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The Strap Situation

Episode 539 Published 2 years, 11 months ago

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
- 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
  - Listen Now