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  • Apple & Big Tech may just keep paying fines instead of abiding by new laws

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    I love how politicians think that tech companies can just snap their fingers and drastically change their payment, cloud and operating systems within weeks that could effect billions of users. It's cute really.
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  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    cogitodexter said:
    waveparticle said:
    cogitodexter said:
    Serious question:

    What does an Intel Core i9 do that requires it to be as power inefficient in the same processing circumstances as an AS M1 Max?

    Presumably there's a reason why it draws so much more current to achieve the same ends? Are there features in it that are not replicated in the M1 Max? 

    I'm assuming the architecture is radically different, but what stops Intel from changing to that architecture?
    Power is consumed when a transistor switch from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Switching is controlled by clock cycles. The more switching the more power is consumed. 
    Well, that is presumably a given. And possibly at a slightly lower level than I was alluding to. More specifically, is there some set of processing or overall design feature that Intel does wrong? Or does it do more 'stuff' that the M1 doesn't do? Is it required to support legacy ways of doing stuff that the M1 is free from? 
    Simply put, it's an inefficient x86 design with larger transistors. It requires more and bigger transistors to perform the same number of tasks which uses more electricity and consumes more power. The architecture is completely different.
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  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    bobolicious said:
    Well if one needs GPU performance - I am running into software for example that simply will not run (bricked) without a beefy GPU...

    from the Macworld article:

      59,774   Apple M1 Max 32 core GPU
    143,594  nVidia 3080 Ti

    240% faster, presumably not 'within margin of error'

    Even more pronounced seem the desktop options (AMD) with the relatively inexpensive nVidia 3060 outperforming passmark scores for many higher priced cards as well as having 12GB VRAM  www.bestbuy.com/site/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-xc-gaming-12gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card/6454329.p?skuId=6454329

    I understood Apple is working on a 'boost' option which may help, and will presumably also ramp up the power and fan requirements...?
    Except that's not the Alder Gate chip. That's the NVIDIA GPU. What's the GPU performance of the Intel graphics on the Alder Gate chip? Does that account for Metal performance boosts?
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  • Apple uses Messages colors to bully Android users, says Google

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    I think the term "bullying" has been degraded beyond its intended purpose. It's called "competition", Google. Google it. Apple had iMessage built and in blue while you were still twidling your thumbs building a Treo replacement. It's not their fault you went through three beta versions of an iMessage killer and never succeeded.
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  • WhatsApp immediately crashing upon opening for many iPhone users

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    It’s likely an iOS/iPadOS issue abs not actually crashing, rather iOS devices to terminate the app for doing something in the background and iOS doesn’t approve and decides to shut it down. We’ve been fighting this with iOS 15 for a while.
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