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13-inch MacBook Pro with Apple Silicon M1 review: Unprecedented power and battery for the ...
The rant from PCWorld's Gordon Mah Ung was glorious in its nerd rage:loopless said:You should all go to the dark side for a bit to hear all the gnashing of teeth in the "PC" world. Quite amusing....
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3596814/new-macbook-air-is-not-faster-than-98-percent-of-pc-laptops.html
The definition of butt hurt.
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M1 benchmarks prove Apple Silicon outclasses nearly all current Intel Mac chips
My 16 GB 8 Core GPU M1 MacBook Air:Mike Wuerthele said:
We do not yet, no.beowulfschmidt said:I'm guessing you didn't yet have the new Air or Mini to add to the comparisons?
I'd be interested in seeing what, if any, differences the cooler in the Pro makes over the Air and Mini.Cinebench R23MC 7226SC 1494Geekbench 5MC 7560SC 1727Compute OpenGL 18138
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Compared: New Apple Silicon Mac mini versus Intel Mac Mini
Outside of very fast memory compression and fast swap, what could Apple do to reduce memory requirements? I’ve seen people compare it to the iPhone versus Android but that doesn’t track. Android uses garbage collection (GC) which is far less memory efficient than Apple’s automatic reference counting (ARC).MacPro said:I have a suspicion we are all going to be surprised at how much less RAM is needed with Apple's new technologies to achieve as good or better results. Everyone is judging the M1 by what just could be old school Intel thinking.I can’t come up with any reason to think that memory intensive apps will have their requirements lessened because of a CPU architecture.
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How Apple Silicon on a M1 Mac changes monitor support and what you can connect
Apparently not. The SoC seems to be bandwidth limited. It looks like even though the SoC supports two TB3 ports, it doesn’t have enough bandwidth to support video out to both. Surprising to me. I guess doing your own TB3/USB4 hardware is pretty difficult.dominickelly said:I have 2 x LG Ultrafine 4K monitors and an Intel MBA.
I run both monitors from a single TB port, the monitors are daisy chained.
Is this not possible with the MM M1??Are there any downside to connecting one LG to TB and the other LG to HDMI if I went with the MM M1? Apart from untidy wires?
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Native Instruments warns macOS Big Sur can damage its music hardware
Sanitizing input data is something that is the responsibility of the designer. Relying on a third-party to do the “right” thing is going to bite you in the ass. Whether you are designing a web page or firmware doesn’t much matter. If your device bricks because of spurious data sent by Apple or Bob’s MIDI shack has no bearing. You are still going to be on the hook for warranty support. Write better software.spheric said:
*should* is correct.jdb8167 said:Sounds like a hardware problem ... for Native Instruments. There should be no way any digital input should damage peripheral hardware (different if it is analog).
However, if there is some unfixable design flaw that could damage the hardware (I've seen synthesizers permanently bricked by sending the wrong kind of Sysex data via MIDI, resulting in Boot Flash corruption that required replacement*), and Apple's update is sending spurious, errant data that it shouldn't be, then the problem is indeed Apple's to fix.
It's sort of like if I forget to lock my front door and a burglar just walks in and steals stuff — yes, I should have locked my door, but it was the burglar who actually ruined the day.
This is speculation, of course.*) The guy who told me this was using it as an example of how software engineering had gone to shit since the days when he still wrote the code for that brand's machines. He'd always test the resiliency of the machines he was writing for by sending them a huge .TIFF file via SysEx to see if they'd lock up.
