michelb76

kestral said:

Never build your castle in someone else's kingdom.

Lol. Without tools like JAMF there would hardly be any Apple devices in large companies. Apple's Business Essentials is great for small to medium businesses, where JAMF or Intune is overkill. I can see companies go from ABE to JAMF when they grow.

Really? Articles like these? I didn't see one when Apple copied the new Safari layout from Android Firefox & Chrome, who had it several years ago.

"Apple Watch-esque design" come on! It's a digital watch. Like the Apple Watch has 'borrowed' elements from every other watch before it.

Are we now just dumping the wishlist into 2022?

also, the MBA getting an M2 would be weird. Except if the M2 will be a small incremental upgrade.

Hreb said:

So the M1 Max, announced yesterday, deployed in a laptop, has floating-point compute performance (but not any other metric) comparable to a 3 year old nvidia chipset or a 4 year old AMD chipset.  Somehow I don't think this comparison is going to be useful to anybody.

Indeed. I assume it will use much less power which is great, because pc laptops with those GPU's don't last long on a battery charge. So that's something. But yeah, it seems middle of the road, which is where highend Apple GPU performance always has been.

Also, I wonder how we are going to benchmark them properly, most GPU heavy games don't run a mac, and the Pro Apps don't run on PC's..Maybe only Cinebench? Adobe apps skew heavily towards the Windows platform.

In the end maybe it doesn't matter, since most people buying these will using the Pro Apps anyway. 3D and ML has moved to other platforms.