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> I think a Mini of any spec is a great value. My second suggestion for 16-core was M2, also. $100 less with 1Gb, and with 10Gb it would be $100 more than you paid. i.e. two of the…

> legacy wins 20 years ago, probably. I don't understand why it is still the case today that legacy is important. Who is still running very old, 25yo software, and just how are the…

Itanium was supposed to be powerful, not efficient, and it originated at HP. Atom was x86. If Intel designed something new from the ground up with high efficiency specifications, I…

Why does Intel need Arm for collaboration, and what does Arm get out of optimizing "Arm’s IP for Intel’s upcoming 18A process technology?" Why doesn't Intel license Arm designs lik…

Not awful, but for $2K you could have had 16-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine, 48GB unified memory, 512K SSD storage, Four Thunderbolt 4 ports, two HDMI ports, four USB…

A lot can change in that amount of time and apparently has. Also, as you're very likely aware, KDE runs on macOS, though idky anyone would want to do that. It certainly wouldn't dr…

It's just such a waste of time, resources and talent, when it would be vastly better, and presumably easier, to stop the extinction of vaquita, black rhinoceros and other subspecie…

> KDE is so great. Funny, back in 2006ish, KDE development was stalled, and it was a janky, inconsistent mess. Everyone hated it and used Gnome, which had a simpler design and was …

> Just yesterday I started using a new maxed out Mac mini and everything about it is snappy. Really?! I didn't think anyone here would fall for that. Mac Mini 12-core M2, 19-core G…

SP1

> Maybe. But graphics cards aren't the only thing people put into PCIe slots. Right, so there will be PCIe slots for expansion, they just won't support PCIe GPU, just like Thunderb…

> I remember some PC vendors selling Alpha based workstations running NT in the mid- to late 1990s. AGFA sold Alphas (DEC-branded) running NT4.1 in the mid-1990s along with their A…

> It could be that Apple does away with it entirely and the Mac Studio is the new Pro. Or the Mac Pro will be released without PCIe GPU support, and Apple will be able to leverage …

Not really. Software drivers alone will not get it done, at least not adequately (Asahi-related developers may come up with a software solution for Asahi, but it will necessarily d…

Automatic transcoding is the last thing I'd want wasting processor cycles.

You are mistaken. Plex is really just a dedicated web server with a bunch of annoying feature creep.

> I save media into the corresponding folders, point Plex to the folders and Plex takes care of the rest. It’s a ten second process. Unnecessary step, and if it only takes you 10 s…

To suggest it is merely lack of drivers is an oversimplification. There is a chip errata that prevents PCIe GPUs from working properly on Apple Silicon: the architectures are not c…

> Life began in that alien environment, and at some point between 3.2 and 2.8 billion years ago, cyanobacteria began to use sunlight to split hydrogen from water, discarding oxygen…

There are two issues. 1) Apple Silicon won't support PCIe. 2) Apple doesn't want it to. #2 means Apple is taking nVidia and AMD head on in the GPU space. Apple wants to control eve…

I don't think the race is over yet, but it is really entirely up to developers, not Apple. Apple Silicon isn't quite 3yo yet, and it is hard to say right now what the gaming landsc…

Does this qualify?[1] [1] https://www.infoq.com/news/2023/05/mlc-llm-mobile-laptops/

> Local LLMs do best on big GPUs, which aren’t an option on Macs. What Apple has done with the M-series silicon is really impressive, but it’s not as fast as big, dedicated GPU sil…

> My guess has been that they are an item a journeyman blacksmith had to create to be promoted to master. Seems pretty specific to span two centuries of known construction. Why wou…