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- NBQ00-1
- right so this dumbass said nothing Apple already said in their keynote and what most of us already knew, just skipped this...grafician
- NBQ post something relevant next time man, commongrafician
- oh wait, there's nothing relevant to post about this 'till next year when the next generation M2 comesgrafician
- It‘s just a summary and comparison of models for those who haven‘t watched the keynote. Chill man.NBQ00
- „...so this dumbass...“ lolNBQ00
- you can get all the info on the new Macs on apple's site man, these kind of "let me tell u what's up" videos are dumb afgrafician
- everything on qbn is from a different site.monospaced
- hans_glib0
well, did anything exciting happen?
- Well...Tim & Co managed to mention the words: "innovative, remarkable, amazing, excited, first time ever, reimagined, sleek, game changing" in the first 30 minsutopian
- And none of it is justified in any conceivable reality, of course.monospaced
- grafician2
First M1 benchmarks are IN and yeah, it crushes everything.
https://www.macrumors.com/2020/1…
Macbook Air 2020 with M1:
- single core - beats everything
- multi-core - only the top Xeons are a bit betterI expect the new Macbook Pro to crush everything at multi-core.
And this is only the first generation...Intel/AMD are done (I mean by the time they scramble to get something new this time next year Apple will already be at M2 and so on)
- If you see a speed comparison tool that would let me compare a 2017 3.8 Ghz iMac to a Mac mini, I would love to see those numbers.mg33
- ^there's this info https://browser.geek…grafician
- so similar for a Mac Minigrafician
- Guess I'll be passing on Macs going forward as bootcamp will not be supported :/SteveJobs
- oh and this M1 is actually a more of 4-core processor, as it has 4 "full" cores and 4 secondary, so yeah, impressive performance!grafician
- And it's not just speed, it's speed vs power consumption. Better battery life with these numbers is really something.evilpeacock
- Still gonna be at least 3 years before I switch - rosetta is not a realistic solution for audio software - and porting is not as simple as apple suggest...kingsteven
- also there's going to be a big redesign of laptops and iMacs in the next year then things will start to get interesting along with USB4 hardware, GPGPU etc.kingsteven
- ^No doubt is not the time to update rn, but this is a very promising start for this platform.grafician
- grafician3
"Affinity 1.8.6: ready to go on Apple’s new macOS Big Sur and primed to deliver superfast performance on Macs with M1 chips"
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb…
"Our developers were lucky enough to receive the DTK from Apple so we could prime all our apps for M1 before launch and get them up and running natively on the new hardware, making Affinity apps the first professional creative applications to offer native M1 support."
"To sum it up, M1 makes our apps run faster, smoother and feel more responsive than ever before (we’ve already even seen speed increases of over 3x faster running on the new MacBook Air). It’s definitely a big step forward for Mac, and we can’t wait to see how the rest of the Mac range develops with Apple silicon in the future."
3x faster?! Affinity already runs super fast now, imagine the speed increase next year when new Macbook Pros and iMacs will use these new processors!
Adobe bye!
- Any faster and it'll be doing the work for you before you get a chance.Nairn
- here's some benchmark agains a 6-core Xeon + ATI GPU
https://twitter.com/…grafician - hahaha. as an animator you can never have too much speeddkoblesky
- As an animator you've probably switched to a Windows PC by now. I did last year.CyBrainX
- As if Affinity apps were slow now. Even on "legacy" hardware they run like butter.evilpeacock
- NBQ000
Future Apple Silicon Macs Rumored to Include Redesigned 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro, 24-Inch iMac, and Smaller Mac Pro
- WHAT!~ SHOCKING! ABSOLUTELY SHOCKINGnb
- Well, the "redesigned 14-inch" MBP will be very interesting.NBQ00
- 13.3-inch with smaller bezels, actual screen size 13.8 in. Boom, I'm a wizard at predicting the future of Applenb
- this is like predicting that there will be a PS6 next and it will be fastermonospaced
- Nairn1
I read earlier that the estimated cost of this new M1 chip to Apple is $65, compared to $300 outlay for Intel. That in and of itself is a huge win for Apple, although I doubt they'll pass on much if any f that saving to consumers. I mean, if their boasts are true, why should they?
These mobile-led SoCs will become the new computer baseline 'computer' for consumers. The desktop PC you're using now is a dinosaur.
It'll be interesting to see what the competition come out with and how we'll be building computers in a few years - basically, they'll be small control modules a la Raspberry Pi's on steroids, coupled with bulky peripherals.
- The fact that they're rumoured to be creating a Mac Pro with 1/2 the form factor speaks volumes to the size, power and general energy consumption.ideaist
- SoCs-> HC.sted
- (like c64, aminga etc :)sted
- Aye - you ordered your Raspberry Pi 400 yet, then? :)Nairn
- think of the R&D costs that have gone into that though. Not saying they can't afford it, but probably cheaper Mac's eventually?Ianbolton
- For sure, but I imagine much of that R&D cost was absorbed by a decade-plus of casholla iPhone and iPad development.Nairn
- I can't find it now, but there was a concept from HP years ago about integrating cpu memory and storage - not sure what happened to it. Yet here it is.Nairn
- Cost is also in the manufacturing facilities, not just the R&D. Going in house is a big expense in itself.monospaced
- I thought TSMC did all the heavy work?
Sure, it cost them a big fuckload to book out production on the 5nm process, but it's not like they built plants?Nairn - ..yet.Nairn
- M A D E I N C H Y N N A ?utopian
- I actually don't know.monospaced
- Made in Taiwan, foo'.Nairn
- coo’monospaced
- Slave kaborimbecile
- *Labor evenimbecile
- Continuity1
My iPhone 12 Pro arrived yesterday, and I put it through a couple of test shots from my balcony this afternoon. Gotta say, the 12 Pro's camera array is vastly superior to my XS's.
Here's an OOC shot from today, no processing in LR (other than lens correction — which Adobe hasn't updated, so I had to use the 11 Pro's lens profile). First thing I noticed is that the 12 Pro's shots are lot cleaner. The XS's shots always had this weird mottling/textural artefacting.
I'm also liking the colours and dynamic range (HDR is turned off in this shot). Going to need to play around to figure out how to get the cleanest shots possible, but I'm liking what I see, so far.
- 12pro imag generally over sharp with too strong highlights. UW lens is still soft and indoor shots have a magenta cast. Better than the XS though, certainly.craigatkinson
- Just want till the ProRaw is released later this year. :)mg33
- Nairn0
3x the speed!
:D
- This was actually visionary. Because it‘s true: RISC architecture gonna change everything https://www.youtube.…NBQ00
- Angelina Jolie in the New Jersey Devils jersey in this is/was teenage bliss:ideaist
- https://productplace…ideaist
- RISC-V has a long uphill battle ahead of it. It'll be interesting to see what China and India do with it. For now though, ARM RISC owns the planet.Nairn
- @nb100 - this is WAY above my paygrade, but here's what an ex-ARM engineer has to say about RISC-VNairn
- .. https://gist.github.…Nairn
- Didnt Apple move away from RISC in 2006drgs
- in PC, yes. Then, between Newton and iPhone. They always held onto their ARM investment, which found value in iPhone/iPad.Nairn
- NBQ000
Craig is obviously a handsome Silverfox (no homo) and very charismatic. I think he would be a great CEO for Apple but not sure if he‘s good at Business as Tim Apple.
- zaq0
Big Sur is here
- craigatkinson0
Big Sur isn't here. Trouble at the Apple mill.
- who in their right mind would update to the latest software/hardware lolgrafician
- ^^^ you can test drive the OS very easily. New APFS volume + mac restore to install it. Don't even need to create a new partition anymore.section_014
- grafician0
this is not even M1 on the chart...
Like I said, bye Intel/AMD
- and now we see that the next "disruptive" thing from Apple was not self-driving cars, but a damn little chip...grafician
- start buying AAPL...grafician
- It’s a good time to buy.monospaced
- with a year min. holdsted
- maybe wait a little until it pulls back to 114-116, you guys really missed that 108 dip it had last week.sted
- I can’t imagine why it would dip. They just announced this.monospaced
- I'm not sure why you're including AMD in this, the threadripper performance would literally be off that chart you posted.zarkonite
- @zark, the 10900K is on there, and it's faster than the threadrippermonospaced
- No, I was wrong. The new threadripper is about 20% faster than the 10900K shown here. Probably very close to the M1.monospaced
- It varies from 20 to 200%: https://cdn.mos.cms.…
https://cdn.mos.cms.…zarkonite - oops, long url again: https://cdn.mos.cms.…zarkonite
- I'm looking forward to what Apple does with this but it's not anywhere near top desktop performance so far. It's incredible in terms of energy consumption,zarkonite
- and that's great for laptops but they haven't shown they can top AMD for raw power. Probably someday, they've been nailing chip design for decades...zarkonite
- Yeah, except they have shown it. They are doing it on a much smaller chip. You put more transistors on a larger chip, and you've beat AMD several times over.monospaced
- The 8-core M1 is as fast as a 64-core threadripper. Think about it. And it's many many times more efficient at it. That's what this chart is saying.monospaced
- Also, there isn't a single AMD or Intel chip that can match the single-core speed of this M1, and it's a first gen model.monospaced
- I'm looking forward to the next generation, all I need is raw power for video or no power for admin work so this falls exactly where I don't need it =)zarkonite
- craigatkinson0
Big Sur...don't like the bubble icons for messages and find my...infact really dislike them...and all the tinyness of everything. Pixie land.
- craigatkinson0
- bloody gradients everywhere. Mail icon also, feels like I'm on acid, in Japan, in a toy shopcraigatkinson
- time moves onsandpipe
- hope socraigatkinson
- Can you put a gradient on top of that gradient sitting on a gradient background. - Oh you mean "make it pop". Got it.Chimp
- Continuity2
Well, I've got Big Sur installed on my mid-2014 MBP. I definitely don't hate it. Yeah, the icons will take a bit of getting used to, but really not, actually ... I do like that it's all the same across the board from Mac OS to iOS.
Liking the notification centre, too, I was never a big fan of this slide-out thingy.
Liking the subtle layout tweaks in the Finder window, Mail, iTunes (sorry, Music), etc ... everything feels like it's got a bit more room to breath.
Is nice.
Now, it remains to be seen how CC 2021 performs on it. My old Intuos 4 does without needing a new driver, though, so that's a big plus.
- *breatheContinuity
- And by 'Notification Centre', I really do mean 'Control Centre', apparently.Continuity
- yes its nice generally, just too much bubbly stuffcraigatkinson
- sound effects are greatcraigatkinson
- sted0
0. Remember this when apps won't start
1. Disconnect network
2. Open Terminal
3. Run "sudo vi /etc/hosts"
4. Type "G$" (goto end of file)
5. Type "i", left arrow, enter
6. Type `127.0.0.1 http://oscp.apple.com`
7. Press esc then type ":x" then press enter
8. Reconnect network or Restart- 6 is:
"127.0.0.1 oscp.apple.com"sted - What apps and what does this do?monospaced
- This is why Mac is so great. It’s just so much easier than DOSnb
- https://www.reddit.c…sted
- All that dir/p and C:\> stuff? No thanks!nb
- https://twitter.com/…sted
- This is shell dude, it’s access to how a real computer works. Can’t even do this on a PCmonospaced
- ;)monospaced
- Cool cool, I can’t wait to save up enough to get my first Mac so I can retire this DOS machinenb
- hey guys, you can use unix shell commands in Windows without much effort. WSL and Gitbash are two options. I use WSL at work and it's fantastic.section_014
- Delete System32.palimpsest
- Literally the same in Windows
C:\Windows\System32...drgs - All apps start fine; #NoMoreDramaideaist
- Windows runs on a Unix shell? Does the terminal in Windows give TRUE root access? If not, it's the opposite of "literally" the samemonospaced
- concept of elevated access in the windows ecosystem is different from unix. as in many things windows offers much more freedom to configure policies than macossted
- yes it gives 100% "root" access.sted
- This checks for vistieses and security. By doing this you’re turning it off. You’re going to forget, so don’t do it.ArmandoEstrada
- -> VirusesArmandoEstrada
- yes it's a temporary fix, bit it looks like they fixed the app cert on the oscp-s end,
we will find out in a few hours.sted
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- inteliboy2
after 5 years upgraded to a new phone. Got the mini... funny, it doesnt feel mini at all. Though doubt we'll ever get a tiny 'nano' phone considering the amount of tech packed into these fuckers.
Is pretty amazing getting such a leap. Was worth waiting. Shit looks and feels futuristic.
/cool story
- utopian0
Has anyone else had issues upgrading to Big Sur 11.0.1 from Catalina 10.15.7?
- utopian0
Innovation Never Sleeps!
Big Sur – Installation failed An error occurred while installing the selected updates.
- What a fucking joke!utopian
- Happened to me. Lost an hour. Was on the phone with IT and adobe. Didn’t even try to install the OSmonospaced
- grafician1
After the Big Sur setup fiasco, also know this:
https://sneak.berlin/20201112/yo…
"This means that Apple knows when you’re at home. When you’re at work. What apps you open there, and how often. They know when you open Premiere over at a friend’s house on their Wi-Fi, and they know when you open Tor Browser in a hotel.”
"If Apple truly cares about user privacy, they should be looking long and hard at every single packet that comes out of a mac on a fresh install before they release a new OS. We are. The longer that they don’t, the less credible their claims about respecting user privacy will become."
since Catalina it seems, they practically log everything you open and send the logs over network to apple servers not encrypted, in the open...