Cmon. We both know the MagSafe on that refers to the phone part. Don’t believe any watch only device carries that label.

Sadly I’m with you on this. The demo made it look like it just lost you horizontal window estate and added another dock to the left. Don’t get it. Makes sense for the iPad though to give some flexibility, hope the loss of real estate there is not so bad. Feels like an iPad feature, then they realised they could easily stick it on the Mac too, nobody thought to ask if they should.

In fairness, they don’t call the Watch charging system MagSafe.

I’ve found the emulation in UTM great - I had memories of Virtual PC on my PowerPC Mac that I was glad not to recreate. There should be performance benefits of Rosetta 2 though, Apple Silicon can switch to an intel-like memory consistency model (total store ordering) which is one reason why Rosetta 2 works so well. No doubt the benchmarks will tell.

Historically multi monitor support was good. The initial M1 devices were pretty limited tho.

So...

Apple = Gawker

Microsoft = Peter Thiel

Epic = Hulk Hogan

Checks out!

Not sure of the exact timelines but their point is basically that last time Apple set (low) expectations but delivered the transition way ahead of schedule. Not so sure they will repeat it this time around though given the relatively limited number of lines that have transitioned until this point.

Well, I was hoping that this was actually a way to fix the touch bar by bringing physical buttons to it...

I think you confuse âoeusabilityâ with âoemarketingâ. If you are just listing specs that your average user doesnâ(TM)t know or care about then you are missing the point.

The quoted text seems a little hyperbolic but also easy to read it as being specific to the Personal Computer market, not the Super Computer one.

Not sure where you are getting IPC figures from here, but is that even a useful metric given the different instructions sets? Apple are an ARM Architectural Licensee, they licence the ISA, they design the chips themselves. Bear in mind they were involved in creating ARM in the first place, bought in expertise from PA Semi, have been making and designing their own chips for a long time, are using TSMCs 5nm (vs AMD Zen2 7nm) process, RAM is on package etc. I don't know about your figures but I think people should be prepared to see some pretty impressive results. I note that Anandtech's conclusion on the potential for the M1 is pretty gushing: "Apple claims the M1 to be the fastest CPU in the world. Given our data on the A14, beating all of Intel’s designs, and just falling short of AMD’s newest Zen3 chips..., we can certainly believe Apple and the M1 to be able to achieve that claim. ... This moment has been brewing for years now, and the new Apple Silicon is both shocking, but also very much expected."

I think the question is: do you trust him to be able to tell the difference between a time stamp in 24hour format and an amount of elapsed time? I donâ(TM)t.

I've had one since launch, it's a nice machine, performance is pretty good. Screen is nice. Issues on it really are odd keyboard placement. I commonly hit Q instead of Tab or Delete instead of Backspace (or vice versa).

They cheaped out on the power management too so it is almost always running on battery power. That means that when plugged in and fully charged it will switch between Battery & Mains power profiles in the OS which is annoying as I tend to have no power management when on mains and very aggressive power mgmt when on battery. I'm not really sure what this is doing the battery either, battery life is still fine but the cycle count is showing well into the hundreds just from leaving it plugged in and asleep. I think the way it manages charging has a negative impact on the life but I can't see it being as bad as the cycle count reports. If you want to use USB C to a video out then you need to change a BIOS setting which has some side effect (essentially increases power consumption during sleep).

The GPD Win had the same charging issues, the GPD Win 2 has been announced with this being one of the fixed issues so one would hope that any GPD Pocket 2 will have the same fix. Don't get me wrong, it's a lovely looking machine and aside from the above, it works beautifully in Linux (Mint) and Win 10, performance is incredible for something you can stick in your pocket. If your use case is that you will generally be on battery power anyway then most of this shouldn't be a problem for you!

No, that's not the point. Can you cite Apple predicting 50M sales anywhere? The article basically says some analyst guessed some figures at one point and has now changed their mind. You won't find out how good Apple's predictions were until you see if they met their forecast next quarter. They tend to be much better at forecasting than the analysts...

For the translation services, you have to use the Google BT headphones, there are no other compatible options. The reasons they give for making it specific to their headset are all specific to BT headphones. If they had support for a 3.5mm TRRS plug then they would have compatibility with a huge range of other options.