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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 rbanffy »

nolongerthere wrote: post #97
ruined wrote: post #94

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>And apparently Apple is okay with procrastinating and cannibalizing current sales of M1, 2, 3 if it helps prevent some Snapdragon (or Ampere) sales. sales of what i actually can't think of a single competing product. admittedly i don't keep up with laptop news but still, i haven't heard of anything yet that can meaningfully compete with the m1 from four years ago

Microsoft just announced some lackluster arm laptops that they claim can compete with M-series chips. The question is what windows programs are gonna run on them...

Your question answers itself. "What Windows programs" is the key part.

I don't have any need for any Windows-only program.

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

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Post by saagarjha »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #148
JKCalhoun wrote: post #115

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And you'd like to think the binaries are still not the largest component of an app contributing to the file size. But who knows these days.

Its the static-linking of the Swift runtime - it’s incredibly inelegant.

The Swift runtime is not statically linked on Apple’s platforms

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

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Post by rbanffy »

philjohn wrote: post #135
etempleton wrote: post #89

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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.

The fans literally never come on for my personal M2 MBP 14" or on my work 16" M1 (it helps that the heavy lifting of running stuff and compiling happens on a dev server) During work from home during Covid I was still using an Intel MBP and video conferences invariably caused the fans to kick up to the point where using noise cancelling headphones and not the built in speakers was necessary for sanity.

I NEVER heard the fans on my 16" M2. Not even when building Docker images for six different platforms at the same time.

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

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Post by rbanffy »

lucianbr wrote: post #112
yegle wrote: post #103

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Your description is so absurd that I can't tell if it's real or a satire. Please tell me this is a satire piece...

I had the exact same feeling. Can't tell if it's real or a joke. It's not only outrageous for privacy, but also very bad engineering.

It is the kind of engineering Teams feels like.

A glorified IRC client should run in under a megabyte of memory.

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Post by jasomill »

dbspin wrote: post #155
solardev wrote: post #136

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Maybe it uses the camera for gesture recognition so you can air-write each letter one at a time? Air-quotes will be fun... air-tabs, not so much. "Space, but BIGGER!"

Obviously Apple's upcoming LLM will be used to infer based on observation of your past behaviour what you would have typed, and type it for you.

So basically the next generation of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8gF0KTfMrQ

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

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Post by brigade »

yumraj wrote: post #137
alwillis wrote: post #122

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For those with MacBook Pro FOMO, do not read about the rumored foldable 18.8-inch screen MacBook Pro running on the M5 coming in 2026 [1]. [1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/23/18-8-inch-foldable-macb...

The rumored price is enough to make me not worry about those.

Inflation still has a chance to make $3500 in 2026 dollars equivalent to the starting price of the 2016 16" MBP
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