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  • Everyone is a loser in the Apple Intelligence race

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    I’ve lost track of the number of times the Google AI Overview has been flat out 100% factually wrong on something  - it even happened to me today when researching specifications of Display Tablets. 

    This is not surprising when there is so much garbage on the internet and much of it is used to train these “models”. It’s that old adage: garbage in… garbage out.

    20 years ago when I told my late mother that someone we knew was doing a degree in AI, she retorted “What’s that? Pretending to be clever?”
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  • Third time's the charm? EU considers fining Apple over DMA yet again

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    The EU needs to make better (less vague) laws - they will deserve everything that gets thrown at them by the US administration.  
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  • Apple's foldable iPad rumored to get under-display Face ID

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    Super-sized iPad = Wacom killer 😁 
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  • Apple's foldable iPad rumored to get under-display Face ID

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    Wacom killer 😁 
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  • First Mac Studio M3 Ultra benchmarks significantly outpace the M2 Ultra

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    The M3 range had a better jump up from the M2 range than the M4 had from the M3 for my type of workload, including 3d hardware raytracing - so it feels frustrating that the new Ultra is M3 based and thereby not as good as we hoped it would be, but I think the Ultra will be better than people expect, or rather the M4 Ultra would not have been that much better than the M3 Ultra.

    For my 3D work the GPU isn’t really important as I primarily use ZBrush nowadays and that is entirely CPU based. Even the Redshift renderer ZBrush comes with is CPU based (but I could choose to subscribe to the GPU version if I felt the need). More RAM and CPU is more important to me than more GPU for my 3D work, as I spend 99% of my time not rendering. 

    We’ll have to wait and see what the review tests show to get a better idea of real-world performance but anyone doing significant video work, especially those making use of the specific hardware encoders/decoders could see a big benefit from the Ultra - but they might not notice it much except for shorter rendering times if they are not doing massive projects in 8k.

    My other half is a graphic designer and she recently moved from a 2019 intel iMac to a 2024 M4 Pro Mac Mini with Studio Display (both setups cost about the same) and she doesn’t feel that it is that much better except the heat/fans and of course being able to run the latest versions of certain programs. 

    The horse train analogy reminds me of something I read about ZBrush cores from some time ago, whereby to determine when more cores is better is to multiple the core frequency with the number of cores and the bigger number wins…

    M3 Ultra = (4.05 x 20) + (2.75 x 8) = 103
    M4 Max = (4.5 x 10) + (2.95 x 4) = 56.8

    an M4 Ultra would have been: (4.5 x 20) + (2.95 x 8) = 113.6 

    … I just searched for the source and found this: “This means that a 6 core CPU at 2.5 GHz would have a score of 15 while a 4 core CPU at 3 GHz would only have a score of 12. The former edges out the latter even though each core is slower.” from https://www.reddit.com/r/ZBrush


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