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Re: iPhone Air

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Post by vasco »

aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

> bold sexy orange color

Luckily they added the blood pressure check for when you get too excited about the color orange.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by ManBeardPc »

crazygringo wrote: post #564
ManBeardPc wrote: post #328

I want an extra thick model instead, let’s call it iPhone Travel (or Ultra?). Just thick enough so the cameras are no longer sticking out. Give me an all-week battery instead of an all-day one. Slim down the power usage and give a power saver mode that actually does make a difference. Let me go on a weekend trip in nature or festival without having to carry extra hardware or having to look for public charging station…

Just get the MagSafe battery, then you've got your extra-thick. It already exists. It's not going to last you all week though. That's not going to just be thick, it's going to be a cube heavy enough to double up as a weapon.

The way it is currently yes. But hardware is way more efficient now. Why not sacrifice performance and optimize a bit more in that direction? It is plenty fast already for everyday life. I don’t like that we only focus on performance and we don’t see longer battery life that we could have based on advances in battery technology + more efficient processors.

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by jb1991 »

Workaccount2 wrote: post #261
jdprgm wrote: post #187

Can someone that is actually interested in this explain the appeal? Thin on its own I get but thin with a giant bump 100% defeats the whole point for me. Seems clear at this point there is little hope of them engineering their way into thin cameras.

iPhone status symbol without having to haul around a huge bulky phone. Most users probably use/need 10% of what a max pro iPhone offers, but they want 100% of the max pro status. Now they can keep the status without needing to carry a chonker.

Is it a status symbol when more than half of the people in all the cities around you in your country have an iPhone?

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Post by zkmon »

Don't see much improvements that really matter to a common phone user. Battery, maybe?

Reminds me of Windows versions that came after Windows 7. Why don't people just stop doing new versions after the product has reached its saturation point?

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Post by apparent »

SilverElfin wrote: post #709
aurareturn wrote: post #58

It has A19 Pro. A19 Pro has matmul acceleration in its GPU, the equivalent of Nvidia's Tensor cores. This would make future Macs extremely viable for local LLMs. Currently, Macs have high memory bandwidth and high VRAM capacity but low prompt processing speeds. Give it a large context and it'll take forever before the first token is generated. If the M5 generation gets this GPU upgrade, which I don't see why not, the…

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According to this page, [1] it reduces unwanted noise 4x as much as the original AirPods Pro and 2x as much as the AirPods Pro 2.

Though I do wonder, given the logarithmic nature of sound perception, are these numbers deceptive in terms of what the user will perceive?

1: https://www.apple.com/airpods-pro/

Re: iPhone Air

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Post by apparent »

hacker_homie wrote: post #716

I want the iPhone square, where the phone is as thick as the camera bulge so I can put it down on a table.

You joke, but this is basically what a foldable iPhone will be (though there will undoubtedly still be a camera bump...).

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Post by mudkipdev »

beoberha wrote: post #6

Just do not understand the market for this one. The current size of phones is a solved problem. Nobody is asking for these things to be thinner. Most people use cases and are happy to add some thickness for battery life. Besides, the camera "plateau" makes it all futile.

Thinner phones are aesthetically pleasing and feel nice to hold. I can keep a battery pack nearby for emergencies
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