Mike Wuerthele

ssfe11 said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

ssfe11 said:

Maybe I’m missing something but Tim meeting with Trump and in Feb and then both announcing the 500b US investment has total exemption written all over it. Again am I missing something? Would welcome comments. 

You're missing the fact that the President said yesterday that there were no exemptions.

And, you're missing that the $500 billion investment wasn't new investment, and instead was already-announced projects and business as usual.


No I think you are getting it wrong Mike. Trump 1.0 he also said no exceptions to tariffs until Tim talked him out it. Second trump is under the impression the 500b is def new money(maybe it is only Apple knows) because he brought it up again yesterday. Tim is the savviest CEO out there. He walked away with a 500b tariff exemption. It’s just pathetic fear has caused irrationality. No way there is not going to be an exemption and Trump will use some excuse like”well Apple needs to make money to pay the 500b” to justify it. 

tht said:

Mike Wuerthele said:

tht said:

It's quite safe to say that buyers of the Mac Studios with Ultra SoCs are not looking at Apple mediarati nor Youtubers for buying advice. They know their workflows and what benefits them.

The latter part about knowing their workflows is true, but as per the first half of this sentence, we already know who reads our Pro hardware reviews, based on feedback and suggestions.

There's a reason why we do it differently than everybody else.

The stoichometry and all the fluid flow calcs are massively multi-threaded, but I don't think the division of labor, per se, is equitable. Without giving anything away, networking overhead, even on Thunderbolt, plus some other operational considerations made clustering them up across multiple machines unrealistic.

I'm confused. You tried running the stoichometry and fluid flow simulations on a mini-clustor of Mac Studios, networked through Thunderbolt?

If they were run on one machine, I would expect a bigger speedup between a 16 CPU core M4 Max and a 32 core M3 Ultra. The chemistry sim had no speedup while the fluid sims had poor speedups. Not expecting a doubling in performance, but 30% to 50% type numbers. So, I have to wonder what's going here. Rosetta limits the number of cores for apps using it? Don't see much reason for a stoichometry or chemistry sim to have no speedup here. Some of these apps expect a certain type of cache, memory and networking architecture, and run bad on hardware they are not optimized for.

I can understand the Xcode compile and image test not scaling as much, so probably not a big deal there. Those could be limited by storage performance.

My experience is that if we spending 10s to 100s of thousands of dollars on workstations or clusters, the vendor will provide a test system.

ssfe11 said:

Maybe I’m missing something but Tim meeting with Trump and in Feb and then both announcing the 500b US investment has total exemption written all over it. Again am I missing something? Would welcome comments. 

tht said:

It's quite safe to say that buyers of the Mac Studios with Ultra SoCs are not looking at Apple mediarati nor Youtubers for buying advice. They know their workflows and what benefits them.

dtoub said:

Problem is, I’m not aware there is any good way to delete the data, which sucks up several GB on my iPad and MBA (it isn’t an issue on my iPhone 14 Pro Max since that doesn’t support Apple “Intelligence”).