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  • Is Apple Intelligence artificial?

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    jerm said:
    This article could have been more interesting, informative and shorter if you had refrained from your usual bitterness at other journalists.
    It’s not funny anymore, just boring.
    Read the room man, first post way off base, this forum isn't for you.
    Jerm has a point, DED has tendency to repeat the same tropes in his excellent articles. 


    True, almost!

    —DED is relentless in highlighting the un-intelligent criticism of , as this embarrassing narrative about the unmistakably successful company once again proves invalid, to put it mildly.

    It is long overdue for these “industry insiders” to contribute by doing actual research—and should that day come, I bet DED will be relieved this farce is finally over.

    —when the “blind moles” cease to sprout their nonsense, so too will the imperative for DED to calling them out.

    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • How to use iPad as a Mac replacement and why you'd want to

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    Nothing in the iPad App Store will tax the processor.
    —please elaborate on this interesting statement, @"Wesley Hilliard" 🙏🏼

    watto_cobra

  • Apple hits 18 gigawatts of clean energy in its environmental push

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    blastdoor said:
    Apple and its suppliers now use more than 18 gigawatts of clean energy.

    This is kind of a strange statement, because a watt is a measure of the rate of flow, like miles per hour. Saying you used 18 gigawatts is like saying you traveled a distance of 60 mph. Without knowing time, we don’t know how much energy was actually used or miles traveled.

    ill hazard a guess that what’s meant here is that Apple used the energy generated by clean energy sources which, at theoretical peak utilization, can put out 18 gigawatts. Kind of like saying I used 120mph because the car I drove theoretically maxes out at 120mph. But that tells you nothing about how fast I actually went or how far I traveled. 

    The more meaningful numbers are — how many megawatt-hours of electricity did Apple and their suppliers use and what percentage of that came from renewable sources.
    …, absent!

    In the context of the environment, the key figure is the fraction of energy that is (still) generated from non-renewable resources (which is absent in AI’s article)!

    The number reported by AI is the energy consumption (clean)—in absolute terms—which is the numerator of the complementary fraction. To interpret the reported number, we need to know the denominator of the fraction, which is the total energy consumption.

    Energy consumption (total) by  and its supply chain correspond—approximately—to overall corporate activity. This is obviously an important metric when evaluating  as a company, but it has nothing to do with ’s impact on the environment.
    Alex1N

  • Apple wants to make grooved keys to stop nasty finger oil transfer to MacBook Pro screens

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    Breaking news:
    "[A] keyboard is one of the most frequently touched parts of a computer," says Apple. "Over time, keyboards collect large amounts of oil, dirt, grime, and other contaminants, especially from a user's hands."
    —a keyboard has been touched!
    And the culprit were a couple of hands 🙌


    "Recent advances in portable computing have also led to thinner, more compact devices," it continues, which "increases the likelihood of contact between the keys of the keyboard and the display while the notebook computer is closed and the display screen is positioned adjacent to the top surfaces of the keycaps."
    The depth of the clamshell’s display- and/or keyboard-part is totally irrelevant in this context.

    The principal causal factor is the hinge:
    —if the orientation of the hinge was inverted, so the closed clamshell did not trap the grime against the display, this specific issue would be eliminated. However, this negates the purpose of the clamshell.

    The obvious synthesis: Introduce The Gap!
    —the MBP’s unibody is rigid enough that a gap of a few millimeters would prevent direct contact between the clamshell’s two prongs when closed.


    williamlondonAlex1N

  • Apple now has a good landing page to find manuals, specs, and downloads

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    Finally—everything Apple-related is made available in one spot! A godsend to any it-historian…

    watto_cobra