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Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by bgnn »

827a wrote: post #956
ip26 wrote: post #856

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The sales volumes of the 1TB+ models has got to be fairly low, which makes this fascinating. Since they are being somewhat quiet about it (rather than trumpeting "the 1TB+ models are even faster!") it suggests the P-cores don't yield well enough to support 4 P-cores in the 256GB and 512GB SKUs.

I actually wonder if the 1TB+ models of the iPad Pro represent a higher portion of all models sold than that storage capacity would in other product lines. The iPad Pro is such a niche, weird device; it feels like if you're buying it, you're buying it for something , probably media production related. Its not a Netflix machine.

a lot of people use it in music production for example. weird indeed.

Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by badc0ffee »

xd1936 wrote: post #187
sameermanek wrote: post #112

Did anyone else notice that the base storage has been upgraded to 512G? I knew this was coming after iPhone 17s storage upgrade!

512GB was the base storage of the M4 also. https://web.archive.org/web/20251010205008/https://www.apple...

It was 256 GB on the first M4s

Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by caycep »

mumber_typhoon wrote: post #44

The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet). All in all, apple is doing some incredible things with hardware. Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. The M1 itself is so powerful that nobody really needs to upgrade that for most things most people do on their computers. Tahoe however makes my M1 Air feel sluggish doing the exact same task…

I wonder how much is due to just scale vs. a Bertrand Serlet vs Craig Federighi culture/management style

I personally have no idea but I seem to recall the golden age of open source/unix embrace was under Serlet

Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by mrkeen »

neobrain wrote: post #895
mrkeen wrote: post #231

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I have a pretty good time on Asahi Fedora (macbook air M1). It supposedly also supports M2 but no higher. And it's a PITA to install (needs to be started within macosx, using scripts, with the partitions already in a good state)

> And it's a PITA to install Curiously I found it a breeze since it didn't require digging out a flashable boot medium and pointing your BIOS to it. Calling a script from your normal desktop environment and having it automatically boot into the installer was really nice. > with the partitions already in a good state) What's this about? The script takes care of resizing the macOS partitions and creating new ones for L…

The first time it ran ok. But I had no way to do it again. Spent hours trying to get the Mac partitioner to just clear out the space so I could re-run the installer. No dice.

In the end I did a factory reset of the whole macbook and then I could reinstall Asahi.

Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by jjcm »

GeekyBear wrote: post #615
jjcm wrote: post #610

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They're going to have a hard time selling the M5 when compared to the M4 Pro. Geekbench for that chip is 3843/22332, which is slightly slower for single core but better for multi, but also has thunderbolt 5 instead of 4.

The numbers for M5 Geekbench are for the binned iPad Pro version with one performance core disabled. It's the only M5 device that leaked to the public early.

Thank you, I didn't realize this.

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Post by Tempest1981 »

sgt wrote: post #499
SkyPuncher wrote: post #326

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There are so many software related things that drive me absolutely loony with Apple right now. * My iPhone as a remote for my Apple TV has randomly stopped deciding it can control the volume - despite the "Now Playing" UI offering an audio control that works. There auth screens drive me crazy: * Why cannot I not punch in a password while Face ID is working? If I'm skiing, I know Face ID isn't gong to work, stop makin…

I highly recommend the Apple remote .. then you also don't need to take your phone with you when you are watching TV, which is an added benefit for some. Of course the thin Apple remote has a way of getting lost, but it has a Find Me feature which locates it pretty well.

It also feels ice cold, with sharp edges

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Post by hahamaster »

dimal wrote: post #636
mumber_typhoon wrote: post #44

The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet). All in all, apple is doing some incredible things with hardware. Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. The M1 itself is so powerful that nobody really needs to upgrade that for most things most people do on their computers. Tahoe however makes my M1 Air feel sluggish doing the exact same task…

Seems like the software teams are there to simply squander the extra processing power that the hardware teams provide, thus ensuring recurring revenue. I see no good reason to upgrade to Tahoe. I’d have to buy a new computer just so I could power transparencies that I don’t want.

Disable transparencies in Settings then. Simple.

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Post by vrmiguel »

erickhill wrote: post #952
mumber_typhoon wrote: post #44

The M5 MacBook Pro still gets the Broadcom WiFi chip but the M5 iPad Pros get the N1 and C1X (Sweet). All in all, apple is doing some incredible things with hardware. Software teams at apple really need to get their act together. The M1 itself is so powerful that nobody really needs to upgrade that for most things most people do on their computers. Tahoe however makes my M1 Air feel sluggish doing the exact same task…

The fix is to disable Glass. In a terminal: defaults write -g com.apple.SwiftUI.DisableSolarium -bool YES This gets rid of the slow animations, inconsistent window cornering, and other annoyances. Then (so menus aren't transparent and unreadable): System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Reduce Transparency If you do those two things your machine should look and feel normal again. I've been running an M1 Max since…

I think DisableSolarium has no effect anymore. At least I can't see any. I'm in macOS 26.0 (25A354)

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Post by darkteflon »

surcap526 wrote: post #679
nu11ptr wrote: post #573

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The step down from 32GB to 24GB of unified memory is interesting. Theories? Perhaps they decided M4 allowed too much memory in the standard chip and they want to create a larger differential with Pro/Max chips? Update: I am thinking the 24GB for M5 is a typo. I see on Apple's site the 14 inch MBP can be configured optionally with 32GB of RAM.

Apple is running planned obsolescence scam.

I see this criticism of Apple all the time and it’s completely at odds with my experience.

Our family iPad Pro is older than my 8-year old son, and still gets security patches. My wife’s phone is an XS Max, launched in 2018; iOS 26 is the first release that doesn’t support it - it will continue to receive security patches for the foreseeable future. My son’s school laptop is my old 8gb 2020 M1 Air, which continues to have stellar performance and battery life and could run Tahoe if I was crazy enough to want to upgrade it. My work machine is a 2021 M1 Pro that runs just as great as the day I bought it (thanks, Al Dente!). My 3 Apple TV 4Ks are I-have-no-idea-how-old but they are still being updated and just get out of the way like a TV box should.

I have no particular love for Apple (or any other company), but they’ve always treated me well as a customer. I can’t really think of another tech co that seems to make people as irrationally angry. Is it their marketing? I hate their marketing too. But their products and support are great.

Re: Apple M5 chip

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Post by [deleted] »

allenrb wrote: post #514

I’d like a filter to remove all mention of AI and associated performance from copy like this. Maybe I can build it with… nvm. Seriously, can’t you tell me about the CPU cores and their performance?

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