jdiamond

FWIW, I found the best performance using Azul's Java 17 ARM64 JDK with ManyMC.  It's truly amazing - peak is about 100x faster in everything - imagine selecting a Minecraft world and being able to start playing in less than 4 seconds! . Minecraft and Java really seems to have the single greatest speedup going native of all applications.  For me, #2 was Blender, which was about 12x faster.

crowley said:

hucom2000 said:

I’m sorry, but who am I again to need this machine?

First line:

an avid crafter or starting your own small business and want to handle the merchandising yourself

There's just nothing in this article to hint at what this product actually does.  From the photos, I'm guessing it cuts shapes out of fabric?  But what would you do with such shapes?

Buy a 16" Macbook Pro with an 8TB hard drive.  Tear the screen off with your bare hands.  Done.

I know this is a basic question, but I haven't seen it answered anywhere:

Can the US president force a US based company to ban an App in a foreign country?
Or can companies do what they feel like outside the US?

I realize a President could always threaten retaliation on behavior they don't like, but can they actually tell Apple "you cannot offer WeChat in the Chinese App Store?

Just curious if anyone knows?

knowitall said:

It will be the best move of Apple, ever.

It is also important to do it as fast as possible, late 2020 is already a bit late.
Maybe no one sees this coming but competition from opensource hardware and software designs will be intense.

 

Yeah - it's a shame  - if Apple weren't so heavily invested in ARM they could've gone with RISC-V.  I think that had it not been for AMD's fire storm of a comeback, x86 would already be on the way out.  That's what prompted all the huge companies to create business server ARM CPUs in the first place.  It would also be nice if Apple shifted to a non-binary delivery model to make ISA shifts less painful in the future.