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blastdoor said: An m3 ultra Mac Studio could be configured with enough RAM to run the 120 billion parameter model. I wonder how it would perform It looks pretty fast in the video below on M3 Ultra with 512GB RAM, 65 tokens/s, it uses 95GB…
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nubus said: 24 years of Apple Store openings and the distribution of stores continues to puzzle me as it doesn't relate to population. California is 1 store per 740k. Japan 1 per 11 million. UK is 1 per 1.7 million. China is 1 per 51 million.…
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mikethemartian said: Why can’t developers do the same thing with a PC with a lower end Nvidia GPU? Lower-end Nvidia GPUs typically don't have enough memory for AI models, especially laptops. They are getting better with up to 24GB VRAM but…
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commentzilla said: Sounds like a computer for K-12 education. They'd be suitable for any general use cases but definitely popular with students. Even entry-level Apple Silicon is really fast. iPhone chips are essentially 1/2 the entry M-se…
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Meson said: 9secondkox2 said: Apple did nothing wrong. Epic created a gigantic case just to get the courts to settle for something smaller. Unfortunately it worked. And now apple is supposed to give free access to competitors. Apple…
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tht said:Moving heat from the SoC chip to the graphene sheet (or other heat spreader) could be a bottleneck as chips are very small while transferring heat through a conduction path with solid metal needs a certain amount of contact area. The hi…
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surgefilter said: So big set of micro needles in the back of it constantly taking blood sample? Will that not get a bit messy? Interesting and useful addition if they can pull it off. It seems there's some non-invasive alternatives: http…
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michelb76 said: Some results from my M1 Max, 10 CPU / 32 GPU, 64GB: Steel Nomad - 1754 Solar Bay - 22008 Wild Life Extreme - 17910 Even with the M4 Max, Apple still has long way to go. M4 Max is a laptop chip, it's comparable to a laptop …
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beowulfschmidt said: It seems to me that Apple's commitment to gaming extends only as far as their own app store. If you ain't buying from one of Apple's apps stores, they really don't care much about gaming. They've demonstrated this time …
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Rogue01 said: Siri and improved Apple AI reminds me of AirPower. Schiller - we can do this. Schiller a year later - no we can't. I am not holding my breath for Siri. I rarely use it because it isn't very reliable, and the response is usua…
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comcastsucks said: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 or we riot!! This runs ok on Crossover on Pro/Max chips: It would be good if Crossover had an agreement with Valve for the Mac version of Steam to install and run these games more easily an…
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kkqd1337 said: Smells like a paid for statistic They could just have used ratings from major review services for the TV shows. Apple TV+ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10986410/ (Ted Lasso - 8.8/10) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5875444/ (S…
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bill9999 said: Why doesn't Apple include a rechargeable battery in its new AirTags, like the recent Satechi alternative? The AirTags' CR2032 batteries are notorious for draining quickly, and there's no indication whenthey're running out of en…
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AppleInsider said:Games is said to have five tabs: Home, Arcade, Play Together, and Search. It will include both Apple Arcade and third-party games. The 5th tab is reportedly Library. I guess Home or Search will be used for discovery but …
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cropr said: teejay2012 said: Not surprising. Apple clearly does not retain the best lawyers and Apple majorly annoyed the judge by slow walking her orders. Not sure that Apple will lose that much. I personally will not share payment cr…
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s.metcalf said: “If the product is free, you’re the product” seems to come to mind. Why should they get my phone number? It’s bad enough you have to give companies your phone number whenever you buy anything online, and I bet they get sold …
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charlesn said: Personally, I give Cook the benefit of the doubt, though not without some serious questions that I'll mention in a minute. But he has been Apple CEO longer than Jobs 2.0, coming up on 14 years this October, without a hint of d…
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jeffharris said: Cool! I played Doom back in the day. Is there a version that’ll run on my M3 MacBook Pro? This version runs on Apple Silicon: https://gzdoom.macupdate.com/ There are original Doom game files here: https://archive.org/de…
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blastdoor said: When I first read that Apple executives wouldn’t be talking to John Gruber this year (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/05/29/the-talk-show-live-tickets-2025) I interpreted it as a snub. But now I wonder if the Apple exec…
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pleitch said: it’s baffling to me (not really) that apple hasn’t had apple arcade games for some of the more viral shows like silo, severance and ted lasso but also murderbot, monarch, for all mankind and even masters of air or hijack. even i…