mattinoz

anthogag said:

Stabitha_Christie said:

So, the tariffs were announced in April and then delayed for 90 days. At the point where the tariff were delayed we were promised "90 deals in 90 days"  In that time Trump claimed he had made deals with 200 countries despite there not being 200 countries to actually make deals with. This week we will hit the 90 days with exactly two deals made. That is a well short of the 90 promised and well below the 200 that Trump claimed he had done. So, what does the Trump and is band of clowns do? Announce even more tariffs and immediately delay them for almost 30 days. 

Any country watching this clown show has learned two things. 

1. Trump and team have no actual plan are just making this up as they go along.
2. They can safely ignore is bluster, he will always chicken out and kick the traiff can down the road. This dog has no bite. 

This cult will make excuses for this and repeat whatever inane talking points Dear Leader gives this and the rest of the country will just be embarrassed on their behalf. 

Countries dealing with Trump and his inner circle likely believe they are dealing with extremely untrustworthy clowns. Conversing with Trump probably resembles dealing with a psycopath. 

macxpress said:

Seems like they could just put an M1 in it if they wanted a cheaper Mac....What I don't want to see if Apple start this race to the bottom with "cheap" devices. Apple is a premium brand and should be treated as such. They may be pricing some people out but that's just how it goes. I can't afford a BMW or Mercedes Benz but that doesn't mean they should be making $25,000 BMW's or Mercedes Benz's. It just cheapens the brand in the end. 

That being said if they can keep quality up and use some older SoC's such as the M1 then why not? They make a $500 Mac mini that seems to be good quality however making a $500 Mac mini is a lot different than making a $500-600 MacBook as it has a keyboard/mouse, and screen. 

I could see this being popular in K-12/College education. Sorta like the eMac of its time, only a laptop instead of a desktop. 

Wesley_Hilliard said:

williamlondon said:

OMG they changed an icon’s coloring, then changed it back. I wondered why the planet had temporarily tilted on its axis, but now all seems fine I guess, unless of course another change is coming, then oh dear god hang on to the new trolls these changes will enrage.

Beta 3: Finder is orange

tht said:

mattinoz said:

tht said:

The leaker says that the A19 should be able to "catch up" with the Elite 2, due to having a higher level of Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) and better efficiency. However, they warn that the performance is not much higher than the Qualcomm competitor.

Leaker sounds stupid and you shouldn’t promulgate his narrative. It’s been decades of systems with multiprocessor and SIMD units on mass market computing systems. You should know what particular aspects of a computing system benefits a mass market consumer the most. 

It’s basically single core performance, memory performance and storage performance. Apple is crushing QCOM and others with single core performance. It affects every single part of what a user experiences. Memory and storage performance contribute to the experience a user sees. Faster loads, more stuff remaining in memory, etc. 

With multi-core and SIMD units (AI, NPU, even GPUs), the niches come into play. Less and less applications can actually take advantage of the compute, therefore less and less users. 

Apple prioritizes single core (both CPU and GPU), memory and storage performance; and, equally, it is balanced with power consumption. Everything else is part of the amalgam of what the iPhone is sold to users for. Camera ISP has to be good. Secure Enclave is basically in independent system including its own operating system inside the platform. 

What this leaker is saying sounds like a bunch of bullshit, demonstrating a lack of understanding of how computers work. 

How much usefulness would there be in Apple leveraging the work they have done with either the C1 or R1 assuming they aren’t just the same core chip with different packaging to suit the sensors attached and processed?

As Secure Enclave is a separate system that has to handle most data in out like the old fashioned south bridge then why not make an R/C2 chiplet that handles the real time events for the system but move more functions to it to even out loads between different platforms. 

I think it would be great if the R1 is subsumed as an ASIC or a "compute unit" in the main SoC chip. Have been wanting them to bring the realtime frameworks from visionOS to iOS, iPadOS, etc, so that all touch events, all input events, and the GUI are handled by the realtime frameworks. It would hopefully guarantee a minimum lag time to touch events.

The C1? Probably a separate chip, but possibly in the package, at a future date. It just depends on whether Apple wants to offer cell service on all Macs. Cell service is about $500 per year in revenue. Apple will want a cut of that, or they have their own cell service. If they already had their own cell service, I'd be much more confident that they'd include a cell modem into their SoCs. Currently, it's going to be a separate chip for a while.

tht said:

The leaker says that the A19 should be able to "catch up" with the Elite 2, due to having a higher level of Instructions Per Cycle (IPC) and better efficiency. However, they warn that the performance is not much higher than the Qualcomm competitor.

Leaker sounds stupid and you shouldn’t promulgate his narrative. It’s been decades of systems with multiprocessor and SIMD units on mass market computing systems. You should know what particular aspects of a computing system benefits a mass market consumer the most. 

It’s basically single core performance, memory performance and storage performance. Apple is crushing QCOM and others with single core performance. It affects every single part of what a user experiences. Memory and storage performance contribute to the experience a user sees. Faster loads, more stuff remaining in memory, etc. 

With multi-core and SIMD units (AI, NPU, even GPUs), the niches come into play. Less and less applications can actually take advantage of the compute, therefore less and less users. 

Apple prioritizes single core (both CPU and GPU), memory and storage performance; and, equally, it is balanced with power consumption. Everything else is part of the amalgam of what the iPhone is sold to users for. Camera ISP has to be good. Secure Enclave is basically in independent system including its own operating system inside the platform. 

What this leaker is saying sounds like a bunch of bullshit, demonstrating a lack of understanding of how computers work.