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
Neil Parfitt on the new Mac Pro
Ternus & Joz acknowledge ATP shirt (❗)
Gaming
Apple’s Proton-like tool
Source code
The Verge’s Take
WINE
DXVK
Steam Deck
CrossOver
Gokhan Avkarogullari
Anonymous feedback
Mike Rockwell’s statement on The Talk Show
macOS 14 Sonoma
Post-show: John’s special treat
…as a treat
John’s SSDs:
Samsung 870 EVO 4 TB
Samsung 870 QVO 8 TB
Paul Haddad’s toot
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats
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