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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by StilesCrisis »

josephg wrote: post #205
o_m wrote: post #116

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I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane. We should get software working well on those devices, just like it did a decade or two ago. Small, memory efficient programs run better everywhere. It feels like theft to make consumers pay for our inefficient software. El…

I wonder how much we could reclaim just by going back to 32-bit pointers. If we're going back to 4GB it should be fine, right?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by osiriskang »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #105
kenjackson wrote: post #37

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I update my phone now when the battery requires two full charges to 100% to last throughout the day. But there's no feature I'm looking for. My current phone is a 13 -- so I guess it lasted five years, which seems crazy long for it to be perfectly fine from a functionality perspective.

Same, I went from a base model iPhone 11 to a base model iPhone 16. Assuming the trend line holds up, I'm in for an iPhone 21 next!

Almost the same as what I did, 11->16 Pro, and really only because I wanted a nicer camera. 128Gb has been more than enough for what I need. Don't have a reason to upgrade, battery still gets me through 2 days without a charge, and with Kino the times I want to have nicer-than-stock video I can get it.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by brewdad »

ValentineC wrote: post #294
brewdad wrote: post #167

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It works with normies. My wife just preordered an 18 pro. She’s the family photographer and is still on a 128gb iPhone 12, so it’s time for an upgrade and she fell in love with the cherry color. She bought the 12 instead of the more appropriate 12 pro years ago because she loved the purple that she couldn’t get with a 12 pro. Edit:typo

> My wife just preordered an 18 pro. I guess this is from a reseller, and not from Apple.

Apple was taking orders today. Maybe not in your region.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by sergiotapia »

phil21 wrote: post #280
sergiotapia wrote: post #84

45 hours of video playback is insane?! Is this accurate, because if it is I will sell my phone and buy this. Normally my samsung discharges in about 12 hours or less when I'm out, not even watching 12 hours of video. "On iPhone 18 Pro Max, five minutes of wired charging provides around seven hours of video playback" Materially impactful feature holy moses! I can plug it in, brush my teeth and I'm set for the work day…

Depends on which video codec. If it’s the most efficient one that has dedicated silicone embedded in the chip, it’s going to work great. Web browsing is typically significantly harder on power. Plus these benchmarks usually mean in a perfectly dark room with the backlight at close to zero.

I had no idea, I thought video was the most expensive thing to burn battery on since it's video, full screen motion, and loud sound. Interesting!

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Post by intrasight »

drop_star wrote: post #213
nobleach wrote: post #15

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> the most advanced camera in an iPhone I mean, I can't remember the last time they DIDN'T say that. Variable aperture is kinda cool I guess. 256Gigs of storage basically means everyone's going to have to upgrade their iCloud storage monthly spend just to back this thing up. I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space.

>I've stopped sending my camera roll to iCloud just to save on space. how do you backup your photos when the phone gets full. I dont have a mac and the process is excruciating. Also the formats get messed up so some photos become unusable. I stopped taking 'live' photos because of this.

Is handled by Synology DS File app. Is what I've done for 6 years. I don't send photos to iCloud.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by nonethewiser »

josephg wrote: post #205
o_m wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I only care about it because I'm waiting for a MacBook Neo with more than 8gb of memory.

With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane. We should get software working well on those devices, just like it did a decade or two ago. Small, memory efficient programs run better everywhere. It feels like theft to make consumers pay for our inefficient software. El…

>With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane.

Sure. Right along with Intel Core 2 Duo and Windows Vista.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by monocasa »

jaggederest wrote: post #249
Gigachad wrote: post #226

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The photos are cryptographically signed in the apple image pipeline so it's not as simple as just AI generating something. That said, I can't see how this is any different to all the other times we have embedded crypto keys in consumer hardware where eventually someone finds a way to extract the key and the whole thing is busted open.

Given the whole private cloud bit, I am assuming they keep the private keys server side and never let them out.

I think there's a chain of trust. The sensor signs raws, and the private cloud takes signed raws, does minimal processing so they're at least coherent, and re signs that output (maybe even including the original signed raw as well in the image file).

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by ceejayoz »

embedding-shape wrote: post #240
bayindirh wrote: post #235

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…and the PDAF data will show how shallow it is.

... don't make it so shallow then. Perfectly possible in a consumer-friendly 3D printer for a face or even human body if you have lots of time for the prints.

You’re well on the way to 1:1 replicas at this point. Next you’ll need to match the thermal signature and the exact weather in the sky for the time at that location.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by arealaccount »

jmuguy wrote: post #51
Merad wrote: post #27

> eSIM-only models deliver up to 36 hours of video playback on iPhone 18 Pro and up to 45 hours of video playback on iPhone 18 Pro Max. That might convince me to upgrade. Not because I care about watching video for two days straight, but hopefully it means the battery is large enough that it'll last 5+ years before battery degradation becomes annoying.

I have a 12 Pro Max purchased at release, battery is now at 83% capacity. Still lasts all day and then some, rarely think how much I've got left on a charge.

I have the same phone, also lasts about a day and a half.

How do you see the capacity?

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Post by josephg »

StilesCrisis wrote: post #301
josephg wrote: post #205

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the price of ram going up by 5x, I want to see our industry move in the opposite direction. Computers for regular people should go back to 4gb or even 2gb of ram, just to keep the prices sane. We should get software working well on those devices, just like it did a decade or two ago. Small, memory efficient programs run better everywhere. It feels like theft to make consumers pay for our inefficient software. El…

I wonder how much we could reclaim just by going back to 32-bit pointers. If we're going back to 4GB it should be fine, right?

Yes and no. If I recall, 32 bit windows has a fixed allocation of 3gb for userland and 1gb for the kernel’s memory space. I think 32bit only really works well for memory sizes smaller than 4gb. It might not be worth it, given a lot of OSes are in the process of deprecating 32bit support.
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