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  • Adobe releases public beta of Premiere Pro for Apple Silicon

    raulcristianraulcristian
    Well done Adobe! Now Lightroom Classic pleeeeeaaaaaseeeee! :-)
    watto_cobra

  • Apple speeds up masked Face ID by detecting an Apple Watch in iOS 14.5

    raulcristianraulcristian
    Flytrap said:
    So, if someone steals your watch and your iphone that person can unlock your phone easily?

    Looks unsafe to me.

    That will not work because as soon as you take your Apple Watch off your wrist it also locks... All that you will end up with is a locked Apple Watch and a locked iPhone.

    You need to either unlock the iPhone in order to unlock the Apple Watch, or unlock the Apple Watch in order to unlock the iPhone.

    Also you cannot sneak up on somebody to unlock their iPhone while they are wearing their Apple Watch, because the Watch unlock feature still needs Face ID on your iPhone to detect your open eyes above the face mask before it will even look for a nearby Apple Watch.

    Well, thanks to you and all the people that let me understand how this thing really works.

    Now it looks safe to me. :-)

    (And for those who mentioned it: no, a chopped finger will NOT be a valid TouchID unlocking mechanism, and I suspect that a chopped arm - and arm with no pulse - will immediately lock your Apple watch...)
    roundaboutnowwatto_cobra

  • Hollywood thinks new Mac mini 'could be huge' for video editors

    raulcristianraulcristian
    mainyehc said:
    I’ll just throw in my €0,02: what if the Unified Memory Architecture is the key here?

    No, really, hear me out: what do conventional PCs (even PowerPC Macs back in the day) do when they run out of memory? They do paging of stuff from memory into storage, A.K.A. virtual memory.

    The thing is, I’m guessing the on-chip memory of these things is not only more power efficient, but fast. Really fast. Maybe even much faster than conventional memory in DIMM and SO-DIMM modules connected to the CPU via its memory controller, as it resides on the SoC itself and benefits from direct, fast lanes connecting it to the CPU cores themselves.

    What about SSDs? Well, those are also really, really fast, even for such a paltry, apparently non-Pro machine like this. While they’re not exactly melded into the CPU as well, it seems Apple has done some advances in this area as well.

    So… maybe paging to virtual memory isn’t as much of an issue as it was before? And maybe said UMA is better at managing the whole process as well?

    If Apple adds a “Mac mini Pro”, or “Mac Pro mini”, or whatever they call it to the lineup, in space gray to match the later Intel models and the DTK, with an M1X/M2 chip, four TB4/USB4 ports, and, say, 32 GB of this newfangled UMA memory, expect smaller studios to pick this thing up. It’s the trascan-redux-as-lunchbox, minus the melting and inefficient dual GPUs and at A THIRD of the price, and it might very well sell like hotcakes.

    For now, this first generation is more of a proof of concept than anything else (at least as far as some less demanding segments of the professional market are concerned), but keep an open mind and your eyes peeled for benchmarks and real-world testing.

    You definitely have a point.

    The thing is that SSDs are in the same league as RAM lately. DDR4 transfer rate is about 15-20 GB/s, while SSDs are rapidly approaching (or even surpassing) the 4GB/s speed range. So in the worst case we are talking just five times slower (my old spinning hard disk had 20MB/s on a good day, about 1000 times slower than RAM).

    This should DEFINITELY make the paging in-out of RAM (into and out of virtual memory, id est, the SSD) worlds faster.

    Still, not the same, and there are many other considerations (page size, latency, you name it) but we are getting in the ballpark. This is something that we will discover when the actual Macs arrive. It could be a pleasant surprise.


    watto_cobra

  • Some Mac users being warned that Amazon Music app and HP drivers are malware [u]

    raulcristianraulcristian
    Yes, it is a expired certificate. I got confirmation from an HP guy in the forums.

    They claim that reinstalling new drivers and HP software will work, but didn't fix the scan function for me. Printing improved, though (Mojave iMac here).

    You can install HP Smart app to scan or use the Embedded Web Server in your printer to scan from the web. Both worked for me.

    We will have to wait for a recompiled set of drivers, I am afraid, to restore full functionality.


    Rayz2016watto_cobra

  • Apple threatens to close Epic Games developer account on Aug. 28

    raulcristianraulcristian
    Please note that I am an Apple fanboy and I am not a gamer. Never played Fornite or anything since Popeye on the Nintendo arcades of the 80s. (Crossy Road maybe the only exception).

    But escalating this is nonsensical for Apple. Great job showing non-monopolistic behavior, Apple.

    Removing Epic dev license will backfire. Indeed.

    This might get a pass in the USA but Apple will get a giant slap in the hand by EU regulators. But worse, beyond the Apple cheerleaders that we all are, Apple will start being seeing as the dark force. Count on Epic to pose as the victim here. They seem to have this well planned.

    And in the medium term, Apple will start losing customers, losing public goodwill, losing its ability to attract the best developers.

    C'mon Tim. Settle this nasty distraction before it is too late.



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