Why is it likely going to be on 5nm? 3nm has been in risk production for months now, which would line up with enough lead time for full production for normal Mac refreshes early fall.
There's no way Intel did for their CPUs, it'd be on their roadmap. They're not going to say "oh here's a new uarch" out of nowhere. Like, the Sapphire Rapids CPUs are all being sold about now to the corporate accounts.
Maybe their GPUs that they keep teasing but even that's a stretch, IMO.
I mean, this is why you don't take rumors as gospel. Those Intel data center chips would be actively being sold right now to the datacenter vendors and they haven't announced anything other than the fact that Sapphire Rapids is going to be Intel 7 still. Everything they've announced on their CPU roadmap since that article came out has been stating that they're staying on Intel's foundry for the moment, and certainly not switching for the timeframe of the early mass production slots on N3 (early fall).
The new iPhone SE looks like a really solid phone. The only thing it doesn't really have compared to the 13 is the better camera and the larger form factor / fancier screen tech. And weirdly there doesn't seem to be much in the Android world at that price point anymore.
I have the current iPhone SE, and I was hoping for MagSafe and precision finding of AirTags, but from the presentation it is unclear if the new model got either of these.
It's a shame it's still using the 2014 design. I don't really care about the camera or the screen tech, but the form factor looks actively retro compared to every other smartphone out there (and every other Apple product (okay except the cheapest plain iPad)).
I think this is a feature for a lot of people. It's the perfect "same but better" phone for parents, grandparents, and other less demanding markets. All the cases and accessories continue to work as expected and the home button is exactly where it's always been.
True, but you could still have a TouchID button on the side. I get price is the main reason, I'm just saying that I personally wouldn't want to be rocking a device designed in 2014 in 2027.
Not really, I'm daily driving a rooted $300 2019 Xiaomi, but the thing does have an edge-to-edge display, and thin bezels are a godsend for people with small hands, like me.
No more stupid absurd "borderless" Screen. You even make the false positive detection of holding a phone perfect. Or you make a simple border around it.
Touch ID and Home Button is a trillion times more intuitive than swiping. It is one of those question like single or double mouse button. People dont understand why double mouse button isn't exactly a great design.
13 mini battery life is far better than 2020 SE battery life. I bought both new, and frequently had to charge 2020 SE more than once per day, but I do not recall 13 mini running out before bed.
The SE2 absolutely requires a case, too. The glass exterior is far too slippery. The rounded edges make a firm grip even more uncertain. The protruding camera makes a case required as well if you don’t want to be mildly annoyed every time you put it on a table face up.
If the thing is built to require a case that would increase its thickness by the amount of the camera protrusion, why not just make it that thick to begin with.
I really pine for a flat back (despite any thickness that would add), square edges, and a back material with a higher index of friction. The SE1 frame was like this.
Good phone otherwise though, fast, battery ok if you charge regularly, etc.
Remove apps you don't use. Turn off any system location data settings you don't need. Don't use high brightness on the display. Turn off cellular data for any apps that don't need it. Don't have email set to check on a fixed interval. Keep an eye on app battery usage and stop using apps that use significant amounts in the background. If your area has weak cellular, get a microcell or turn off cellular data at home using an automation.
100%. I got an iPhone 13 but didn't like it. Took it back and bought a refurbished iPhone8+. I'm delighted that Apple hasn't ignored those of us who really love our home button and touchid unlock.
Face ID is a step back in usability for most cases, since you have to be looking at your phone to unlock it. Doesn’t work if you’re in the car and need to unlock for CarPlay, doesn’t work if someone else needs to change music, doesn’t work if the phone’s in your pocket and you want Siri to continue telling you privileged info. They just solved masks (in beta), but that still doesn’t work for Apple Pay or app authentication. The amount of times I’ve had to pull over to punch in my alphanumeric passcode so the passenger can get to Google Maps makes me want to throw the phone in the creek.
I think they’ll make some triumphant return to Touch ID in the power button at some point, because they don’t really seem to feel like making Face ID better right now either. I’m not sure what the big draw is, as in the best case it’s as usable as Touch ID was.
Face ID is a terrible compromise to make the "borderless", no-home-button design work at a time where they couldn't get either under-screen fingerprint sensors nor put one on the side or the back. Form over function, as usual.
My face still has to be in front of the screen, even if I’m not “paying attention” to it. That doesn’t solve most of the usability issues, unfortunately.
I live in CA and love Touch ID. But I have friends who live in colder/wetter places who don't like taking off gloves or drying off fingers to unlock their phones.
Touch ID and Face ID are both mixed bags. Would be great if they had both, but I understand that space is at a premium and they may want to push for a single authentication solution.
> Doesn’t work if you’re in the car and need to unlock for CarPlay, doesn’t work if someone else needs to change music, doesn’t work if the phone’s in your pocket and you want Siri to continue telling you privileged info. They just solved masks (in beta), but that still doesn’t work for Apple Pay or app authentication
As usual with Apple the Siri message notifications and unlocking while masked work fine if you have AirPods and an Apple Watch, everything is always optimized for the integrated experience. Personally I prefer faceID and the chinless display plus not having to find the touch pad on the back like a pixel phone.
For carplay though, you really should enable it before you hit the road, even with touchid.
I'm actually in the other camp. I'm currently running an iPhone 8 and the touch id has been very inconsistent in actually unlocking for me. I have to position my finger in a specific way (I even have tried reenrolling my fingerprints) and to no avail. I do usually get sweaty palms and fingers so perhaps that has something to do with it but, in my opinion, touch id isn't perfect for me.
Not GP, but I decided against the 13 because of the size and weight. I ended up getting a 13 Mini, despite concerns about battery life. I wish the 13s had the in-button Touch ID that Apple put on the iPad. It would have been very useful during COVID masking, though I understand that sort of thing would've needed to already have been in the works for it to have landed last fall.
In my case Face ID was a significant downgrade, even before the pandemic and masks.
With Touch ID, I can reach into my pocket, place my finger on the button as I'm taking the phone out, and by the time I got the phone out it's already unlocked, played the unlock animation and is on the home screen.
If the phone is on the table/etc I can just put my finger on the button and unlock it - so again by the time I actually grab the phone it's unlocked (that is - if I need to grab it - maybe I just wanted to glance at the notification I just received, or pass it to another person).
With Face ID, the phone needs to be in front of your face just to begin the unlock sequence, and needs to be at a certain distance and in clear view of your face. Masks break this, but so do even pre-pandemic things like being in bed and having some of your face obstructed by pillows/blankets.
Yep, Face ID is miserable. I can feel myself inwardly flinching every time I know I’m going to have to interact with it. All the swiping, the double tap for Apple Pay, just about everything is slower and less reliable, for no gain at all.
That said, my wife gets quite dry hands and has never been able to use the fingerprint sensor reliably so this is a golden age for her. Would be nice to have the option of both going forward.
And Apple Transit / Transport. If you have your FaceID unlock failure multiple time, ( You are not looking at the screen or mask ), the Transit wont work at all. You have to be up at the gate and do FaceID authentication.
Can someone explain to me why unlocking with FaceID requires you to swipe up? Pressing the power button and having my face visible seems like a good signal to let me start interacting with icons. That, to me, was the FaceID downgrade. It's still easy to unlock when you pull it out of your pocket, it's just annoying that you have to shift your grip downwards to swipe up.
(One problem with designing products in California is that they don't have public transportation, so nobody beta testing the phone is standing on a crowded subway, hanging on with one hand and trying to use their phone with the other. The SE was great for one-handed use. The subsequent phones are difficult there.)
> Can someone explain to me why unlocking with FaceID requires you to swipe up? Pressing the power button and having my face visible seems like a good signal to let me start interacting with icons.
I often want to look at the lock screen, perhaps to tell the time or to read / interact with a notification, or to swipe from the left to interact with the widgets.
Quite a lot of my phone usage is like this: recency based (driven by notifications) and/or not wanting to open the phone and then search for the app I want, launch it, get to the right screen and blah blah. Much lower overhead to get the job done.
I don't tend to open my phone and doom scroll when I have a moment. I understand that's the major use case for most people, and for them perhaps your model would be appropriate.
Can someone explain to me why unlocking with FaceID requires you to swipe up?
It doesn't. On my iPhone, just picking it up to look at the latest alerts activates FaceID. I find it annoying because more often I just want to see the notifications, not jump back into whatever app I was using six hours ago.
If you and I are having opposite problems, there must be a setting for this.
I looked and did some forum research and there isn't a setting. I think I like the feature you dislike; I just want to be at the home screen or last app without touching the screen after FaceID is done. The current state leaves you on the notifications screen with an unlocked padlock after FaceID, then you have to swipe to actually use your phone. (This was never a problem with TouchID.)
Other comments say it's so you can read the notifications after you unlock, but I rarely want to do that.
I think you can preemptively swipe (either as it's doing the Face ID auth, or beforehand) and then it will give you the passcode screen but Face ID is actually still active on that screen, and when you complete it (either via Face ID or passcode entry) it will take you straight to the home screen.
My phone is on a stand on my table, when I get a notification it displays "<app name>" and the icon. When I look at it, FaceID detects it and shows the full notification text, which may contain personal information.
If it unlocked fully, I'd just see a bunch of icons, not the notification and I'd need to swipe to see them.
My iPhone SE 2020 is either hacked or it just cant handle running the latest iOS(it stumbles and stutters on various click actions). Also, the battery life is awful!. I am semi-excited about getting the SE 3 as it's the only phone with Touch ID and for me I think that's the best and safest unlocking UX especially if you ever need to open your phone in the car. Just grab it and its open ...one step vs. grab it..look at it and swipe up.
I have an iPhone 12 mini, and sometimes when I drag down to enter the search field, it feels like I'm waiting for an HDD to spin up (stuck for a second or two).
It's probably not a hack, but just the towering complexity of all the different software systems developed under tight deadlines.
My suggestion to both is to do a clean install of iOS with a computer backup. As iCloud restore doesn't seems to do the trick and sometimes causes even more problem.
Make 100% sure you have multiple backup though because backup corruption is still a thing forever reason. Apple just haven't bothered to fix it.
If the battery is shot then the phone will start throttling the CPU which may explain your problems. My iPhone 7 has no problems running the latest iOS.
> And weirdly there doesn't seem to be much in the Android world at that price point anymore.
What's that based on? There are 19 different Android phones available for me to buy right now in the €360 - €400 price range that came out in the last six months.
IIRCGoogle Pixel 5a, had the same camera as the more expensive Pixel. The SE with it's fingerprint unlock looks very nice, but the camera is a bit of a deal breaker. It's one thing I don't like about my iPhone 13mini.
I bought my mom an iPhone SE (2nd gen) as an xmas gift after her old iPhone 7 broke due to a water-related incident. It's much nicer than my current, once high-end iPhone X. Time flies.
I have the iphone SE 2020 modell, and it serves me very good and the battery is enough for me and i charge every evening, like i have with any other phone before this one. The size and home button is a win forme and the cheaper prize.
yes, you can. i don't know if people here are too young to remember before Steve Jobs return, Apple was in the gutter. Steve had to make a deal with Microsoft to inject money into Apple. no one stand at the top forever. if it happened before it will happen again.
I do not see how Amazon is ahead in online retail. Buying from Amazon, or Home Depot, or Walmart, or Costco, or Best Buy, or some random website is the same experience. Actually, not buying from Amazon is better because then I have better assurance it is not commingled counterfeit crap.
As a long-time PC user, I remember going to CompUSA and seeing the Mac section of games which was laughable.
Back then you bought Apple if you were a sound engineer or into graphic/media design.
I used to tell people I’m a die-hard PC user simply: Mac sucks!
Fast forward to around 2009 and I’ve been a happy Apple user since then for all my software engineering needs.
Is the platform perfect? Nope! And nothing is.
Is it expensive? Yes, but the quality is fantastic and if one really wants to can get 5 years easy out of any Mac computer…I’ve got 11 years out of my family’s Mac mini that I was able to upgrade a few times.
Which brings me to my only real gripe: the lack of upgrade ability and the obsession with “thin” design.
Please address that because everything else I can mostly get over.
I used to be the same, but I'm contemplating a return to Linux more and more and already use a Linux machine for day-to-day work.
macOS' recent updates have been a massive downgrade in terms of usability, try to force garbage on me that I don't want (no, I don't need Apple TV+ nor News on a work machine) and reliability on the M1 Air is bad - just yesterday the thing half-locked-up for 30 seconds (caps lock still responded, but everything else froze) with no explanation, not to mention the occasional kernel panics and constant nags for permission for every goddamn thing (you've implemented the notifications permission system to prevent apps from spamming me, but your solution is to spam me with one for every app that I run even for apps that never actually send notifications?).
I just need a machine that works and gets out of my way. It used to be as everyone else was trying to get in your way, Apple was mostly content with just charging a huge premium. That seems to have changed in the last couple years.
MS only “injected” $250 million in Apple. Apple turned around and used $100 million to buy Power Computings Mac assets. The $150 million left did not “save” Apple at the rate it was losing money.
The iPhone 14 mini doesn’t exist so I’m not sure how it can be “going away”. As for the 13 mini, where’s your source that says it’s being discontinued as opposed to the ‘mini’ line just simply not continuing after the 13’s lifespan?
It’s been consistently rumored since even before the iPhone 13 that the 13 mini would be the last mini, due to (unfortunately) lower-than-expected sales of the 12 mini. If Apple didn’t have such a long internal lead-up time for new models, they may even have ditched it right after the 12. The 14 will be four models, two 6.1" and two 6.8" (“Max”), each in a Pro and a non-Pro variant.
I hope that Apple will make another attempt at a small iPhone before/when the 13 mini becomes end-of-life.
I think the point is that 13 mini is still available and likely will be for a few years, since Apple usually sells old models for that long. This remains true even if there is no 14 mini.
My guess is that when 13 mini is no longer available new, Apple will have another small-phone solution available. If not I will hold on to my 13 mini the same way other folks hold on to Touch ID. This mini size is perfect.
> likely will be for a few years, since Apple usually sells old models for that long.
They usually only sell the mainstream models longer. The iPhone 6/7/8 form factor was continued with the SE 2020 and now 2022, but the Plus wasn’t. So I’m not too hopeful for the mini.
Of course and it sucks that Russians have to suffer sanctions because of the actions of their government. But what's the alternative? How do you put pressure on a government that attacks one of your allies without sending troops and starting WW3? We do it with sanctions and the way the world is organized these affect all citizens of a nation state regardless of their political affiliation.
They're using the same processor cores, but scaling them up by adding more. They usually add an X or up the number when there's a change to the cores themselves or a major addition in some subcomponent (like the "bionic" stuff, or changing the GPU shader units).
It would've looked really bad if they introduced an M2 half a year after releasing a M1 chip. They would've deprcated the chip that is being used in their existing products.
I expect them to release an M2 chip earliest in the fall of this year or early 2023.
If anything, better hardware is just an enabling technology for programming languages that run their static analysis at compile time. Rustc is written in Rust - it's not like it's going to get 10x faster any time soon.
More hardware means you can do more things. Yes, lots of software is slow and bloated for no reason. But sometimes you want to be able to do more than the current hardware allows.
And it's not like the rustc devs haven't been working on performance improvements.
M1 Ultra looks like a big win for Apple Silicon performance. Software support still isn't fully there, for one the ML stack still isn't frustration free, but a lot of progress has been made.
The operational excellence has allowed them to make every version of computer. It's wonderful from a profit perspective, and it's nice that everyone can enter the Apple family at whatever feature set/price point needed.
I notice the relative perf difference for my workloads. Also, having to preallocate memory forces a question that is often hard to answer ahead of time and harms other parts of the system while not needed.
Possibly not for long. Asahi linux are due an alpha release any day now. No GPU support yet, but I imagine that will come. And is apparently made much easier by the fact that there's essentially only one GPU with minor variants across the entire lineup.
The pace at which apple is pumping out new silicon is astounding. It’s hard to imagine anyone competing with them pound for pound, especially in the flops per watt game. I still can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life.
I actually hope somebody is challenged enough by this to really push for competition as this level of performance asymmetry will ultimately result in further pricing asymmetry as competition breaks down.
Well they broke every update for the phones running that ship. The latest debacle was earlier this week as the Android 12L update was delayed for those models.
I thought my fans didn’t work for the first month or so. Months in and they’re never audible. The silence, temp and battery make it worth the upgrade over my 16” i9 MBP.
I might be wrong, but from what I can tell, the current MacBook Pros all have fans. Though judging by my experience with a 16" (2 days) they never seem to come on.
Apple doesn't seem to mind doing manufacturing in the PRC, so presumably they just have to hope the TSMC facilities are insufficiently mined to eliminate the IP during the invasion.
I'm kinda hoping that the global reaction to Russia's fuckeroo in Ukraine is forcing China to rethink annexing Taiwan. Or at the very least they're doing some serious re-planning to withstand the Weapon of Mass Economic Destruction we levelled on Russia.
> I still can’t get over the fanless MacBook pros and the battery life.
The Lenovo X13s reportedly offers even more battery life at around 70% the multicore performance(based on demo device score) and is fanless as well.
Still doesn't beat the M1, but comparing the TDPs of M1 and Qualcomm's 8cx gen 3 in the X13s, it appears that it's TSMC's 5nm node that's doing all the magic.
Personally I'm happy that we're getting proper fanless laptops now - I hate moving parts in mobile devices, because they tend to fail first.
It's up to Microsoft to deliver something as smooth as Rosetta 2 though. I wonder if anyone with experience running a windows ARM laptop for dev can comment on this.
And it seems that Apple aren't currently planning on making a bigger chip for now. While that's very fast, I have to say I'm kinda surprised they haven't gone for a bigger and/or modular option. I guess it is pretty Apple to go all-in on a single monolithic design paradigm.
EDIT: Oh damn "Just one more product to go: the Mac Pro". I take back what I said. They are still doing a Mac Pro!
Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Anyone who wants a bigger CPU than the M1 ultra would probably be better served using a cloud. My company gives everyone a $2k macbook, but guess what, all our development still happens on our cloud, because laptops will never be able to compile as quickly as build farms.
Yeah, looks like they're targeting the creative market. Which makes a lot of sense. The one I was wondering about was ML workloads. Looks like that's not their primary target, but I had also missed that 128GB video RAM is a pretty big deal that you can't get elsewhere.
That and I think you can genuinely use all 128GB so long as you're not trying to run something else on the CPU at the same time. So a bit bigger than 80GB.
It doesn't seem like anyone wants to truly be in the server market. With so much going on in the cloud there really is a shrinking audience who need Mac specific server hardware on-prem or colo'd
Their turnaround from the m1 max to the ultra has been shocking. I thought they would slow down for a least a year before pumping out something new, but clearly not.
They just announced the "totally new" Mac Studio, which honestly just looks like a Mac Mini, but significantly taller, available with the new M1 Ultra (2x M1 Max).
While they claimed that modularity was a goal, I honestly don't see how that could possibly be the case given the form factor.
There's also a new Studio display going along with it.
EDIT: It may be that their understanding of modularity is having -- what they consider -- a lot of IO, i.e. a bunch of Thunderbolt 4 ports.
They claim M1 Ultra is up to 60% faster than the 28-core Xeon in the Mac Pro. Color me sceptical. (I'm sure it's true for certain workloads, but I doubt it holds across the board).
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Maybe their GPUs that they keep teasing but even that's a stretch, IMO.
https://www.techradar.com/news/intel-locks-down-all-remainin...
Absolutely. I'd say FaceID might be even a downside
I'm happy with TouchID (ok not on Apple). I don't want to stare at the phone to unlock it.
Seems you’re a bit sensitive to that.
No more stupid absurd "borderless" Screen. You even make the false positive detection of holding a phone perfect. Or you make a simple border around it.
Touch ID and Home Button is a trillion times more intuitive than swiping. It is one of those question like single or double mouse button. People dont understand why double mouse button isn't exactly a great design.
Currently thinking about getting the 13 mini but I love TouchID too much so it's really a debate between TouchID or better battery life, ugh...
If the thing is built to require a case that would increase its thickness by the amount of the camera protrusion, why not just make it that thick to begin with.
I really pine for a flat back (despite any thickness that would add), square edges, and a back material with a higher index of friction. The SE1 frame was like this.
Good phone otherwise though, fast, battery ok if you charge regularly, etc.
I think they’ll make some triumphant return to Touch ID in the power button at some point, because they don’t really seem to feel like making Face ID better right now either. I’m not sure what the big draw is, as in the best case it’s as usable as Touch ID was.
You can flip a switch in the settings to turn off the requirement to look at the phone to unlock it.
Touch ID and Face ID are both mixed bags. Would be great if they had both, but I understand that space is at a premium and they may want to push for a single authentication solution.
As usual with Apple the Siri message notifications and unlocking while masked work fine if you have AirPods and an Apple Watch, everything is always optimized for the integrated experience. Personally I prefer faceID and the chinless display plus not having to find the touch pad on the back like a pixel phone.
For carplay though, you really should enable it before you hit the road, even with touchid.
You can't look at your phone for a nano-second while driving? If still no, then here are your alternates you can explore -
1. Setup an alternate appearance: like side pose
2. Turn off "Require Attention for Face ID"
3. Unlock phone with voice commands - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeJQHBBpUPs
4. Allow access for CarPlay when locked - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8519499
With Touch ID, I can reach into my pocket, place my finger on the button as I'm taking the phone out, and by the time I got the phone out it's already unlocked, played the unlock animation and is on the home screen.
If the phone is on the table/etc I can just put my finger on the button and unlock it - so again by the time I actually grab the phone it's unlocked (that is - if I need to grab it - maybe I just wanted to glance at the notification I just received, or pass it to another person).
With Face ID, the phone needs to be in front of your face just to begin the unlock sequence, and needs to be at a certain distance and in clear view of your face. Masks break this, but so do even pre-pandemic things like being in bed and having some of your face obstructed by pillows/blankets.
That said, my wife gets quite dry hands and has never been able to use the fingerprint sensor reliably so this is a golden age for her. Would be nice to have the option of both going forward.
(One problem with designing products in California is that they don't have public transportation, so nobody beta testing the phone is standing on a crowded subway, hanging on with one hand and trying to use their phone with the other. The SE was great for one-handed use. The subsequent phones are difficult there.)
I often want to look at the lock screen, perhaps to tell the time or to read / interact with a notification, or to swipe from the left to interact with the widgets.
Quite a lot of my phone usage is like this: recency based (driven by notifications) and/or not wanting to open the phone and then search for the app I want, launch it, get to the right screen and blah blah. Much lower overhead to get the job done.
I don't tend to open my phone and doom scroll when I have a moment. I understand that's the major use case for most people, and for them perhaps your model would be appropriate.
It doesn't. On my iPhone, just picking it up to look at the latest alerts activates FaceID. I find it annoying because more often I just want to see the notifications, not jump back into whatever app I was using six hours ago.
If you and I are having opposite problems, there must be a setting for this.
Other comments say it's so you can read the notifications after you unlock, but I rarely want to do that.
BART does not count?
I never encountered it. When I lift my phone, it's already lit and once my face is positioned with the camera - it gets unlocked.
If it unlocked fully, I'd just see a bunch of icons, not the notification and I'd need to swipe to see them.
It's probably not a hack, but just the towering complexity of all the different software systems developed under tight deadlines.
Make 100% sure you have multiple backup though because backup corruption is still a thing forever reason. Apple just haven't bothered to fix it.
What's that based on? There are 19 different Android phones available for me to buy right now in the €360 - €400 price range that came out in the last six months.
Back then you bought Apple if you were a sound engineer or into graphic/media design.
I used to tell people I’m a die-hard PC user simply: Mac sucks!
Fast forward to around 2009 and I’ve been a happy Apple user since then for all my software engineering needs.
Is the platform perfect? Nope! And nothing is.
Is it expensive? Yes, but the quality is fantastic and if one really wants to can get 5 years easy out of any Mac computer…I’ve got 11 years out of my family’s Mac mini that I was able to upgrade a few times.
Which brings me to my only real gripe: the lack of upgrade ability and the obsession with “thin” design.
Please address that because everything else I can mostly get over.
Also, never have I ate my own words harder with the “Mac sucks” thing.
At the end of the day I’ll use what works.
macOS' recent updates have been a massive downgrade in terms of usability, try to force garbage on me that I don't want (no, I don't need Apple TV+ nor News on a work machine) and reliability on the M1 Air is bad - just yesterday the thing half-locked-up for 30 seconds (caps lock still responded, but everything else froze) with no explanation, not to mention the occasional kernel panics and constant nags for permission for every goddamn thing (you've implemented the notifications permission system to prevent apps from spamming me, but your solution is to spam me with one for every app that I run even for apps that never actually send notifications?).
I just need a machine that works and gets out of my way. It used to be as everyone else was trying to get in your way, Apple was mostly content with just charging a huge premium. That seems to have changed in the last couple years.
MS only “injected” $250 million in Apple. Apple turned around and used $100 million to buy Power Computings Mac assets. The $150 million left did not “save” Apple at the rate it was losing money.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/apple-macbook-air-2022-r...
Edit: To phrase this a bit better, it's too bad the "mini" model doesn't seem likely to continue into past the 13 mini.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/03/apples-new-iphone-se...
As someone who feels that the mini lineup was already getting too large, I'm not a fan of the decision.
[1] https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/25/iphone-14-features-roundup/#h...
I hope that Apple will make another attempt at a small iPhone before/when the 13 mini becomes end-of-life.
My guess is that when 13 mini is no longer available new, Apple will have another small-phone solution available. If not I will hold on to my 13 mini the same way other folks hold on to Touch ID. This mini size is perfect.
They usually only sell the mainstream models longer. The iPhone 6/7/8 form factor was continued with the SE 2020 and now 2022, but the Plus wasn’t. So I’m not too hopeful for the mini.
But seriously, did it ever occur to you that there are a lot of Russians who are against Putin and this unjust war he started?
This is not even sanctions, it's just virtue signalling by companies that results in nothing but disgust.
https://www.gizmochina.com/2021/08/16/apple-secure-majority-...
I expect them to release an M2 chip earliest in the fall of this year or early 2023.
it is scary how delusional and inefficient "modern" developers are
And it's not like the rustc devs haven't been working on performance improvements.
Edit: and god damn again at it being in something as small as the new Mac Studio. Interested in price...
Edit 2: $1999 for the base Mac Studio with M1 MAX. $3999 for the base M1 ULTRA model.
Not cheap, that is only certain. Probably starting at >$7K for M1 Ultra
I'm wondering if one of the reasons to get an Apple silicon Mac might be to natively/locally run ARM-based containers, which might be the future.
I actually hope somebody is challenged enough by this to really push for competition as this level of performance asymmetry will ultimately result in further pricing asymmetry as competition breaks down.
It is even more astounding when you look at the utter shitshow that Google's Tensor has been!
Only the M1 Air is truly fanless, the Pros do have fans, they're just silent most of the time.
The Lenovo X13s reportedly offers even more battery life at around 70% the multicore performance(based on demo device score) and is fanless as well.
Still doesn't beat the M1, but comparing the TDPs of M1 and Qualcomm's 8cx gen 3 in the X13s, it appears that it's TSMC's 5nm node that's doing all the magic.
Personally I'm happy that we're getting proper fanless laptops now - I hate moving parts in mobile devices, because they tend to fail first.
But at around 60% of single core performance. That is basically half the speed.
16 + 4 cores and 128GB RAM
And it seems that Apple aren't currently planning on making a bigger chip for now. While that's very fast, I have to say I'm kinda surprised they haven't gone for a bigger and/or modular option. I guess it is pretty Apple to go all-in on a single monolithic design paradigm.
EDIT: Oh damn "Just one more product to go: the Mac Pro". I take back what I said. They are still doing a Mac Pro!
I suppose it might even be an advantage to unify RAM, so you don't have to copy back and forth between the CPU and GPU?
Doesn't matter if Apple has interest in the server market; the server market has interest in Mac Studios.
I can see a rack of these in someone's datacenter. Can you imagine the render farm that could be created?
Hopefully it lives up to the promise. It really packs quite a punch into a little box.
While they claimed that modularity was a goal, I honestly don't see how that could possibly be the case given the form factor.
There's also a new Studio display going along with it.
EDIT: It may be that their understanding of modularity is having -- what they consider -- a lot of IO, i.e. a bunch of Thunderbolt 4 ports.
They claim M1 Ultra is up to 60% faster than the 28-core Xeon in the Mac Pro. Color me sceptical. (I'm sure it's true for certain workloads, but I doubt it holds across the board).