Marvin

Galfan said:

Is it just me or does the M4 Max feels like a less improvement. Maybe it's because M4 Pro took such a leap I was expecting M4 max to become a 16 and 18 CPU with maybe 32 and 42 GPU cores but it remains the same on core counts as M3 Max......I think I got my hopes up a bit too much

Apple has comparisons to M3 Max on their site, under the 'go deeper' link at the bottom of the popup. Divide M4 amount by M3 amount to get the relative difference:

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

M4 Max has about 15% improvement over M3 Max but there are a couple of areas where it's as much as 30%. M4-series uses Armv9 so has faster vector computing. They also have 2nd-gen raytracing cores.

As usual, it's not worth upgrading for a single generation but there's a large jump every 3-4 generations. M4 is 2-3x M1 so people with M1 Max could comfortably move to M4 Pro to get the same performance at lower power and lower price.

robin huber said:

You know what else is nowhere to be found? Where to watch this video. 

It's on Apple's website, linked on the Mac mini page:

https://www.apple.com/105/media/us/mac-mini/2024/58e5921e-f447-487a-a789-3452c23b8400/films/announcement/mac-mini-announcement-tpl-us-2024_16x9.m3u8

macgui said:

WTF.

Why after composing a post, do I get a Verify Your Human post that, when verifying, wipes out my post?

The site devs are aware of the issue, a CloudFlare plugin was added as bots were doing things on the site. CloudFlare controls when it triggers.

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/

The redirect after verifying isn't working correctly as it should post the comment after successful verification. It would be good if it could be disabled entirely for logged in users but I don't know how much control there is over it.

It usually triggers on certain keywords and links. Save the contents of the post (easiest to copy the code using the HTML View </> so it can be pasted back in) in TextEdit before hitting submit. Preview can help track down what's triggering it. Try removing links and currency text. If preview works, it will post ok.

The feedback forum is where the site devs can be contacted about it:

https://forums.appleinsider.com/categories/feedback

mark fearing said:

At this point does anyone NOT believe that these 'analysts' are simply working to manipulate the market? Sell, buy, sell, buy. Liquidity for funds that needs monthly income. It's a near completely corrupt system. It's manipulation and if they ever cracked down on these grifters the market would be 'less liquid' which means financial institutions wouldn't manufacture profit for themselves as easily.

Some of the people who do it have described how they do it (3:36 they talk about Apple):



It maintains legitimacy because some people actually do track inventory and have inside contacts with suppliers but it's clearly a mixed bag. Reporting things that are credible builds trust and when there's a need to swing things one way or another, it can be manipulated.

It keeps happening because there's no accountability, no oversight over what is going on in the rich people's casino and there should be but the people tasked to regulate it not only get financial incentives from the players, some of the regulators like to play in the casino too.

They'd justify it by saying nobody is losing because of it, people have the choice to buy and sell when they want. If people think this news will create a downward turn, they can profit from it too, if not, bet against it.

The hedge funds tried to manipulate GameStop down with the same tactics, retail investors bet the other way and cost them a lot of capital:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/19/investing/melvin-capital-hedge-fund-closes/index.html

mpantone said:

AppleInsider said:

I think it's too late to take any bets on who is going to drive mass market adoption of AI/ML tools.

One thing that is crystal clear: consumer-facing AI tools are alpha or early beta quality right now. Here in late October 2024 there is nothing in the consumer-facing AI universe that remotely resembles release-quality software/services.

There are a few tools that are production quality and used by millions every day.

Copilot for developers (Github Copilot) has integrations directly into editors, can rewrite parts of code and works very well.
Midjourney and Leonardo AI have millions of paid users and have generated hundreds of millions of high quality art images.
Adobe has some art tools baked into different apps (1:05):



Audio AI like ElevenLabs and Respeecher can simulate voices very accurately and movies are using these tools to use iconic voices in new productions:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/26/ai-is-taking-over-the-iconic-voice-of-darth-vader-with-the-blessing-of-james-earl-jones/
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/1/23488336/disneys-ai-tool-aging-actors-vfx-announcement

There won't be a single AI provider that excels at everything. AI covers a wide range of fields and there will be top providers in each field.

AI tools are production-ready today, being used by millions and generating billions in revenue.