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Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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How viable is Asani Linux these days? MacBook hardware looks amazing.

Have anyone tried it recently, specifically the trackpad? I tried the Fedora variant a few months ago on my M1 Macbook and it was horrible to use the trackpad, it felt totally foreign and wrong.

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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Disingenuous to mention the x86 based MacBooks as a basis for comparison in their benchmarks; they are trying to conflate current-gen Intel with what they shipped more than 4 years ago.

Are they going to claim that 16GB RAM is equivalent to 32GB on Intel laptops? (/sarc)

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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post #5

It seems they also update the base memory on MacBook Air: > MacBook Air: The World’s Most Popular Laptop Now Starts at 16GB > MacBook Air is the world’s most popular laptop, and with Apple Intelligence, it’s even better. Now, models with M2 and M3 double the starting memory to 16GB, while keeping the starting price at just $999 — a terrific value for the world’s best-selling laptop.

Ohh, good catch. Sneaking that into the MBP announcement. I skimmed the page and missed that. So a fourth announcement couched within the biggest of the three days.

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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> All MacBook Pro models feature an HDMI port that supports up to 8K resolution, a SDXC card slot, a MagSafe 3 port for charging, and a headphone jack, along with support for Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3.

No Wifi 7. So you get access to the 6 GHz band, but not some of the other features (preamble punching, OFDMA):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_7

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_6E

The iPhone 16s do have Wifi 7. Curious to know why they skipped it (and I wonder if the chipsets perhaps do support it, but it's a firmware/software-not-yet-ready thing).

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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The M4 Max goes up to 128GB RAM, and "over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth" - LLM users rejoice.

We run our LLM workloads on a M2 Ultra because of this. 2x the VRAM; one-time cost at $5350 was the same as, at the time, 1 month of 80GB VRAM GPU in GCP. Works well for us.

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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Disingenuous to mention the x86 based MacBooks as a basis for comparison in their benchmarks; they are trying to conflate current-gen Intel with what they shipped more than 4 years ago. Are they going to claim that 16GB RAM is equivalent to 32GB on Intel laptops? (/sarc)

It could see it as disingenuous, or a targeted message to those users still on those older x86 machines.

Re: M4 MacBook Pro

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> while protecting their privacy This is misleading: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25074959 "macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs"

> This is misleading: ...

To be fair, the link in this story is to a press release. Arguably there are probably many things in it that can be considered "misleading" in certain contexts.

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