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  • AMD's Radeon Pro Vega II and Duo offer Mac Pro up to 28Tflops of GPU performance

    myopiarocksmyopiarocks
    Instead of a five (or six?) digit number, geekbench's score for this top-end machine will just be a series of emoji: 😳🙌💥🔥

    🍆

    MacProemig647cornchipviclauyyc1983watto_cobra

  • Testing thermal throttling and performance in the 2018 i7 Mac mini

    myopiarocksmyopiarocks
    I got the i7 2018 mini and love it. My wife and I both use it when working from home and we have a 27" 4k and a 21" 1080p monitor. Nothing too graphics intensive.

    The fan almost never comes on. The only time I heard it was playing a movie for my kids while VMWare updated windows in the background. The fan noise is noticeable but not terrible: it's probably in the neighborhood of 45db when really going, about as loud as my supposedly-whisper-quiet dishwasher.

    Performance is great. I am curious about how much electricity the machine uses under different conditions; if it's hijacking my sonos setup to be airplay compatible and also letting me use it as a VPN for my other devices when I'm away I wonder if I'll be paying through the nose, or not. But no complaints: this is a great machine for the money and should last until Apple obsoletes intel-only macs in ~2024.
    williamlondonwatto_cobralarz2112

  • Apple R&D spend increases to 7 percent ahead of expected big fall launch cycle

    myopiarocksmyopiarocks
    The increase in R&D is to port mac os and mac apps to ARM; macs will continue to ship with intel processors for non-os applications (eg microsoft stuff, windozzzz).

    Increasing spending on R&D now means there's something cooking for 2020-21 (2-3 years out). That's in-line with other rumors for porting macs over to ARM... we're already seeing it with the T2 and probably the T2 (or next year's T3) will "secretly" be powerful enough to run the 2020 arm mac os so that the 2021 transition will work on an installed base.  ...but it takes a lot of r&d $$$ to make that happen.
    watto_cobra

  • Editorial: More companies need to temper their Artificial Intelligence with authentic ethi...

    myopiarocksmyopiarocks
    My response to this editorial is a new variant on Heinlein's Razor: "Never attribute to 'authentic ethics' that which is adequately explained by an inferior product and dumb luck."

    "Authentic Ethics" is a visionary-type person who understands what Siri *should* do, and then implements it. Wake me up when anyone at Apple articulates this vision.  Saying "Security!" as the reason why your product doesn't do xyz isn't a vision, or ethics; it's just an excuse. At best it's a halfplanation.
    [Deleted User]avon b7holyonerobbyxtallest skil78Banditlarryaivanh

  • Apple iOS App Store is trouncing Google Play in services, subscriptions

    myopiarocksmyopiarocks
    This article is helpful for refuting pay-for-play "journalism", but a better comparison between the two companies is to point out that Apple has three significant revenue streams:
    #1 Hardware
    #2 Services, aka, taking a cut on stuff (app sales, music sales, etc)
    #3 Metadata

    Google doesn't have #1 (hardware) in a meaningful way, their #2 (services) is search, and they're in a web-tracker/cookie war for #3 (metadata) with facebook, and all the other trackers. 

    Metadata is becoming more valuable than search or services-related data because of a) privacy laws like the EU's, but also because b) metadata is typically not considered to be about the person (eg, in the US, law enforcement doesn't need a search warrant to collect "pin registry" info like every phone number you dial, the IPs/websites you visit, certain info shared with a cell tower like your phone's location, etc).  Apple can block web trackers - and doesn't need its own web trackers - because the hardware is the tracker. The data doesn't need to be personally linked to a particular device or individual - it's better for obeying privacy laws and avoiding corporate liability if it doesn't - because the metadata can be aggregated (literally, everything "a device" (not a person) does and goes to, merged with other devices on a shared device ID) into an impersonal (not personally identifiable, nudgenudgewinkwink) profile that is then marketable to sellers (not selling personal data, selling access to groups of metadata regarding devices... which are really individual people if you do any significant re-identifying legwork but laws are dumb and that's how the laws currently work in the USA. 

    EU is much more restrictive with their new privacy law, but there still is a "this isn't personal info, it's 'just' metadata" line where it is possible to make lots of $$$ without all the compliance headaches. The rest of the world is the wild west; no laws or arbitrarily enforced ones, on privacy. Google will always (always?) have search-ad revenue, but without a deep well of metadata it's little more than clickable banners shot into the dark.  Long term that's problematic for Google, they know it, and they're trying to use hardware and trackers to address the issue.  Facebook is, too.  etc. And Apple's trying to block web trackers because it's in their interest to do so.  And here we are.
    avon b7watto_cobra