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  • Apple says not every Apple Silicon generation will get an Ultra

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    ApplePoor said:
    To cover their costs to create and get the operational M3 Ultra, they will need to make a lot of them.

    I don’t think that’s true.  I suspect the original M3 Max design had the ultra fusion connector, but they just masked it off to make the die a little smaller.  Once they decided to start making ultras they stop cropping it, and voila!  The amount of additional design work could be virtually nil.  The markup on the ultras is pretty significant, so that reduces the number of sales needed to profit.  And if they are using ultras in servers (which might be why we’ve not seen them until now), selling to users is just helping amortize dev costs.
    neoncatmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • M4 Mac mini review three months later: the perfect headless Mac

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    My M4 Pro mac mini w/ 48GB RAM and 1TB SSD (plus the external USB3 storage I already had for previous machines) scores a 6.0/5.0 ... it is way beyond what I expected in terms of performance.  Its performance even with Rosetta or other forms of virtualization/emulation is astonishing.  Compile speeds are mind blowing, and its compute capabilities are really amazing, often greatly outperforming big iron servers I use regularly.  And the whole package was quite a bit cheaper than what I've spent on numerous previous computers over the decades.

    Oh, and the power button is perfect.  Can't hit it by mistake when fiddling with the ports on the back by feel, and I have pressed it exactly _once_ in over two months.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondontiredskillsdewmeAlex1Nwatto_cobra