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iPhone Air was almost portless, but concerns about EU regulations prevented it
Why would they think it's a good idea to remove port when it can be used for high speed data or recharging more efficiently?
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Mac Studio review roundup: Still the fastest on the block
Do tell us how would you think that buying two minis would work for your "workloads?" What would that workload be of?blastdoor said:I was poking around Apple's website and an interesting comparison is the M4 pro Mac mini to the base M3 Ultra Mac Studio.
For the same price as the base M3 Ultra Studio (ie, $4000), you can get two $2000 M2 Pro Mac minis with the 14 core CPU, 20 core GPU, 48 GB of RAM, and 512GB SSD (so, a total of 28 cores CPU, 40 cores GPU, 96 GB RAM, and 1 TB SSD).
The Studio has the advantage of an extra 20 GPU cores but the disadvantage of being M3 rather than M4.
My workloads want CPU more than GPU, so dual minis might actually make more sense for me.
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Apple finally accepts that 64GB is inadequate for iPhones and iPads
I am pretty sure it has to do with manufactures stopped making 64GB chips so Apple had no choice but to move up to 128GB. It just makes no economic sense to keep making low capacity storage.
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Mac Studio gets an update to M4 Max or M3 Ultra
The fact that M3 Ultra now support up to 512 GB RAM is pretty amazing. It's great for large scale LLMs. Ultra 2 would only support 192GB at max.
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Updated Mac Studio with M4 could launch with new MacBook Air
That would be awkward.
I mean, I can see M3 Ultra being much faster on multicore performance than M4 Max but the problem is public perception of how they work.
Also, we don't see evidence of interconnects so that would mean that they have to retool the M3 for Ultra or they may have just decided to have a monolithic die for M3 Ultra.
