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  • Apple shareholders sue over Siri delays and massive losses

    leehericksleehericks
    Isn’t the point of buying stock that you take a risk on supporting the company? How can you sue them?
    Alex1NsinophiliaiOS_Guy80zeus423ForumPostbaconstangwatto_cobra

  • OpenCore and Hackintosh are sadly dead after Apple ends Intel Mac support

    leehericksleehericks
    Yay! Next year they can scrape out all that old Intel cruft from the OS. I wonder what that all entails. 🤔
    lordjohnwhorfindanoxwatto_cobra

  • New M4 MacBook Air is great, but MacBook Pro still commands Apple's laptop business

    leehericksleehericks
    Is the chart Mac sales as in money or unity numbers? I’m more likely to believe the former. That would only mean that MBP sales bring in more money with their higher price tags.

    As a light iOS and web developer I used to buy 15” MacBook Pros as my personal machines but in the Apple Silicon era I owned an M2 MacBook Air and as of last week an M4 MacBook Air. I don’t use HDMI or fancy camera cards. The screen is plenty nice. I couldn’t justify the extra money for a heavy, chunky MacBook Pro and neither should most people unless they have a specific workflow or personal need.

    We shall see if the 2026 MacBook Pro really goes on a diet, but I have concerns that that might not be in the best interest of the pro users.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple says not every Apple Silicon generation will get an Ultra

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    • Not building the ultra fusion connector into M4 is an interesting choice made long before. I'd love to know the reasons. Maybe since it doesn't really yield twice the performance of two Max chips, they have hit a bottleneck where it just isn't performant and cost-effective to do this over creating a chip with beefier cores. We may see a new architecture in M5 or M6?
    • Given that, I guess they had a difficult choice to make for updating the Mac Studio. It has been 3 years so an upgrade was needed, but if the M4 Max was the most powerful chip available for it people also would have complained.
    • It's interesting that Apple seemed to move quickly to get away from this N3B process node, and is now coming back to it with an M3 iPad Air and this Ultra. Maybe they have a huge stock of binned chips? Does the Ultra get fabricated fused together or can they combine existing M3 Max chips later?
    watto_cobra

  • Initial M4 MacBook Air benchmark reveals same GPU power as M4 iPad Pro

    leehericksleehericks
    Please don’t call it a budget portable Mac. 😂

    The MacBook Air is an amazing laptop and most people don’t need a MacBook Pro so it’s not really a sacrificing something, low budget option. I’m still absolutely loving my M2 MacBook Air so I still don’t think a chip refresh is going to push me to upgrade. iMac-like colors and a C1 and I’ll pull out my credit card! 🤩
    dewmewatto_cobra