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Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by birdman3131 »

nunez wrote: post #66
chongli wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

MS Teams is by far the worst piece of software I’ve ever used. It is ungodly slow and it just gets slower the more you use it. I believe it is actually hitting the server to update the online/away status light for every single message in a conversation. If you turn off all the status update stuff in the settings then the software speeds up dramatically. Another thing you can do is find the folder where it caches ever…

If you think Teams is bad, then you haven't had to endure Google Chat.

Can't have technical debt if you throw it all away every couple years and start over.

Work started off using Google talk. I am expecting something to replace google chat like they did talk and hangouts.

Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Aaargh20318 wrote: post #18

The most incredible thing about the new iPads is that even with the crazy fast M4 chip MS Teams manages to crawl to a halt. Clearly it takes all the engineering skills of the largest and most valuable software company in the world to make text entry go at about 1 fps on a chip as powerful as the M4.

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Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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ko27 wrote: post #23

It seems that M4 was overhyped. Almost of all of the performance improvements, in Geekbench for example, comes from new instructions that most apps won't use, and even if they do they might end up using the faster GPU/NPU for those tasks. https://twitter.com/toniievych/status/1788596920627118248

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Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by SllX »

heroprotagonist wrote: post #38
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #18

The most incredible thing about the new iPads is that even with the crazy fast M4 chip MS Teams manages to crawl to a halt. Clearly it takes all the engineering skills of the largest and most valuable software company in the world to make text entry go at about 1 fps on a chip as powerful as the M4.

Every character you type results in some sort of hit to their telemetry server. It will include the actual letter you typed, if you or your org are not configured to be in EU. With their EU configuration option (pulled from server every launch) it will only report the fact that you typed _something_. Now if that's not fun enough, their telemetry also covers mouse movements. Go ahead and watch your CPU as you spin you…

So they’re running a keystroke logger and masquerading it as “telemetry”? That should be outlawed. It’s not a drafts feature, it’s not an online word processor, it’s just a straight up keystroke logger.

Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by tmalsburg2 »

0_____0 wrote: post #10
yardie wrote: post #5

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I'm still on a i7 MBP because everytime I think I'm ready to update the next one is announced.

These machines are great. I still use my 2015 rMBP as a secondary. It's a little slow now but a couple years ago I was still running Solidworks (in Bootcamp) on it with minimal issues.

My wife is still using her 2012 MBP. We maxed out RAM and gave it an SSD in 2016. She uses it for video editing and music production. The thing look like new. Completely ridiculous. Only downside: no OSX updates since I don’t know when.

Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by gbear605 »

danielbln wrote: post #24
gtirloni wrote: post #12

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Besides maybe battery life (which is a huge win), anything you'd benefit from the M's? I only had a 2008 macbook so I'm curious.

Overall, my 2020 M1 MBP is infinitely better than the 2015 MBP I had before, it's not even close. Battery life, thermal output, speed, noise, neural engine (for ML workloads). It's an utter workhorse that just marches on, no matter what I throw at it. I haven't even considered upgrading to another more current Mx version because this one just.. works. Best laptop I ever owned.

+1

I recently upgraded from a 2019 Intel Mac to a similarly-specced M3 Mac, and it really is night and day. My battery life is more than doubled - I can run IntelliJ and multiple Docker containers on battery for more than my whole work day, when before it would barely last a couple hours with that load and be slow while doing so. The fan hardly ever runs while on my Intel Mac it would run constantly.

Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by DeathArrow »

Aaargh20318 wrote: post #18

The most incredible thing about the new iPads is that even with the crazy fast M4 chip MS Teams manages to crawl to a halt. Clearly it takes all the engineering skills of the largest and most valuable software company in the world to make text entry go at about 1 fps on a chip as powerful as the M4.

That's the power of Javascript!

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Post by etempleton »

gtirloni wrote: post #12
yardie wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still on a i7 MBP because everytime I think I'm ready to update the next one is announced.

Besides maybe battery life (which is a huge win), anything you'd benefit from the M's? I only had a 2008 macbook so I'm curious.

Battery life is insanely better. If you have not used one of the M series laptops it cannot be overstated how much better the battery life is. It is worth it for battery alone.

But beyond that they are also incredibly fast and run cool. In the MacBook Air there is no fan and on the Pros they barely ever spin up in an audible way.

Re: Apple's M4 has reportedly adopted the ARMv9 architecture

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Post by sitkack »

rkuska wrote: post #22
capl wrote: post #2

Hmm, I was thinking of buying an M3 Pro 16” this summer, but maybe I should wait then

That’s actually a nice side effect of all the *rumors pages. The rumors of future products keep me of buying the current products. I keep on using my previous products while saving money and planet and being excited about what future holds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_effect
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