leakycap

Do you believe Paul Krugman's intelligence and impact on the world to be equivalent to a 5th grader? Do you want to try to make an argument that support's Mr. Krugman's point of view, or did it just upset you that I brought up a factual quote from the past?

> "china uses child labor".

Oh, right, right. We just ignore this? Weird you brought it up as something that should be ignored? What?

> most people have nothing to say to each other!

Seems he was also wrong about social media

> How did we already get to no-one being impressed by 20% better PER YEAR already.

When has 20% been impressive? When Intel to M1 happened, the jump was huge ... not 20%. I can't think of anything with a 20% jump that made waves, even outside of tech.

When I used to do user benchmarking, 20% was often the first data point where users would be able to notice something was faster.

4 minutes vs 5 minutes. That's great! Kind of expected that we'll make SOME progress, so what is the low bar... 10%? Then we should be impressed with 20?

People aren't upgrading from M1, M2, M3 in numbers... so I don't think it's just me that isn't wow'd.

I saw it first on using a device 2 years older than your M1, so you might be in a similar boat soon - but I hope not.

The lower power and heat of M-devices might result in meaningfully longer battery life, and I'm curious to find out.

I wonder how many days the App Store would have had to not work in Texas for this to get reversed?

Shame on Apple. Again.

Paul Krugman, the guy who predicted fax machines were more would have more impact on business than the Internet, even in 1998?

https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/revolutions/miscellany/paul...

> We invented democracy for a reason.

And you likely live in a republic with at best, representational democracy. How's that going, btw? Functioning well and all that?

Since we need to focus on the meaning of words, I also question which part of the "United" or "Nations" doesn't fit into your democratic worldview.

Verizon owns most of the value brands in the US and you made no connection between them and Comcast beyond mentioning them in the same sentence.

AT&T is "about as bad" as what? You gave no information.

> it's trivial to ship them without any box and box them domestically

Ah yeah I can't imagine any scenario where this could go wrong

Like man in the middle attacks

Replacement/fake products

... or you know, damage? Boxes provide... protection.

> it's trivial

Anytime you catch yourself thinking something is trivial, you're probably trivializing it (aka think about it more and you'll probably be able to think of a dozen more reasons packaging products is the norm)

How much would you charge me to swap out my MacBook Pro 2018 15.4" battery using authorized methods to not cause other damage? I want my laptop back within a few days, a 90 day warranty on parts and labor, and I want a genuine Apple battery - not some unknown 3rd party.

I felt the same way about the battery in my 2018 MacBook ... it was losing capacity, but I didn't mind as it still ran for hours between charged.

Then it started having issues waking up from sleep. Only the OG Apple charger could wake it up, then it would see it actually had 40-60% battery but something had gone wrong while sleeping and it thought it was empty.

Intel MacBooks had terrible SMC issues, so maybe this won't afflict the M-series. Just sharing because I could still use that MacBook a few hours between charged, it just couldn't be trusted to wake up without a charger. That's really inconvenient and got me to upgrade combined with new features.

> A 2080 is about the same performance as a 5060

A 5060 outperforms a 2080 by roughly 20% on most titles, across the board, not cherry-picking for the best results. They are not about the same.

> you should be able to run at like 1080p High or better

This is disconnected from reality. 1080p low/medium, some games are playable but not enjoyable. Remember, I actually have a 2080, so I'm not just guessing.

> GPU performance is hard to estimate based on raw specs, you just have to run benchmarks and see what you end up with.

Rich coming from someone who claims a 7 year old graphics card is "about the same" as a card which has 2.5x better RayTracing, has 3x faster DLSS, faster VRAM, and much better AI capabilities. The 2080 can't even encode/decode AV1...

So, maybe don't do business with the worst of them? Of the big 3 in the US, T-Mobile is the one I'd avoid right now.

"bicycle for the mind" was something from the late 1970s-era Apple

> what happened?

1978 was 47 years ago

Having performance available when you need it is the alternative to waiting.

Even a simplistic 2D game loads data, runs routines, and while the person is doing that they expect the phone to stay connected to a network, keep up with notifications... you act like Apple is doing something bad.

Intel/Chromebooks still are being sold in the USA at Best Buy with the Celeron N4000-series and Pentium-4200 series chips if you prefer to have zero performance overhead on your devices.

Life's most precious resource is time. A newer device is often much faster at a person's current routines. Why would you want a fast device to do harder things? Fast alone is worth it.

> (I have used the low data mode on macOS, it helps but only handles a small part of the problem)

Yes, I mentioned that in the post you responded to.

> Not sure which apps, if any, respect it, but it's there

It reduces data consumption for me about 1/5. Not nothing, but the Mac can easily consume hundreds of GB of data a week doing "normal" activities. YouTube on a MacBook is many times more data than the equivalent on a phone screen.

AI launching a feature and the debanking you mentioned are still unrelated, though.

> Sorry you made your first gen chip so good that I don't feel the need to upgrade

M1 MacBooks are ~5 years old at this point, and if you've been working a laptop hard for 5 years it's often worth getting an upgrade for battery life as well as speed.

T-mobile is so scammy, though. Have you been keeping up with all the lawsuits against them in the US?

I leave my setup plugged in, using a low-profile USB-C to lightning cable on the iPhone SE stuck on the back of my screen and wired hotspot on macOS is a great experience.

We're discussing a MacBook someday with a built-in phone, the closest I've found is an iOS device wired to my MacBook as a wired hotspot. It's like having fast wifi everywhere.

Using my personal phone (that I also use for other things like calls) wouldn't be like having wifi everywhere on my Mac, for example if I walk away from my laptop while on the phone the Mac would lose internet.

The debanking dispute really doesn't have anything to do with AI, does it?

AI seems to be on everyone's mind to fill in the MadLibs of who to blame for what, but I don't see the point in conflating the two here.

What a nice way to talk to another person who... didn't attack you?

A typical passenger car driving 12,000 miles puts out about 5 metric tons of C02

The person driving that passenger car likely has a 1,000 sq ft or larger home or apartment, which can vary widely but could be reasonably estimated at another 5 metric tons of C02 (Miami vs. Minnesota makes a huge difference)

So we're at 10 metric tons for someone who doesn't live in a van but still drives like a suburbanite

Care to be a little kinder next time you feel whatever compelled you to write you response to the other user? Jeesh.

> So, where is the disconnect here?

> I can say with utmost certainty that it isn't 4000x faster

The numbers you provided do not come to 4000x faster (closer to 2400x)

> Why is actual user experience not able to keep up with benchmarks and marketing?

Benchmarks and marketing are very different things, but you seem to be holding them up as similar here.

The 5x 6x 4x numbers you describe across marketing across many years don't even refer to the same thing. You're giving numbers with no context, which implies you're mixing them and the marketing worked because the only thing you're recalling is the big number.

Often, every M-series chip is a HUGE advancement over the past in GPU. Most of the "5x" performance jumps you describe are in graphics processing, and the "Intel" they're comparing it to is often an Intel iGPU like the Iris Xe or UHD series. These were low end trash iGPUs even when Apple launched those Intel devices, so being impressed by 5x performance when the M1 came out was in part because the Intel Macs had such terrible integrated graphics.

The M1 was a giant jump in overall system responsiveness, and the M-series seems to be averaging about a 20% year over year meaningful speed increase. If you use AI/ML/GPU, the M-series yearly upgrade is even better. Otherwise, for most things it's a nice and noticeable bump but not a Intel-to-M1 jump even from M1-to-M4.

The planet doesn't care about your political grievances. You cannot negotiate with reality.

Those with the most resources—whether nations, corporations, or individuals—have the most to lose when ecosystems collapse. They also have the most capacity to act.

Shipping costs matter. So does having a livable planet. Beyond the obvious priorities: The people framing this as "taxation without representation" are the same ones who've externalized environmental costs onto everyone else for decades.

Is the U.N. fund perfect? No bureaucracy is.

Doing nothing while waiting for perfect solutions is how we got here.

Doesn't the EU require Apple to provide the option to consumers to purchase portable electronics "without a charger"

2024:

> "Buyers will be able to choose whether to purchase a new device with or without a charging device ... Under the new rules"

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20220930IP...

I'm guessing carriers/networks can't handle a fleet of MacBooks-with-cellular yet. The data workload would be sustained and intense with macOS not having the type of system-level cellular framework/data control as iPad and iOS (I have used the low data mode on macOS, it helps but only handles a small part of the problem).

I have bought cracked-screen iPhones since Personal Hotspot allowed wired connections back in the 2000s, velcro'd them to the back of my MacBook screen and have been living the "I have internet on my Mac everywhere" life since then. With 5G, I can't really tell when I'm on Wi-Fi vs. when my MacBook opts for the hotspot connection.

I'd love a cellular MacBook and would also insta-buy, but I've given up hope until the next network upgrade.

Apple knows their sales numbers, so I imagine is that they know the base model will sell the most quantity. Having it out now means more sales at the highest MSRP before talk of the next model release.

Buyers who walk into an Apple store for a base MacBook Pro will wait if they hear a new model is coming out. So if you have a buyer basing purchases on the generation number, it makes sense to launch that model as soon as possible.

Pro/Max buyers generally are checking into specs and getting what they need. Hence the M2 Ultra still being for sale, for some niches that have specific requirements.

The gaming world is so deeply ingrained with Windows technologies. Even with the GPK from Apple, I don't see the mods and patches that some Windows players enjoy.