ericthehalfbee

I ordered a 16” M2 Max with 64GB. Original ship date was Feb 10th, then updated to Feb 6th then all of a sudden I get a notification to pick it up yesterday. 😀

Haven’t had time to test anything yet as I was busy downloading/installing software, but looking forward to seeing how it performs.

I still have my 2019 16” i9 MBP and I fired it up to update macOS and other software. It was running hot, fans spinning and chewing through battery while my M2 Max was quiet and only used about 10% by the time it finished (and it had more updates).

Here’s my idea.

First ISPs should charge for every data packet that leaves a server farm (say Google in California). Then when it crosses the border into Canada the ISPs can charge for transferring the same data packet again and call it “international data transmission fees”. Finally when the data packet gets to my computer my ISP can charge me a third time for my “home connection”. They can get paid 3 times for the same packet of data.

No wait, that’s not enough. Let’s make big tech companies pay us poor little ISPs to build this infrastructure. And let’s get the EU to help us. If we tell the EU it’s only big US tech companies that’ll have to pay they’ll get all giddy and pass a law for us. We don’t have to do anything.

People are missing another obvious possibility: what Apple calls Ultra Fusion or a silicon interposer that allows two M1 Max chip dies to be connected together to make the M1 Ultra.

Gurman simply took the 38 cores of the M2 Max and doubled it as he thinks the Mac Pro will be using an M2 Ultra.

Apple has a very high bandwidth interconnect to pair two M1 Max chips. But who says that this interface can only pair two identical chips? Apple could make a companion chip that was simply made up entirely of GPU cores. So you could have an M2 Ultra with 12 CPU cores, the NPU and encoders/decoders from the M2 Max and have an M2 GPU with a whopping 128 (or more) cores.

Or if Apple went with a 4 die chip (the rumored Extreme version) then 2 x M2 Max along with 2 x M2 GPU and you’d have 24 CPU cores and upwards of 300 GPU cores.

I don’t know why people assume Apple can only connect two identical chips when they make an Ultra version. 

AppleExposed said:

This day is depressing in retrospect as Steve was proud of his new invention. It was the new iPod and they believed it would be the only one of it's kind and rightfully so.

The 62% iPod marketshare should have easily translated to %70 iPhone marketshare.

The fact the U.S. and tech companies allowed android to create patent-infringing knockoffs just to make a quick buck for carriers who doubted iPhone is sad. Then came the commercials attacking Apple which created the rabid iKnockoff Knights who shit on everything Apple worked hard for THEM to enjoy!

Apple has 78% of the $1,000 and up smartphone market and around 55% of the $400 and up market. The iPhone completely dominates flagships. I don’t think Apple cares about all the budget Android devices being sold.

mikethemartian said:

ericthehalfbee said:

Amazing how entitled the EU thinks they are where they can pass a law for themselves, but feel they should be allowed to take 20% of a companies global revenues for any infraction that only exists within their market.

It’s no different than Apple or Google making their developers pay a hefty fee. They have the bargaining power to get their developers to pay on their terms and the EU has the bargaining power to get Apple and Google to pay on its terms. Entitlement and fairness have nothing to do with it. It is just business.

This comment is so stupid I don’t know how to reply.