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  • iMac 24-inch M3 review: A clear sign that Intel Mac support is ending soon

    elijahgelijahg
    jonamac said:
    Mike Wuerthele said:
    jonamac said:
    Is there any logic to that headline whatsoever? What about this iMac is a clear sign of intel support going away???
    This is addressed in the text.
    Where?!
    I wondered the same, nothing really addresses that apart from saying some new features only work on Apple Silicon. The Apple Silicon only features are similar to features on newer versions of iOS only working on the latest generation iPhone, doesn't mean support for the previous generation(s) is going to be dropped imminently.
    mattinozAlex1Njonamac

  • iMac 24-inch M3 review: A clear sign that Intel Mac support is ending soon

    elijahgelijahg
    I’m not sure Intel support is going away just yet. That would piss off people who bought the Intel Mac Pro which still being sold 4 months ago. Apple usually supports Macs for around 6 years after their release, which means 3 more years for the Mac Pro released in 2019. 
    Alex1N

  • Apple rumored to launch new Macs in October

    elijahgelijahg
    22july2013 said:
    What I want is better NE (Neural Engine) core speeds, because my software seems to be bound by the speed of the NEs. (It's hard to be sure, since the Apple Activity Monitor in macOS doesn't tell you about the NE load.) Here's what Apple's processors claim to have:

    11 trillion ops/sec -- M1
    15.8 trillion ops/sec --M2 Pro, M2 Max, M2, A15
    17 trillion ops/sec -- A16
    22 trillion ops/sec -- M1 Ultra (apparently 2x the M1 speed because the M1 Ultra is 2 M1 cores tied together. I'm not sure if real world performance scales perfectly.)
    31.6 trillion ops/sec -- M2 Ultra (apparently 2x the M2 speed because the M2 Ultra is 2 M2 cores tied together. I'm not sure if real world performance scales perfectly.)

    Looking at this data, there was a 40% speed bump from M1 to M2, which is definitely okay, but the other increases were caused only from doubling the number of Mx/NE cores. I'm hoping the M3 chip has a true speed bump, in which case I'm likely to replace my M1 Mac with an M3 Mac.

    Does anyone know of any software that can show me the load on my Neural Engines? Does anyone know why Apple's Activity Monitor refrains from reporting that data?
    Out of interest, what do you use that requires heavy use of the neural engine?
    watto_cobra

  • Larger 32-inch iMac Pro rumored to hit store shelves in late 2024

    elijahgelijahg
    Is all that R&D spending going into Vision Pro? Because it's definitely not going into Apple's now singular AIO desktop. The M1 iMac has been out for 2.5 years, whilst the M2 has now been around for 18 months. Apple has had 18 months to put the M2 into the iMac but for some reason hasn't, despite all the previous handwringing that Intel was the reason Mac updates began to slow.

    I can only think Apple was hoping to jump straight to the M3 for the iMac in ~October 2022, much like they were rumoured to for the Mac Pro,  but as it was delayed they ended up with nothing for the iMac and a Mac Pro that appears to be a bodge.
    muthuk_vanalingamAlex1N

  • iPhone 15 has new battery health controls to prevent charging past 80%

    elijahgelijahg
    Actually... Most wear to lithium batteries is in the topping charge (80%+). Preventing the battery exceeding 80% does genuinely increase battery lifetime quite significantly. If a user doesn't discharge their battery to <20% by the end of the day, there is no point in charging it to 100% and causing more wear. Better to use the lower 0-80% than the upper 20-100%. This is why Apple limits the charge to 80% as much as possible at night, which is a relatively small proportion of time, but the battery improvement is enough that they deem it worth it.

    I hope this comes to older iPhones too.
    Alex1NmaltzbyronlappleinsideruserFileMakerFellerjony0