Apple Event March 8, 2022 • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by afandian » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:57 PM UTC

kadomony wrote: post #136

turndown wrote: post #116

I realize this is totally off-topic, but has anyone else noticed how wide-stanced all of the presenters have been? Like your legs don’t stand that far apart normally; the announcer right now seems to literally need to constantly shift her legs to keep her standing stance so wide. I’ve noticed this a couple of other places too; is some body coach teaching the weirdest crap out in California right now?

A wide stance implies surefootedness and confidence. They are absolutely coached to appear the most certain they can when marketing/communicating statistics.

Clearly someone thinks so. They convinced the UK Conservative party to do it a few years back.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=conservative+power+pose&t=ffab&iax...

I don't think I've seen a single person who doesn't think it looks ridiculous.

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by thomasahle » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:57 PM UTC

nicoburns wrote: post #106

colinmhayes wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple probably has 0 interest in entering the server market. Anyone who wants a bigger CPU than the M1 ultra would probably be better served using a cloud. My company gives everyone a $2k macbook, but guess what, all our development still happens on our cloud, because laptops will never be able to compile as quickly as build farms.

Yeah, looks like they're targeting the creative market. Which makes a lot of sense. The one I was wondering about was ML workloads. Looks like that's not their primary target, but I had also missed that 128GB video RAM is a pretty big deal that you can't get elsewhere.

I'm not sure how to compare the 128GB "unified" RAM with the 80GB dedicated video RAM on a A100.

I suppose it might even be an advantage to unify RAM, so you don't have to copy back and forth between the CPU and GPU?

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by flatiron » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:57 PM UTC

cjsawyer wrote: post #108

Would a Mac Studio running a windows VM be faster than a big Threadripper system?

i would think the amd64 -> arm conversion would take a lot of oomph out of the mac studio in that setup

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by easton » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:57 PM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #95

grej wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

100%. I got an iPhone 13 but didn't like it. Took it back and bought a refurbished iPhone8+. I'm delighted that Apple hasn't ignored those of us who really love our home button and touchid unlock.

Why not?

Face ID is a step back in usability for most cases, since you have to be looking at your phone to unlock it. Doesn’t work if you’re in the car and need to unlock for CarPlay, doesn’t work if someone else needs to change music, doesn’t work if the phone’s in your pocket and you want Siri to continue telling you privileged info. They just solved masks (in beta), but that still doesn’t work for Apple Pay or app authentication. The amount of times I’ve had to pull over to punch in my alphanumeric passcode so the passenger can get to Google Maps makes me want to throw the phone in the creek.

I think they’ll make some triumphant return to Touch ID in the power button at some point, because they don’t really seem to feel like making Face ID better right now either. I’m not sure what the big draw is, as in the best case it’s as usable as Touch ID was.

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by t_h_r_o_w_away » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

turndown wrote: post #116

I realize this is totally off-topic, but has anyone else noticed how wide-stanced all of the presenters have been? Like your legs don’t stand that far apart normally; the announcer right now seems to literally need to constantly shift her legs to keep her standing stance so wide. I’ve noticed this a couple of other places too; is some body coach teaching the weirdest crap out in California right now?

Might be a result of that "power stance" TED talk that was making the rounds years ago.

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

rvz wrote: post #101

satysin wrote: post #50

God damn that M1 ULTRA is a beast on paper for the power consumption. It’s what we expected but still I can’t wait to see real world numbers. Edit: and god damn again at it being in something as small as the new Mac Studio. Interested in price... Edit 2: $1999 for the base Mac Studio with M1 MAX. $3999 for the base M1 ULTRA model.

> Interested in price… Not cheap, that is only certain. Probably starting at >$7K for M1 Ultra

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Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by dkarp » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

yisonPylkita wrote: post #156

128GB of RAM in M1 Ultra is unimpressive compared to 1.5TB of RAM in Mac Pro. Right now Apple doesn’t have a replacement for Mac Pro with Apple Silicon EDIT: At the end of the presentation Apple said Mac Pro refresh is coming later so let’s wait and see

*128GB. I dislike how they omit this and act like it's more powerful than Mac Pro.

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by vincentmarle » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 6:58 PM UTC

satysin wrote: post #50

God damn that M1 ULTRA is a beast on paper for the power consumption. It’s what we expected but still I can’t wait to see real world numbers. Edit: and god damn again at it being in something as small as the new Mac Studio. Interested in price... Edit 2: $1999 for the base Mac Studio with M1 MAX. $3999 for the base M1 ULTRA model.

$3999 is actually pretty decent given it's supposedly 60% faster than the 28-core Mac Pro which is $13,499

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by markdown » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:00 PM UTC

diddid wrote: post #100

Apple events used to be something I really looked forward too but they are kind of boring now. The hype they give in their events is starting to feel almost a parody of itself. I don't know, I can't put my finger on it, but for me the magic is gone and they should just announce at CES along with everyone else.

You grew up is all.

Re: Apple Event March 8, 2022

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Post by awill » Tue, Mar 08, 2022, 7:00 PM UTC

I've always preferred to build my own computers. It's fun, and you can customize, and with few exceptions, it meant better performance/acoustics/thermals than what you could buy directly from PC manufacturers.

Now though we're at a place where nothing you build yourself with off the shelf parts can come close to what Apple is doing. It's cool for the industry, and incredible how compact and efficient Apple's designs allow their systems to be, but it's also a little sad the way the industry is going. Intel and AMD likely won't be able to catch up. Maybe Qualcomm does with Nuvia, but they'll just take the same integrated approach.