lowededwookie

thadec said:

I have seen in forums that the M3 still only supports 2 displays. Meaning that people are going to pay $1600 for an M3 MacBook Pro that can only support a single external monitor. Granted, the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet 3 Chromebook can only support a single external monitor, but that is because it is a $280 device that runs on a 32 bit SOC that was designed in 2017. (Moreover it is technically a tablet and not a laptop.) So can someone please explain this limitation with Apple Silicon's base chips? Whatever it is, you can bet that the Qualcomm chips in 2024 as well as the Nvidia and AMD ARM chips in 2025 aren't going to have them.

So these forums are filled with people using M3 Macs are they? That’s quite interesting 🤔 😂😂😂

appleinsideruser said:

chasm said:

appleinsideruser said:

So is this saying that iCloud is flawed and 3rd parties can secretly add a snooping iMessage device to the account? If so, why not fix this flaw, rather than reporting when it’s happened?

No, they’re not saying that. Sorry you didn’t understand the article.

The article had lots of clear, understandable, specific details. However, it seemed to not address the bigger picture of why this complexity is needed.

An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

In other words, the reason for this complexity is to prevent scumbags stealing our data. Does Apple really need to have more of a reason to implement better security?

Honkers said:

lowededwookie said:

Macs have proven that a 100% native version of a game outperforms a better specced PC. version and Metal 3 makes that even more the case.

Really?  Where have they proven that?

Back in the day when Blizzard made OpenGL versions of their games like World of Warcraft etc, they did performance tests and proved that the Mac played consistently better than the PC with DirectX. Those tests were done by Blizzard themselves and independently verified.

More recently they did tests of Metal vs DirectX and found that Metal could out perform DX in many tasks. Not all but a hell of a lot.

A good proof that it comes down to the developers is Eve Online. Eve has always sucked on the Mac because it was always a Cider wrapped DirectX game (think CrossOver but more dedicated to one game). There was always a massive performance hit and the game performed slower than a snail in molasses. Now however it is a native Metal app, largely down to Apple Silicon, and it performs like a hot knife through butter even on a 2014 MacBook Air.

The lazy Cider approach means they can port to other platforms quicker but then those platforms get massive performance hits and people claim the Mac is crap for games. It’s NOT the platform that is crap, it’s lazy developers not making native versions of games.

thadec said:

Yes, but only because the macOS gaming market potential is 0.

What a bunch of crap.

There is a market but lazy as developers refuse to develop for it because they think they won’t make money.

Macs have proven that a 100% native version of a game outperforms a better specced PC. version and Metal 3 makes that even more the case. But developers still insist of cider wrapped ports of their games rather than getting off their lazy butts and having a team specifically for Metal development.

There is a HUGE market for Mac gaming but no one chooses to fill it.

Can I just say that I find Unity ads to be the most heinous crap known to mankind? There are annoying ad systems and then there’s Unity Ads.

I'd much rather have my eyeballs ripped out my nostrils by rabid wolverines than have to endure those crap ads with tiny close buttons that forcibly open App Store panes until a hidden timer runs out.

The mere fact this idiot ran EA says everything. A monster company seeking only to pad its coffers rather than produce anything of real value. They ruined Real Racing with Real Racing 3 and they’ve not truly done any real development on what they did produce.