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libertymatters said:

Pretty devastating, the Max is almost half the GPU performance against the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 on the Geekbench 5 OpenCL test.  The whitewashed spin here by AppleInsider is inappropriate.

You do know that OpenCL has been deprecated on the Mac for years now, right?  Optimized Mac software will use Metal.  Early builds of Metal optimized Blender show ray tracing is very close to RTX 3080 speeds.  Definitely in the same class of performance. 

mike54 said:

Will the M2 chip be ARMv9 or not?

Good question.  I'm going to speculate and assume it won't.  If the M2 came out later this fall, I think it would have had a chance.  It seems too early for it now.  I'd be surprised if the ARMv9 was not first debuted on an iPhone, presumably the A16.  I suppose there is no reason they couldn't do it now.  However, they haven't finished rolling out the M1 based Macs, so I'm assuming if an M2 comes out next month it will be based on the A15 technology. 

tht said:

That's not throttling. That's designing the system to operate at 90 Watts, given all the constraints and features they want.

We can call it "pre-throttling", a "performance governor", etc.  Either way, the M1 Max isn't running at capacity on the MacBook Pro models.  This is particularly evident with the GPU.   At the very least, I want an M1 Max with no such limitations.

Anyways, we all want Apple to put as much compute performance as possible in the large iMac. Using the M1 Max isn't going to be enough and won't be enough of a performance improvement over the Xeon 12+ core, Radeon Pro 64 iMac Pro or a 10c Core whatever it is, 5700XT iMac 5K. They really need to have this rumored M1 Max Duo. It will require about 200 W, plus whatever is needed for the storage, display and ports. So, a 300 W machine like the current one, but will have 2x the performance all around. A 11 to 15 mm thick large display iMac has plenty of volume to accommodate 300 W. It's really just a matter of "want" and the product marketing team knowing what customers want.

Just looking at the Apple store configurations now.  The most I can choose is a 10 core CPU (Core i9) with AMD 5700xt.  The only real advantage is that the Intel iMac can be configured to 128 GB memory.  Otherwise, a standard M1 Max beats that configuration.  To your point, I've seen the rumors and also hope there is a dual M1 Max option, but I don't think there "needs" to be that option to be an upgrade over the current model. 

I don't care how thin it is.  I just want to make sure it has sufficient cooling and airflow to run the device at peak performance without having to throttle.  We can see that the M1 Max chips in the new MacBook Air are throttled for a peak of about 90 watts.  I don't want that limitation in a desktop.

ihatescreennames said:

My wife works in HR and is frequently assisting with hiring (and separations). She also handles employment verification. She has repeatedly told me the only thing she can verify is if someone actually worked at her company, that’s it. Job titles shouldn’t matter in that case. 

ETA: Asked my wife for clarification, here’s what she said, “Yeah we don't actually do it it's all outsourced so they can only give the high-level information they were employed at this company from this date to that one.  They can also get general titles, I believe. But it’s not uncommon for titles not to match. They also verify education, etc. generally just trying to make sure it all checks out at a high level.”

I was a little off but my point is it’s unlikely this person didn’t get hired simply because Apple (supposedly) changed job titles on departure. 

Yes, this is exactly true.  This function is typically outsourced for most companies and it's just the very basic employment date history information.  

That said, this story doesn't make sense.  If he offer was rescinded it's likely for other reasons and not because of Apple's "Associate" job title convention.