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Do I need to worry now that a walled-garden company - with all its advantages - pulls ahead of open ecosystems? I only use Linux at home. Will I be doomed to inferior H/W going forward? This is not a rhetorical question or a flame... It's an honest question... Is Apple pulling ahead of everybody else and soon going to be our only option?
"Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air systems, all configured with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Final Cut Pro 10.5 using a 55-second clip with 4K Apple ProRes RAW media, at 4096x2160 resolution and 59.94 frames per second, transcoded to Apple ProRes 42…
Sorry to ask, what is the "Fabric" module in their architecture? Also, is the "Neural Engine" some neural network specific processor?
Wonder if they could pop one onto a PCIe card for exisiting Mac owners to a a copro for a VM.
i don't understand how you're supposed to develop server-side x86 code on this machine. isnt this an important market for the mac?
If you normally boot into x86 linux, you might be in a tricky spot. Emulation will be your only bet.
M1 - the gpu performance claim is questionable
Max 16GB of RAM on these new machines is really not that great to be honest. The mini supported up to 64GB before.
My guess is that they are using up to 2 HBM2 memory stacks (from the picture). Each is limited to 8GB . If they were to go to HBM2e in M2 they could get up to 2x24GB. The biggest advantage of HBM is lower power per bit as the signals are all on the package running at a lower frequency. The memory market is getting fragmented with Nvidia having seemed to moved from HBM2 to GDDR6X (Micron being only supplier). LPDDR su…
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I'm confused of their new pricing scheme / spec tiers for Macbook Pros. There's no more core i7 for Macbook 13. You have to go to Macbook 16. I'd rather get a Dell XPS or other Core i7/Ryzen 7 ultrabooks. So now, spec-wise, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro are too close.
There's no more core i7 for Macbook 13 Sure there is – you just have to select one of the Intel-models and customize the processor.
How many years has the 13” MBP been stuck at 16GB RAM now? 7?
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This is super interesting. I personally wouldn’t consider a 8GB or 16GB laptop this year as my daily driver, but it’s true that the performance gain from extra RAM beyond 8GB is marginal, especially for average audiences and especially when their performances are measured only externally. Like, you might get super frustrated, develop mental health issues, not that the corporate cares. Expenditure reduces, ROI might e…
> you might get super frustrated, develop mental health issues Uh, what? Is your comment literally "because I don't have enough RAM in my computer my mental health will decline"?
the kinda company that can't afford to give you the latest stuff is more likely to have those kindsa days all the time too so it feels even worse. management even rides your ass coz you can't make it work...
part of "making it" as a software dev in a lot of countries is getting a machine per your specs not having a machine specced out to you by IT.