Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

Post by jmkni » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 6:58 PM UTC

BXlnt2EachOther wrote: post #94

jmkni wrote: post #66

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Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old Could somebody explain what these are?

left to right, had to search a few of them. You're probably not out of it, it's just relatively niche professional stuff. Half of them are only relevant for media professionals for example. Sonnet card - adds storage via a couple SATA SSDs OWC 8M2 - adds storage via up to 8 NVME drives Avid HDX card, runs DSP for ProTools (audio) Kona 5, video capture and I/O Lynx E44, high-quality audio I/O Blackmagic decklink SDI 4…

Post by jmkni » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

mixmastamyk wrote: post #90

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Man I'm so out of what's going on with desktop computing lol, feeling old Could somebody explain what these are?

Expansion cards, they were supported by the original PC from the 80s and even before that.

Post by mixmastamyk » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 7:03 PM UTC

jmkni wrote: post #103

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Expansion cards, they were supported by the original PC from the 80s and even before that.

I'm not that old lol, was wondering specifically what they were

Post by JumpCrisscross » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 7:07 PM UTC

adastra22 wrote: post #98

ghaff wrote: post #73

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You're technically right that AI is a superset. But, at least in a computational context, "AI" is hardly ever being used to refer to cognitive science and other AI subsets that are not directly related to ML. So ML is usually the more precise terminology. But I've pretty much given up on that one.

Large language models are definitely AI.

Post by whynotminot » Mon, Jun 05, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

modeless wrote: post #59

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Isn’t that true of any PCIe device? Is Apple supposed to develop their drivers too?

Apple is supposed to maintain good relationships with hardware vendors and support them in porting their drivers. Apple has done a poor job of this. They are practically enemies with Nvidia due to legal disputes and as a result I don't expect to see an Nvidia driver for Apple Silicon in the foreseeable future. Maybe AMD or Intel will write one but at least one should have happened before launch.