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JamesCude said:

It's a relic from another era. Mac Studio covers 98% of the use-cases and sorry but the remaining folks who "need" these really don't- they just need to update how they handle I/O and seek more efficient processing. 

Um no, Thunderbolt does not have enough bandwidth for 8K video it has to be done via PCI-E.

All the people panning these machines expected their idea of a workstation. This was never on the cards what was on the cards is what we got a very niche machine to host AVID HDX cards for ProTools and SDI video I/O cards for Resolve/Premier/Final Cut.

The Massimo board approved spinning Sound United back out again in April but there has been no more announcements about what that might look like.

9secondkox2 said:

Doesn't make sense. It's already server-grade packaging. Perhaps better than other server-grade packaging.

I can think of 3 reasons this would make sense:

1. If Apple is combining their silicon with third party chips from Nvidia or semthing. 

2. Alternatively, another way it could make sense is if Apple is looking to add more GPU cores to various iterations of its chips, without increasign CPU core counts. i.e. having multiple sets of max/Ultra chips - one set for laptops, one for Mac Studio, and another for Mac Pro.

or...

3. Appel could be redoing the way it tiers its chip lineup. CPU could be the same, but GPU would be different for each tier. 

Interesting to see how this develops. 

It’s much simpler than that, the top end chips Apple are currently producing are already at the reticle limit that is they are as large as you can go and still be a single chip.

To add more resources the only thing you can do is manufacture multiple chiplets each themselves at the reticle limit and package them together.

darkvader said:

It's already been shown that USB C will work in the older iPhones. 

Apple should get their act together.

The cost of retooling an old design for any variation is so great that it is not economically viable. Apple would just discontinue all lightning models when the mandate came in to force and only sell the iPhone 15. It would remain that way for a few years until a USB-C based shell gets in to a lower cost iPhone. The most likely thing being a retool of an existing design for a iPhone SE 4

sirdir said:

This was 100% clear from the beginning. An Appstore is not “sideloading”, who would have guessed . Now just the fees have to go. If you don’t use any of Apple‘s services, why would you pay them.

To pay for the development of the platform, you want fee free AppStore then you get to pay $1000 per seat for XCode. Why should Apple have to give it to you for free?

This is exactly how Visual Studio works for Windows if you don't fall in to the carve outs for the community edition then you pay.

It’s an almost certainty it couldn’t be open sourced code bases this age tend to have all sorts of copyright issues and rights holders involved and it can be next to impossible track down all the right holders and to get the license changes needed. There are two relatively successful instances I know of which are Blender and Staroffice (which became open/libreoffice) I can’t think of any other successes.

For similar reasons it may be impossible to release a ‘sunset’ edition it’s very probable that they have third party licensed code or libraries which require periodic fees.

It’s very stupid but copyright law can make it prohibitively expensive or far too hard to allow software like Finale to continue vs forcing a hard end date.

libertyandfree said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

DAalseth said:

China is NOT the only place on earth that has rare earth elements. Large deposits are in Canada, the US, Australia, and elsewhere. It’s just that China was the cheapest place to get them so the other sources have not been developed. It will take time to get the operations going, but the process was started during the first Trump term. 

This is mostly addressed in the article. The folks we've spoken to about it say that spinning up rare earths in the US will take at least another five years, if at all.

Just another great reason to get some of this critical production out of China who is not a friend of the US or the West.  China imposing these restrictions will accelerate the development in other geographic regions to produce these rare earths, and that’s a good thing. 

You don’t appear to understand that what is being done means there is a good chance there will not be a US economy left to consume the materials regardless of source. It is economic vandalism.

Trying to undo half a century of integration in days does not work it has to been done slowly in many cases simply getting the capability to manufacture could take a decade. Trump doesn’t care all he cares about is that this is popular with his supporters, when you have no products to buy later this year when stockpiles are depleted and all the tariffs properly kick in and a food shortage in the fall due to farm subsidies being slashed and farmers literally not planting due to the uncertainty are you still going to support this insanity?

Massiveattack87 said:

So... Apple can´t solve it alone. Apple is way too late in the game.
It shows that Apple is really behind in AI. 
RIP Apple. 

*yawn* Apple has always had numerous external suppliers however like other strong brands before them they are very good at presenting their product and their brand. Nokia did a very similar thing with a very similar supply chain management strategy in the early 2000s

As to being late in the game, what game? Approximately the only people making money out of generative models at the moment are Nvidia and power companies.

The current state of the market is a bubble and cannot last.

ralphbu said:

How does the brightness compare?

Viewsonic is 400nits vs 600nits for the Apple. If you are doing anything with HDR video you ideally want 1000nits or more. For reference a Pro Display XDR is 1600nits.

There’s going to be a small but vocal number of pro audio people clinging to old FireWire audio interfaces who scream blue murder about ‘Planned Obsolescence’ and how Apple are terrible for not supporting their 20 year old interface.