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The iPad is amazing hardware... that's hobbled by requiring iPadOS for all apps, even when connected to a keyboard and trackpad.

sflocal said:

...and best of all, their state government stays out of the way.

I assume that's code for letting corporations and business do whatever the hell they want?

My take on it is simply that office space, cost-of-living and housing has grown so high in the Bay area that moving elsewhere seems like a good deal. 

Unfortunately for your rant, in all likelihood the net result of all of those people moving to Austin is that AUSTIN real estate prices are going to start skyrocketing, and that all of those transplanted people are going to want the same level of services they once had in CA.

The same exact thing happened to Colorado and Denver and Boulder a couple of decades ago when the tech boom hit with people moving there from CA... with the same exact result. Housing and COL went up, and the state started going Blue...

FortiClient VPN doesn't work.

SkylightActive said:

System on a chip is a very innovative shift for microprocessors. However, from the lack of info so far on the M1 regarding RAM resource management between GPU and CPU is a concern of mine. How does the operating system prioritize which is more essential? what happens when the RAM is full? Will they use SSD’s as virtual memory? 

This was a throwaway line in the presentation, but one thing to consider is that since the CPU and GPU are sharing the same memory space and the same data formats, all they need to do is hand off a pointer from the CPU to the GPU for rendering and presentation. As opposed to working with a discrete GPU where you actually have to spend time copying data from one to another. Further, you can use the same paging mechanisms for both, which means recently unused textures (as just one example) can be offloaded as needed.

See 15:28 in the presentation.

I agree that the new M1 chip looks like it could run any of those apps and get great performance. My question, however, is whether or not it can run Resolve, Final Cut [Pro X], Frame.io, Adobe and Nuke all at the same time... given the 16GB limitation on RAM.