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mikethemartian said:

hmurchison said:

'The new Macs are so fast you wouldn't know what to do to strain them" 

The Mac press 

Me.   "Let me encode some AV1 8k footage on this.  How fast can you compress HEVC 10 bit to mkv?" 

The computers are fast but lets not ac like there aren't workflows for the jimmys and joes that won't stress 
the constraints of the Mac Studio bandwidth. 

I bet I could crash it in a few minutes with one of the 3D electromagnetic simulations I have tried to run in the past. 128GB of main memory is a drop in the bucket for those simulations.

I would presume you would run these on a cluster of Linux servers, but memory is probably the largest engineering difficulty in pulling off a Mac Pro. Apple will likely have to introduce some kind of dual DRAM structure, with 128GB or 256GB of DRAM on package that somehow operates as a subset or a cache with a 1TB or larger (but slower) extended DRAM pool. Perhaps this could simply operate as a really fast page cache, but that would still be a lot slower than kernel mapped DRAM. Or maybe some of the system's DRAM would simply be slower, in which case Apple will have to figure out which pages will be faster and which slower. Extended DRAM that operates as a file cache might be easy enough, but that's not going to work for large simulations. 

Apple should support third party curation, with some kind of revenue split. That way we can get better app stores, or at least better specialized app stores, but with Apple still getting the revenue it wants (and should receive) to ensure the App ecosystem is properly managed. This also isn't perfect, and it certainly has its own technical (and business) hurdles. But, it would solve one of the Apple App Store's biggest problem for both app developers and consumers, which is that it is a disorganized mess. 

Do Apple and Sonos have some kind of patent deal between them? All the elements that Sonos has gone after Google for infringing are implemented on Apple devices as well, and seem to be integral to AirPlay 2 as well.

Perhaps Sonos had to agree to some leeway from Apple in order to be an AirPlay 2 partner. 

stevebobs said:

Xed said:

stevebobs said:

We have got ourselves some apple lovers here. While I agree that the media probably wants to make a story of this more than investigate the matter, this device apple made is dangerous. It leverages the entire apple ecosystem! You know, those 1 billion devices. What other device can tap into that? It's $30. Discreet. It has been shown that it's firmware can be hacked. Apple has released several new security measures since it came out. Why?? Cause it's so freaking easy to use it to track people. All I gotta do is go to Target. Yah it's tied to my ID but if I'm a stalker I don't care. Don't blame this on law enforcement. They were blindsided by a tracker expertly crafted by one the world's most capable companies. Wtf, mate? 

Apple includes an anti-stalking feature to their AirTags = Apple bad
No one else has this feature despite cheap and simple easy to track people without their knowledge has existed for long time = It's still Apple's fault

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I mean I'm not super passionate about this argument. I don't know if actual criminals will ever figure out a way to gainfully jailbreak airtags.

But one thing to consider, I have no idea how or where I could buy a good stalking device. Like I know tile is an alternative but I think we airtags and the kind of devices this thread is referring to are much more capable. 

But buying an airtag is easy. Yah dedicated criminals had access to these tools for a long time. But your regular dumb, jealous, angry, or resentful average person wants convenience. Airtags give them incredible convenience. Yah anybody can make em. But only apple has the ubiqituous network that enables such accurate tracking. 

Google "GPS Trackers" and they come up right away, with images and where to buy them. Heck, you get pretty much the same result by simply searching for "trackers". 

The only issue is that most of them don't last very long. The better ones can track people for about a ten days before their batteries run out, but they are certainly small enough to hide in a car, and a few days is more than enough for plenty of nasty purposes. A few days is longer than an AirTag will sit idle before alerting people nearby to its presence. 

Apple has made very clear that they will work with law enforcement to track down stalkers, and with their anti-stalking features, there is a decent chance that someone being stalked will find an AirTag, while there is very little chance they will find one of these: https://spytec.com/collections/all-gps-trackers

GeysonAlvarenga said:

I recently got my Sony A7SIII (I use CF-Express A cards) which usually contain gigantic 4K 120fps HLG files, and this truly doesn’t ring “Pro” as they target creators. Time is money! 

P.S Im grateful for the upgrades. But this should’ve been a no brainer for them.

Given that Sony is the only camera maker supporting CF-Express type A cards for now, that would be a narrow market. Other vendors are using the larger CF-Express type B cards. Also, the laptop designs were probably finalized over a year ago, when literally the only camera supporting Type A was the Sony A7SIII. I can't imagine Apple supporting type B, as that would have required a separate slot from the SD Card slot. 

Also, the fast CF-Express readers generate quite a lot of heat making them a significant heat management problem even if Apple had a reason to consider them. 

As for UHS-III, B&H Photo doesn't appear to list any UHS-III SD cards, there are no devices that support writing them, and several Google searches got no hits on external UHS-III readers. As a future proofing step, it would have been nice, and Apple does have some history of being ahead of technology curves, but UHS-III would be a lot to ask for a laptop shipping in 2021.