539: The Strap Situation
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• 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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