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I’ve been using Safari as my daily driver for some time and it’s quite nice to use. Don’t be afraid to give it another chance.
Does Safari have extensions like Ad Blocker and does it have good developer tools?
It has good standard developer tools, but not the advanced stuff like Redux replay and flexbox inspectors.
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I particularly like Chrome profiles. I have a few profiles with their own bookmarks/histories/open tabs/etc. For example, one of my profiles is "Shopping". Another is "Work" and yet another is "Social Media". Context switching profiles at a macro level - as opposed to intermingling work/shopping/social - is beneficial to me. When I switch over to "Shopping", I have my tabs on whatever purchase I'm researching open. I…
Is that a Chrome for Mac feature? Never seen it before. Care to elavorate?
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/custom-chrome-browser-profiles...
It's certainly an impressive achievement and makes it pretty clear why Apple is transitioning away from Intel. I'm a bit surprised that the fact that this is on the TSMC 5nm process seems to be glossed over in the comments. Apple is benefitting from some what seem like on the surface to be significant process improvements. Will be interesting to see how other players take advantage of it as well.
No, the gains from Apple's A13 (TSMC 7nm) to Apple's A14 (TSMC 5nm and same cores as the M1) really aren't that large. About average for a node jump. This is mostly about architecture, not silicon process. From A13 to A14, Apple managed to increase the clockspeed by about 15% and increase IPC by 5% all while keeping power consumption the same.
Wow it must suck to be Intel right now. It wasn't so long ago that the trope was while others had better multi-core performance "...Intel still holds the lead for single core performance" Now not only do AMD have a better product, but also Apple now offer equal or better performance than the best that Intel can offer. I wonder what is next for Intel now their £1000+ CPUs are firmly in third place. Looking forward to…
Why, exactly? As long as Apple keeps their chips to themselves, Intel or AMD will have nothing to worry about.
Don't assume that they only downside for Intel is losing Apple as a customer... That could end up being the least of their worries.
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Apple is the kind of company that will choose to slim down the laptop instead of making it 2 day battery life. Hopefully the Era of Ive is over. There are promising signs around, but I'm not ready to believe it yet.
Ive doesn't unilaterally decide how thin the laptop is. It's a joint decision made by Hardware Engineering, Product Management, Design, Operations etc. And frankly everyone wants thin laptops just with top tier performance which it looks like we will get.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/13/apple-is-finally-willing-to-...
Wow it must suck to be Intel right now. It wasn't so long ago that the trope was while others had better multi-core performance "...Intel still holds the lead for single core performance" Now not only do AMD have a better product, but also Apple now offer equal or better performance than the best that Intel can offer. I wonder what is next for Intel now their £1000+ CPUs are firmly in third place. Looking forward to…
Why, exactly? As long as Apple keeps their chips to themselves, Intel or AMD will have nothing to worry about.
Performance per watt of this thing is INSANE, take a look at the battery left after compiling WebKit, compared to older Mac: https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/WebKit-Com... https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro... IMO the all day battery will be THE killer feature of the new laptops.
These gains are just through improvements in processors. Now, combine that with parallel leaps for battery tech... It's also good that battery tech hasn't jumped too far ahead already - the constraint has helped in the development in these mobile chips. The display panel is still the biggest energy draw on my laptop. There's a lot of chance for improvement there too. A 2 day battery in 5 years isn't that crazy.
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Apple is the kind of company that will choose to slim down the laptop instead of making it 2 day battery life.
As much as I dislike them doing it while disregarding other aspects, we need/want slimmer. A notebook PC should be as thin as a real notebook or maybe even less. And it should be sturdy enough, after all, a 5-6 mm plate of metal is quite robust.
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I'm not sure I or really anyone actually wants a 2 day battery life. Like, we can do that on smartphones right now but users have signaled that the 1 day device is fine for them, notably because of the human gap. You know the gap. If you charge your phone every night it becomes a habit tied to your daily routine. If you were to charge your phone every other night, you might lose track of what day you are on, not char…
Why are you assuming you need to charge a 2-day device every other day? You charge it every night, and in exchange you make it through heavy use days, late nights, and the times you forget to charge it. I had a 2-day phone and downgraded to a 1-day phone and my phone now dies on me much more often, including in each of those scenarios, and looking at the battery level and charging have become a bigger part of my life…
If that's not what you actually want then just call it 'heavy use all day battery life' or something.