Huh? No-one’s censoring anything. I reply to everyone, never delete anything.

@@iCaveDave maybe a prob with KZfaq. Ive had them before. No worries.

Tell me you’ve not used a Mac in the past 5 years without telling me…

@@iCaveDave i never use that shit,i am PC user!!mac is fine only for applications optimised for it while for everything else like gaming and everything else are waste of money

@@Mr11ESSE111 that explains why you know so much about Macs. 👍👏

@@iCaveDave it explain why PC market are over 90% in compare to shit mac

I believe it’s close.

A huge no for 99% of engineers. Who make up 0.5% of the market? It’s okay for it not to be for you. It’s for most people.

WWDC is very close, and is rumoured to be very AI heavy too, and Apple has been licensing image libraries as well as a lot of good journalistic sources to train their own AI models. Give it a couple of weeks!

The problem with ChatGPT et al is privacy and copyright. E.g. using a coding assistant puts you into the risk of using copyrighted code where you do not have a license for. That alone makes it unacceptable for professional use, no company will take the risk. Then you transfer all your code to the bot server contributing to training material for the next version. This will put others in the risk of using your copyrighted code. And MS Recall is a privacy nightmare even without transferring data to any server - to use it at your workplace would be illegal as it could be used by your employer to spy on you, which isn't allowed to that extent (monitoring every 5 seconds) at least here in Europe. MS Recall can be disabled by group policy for a reason: no company lawyer worth his or her money would not advise you to do just that.

I do my best!

No, just horrifically uneven borders. It’s definitely better to just have more black instead of useful screen though right?

Cosmic blue actually!

Thank you! Sarcasm is basically my superpower

YES! The simplicity of iPad is its biggest feature. And yet people want to ruin it with MacOS.

Even the benchmarks can be bullshit (just check how Nvidia RTX 4090 use 600W+ in benchmarks, but it's "only" use 450W in games.. so the performance what they show you in the benchmark actually not a lie, but you will never get that outside the benchmark apps..)

Yep, real world performance is what we need to see!

This is up to debate. I made measurements on x86_64 emulation on Windows on ARM using a Parallels VM on a mac mini M1 and found, that the x86_64 emulation of W11 on ARM is significantly slower than possible. Whereas Rosetta 2 (the x86_64 emulation on macOS for Apple Silicon computers) gives you almost identical performance of the same algorithm (written in Rust) compiled to either Arm or x86_64, the same is not true for Windows on ARM, where the x86_64 code achieves only half the speed of the arm code. Now this was a synthetical benchmark aiming at just measuring the emulation - same arm and x86_64 code for the benchmarked function on both macOS and Windows without any I/O and operating system calls. With real applications, experience may or may not be that bad. But I would expect that x86_64 versions of video or sound processing software with their bunch of algorithmic data conversion functionality will suffer a lot when not run natively, but emulated on Windows on ARM. Now the Snapdragon Elite X is at least on par with Apple Silicon in performance and performance/watt. So, if the native software is there you want to use, those would be great Windows machines. Long battery life with uncrippled desktop-like performance when not plugged in. What is the most important feature of Macbooks.

The early reports said that Microsoft’s translation layer is faster than Rosetta 2, but it remains to be seen in the real world.

Well M4 is a big part of that response already! 😂

The best part of pcs is having the proper graphics chips so moving away from that actually makes them worse for me.

Not that important unless you’re doing certain tasks, but agreed, it is an advantage

Yep! Unix based NeXT was first though!

@@iCaveDave think the point is “the internet” is not synonymous with “the World Wide Web”. The internet has been around since early DARPA days, the WWW was invented (as you point out) on NextStep.

The internet is much older than the web. The Web was invented by Berners-Lee when working at CERN on a Next computer in 1992 IIRC. He designed the http protocol and the first version of HTML and the first web browsers were written at CERN. It was used to share knowledge among scientists. And inspiration of the concept (the linking of documents) was driven by Hypercard - an Apple product for the Macintosh. At that time, MS did not even really know what the internet was. All they had was a TCP/IP-stack for WfW and a Telnet application. Actually MS was the last to join the Web game with W95 and the Internet Explorer. Even AOL has more merits in bringing the internet and the web to the people than MS has.

@@olafschluter706 Research institutions, large tech companies, probably some defense companies use it for email, bulletin board, file transmission back then. We had our own internal network which was worldwide and a few gateways to the outside world or internet. It would be considered quite crude by today's standards but it was a huge competitive advantage over competitors that didn't have the infrastructure. Back in those days, we sent out magtapes for software distribution.

Hackingtosh ?

@@Wassup-Doc legitimately not a bad option. It’s for a variety of staff to use, so reliability is key

If you can only afford Saltine crackers.....get used to lots of unsatisfactory meals. Get a cheap Windows machine and feel regret during each use....or.....get a Mac and never think about it or how much you spent......don't be penny-wise and pound foolish.

You do net get a current gen desktop i7 with the other specs and a decent (i.e. at least Full-HD) monitor, keyboard and mice for that price. Unless it was stolen and is sold by a dealer.

@@olafschluter706 advertised as refurbished. Other customer reviews are good. Seems legit 🤷‍♂️

It’s a tricky conversation, because for example, I would never have the budget to get custom music composed, recorded by an orchestra and used in a video, but if AI means I can get closer to that kind of thing, knowing it would never be as good as the real thing, is that OK? Ai generated visuals in general will never look as good as filmed work with real actors, but if independents can tell a story with it, where should the line be drawn? It’s such a grey area and I don’t have a good answer.

@@iCaveDave absolutely agree! For simple graphics and some sound design I will use AI. Those tasks would traditionally be the domain of small creators, who I couldn’t justify paying for. On the other hand, massive corporations using AI instead of paying professional human creatives seems unethical and wrong. It’s a really interesting grey area, and I’m interested to see how it evolves. Sadly I assume it will result in corporations saving money and producing lower quality content - at least in the short term.

In our company we are not allowed to make use of any ML assistant. Mostly copyright concerns: using ML-based code completions may infringe copyright of others and and letting ML-bots analyse our code may lead to others using our copyrighted and sometimes even confidential code (we are in the IT security business), and here confidential means confidential by law (i.e. classified). The concept of MS recall violates the GDPR among other laws. It's wise of MS to allow admins to disable it by group policy. As that what would happen once this gets rolled out into enterprises by a W11 update.

I think we said that 2 years ago. And a couple of years before that too.

I’m pretty sure it’s not 5k anywhere… but yes, having tried it, it’s absolutely worth the price.

Of course. They’re available at Apple.com

Apple isn’t the threat to them. Intel’s stubbornness in not considering efficiency is. X86 is the issue, but Intel isn’t doing the work to keep up with new architectures. They’ve been declining for years.

You’re funny, considered doing stand up?