melgross

wikimiki said:

I think many commentators have missed the point.
Quantum Dots would provide a brighter screen without a need for more power.
Therefore, for a given brightness, the iPhone would use less power.

Quantum dit technology isn’t a panacea. Samsung uses it for some Tv screens, but not for their phone, tablet or computer OLED displays. It’s very difficult to get that tech down to the needs of small displays. Phone and watch OLEDs are a different technology that that for larger displays. If it could have been easily done, then it would have been done already, but it’s complex and difficult in smaller displays with their very high pixel density, much more dense with far smaller pixels than in the much larger Tv screens.

Well, as usual I spent a lot of money I didn’t have to. So I bought the whole thing, 13”, keyboard and Pencil and also the nano glass. I hope the glass isn’t too difficult to clean as my iPad screen gets dirtier than my Apple monitor screen.

i was surprised that the rumor about the M4 was true. I’m willing to bet that there are two reasons for it. Apple has two things to contend with right now. The push in AI is one and the new SoCs from Qualcomm are the other. Apple know about both some time ago. They knew about the SoCs a good two years ago and I wouldn’t be surprised if the push to get the M4 on this, right now, before any PCs with the Qualcomm chip come out is a big reason we’re seeing it. Qualcomm is marketing their chip as being as, or even a bit more powerful than Apple;s M3. Whether that’s true or not, Apple needed to get ahead it it and with the specs for this M4 I believe they have.

anyway, I’m pretty excited to see this new one. It should be here between the 16th and the 20th. My wife’s, which doesn’t have the nano screen and 512GB instead of 1TB, will be here the 15th.

This is actually a good upgrade for the first gen M1 models. It’s a good 40% CPU and a good 50% GPU performance upgrade from those, p,use the various media encide and decide bumps. Additionally the machine learning cores are enhanced, which is important going forwards as Apple introduces their new AI into the various OSs in June, this year.

i do think Apple should do more each year than just SoC upgrades.

I’m surprised Apple hasn't done this earlier. Sony could still manufacturer the sensors, or Canon could. It’s less the manufacturing than the design though. Sensors are vastly easier than current modems. That doesn’t mean that it is easy. But I imagine Apple has engineers who have been investigating this for some time. And Apple has to,have a good understanding of it to just design cameras around current sensors, so it isn’t as though it will be entirely new for them. In past years they even stated that the sensors they use have Apple technology, so possibly they already have some Apple DNA inside.

doing their own would be advantageous not necessarily because Apple could design a better sensor, but because they could design one that matches the way their SoC and software manipulates the info coming off the sensor. Right now, they have to work with whatever the sensor provides. That means the specific limitations of the sensor has to be understood and worked around. Their own sensor could be worked to give better results where Apple believes they can do less with the results, and slightly worse where they can do better with it. I know that sound like stepping backwards, but it isn’t. It’s playing into Apple’s strengths

id like to see Apple design a sensor with more onboard processing than they have now. This has been a trend over the years, but it has a long way to go. Apple can do this much better than Sony could.

nikon has an agreement with Sony to modify their designs which Sony then produces from them. It’s a reason why Nikon is understood to be able to pull slightly more IQ out of it than Sony does in their own cameras with the same sensor. That shows that Sony’s designs, by themselves, aren’t the best that can be done. There’s plenty of room for improvement in camera sensors. I’d love to see if Apple can make those improvements.

Well, they came in today. I took my first eagerly awaited ProRex log video, just a short piece, and edited it. No joke folks. It’s noticeably better than shooting in plain HDR or standard. Much easier to bring the contrast where it belongs. Much easier to adjust color and saturation, and none of the over sharpening we normally see. And that was just in Apple’s app. I haven’t yet tried FCP or DeVinci Resolve.