normm

The Topaz Labs tests are all machine learning stuff that doesn't use the Neural Engine on the M1 (11 Trillion operations per second), so not exactly a reasonable comparison either.

Obviously Trump and Biden don't agree here.  I had assumed Trump was using the threat of repeal as  a club to get social media to behave more the way he wants.  To actually repeal would mean they would become responsible for any incitement to violence or incorrect statement that Trump might make, which would presumably require them to not publish his remarks at all.  Repealing 230 would not remove censorship, it would require censorship.

cloudguy said:

These folks consider protecting American manufacturing (and energy and agriculture) jobs to be the road to fascism and are cheering the death of our 70s/80s/90s tech sector, starting with Wintel. So if by 2025 Intel has gone belly up and everyone who isn't using a Mac is using a Windows or ChromeOS laptop with a Chinese-made ARM SOC in it, these folks will regard it as a victory over Trumpism with Apple leading the way.

What the experts all said was that we needed to use our massive leverage, as their biggest market, to make China play by the rules.  What we did instead was try to sabotage them and gave them even more incentive to steal IP.  And remember that Republicans used to be the globalists, who believed that coddling weak industries just hurt our economy.  The US built the modern international order, and has been its biggest beneficiary -- we just forgot to do anything for the workers who were hurt in the process.  But if we've now decided to dismantle the world order we built, how about putting some people in charge of that who actually know what the hell they're talking about, okay?

GeorgeBMac said:

Even though this is the second known, documented serious attack on our country by the same Russian Oligarch that has severely weakened the nation, Let's Keep Hating on China!   Keep the smear campaign going!   Keep the fact free allegations flowing!

Exactly!  Why is government policy being made on the basis of fear and paranoia, rather than facts and experience? Yes, hold China's feet to the fire, but don't throw them in!  And yes, Russia massively pwned us, and we chase toy helicopters.

mfryd said:

Perhaps I missed it.  But I did not see any mention of clock speed, or Windows compatibility.

I need to occasionally run Windows software.  I current use Parallels.   Will Apple Silicon based chips be able to run Parallels and Windows?  

It can run Mac Intel apps under Rosetta, but not Windows Intel apps.

That said, Microsoft makes a version of Windows that runs on their ARM Surface machines.  It includes a system for translating and caching x86 executables similar to Rosetta, to emulate x86 Windows Intel apps on ARM.  They have not announced its availability to run on Apple Silicon, but presumably they could.

There are also cloud based services that let you maintain a virtual Windows machine running on a remote server, when you need it.