Mike Wuerthele

jdw said:

A political post where comments are allowed?  Now this is quite nice!  Bravo, AppleInsider.  It actually makes me happy that "Eightzero" isn't happy.

Let freedom reign!

:-)

We'll see how it goes. So far, so good.

davebarnes said:

How about expanding the article to explain how this affects:
1. me and my iMac in my home office
2. me and my iPad (with Smart Keyboard Folio for iPad Air (5th generation))
?

I'm not sure what you want that's not in the text already.

"Newlin says that all it takes is a Linux device, and any Bluetooth adapter for hardware" covers the attack vector and how it's executed. The text says what the attack can do, and can't.

Yup. They announced it in October.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/10/11/labview-programming-app-abandons-the-mac-after-four-decades

9secondkox2 said:

s.metcalf said:

I’m interested in a comparison between the M3 Max 30-core and M2 Max 38-core, especially since they reduced memory bandwidth from 400 to 300 GB/s in that M3 Max version.  Has anyone tested it yet?

Interesting. That really needs to be done. 

I’ve recently watch an Artisright video on YouTube. First time seeing that channel and he claims to have done a bunch of testing and has created graphs that supposedly show there isn’t much difference between the two m3 max SOCs. I just don’t know how much to trust his claims since he seems to contradict some of the more proven reviewers. 

To me, 1 100 GT/s drop is huge. I think it’s more of a possible bottleneck issue though and you won’t see anything except the core count difference in performance until you’re beating the thing to death with data using after effects or some scientific software. 

I'll try to convince the folks that helped me with this review to pick up a M2 Max 38-core. Anecdotally, other folks I've spoken to about it during the process of making this review are seeing gains in the M3 Max 30 versus the M2 38-core, even when hammering the computers, but I don't have specific data because they are outside the folks that use these packages.

rob53 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

canukstorm said:

"Our review unit had a 512GB SSD" => How much RAM did your review consist of?

8GB. We use what we can get our hands on this early in the process.

Apple seeded beefy review units to YouTubers. We are not amongst that crowd.

This is something AI needs to work on. 😉

There’s too many YouTubers without real technical abilities. AI has access to people who’ve been in the business for years, providing real technical information. Time for AI to stand up and push for test equipment that people should actually buy. 

As for Apple’s worthless base model, I’ve never bought that version for home use or for (huge) corporate use since 1989.  

For whatever the reason, the "big three" meaning 9to5, MacRumors, and AppleInsider, don't get seeded with review units early, despite having our own YT channels, and for some of us, over 30 years of experience talking about and using this gear. We all try, and are greeted with silence.