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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