AMD's gaming GPU sales sucks because AMD doesn't want to lower prices, and their Ray-Tracing performance sucks. As much as people hate the RTX 4060, it is a better GPU for the price. As for server sales, we know it's all for AI. The question is, how long does the AI bubble have before it...
Quick look on Amazon shows Macbook Air M2/M3 Lid for $300. Don't pay attention to the color because they all seem to be $300. You can find the lids for cheaper on Ebay if you buy used. You do need to pull out some tools but I think it's worth saving money. For comparison the Replacement for...
You enjoy paying for Apple Care?
Doesn't that mean your Apple products failed many times over? What is going on here?
If you look at the previous video there's no performance difference. Apple did it to make you pay hundreds for more storage and save themselves money in manufacturing. The...
At a time when the console industry is slowly fading from existence, but you think Apple making exclusives is going to win them support? Apple would be better off making a Steam Deck version with their M4 chip, as that would be a world of difference for Apple. The problem will always be the...
It's up in the air if this is a bug or an intended feature. Trying running OpenScad since they're having a lot of complaints.
"So far it appears that this forcing is deliberate on Apple’s side, with the FOSS community still sorting through possible workarounds and the full impact."...
If you read the article and watched the video you'll know that doesn't work anymore in MacOS 15.1. Now the only way to get unsigned code working is through a sudo command.
sudo spctl --master-disable
I would say welcome to being a Linux user except without all the benefits.
99% you say? I...
Exactly, except we can unlike Mac users.
What's so clickbait about it? Apple won't let you run unsigned applications on MacOS15.1. You could if you run Sudo but yea.
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6304352/apple-removes-ability-to-run-unsigned-apps-in-macos-15-1
Apple has always had outliers when it comes to gaming, but that's not going to change anything. Apple needs to fundamentally change how it does things for gaming to be taken serious on Apple. Like adopt Vulkan, make better tools to port games by not adopting Crossover, and not being abusive to...
Apple buying game publishers is my idea of purgatory, because that's what Apple would need to do to get the ball rolling if even by a little. People who generally buy powerful computers are not doing so because they need a Speedometer of 40 or even to do video editing, but because of gaming...
Spoiler, not well.
I personally hated the game but to each their own.
If Apple wants games then Apple has to pay for the ports. The Apple ecosystem is just not friendly for gaming in general.
There's no such thing as a bad product, just a bad price. Keep in mind these chips weren't designed for end users and of course gaming, but made for servers. Specifically AI which according Wendell the Xeon chips are doing very well. If the price is right then I'd buy Intel. I bought an FX...
Ones own demise is ones own making. Intel very much deserves all the terrible things they brought onto themselves. They knew they made bad chips and just ignored it, hoping nobody would notice. Along with them basically running on altered versions of SandyBridge for the past decade. I...
From what I understand is that they use the Linux VM to hide it's activities from Windows anti-malware tools. Especially QEMU because it's digitally signed. Windows should always be in a VM, but that's not going to be easily done remotely with a 285MB file.
Here's the thing, but most of those chips are not something you'd use in laptops and desktops with the exception of the M4. Even the M4 has it's problems in terms of usability. Before ARM you had UltraSPARC which used SPARC V9 architecture as were many other chips that were specifically made...
The way I see it is that companies saw this AI thing and wondered how they could make easy money? AI needs training to work, and the more training the better the results. This is why there's so much push for Nvidia hardware because they want to be first to have the most well trained AI for...
Remember when many companies made x86 chips? Pepperidge farm remembers. If Qualcomm does buy Intel, I doubt they care to continue x86. If anything it'll be to cancel x86 to push for ARM. More specifically, their ARM design since nobody else can make a high performance ARM. I don't mean the...
While I'm not against them putting 3D V-Cache in Threadripper, I just don't know who would benefit from it? 3D V-Cache mainly effects serialized work loads like gaming, but tasks like Cinebench won't see any benefits from it. Threadripper is mostly for heavy threaded work loads, and they tend...
Another way of looking at it, twice the compute and external monitor support for the price of one. Does this mean the M4 chip is cheaper than ram and ssd storage?
Denuvo takes a 16MB or 50MB executable and then turns it into a 200MB or 300MB file. It's filled with garbage data meant to confuse any would be crackers in trying to remove it. It has multiple encryption layers and anti debugging to prevent anyone from reading their code or trace it through a...
Considering that area of the world is ready to go into WW3, maybe removing employees there isn't a bad idea? If these guys are part of Intel's R&D then they're doing a bad job. Intel's remaining big core team is the Israeli one and they basically haven't done shit since the creation of Sandy...
If AMD and Intel were to merge then it would be the death of x86. This whole situation with Intel has been overblown in my opinion. What we're looking at is a bunch of very upset shareholders and nothing more. How long was AMD unprofitable and yet nobody cared?
So what is their market share if you include outside of x86?
Where is this money going? As much as people got upset about Intel firing people, it does seem like they're wasting money.
Chrysler went from being owned by Mercedes then Fiat and now Stellantis. They exist today because of the...
I don't get how Intel needs help? They have 75% of the server market, and over 70% in laptop sales. The only reason anyone would think they need help is because their shareholders aren't happy. The only reason that happened was because Intel dominated the last decade and invested in nothing...
AMD isn't probably worried about Intel as much as their older lineup of hardware they have to compete with. When your new CPU has a ~3% increase in gaming performance compared to your older generation then your older products are now your biggest competitor. If people are still buying Intel...
AMD and Intel tend to take their time redesigning their new CPU architectures but once made they have to commit to it for years. AMD didn't try to enhance the Bulldozer architecture, but instead just made iterations with GPU's which had a tendency to slow down the CPU. There were some FM1 and...
AMD's Bulldozer was much like Intel's Netburst architecture. The difference is that AMD has done nothing to fix Bulldozer while Intel did a lot to fix the Pentium 4. The P4 went from terrible to pretty good once Intel gave it Hyperthreading, dual channel memory, and even 64-bit support...
Keep in mind that just making money isn't enough for companies in 2024. If the AI market crashes and the need for Nvidia GPU's has dried up then what's going on with Intel will look pale in comparison. Nvidia was already propped up by crypto for many years and this has effected their stocks...
Keep in mind that Wendell tested on 6.11 kernel which he claims has patches from Intel while Phoronix tested with 6.10 kernel. Specifically that 6.11 supports EDAC and 80-bit wide memory. This might have played a roll. This maybe another situation where we'll have to see if Linux does what...
Any benchmarks of these laptops? Not the leaked Russian one as that isn't confirmed legit. I don't expect Arrow Lake to do well against the M4, but AMD's Ryzen AI 300's is capable. If only reviewers stopped using Geekbench and Cinebench as their only method of testing these products. Run...