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Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by righthand »

mthoms wrote: post #320
righthand wrote: post #316

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I’m not trying anything because it should have been implemented before launch natively. Not years after as part of some Product manager promotion cycle. Not installing a fix is how Apple wants me to use my machine by default in a broken state.

In the time it took you to write your comments on this issue, you could have just fixed the problem. It's a valid complaint, don't get me wrong... but insisting on not fixing it as some sort of moral stance is only hurting yourself. People are weird, man.

I mostly work attached to a monitor. I will continue to work how I like, I don’t own a Macbook outside of work. I will continue not installing custom untrusted software just because a bunch of “fans” online told me to do it. I will continue complaining about it. All of that BECAUSE I enjoy the entropy it causes more than actually using the piece of garbage laptop.

I can do a lot of things instead of write that comment. And installing work arounds for a trillion dollar company with an attitude problem is not one of them. Give attitude, get attitude.

What’s weird is being a complacent drone even though you understand the issue.

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Post by jama211 »

eviks wrote: post #147
jama211 wrote: post #146

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Loads of people know it as “safe area”, just because you hadn’t heard it before doesn’t mean it’s not an incredibly common term… I was shocked you hadn’t heard of it. It’s consistent across the industry.

I've heard of that term before, just because you don't have an actual argument there is no need to make up ignorance in others and feign your shock. Also you're also mistaking two different types of knowledge: what the term means and its "TV screen" history. I was explicitly referencing the latter

Are you ok? You’re not making sense my friend.

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by jama211 »

bowsamic wrote: post #153
jama211 wrote: post #145

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That companies do things to many money is not a “big conspiracy”

Well that’s just reducing my point to the point of absurdity, and then stating that it’s absurd. You did that, not me.

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by conception »

TheDong wrote: post #140
conception wrote: post #112

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Mac Mini is i believe the most efficient consumer computer made ever. It uses the same energy most computers Ethernet ports use.

> Mac Mini is i believe the most efficient consumer computer made ever My raspberry pi is sitting at 3 watts, and runs linux software just fine. A Mac Mini uses multiple times that, and can barely run any software I care about (i.e. linux). They're both consumer computers, and yes there's a massive difference in their capabilities, but "most efficient ever" is a really strong claim.

The mini does 6.74 Gflops/W. At the default clock rate of 1200 MHz the Pi 3 can achieve 6.2 Gflops. However, without a heatsink the CPU will instantly throttle to half speed and average about 3.1 Gflops. So the mini is 3 to 6 times as efficient.

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by internetter »

lilyball wrote: post #296
internetter wrote: post #80

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A WWDC session, I might add, with a mildly relevant title and rarely a hyperlink from the relevant documentation, let alone a timestamp.

But with a full searchable transcript

Machine generated transcript*

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by zamadatix »

sofixa wrote: post #157
zamadatix wrote: post #106

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Even if Windows wanted to push hard to get off x86 they still lack ARM hardware worth moving to in the first place. I wouldn't be surprised if the 13" M1 MacBook alone shipped more units than all Windows 8/8.1/10/11 ARM devices combined. The 32 bit -> 64 bit app migration for x86 was also much slower on Windows but, again, there wasn't any real performance gain to be had until your app needed more than 4 GB of RAM in…

> The moment Windows actually has non-x86 hardware which people actually want to buy I bet native app support comes pretty quick. Snapdragon X laptops are here already, and reviews are generally positive (of course, use and workload dependent, nobody should get one to game, but for web browsing and long battery life it's perfect).

Qualcomm's exclusivity deal with Microsoft started 9 years ago, but if you've got the numbers to say people are actually buying the latest Snapdragon option more often for web browsing than x86 laptops I'd be willing to believe something has finally changed. Otherwise there is always some special stat advertised about how "this time it really is better", yet it's never what people actually want.

Looking at the M1, there was no "if", "but", "for certain", etc wording. It was just better all around, even comparing gaming performance vs older MacBooks. Even running Windows ARM in a VM was better than buying a Windows laptop (x86 or ARM) in terms of both performance and battery. Based on your description, I don't think the Snapdragon X laptops are the same story?

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by zamadatix »

troupo wrote: post #139
zamadatix wrote: post #10

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Between the deprecation and stagnation of OpenGL on the platform, the removal of 32 bit support completely, the refusal to natively support Vulkan in favor of Metal, and the switch to ARM based systems... I can't believe it's still that "high".

> the refusal to natively support Vulkan in favor of Metal 1. Metal precedes Vulkan 2. Hardly anyone supports Vulkan https://www.carette.xyz/posts/state_of_vulkan_2024/

1. You've named the release order, but not your argument behind why that should be limit what's currently supported today. E.g. if someone "OpenGL precedes Metal" wouldn't be an argument why Apple should not have added Metal support either.

2. I can easily list 5x as many AAA games, engines, or libraries supporting a Vulkan backend vs a Metal backend, does that mean Apple shouldn't support Metal? I'd say no, but maybe you're seeing this kind of logic differently. I'd be fully in support of macOS/iOS/iPadOS/visionOS adding native DirectX support, if that's what you mean. It just seems less likely than Vulkan (for several reasons).

Re: Blurry rendering of games on Mac

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Post by spankibalt »

DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #277
alpaca128 wrote: post #259

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> I doubt any of the top brass even uses computers these days looking at the decisions they make wrt Mac OS. I had a similar thought about the Microsoft manager who just claimed that in 2030 no one will use a mouse and keyboard anymore and people won't want to be "mousing around". If he actually believes that it says a lot about the way he interacts with computers. And how rarely he uses it outside of a quiet office.

> I had a similar thought about the Microsoft manager who just claimed that in 2030 no one will use a mouse and keyboard anymore That's nothing new: Microsoft still has an institutional obsession with pen-computing (going right back to 1992's "Windows for Pen Computing"); it re-emerges every few years: sometimes it's a major imitative like Windows XP TabletPCs[1], or re-launching OneNote as a "free" Windows feature;…

> "And what Apple got right was their understanding that pen-computing for text input is just plain unworkable; [...]"

Ah, the usual "inking is useless" hyperbolic drivel. Pens worked fine (enough) for me as longtime Wacom EMR user, including for handwriting, e. g. classroom notes, sketching, and the like, especially via dedicated third-party solutions. And, obviously, there's always room for improvement. Just as it's obvious that for that to happen you have to "keep the dream alive".

And Steve "Who needs a stylus" Jobs is, as overrated as he was, a dead businessman, while the stylus is, as underrated a tool, still kicking. Even in the castrated and enshittified pen-computing product line of the company he helped to build.

I do pen computing since it began. Indispensable tool in my fields of work. The most problematic thing? Ultramobile and modular general-purpose computing is an underserved market; penabled UMGPC (or UMPCs) are practically nonexistant. Sad.

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