539: The Strap Situation
- Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
- Flighty
- “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
- “Alexa” not recognized with frequency-range muting (or known-fingerprint matching)
- iOS 17: Siri & Search → Listen For
- Vision Pro
- Promo video
- xrOS at WWDC
- Mastodon thread from former Apple engineer
- Fit / Weight/ Top Strap
- Myke on Cortex
- Top Strap
- HiFiMAN HE6
- Power Estimate
- Guest Mode
- Pixel math
- Refresh rate
- Accidental hypocrisy? (via Niall O’Mara)
- Plane use
- Vision Pro?
- Gaming
- Developer kits
- Work with Apple
- New Macs
- 15” MacBook Air
- Mac Studio
- Fan Noise Ratings
- M1 / 2022: 15dB
- M2 / 2023: 6dB
- Difference is ~8×
- Pricing ∆ between Mini & Studio
- Mac Pro
- John Ternus on discrete GPUs in Macs
- Metal scores
- M1 Max: 108,363
- M1 Ultra: 150,644
- 1.3× M1 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- M2 Max: 131,302
- M2 Ultra: 267,399
- 2× M2 Max performance for 2× GPU cores
- #5 fastest Metal score overall
- Top 3 are GPUs in a 2019 Mac Pro
- M2 Ultra vs. NVIDIA
- 4080: 16% higher fps
- 4090: 37% higher fps
- Non-game GPU performance
- Blender GPU scores
- M2 Ultra: 3,412
- NVIDIA 4090: 13,158 (3.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3080: 6,205 (1.8× faster)
- NVIDIA 3060: 3,256 (costs $330)
- NVIDIA 3070: 3,396 (laptop GPU)
- CPU benchmark
- M2 Ultra vs. Intel & AMD
- Intel Xeon W9-3495X (56-core)
- Multi-core: 53,504 (2.8× faster)
- Intel Core i9-13900KS
- Single-core: 3,080 (39% faster)
- Multi-core: 21,665 (15% faster)
- Mac Pro PCIe lanes