would expect an Apple switch completely dumping Intel in 5 to 7 years.

    (Assuming of course, they don’t buy Intel with their spare change!)
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  • Windows on Apple Silicon is up to Microsoft, says Craig Federighi

    seanjseanj
    Old timer that I am, I remember the days before the WinTel duopoly dominated the computer industry. We had machines running 68000, ARM, SPARC, Alpha, etc, and a consequence we had year on year real innovation and advances; the completion that the free market promotes. 
    Whereas we’ve seen stagnation with Intel’s CISC x86 architecture for over a decade, a fact that Apple recognised. The irony of course is that things have come full circle as Apple was one of the original investors in ARM back in the late 1980’s.
    Hopefully exciting days ahead!
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  • Inside Apple Covent Garden -- London's welcoming store that's bigger on the inside

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    As I recall, back to the 90’s, the nightclub was in the basement. The venue also used to house the workshop where satirical tv show “Spitting Image” made its puppets.

    As for the Swatch store, it often has stocks of the bioceramic Omega/Swatch Moonswatch which is not available to buy online.
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