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  • M1 benchmarks prove Apple Silicon outclasses nearly all current Intel Mac chips

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    DuhSesame said:
    Just did some quick search on Geekbench 5:

    Here's what really looks like when comparing to the 16-inch MacBook Pro (Highest vs. Highest)

    7695 for the Air vs. 7346 for the 16-inch.

    Here's the iMac with Core i7-9700

    7695 vs. 7559.

    M1 pulls slightly ahead on both, but worth noting that neither is high for an eight-core.  both 9700K/9900K pulls way ahead the competition.

    So it's slightly disappointing comparing to what we used to hear, it didn't smash x86's eight-core by that much.  Then again, it's a quad-core (4x4) with 15~20W of CPU power.  Both the 9980HK & 9700 needs to pull at least ~60W to match.


    Edit: It's also important to remember the 16-inch or the iMac still have to deal with thermal throttling, where the M1 could be free from that issue.  @mike_wuerthele I'd like to see a thermal test, thanks.

    Well here's the cinebench loop on Twitter:


    This comment and the article both err in comparing the "8-core" M1 to the machines (say, the 8-core i9 in the MBPro 16). Remember that only four of those 8 (4 + 4) cores in the M1 are high performance, and the other four cores are designed to do less CPU-intensive chores at considerably lower power draw. The M1-based systems' multi-core results are particularly impressive when viewed this way.

    It might also be instructive to compare the power draw on the machines over the time they're running these benchmarks.

    By the way, I'm typing this in front of a 10-core Intel iMac, and it's yet to hit any thermal throttling. The again, I've yet to do any 8K video editing on it.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Safari now blocks Google Analytics on sites, new Privacy Report feature shows [u]

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    michelb76 said:
    The 9.4% of Mac Safari market share isn't going to worry Google. And only a much smaller subset of that will be using the new safari. Here's hoping that Big Sur won't be the dumpster fire that Catalina is.
    Maybe it's changed in the last couple of years (I haven't been keeping track), but Safari users have traditionally been much sought after by ad purveyors and trackers, since they spend more time on high-end march websites and spend much more than users of other browsers, on average. I don't know what the 9.4% comes out to after that multiplier effect, but if you sell bling or expensive cars, you care a lot.

        What I started wondering when I saw that during the keynote was: Is there some sort of extension-like control panel for that, where individual trackers can be whitelisted, or all for a give page or site? Because if so, Ghostery just got Sherlocked, big-time.
    spock1234Dogperson

  • Apple debuts 'Snoopy in Space' trailer in time for Apollo 11 anniversary

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    According to Wikipedia:

    "Laika died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and time of her death were not made public until 2002; instead, it was widely reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion."
    StrangeDaysAppleExposed

  • Apple looks to lease space in new MIT building at Boston's Kendall Square

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    Department of niggling and redundant trivia department: Kendall Square, like the MIT campus, is in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. But it's all part of the greater Boston area, a.k.a. the Hub of the Universe.
    Doodpantsdkhaley

  • New MacBook Air and Mac mini are first with enclosures produced from 100-percent recycled ...

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    ascii said:
    Isn't aluminum the most common metal in the Earth's crust? So common we make cooking foil and drink cans out of it? 

    So not exactly the most urgent thing to recycle, but a step forward nonetheless and better than wasting it.
    Almost all aluminum in the earth's crust is found in bauxite, and removing the metal from it used to be so energy intensive that aluminum was worth more per unit weight than gold. The Bayer process (1888) made extraction less expensive, but still energy-intensive. It still takes somewhere between 63 and 95 KWh to produce 1 kilogram of aluminum, however. Probably much cheaper to make the shells for MacBook Airs and Mac minis out of old iPhones and Macs.
    Soli