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MacPro said:

Regarding the NPD Breach check.  Maybe it's just me, but filling in an online form asking for my details and SS# doesn't feel comfortable.

Agreed, but there’s an easier way to find out if you SSN has been stolen. 

robin huber said:

Correcting this national problem should be the responsibility of the federal government, not the individual victims. It is a the ID number from a federal program that has been stolen. It seems that in this case that the federal government has too little power, not too much. 

They have the power, they just aren’t using it. That is, Congress could pass a law to address the problem but they aren’t passing such laws. Maybe if tens of millions of people experience id theft, there will be political pressure to act.

robin huber said:

Oh boy! Zune Brown. 

yeah... I really can't imagine ever buying something with that color. 

Also... I'm really hoping to hold onto my iPhone 13 Pro for at least another year. While I'm optimistic that Apple Intelligence will eventually provide a compelling reason to upgrade, I'm less optimistic that will be the case this year. And when it does become a compelling reason to upgrade, I'm guessing it will lead me to upgrade my Mac before it leads me to upgrade other Apple devices. In this post-pandemic, work from home world, my Mac has become relatively more important to me than "mobile" devices. 

Scrolling through the entries so far it seems that the Neural Engine works great for the quantized version of the benchmark and so-so for half precision. But it seems Apple hardware in general is kind of lame for the single precision version (with the best hardware being the GPU in the M3 Max). 

Happy to be corrected, but I take this to mean that Apple hardware is good for on-device inference but crappy for model training. 

I wonder how much of the issue is CoreML needing more optimization versus Apple needing beefier GPUs... 

elijahg said:

Spreading the CPU updates over years makes it seem like the devices that are last to get upgraded are getting an old processor. The top-of-the-line Mac Studio is still on the M2, but the M4 is in the Pad Pro wherein it's nigh-on pointless.

I agree it’s not a good look. I guess one could argue that people buying a Mac Studio know that there are important differences between an M2 Ultra and a vanilla m4, so maybe the marketing issue isn’t such a big deal for this audience.