rob53

verne arase said:

rob53 said:

docno42 said:

My 2015 MBA is in dire need of an upgrade.  I tried the M1 MBA - and it was fantastic!  Then I made the mistake of loading some games on it - and they played fantastic too!  Well, except for Cities:Skylines - where my mod/asset addiction overpowered 16GB - it's just not enough. 

So now I eagerly await the next round.  I'm hoping for being able to get at least 64GB of RAM - and curious as to how Apple will handle RAM in the next chips.  Will it still be closely coupled for blistering speed?  I hope so - soldered on or not.  May splurge on a large SSD this time too.  Hopefully give it some extra life - not crazy the drives are soldered on - and maybe in the larger ones they won't be? 

Should be interesting to see.  My Apple Card is ready! 

What I've read is that the M-series RAM and storage work so fast together that 8GB is the new 16GB and 16GB is the new 32GB. I don't remember seeing anyone say Apple would be releasing a 64GB laptop. As for Cities:Skylines, is this a native ARM app or is it using Rosetta? Even though Apple does the conversion it's still not the same as a native ARM app making use of all the ARM-specific GPU apis. Just checked this app and it uses Steam and I've never used Steam before so not sure if it's using the Mac or an app to run the app on a Steam server. 

Dunno about that ... certainly Apple Silicon has a more economical graphics workflow, but as for the rest processing it's pretty much the same - most apps are just recompiled for universal from the Intel source code. So no, there's no magic which doubles your RAM.

If you're video editing from what I understand there are some optimizations that developers can do to speed up processing to keep things out in the GPU and render intermediate results to tile memory, but outside of the use of unified memory for both CPU and GPU everything is pretty much as it was before.

I think a lot of the talk about double the RAM effectiveness just has to do with the amazingly good implementation of virtual memory under macOS.

You guys don't understand what I'm saying or what the real differences between the ARM and Intel architectures are. I didn't say "Apple Silicon doubles your RAM", I said the lower amount when used by Apple Silicon run apps just as well as the higher (doubled) amount. Have any of you actually watched the youtube videos demonstrating this? Do any of you know how ARM is different than Intel? Do a websearch of "arm intel architecture differences" to get much more technical information. It all has to do with the huge differences between CISC (x86) and RISC (ARM). All you have to do is look at Apple's iOS devices to understand how much Apple can do with lower amounts of RAM. 

I can't wait for the day when Apple doesn't include any Mac with a HDD, everything will be solid state and most, if not all will be integrated onto the SoC or the motherboard; no replaceable RAM or storage (sorry iFixit). This is the only way to get the most speed and power out of a Mac right now. External storage will be Thunderbolt-connected, NVMe storage, single and in RAID configurations, which will blow away any HDD or Fusion Mac configuration ever made--no matter how much RAM you put into it. 

When a developer compiles their app, universal or native, there's a lot of differences between how the app actually runs. It doesn't run the same way because Apple has to encode CISC- and RISC-specific api's so it actually runs on the different hardware platforms. Apple does this within Xcode so developers don't have to make as many changes to their software as a total re-write without Apple's help. (Developers, please add to this so these people understand what's going on. Thanks) As for things simply being the same on Apple Silicon as on Intel, no it isn't!

I would like to see Apple provide external disk access benchmarks when they announce the new MBP. I don't want to see the same slow write speeds on the first generation, handicapped MacBook Air. I spent over an hour discussing this with several levels of Apple Support and they couldn't find anything about this from their normal support information. OWC/MacSales has all the test information showing good external TB3 SSDs only getting 1000Mbps write speeds while getting over 2000Mbps read speeds while the internal storage gets in the 2300-2500Mbps range for both. 

tht said:

rob53 said:

So, here we go again. A non-American company is buying a Lordstown Motors manufacturing plant along with a 4% share. I'm sure Tesla has foreign investors (yes/no?) but I still call them an American company. I have to wonder whether anything coming out of Lordstown will qualify for any EV credits since it appears most of the manufacturing will be performed by a foreign company even though the plant is located in the US. 

I find this take rather horrible. 

Tesla is an American company through and through. It’s a public company with a rather large variety of stakeholders, with mostly this or that fund (like Vanguard, Blackrock) holding a lot of shares, but no more than 5% of so. E Musk is the largest shareholder. Other individual shareholders are way way down in percentage of shares, like less than 1 percent. 

Not only that, Tesla has multiple factories for manufacturing batteries and cars all over the USA. It’s a testament to American engineering and knowhow. Since Tesla has worldwide ambitions, it has manufacturing in other markets, but that doesn’t negate Tesla being an American company.  

The transition to EVs represents a realignment of the major players in the industry. There are a lot of American EV startups about to hit the market. Rivian looks to be the first EV truck to hit the market. They are an American company with American manufacturing. Lucid Motors is getting very close to shipping their sedans. An American company with American manufacturing. 

Then, there are lower tier startups that are trying to find markets, like Bollinger, Canoo and Lordstown. Hell, even Fisker. Lordstown is simply a failed startup. Their management couldn’t get any deals, and because of that, it made more rounds of funding impossible. The sale of their plant to Foxconn looks like trying to get money to make payroll. They are very likely done.

The EV space has really been a testament to American engineering and manufacturing considering all the new American players who have been buying old American plants and getting them running again. 

Of the incumbents, Ford, GM, VW, BMW, Hyundai, are trying to catchup to Tesla. Honda and Toyota, who arguably have cars that are more American made than Ford and GM, are currently filling the Nokia and RIM roles circa 2008 or so. For mostly likely institutional rot and political reasons, they have done basically zero in the EV space. They are running years behind. Their bet on hydrogen has been disastrous. I can see a future where they don’t make it, if they don’t change their direction right away. 

Don't understand how my comments put Tesla in a bad light (you need to re-read what I said). I was talking about Lordstown already sucking up to foreign companies, not Tesla. As for all your comments, I already know this. I was only talking about what the article was discussing, Foxconn and Lordstown, not all the others.

So, here we go again. A non-American company is buying a Lordstown Motors manufacturing plant along with a 4% share. I'm sure Tesla has foreign investors (yes/no?) but I still call them an American company. I have to wonder whether anything coming out of Lordstown will qualify for any EV credits since it appears most of the manufacturing will be performed by a foreign company even though the plant is located in the US. 

BTW: this feature was included in the last update, v2.1.4 Coral, but wasn't mentioned in their release notes.