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Some Mac software has made it all the way from 68K to M1 - here's why
I really missed QuicKeys, although there were others which triggered actions based on key combinations.
It had something to do with scoping which as far as I've been able to see no other package had.
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Hands on: Getting to know Apple's AirPods Max
Populists around the world are applauding your proletariat zeal ... others are just yawning.svanstrom said:
Apple has taken/created a very weird "niche" market with their products; the products are both luxuriously priced, and mainstream targeting average people. It's pretty much a market that shouldn't be able to exist; and without context makes as much sense as doing a startup selling luxury jewellery specifically to people that can't afford food.
Apple should have been outcompeted ages ago.
The outcry about OE headphones priced like these is simply because the target market would have to be absolutely crazy to waste this much money on headphones; it's a price range that they've never ever have even considered before. It makes as much sense as going straight from a cheap rust bucket to a Ferrari for grocery shopping and getting your kids to school.
People should have just seen these headphones, shaken their heads and muttered a few things about "rich people"; and then have moved on with their lives.
But… it's Apple.
It's Apple, and it's a product priced at a range that's been normalised by iPhones; and it's a product that comparatively speaking shows a great deal of status at a fairly low cost, while providing a continuing (new) functionality.
People should have been outraged at Apple for being disrespectful to their target market by creating products that are clearly priced so that the target market actually can't afford them.
Yet, because it's Apple the criticism has taken this weird form of people fundamentally accepting the situation; and are simply upset with the novelty of headphones existing in this price range.
And… since it's Apple… give it a couple of months for the mainstream to have tried these, and Apple have somehow just f*cking managed to normalise that everyone should spend up to a months rent on a pair of OE headphones.
(I can't decide if I should be impressed, or head out into the streets protesting the destructive evils of capitalism.)
If they're not worth it to you, don't buy them ... you're obviously not their target market, and no one's pointing a gun at your head forcing you to buy them. That's how capitalism works.
They're not for everyone ... they're there as an exercise in what Apple can do in the consumer headphone market.
Great sound quality, really nice build quality, very strange case ... and pretty damn expensive.
I waffled over the price ... and now I'll be waffling until mid-March. Obviously there's demand, in whatever market segment Apple targeted. That's also what capitalism is all about.
Your sour grapes tirade isn't impressing anyone - and no, I'm not rich.
I'd like to try these with my Apple TV and Mac ... I don't really do much audio with my iPhone except in the car.
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M1 benchmarks prove Apple Silicon outclasses nearly all current Intel Mac chips
Most people are looking at these first Apple Silicon Macs wrong - these aren't Apple's powerhouse machines: they're simply the annual spec bump of the lowest end Apple computers with DCI-P3 displays, Wifi 6, and now the new the Apple Silicon M1 SoC.They have the same limitations as the machines they replace - 16 GB RAM and two Thunderbolt ports.These are the machines you give to a teacher or a lawyer or an accountant - folks who need a decently performing machine who don't want to lug around a huge powerhouse machine (or pay for one for that matter). They're still marketed at the same market segment, though they now have a vastly expanded compute power envelope.The real powerhouses will probably come next year with the M1x (or whatever). Apple has yet to decide on an external memory interconnect and multichannel PCIe scheme, if they decide to move in that direction.Other CPU and GPU vendors and OEM computer makers take notice - your businesses are now on limited life support. These new Apple Silicon models can compete up through the mid-high tier of computer purchases, and if as I expect Apple sells a ton of these many will be to your prime (most profitable) customers.In fact, I suspect that Apple - once they recover their R&D costs - will be pushing the prices of these machines lower while still maintaining their margins - while competing computer makers will still have to pay Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and nVidea for their expensive processors, whereas Apple's cost goes down the more they manufacture. Competing computer makers may soon be demanding lower processor prices from the above manufacturers so they can more readily compete against these models.I believe the biggest costs for a chip fab are startup costs - no matter what processor vendors would like you to believe. Design and fab startup are expensive - but once you start getting decent yields, the additional costs are silicon wafers and QA. The more of these units Apple can move, the lower the per unit cost and the better the profits - and the more resources they can dedicate to the next generation M1x (not that Apple's hurting for R&D capital 😄).
Of course, Apple will probably never crack the hardcore Windows fanboys, but I believe these represent a very tiny percentage of the Wintel market. Most Wintel purchases are predicated on price - not religion.
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13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...
The whole ARM Windows on Mac thing is pretty irrelevant - I believe that Apple's made changes to Apple Silicon with would make it more of a headache than something worthwhile.
First off, Apple has eliminated ARMv7, the 32 bit ARM instruction set - and Windows ARM I believe only runs 32 bit.
Secondly, IIRC Apple has altered some standard ARM things like parameter lists to vector instructions to more closely mirror that of Intel.
More interesting may be what Parallels is working on which they've been keeping very mum about.
My wild-ass guess is a hypervisor for x64 Windows which would initiate the OS load process and front-end Windows or Linux segment loaders and read Windows or Linux binaries and through magic similar to Rosetta 2 translate x64 (and possibly x86) code into Apple Silicon code and load that translated code into memory. Of course this would kill signed code and that would have to be handled as well. Original code segments could have CRCs and lengths recorded and used as a key for an Apple Silicon translated code cache whose entries could be appropriately aged and deleted if unused.
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Plugable's new Thunderbolt 3 dock provides 96W charging, supports two 4K displays
I think that Thunderbolt 3 only allows for a pass-through port - one of the features of Thunderbolt 4 is the possibility of a TB4 hub (if I understand it correctly).
This isn't to say they couldn't offer USB-C ports, but with the expanded PD power delivery and gen 3.2 options many TB dock makers seem reluctant to add USB-C ports.
USB-C has been and probably always will be a mess - and now with the addition of Thunderbolt 4 - which mostly seems to be Thunderbolt 3 with all the high-end options turned on - it will probably become even more confusing.
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