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Discussion 1 month ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28565045
Oof. I was hoping at least 1 version of the 14 would be closer to $1500. These are just too expensive for me. For that reason, I'm out...
The M1 still uses DDR memory at the end of the day, it's just physically closer to the core. This is in contrast to L3 which is actual SRAM on the core.

The DDR being closer to the core may or may not allow the memory to run at higher speeds due to better signal integrity, but you can purchase DDR4-5333 today whereas the M1 uses 4266.

The real advantage is the M1 Max uses 8 channels, which is impressive considering that's as many as an AMD EPYC, but operates at like twice the speed at the same time.
I have a 14" System76 Gazelle running Debian with hybrid graphics through primus-vk-nvidia[0] and the proprietary drivers and I would say it works fairly well, albeit only after a substantial amount of trial-and-error with the configuration to make it stable. (Most notably, I blacklisted the bbswitch driver since it tended to cause lockups—the system seems to work just fine without it.) Most applications rely exclusively on the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU but I can add a "pvkrun" prefix to any command to have it render on the discrete GTX 1660 Ti and copy the image data back to the iGPU for display. I haven't fully optimized the power consumption, but the driver for the NVIDIA card is unloaded when not in use so the discrete graphics should be completely idle.

I haven't used Pop!_OS much lately, but from what I remember at the time I received the system with Pop!_OS preinstalled there were options in the main menu (alongside shut down / reboot) to switch between integrated and discrete graphics. The change involved a system reboot, and there wasn't any support for hybrid graphics.

[0] https://packages.debian.org/sid/primus-vk-nvidia
Thank you!

Sounds like it's mainly about soaking the rich, with a bit of "spiritual well being" goop thrown in.

> with the state owning all and allowing people and companies to lease, allocate, and trade properties

Well, that's how it is in the UK - all land is ultimately owned by the queen. The rest of us are all vassals. I thought there was something similar in US land-ownership law.

But we're not communist.
Same price as the i9 it replaced, no?
5d chess is usually only ever said in a sarcastic context, so the implication is that Apple didn't plan this at all
When competitors like the XPS 13 have like 1mm extra bezel across yes.
Erhh... I think OP gets it, he's just calling out the greenwashing.
Yes, that’s what I said: general aviation == “private jets”
Is there an estimate of what the externality cost is for the packaging per unit? Would be useful to compare to other things that harm the environment like eating meat, taking car rides, to know how much I should think about this. E.g. if my iphone packaging is equivalent to one car ride I probably won't concern myself that much, but if it's equivalent to 1000 then yeah maybe I should. Right now I really couldn't tell you which of those two the true number is closer to. I don't expect we would be able to know a precise value but just knowing which order of magnitude it is estimated to be would help.
Hopefully, they didn't change much in terms of software interface so Asahi Linux would work [1] out of the box.

[1] https://asahilinux.org/2021/10/progress-report-september-202...
You must be referring to the T14s with the 16 GB RAM limitation. The T14 has 8/16GB soldered and one free slot where you can install another 16GB.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28908031, which was posted a bit earlier.
I put off trip to Bali until this update. Last time, the screen cracked due to lid closed and heat buildup with fan trying cool in a positive feedback loop. Had to fly to Singapore to replace. This time, carrying (soon to be) old MBP as backup.
Nice info! Did a bit of digging and here is a detailed analysis of such a plan (recent) for the Indus River Valley I ran across. Pretty neat [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X2...]

Edit: According to the paper, it's economically viable when the output power price (post-pumping and running through the turbine again) can be > 2X the price of the hydropower, which with seasonal variation and spikey but 'free' sometimes power, could definitely help. Preferring something like solar over running a turbine could also help.

The challenge of course is that many times hydropower is nearly free and available in large quantities, as the dams are also used for flood control, so they either toss large quantities of water over the spillways (wasting it), or run it through a turbine - but they can't NOT move the water.
You can't really trust Apple's claims on GPU performances though, we'll have to see how that really pans out on actual benches.
Wait the base price of the Macbook Pro isnt for M1 Pro? That is confusing as hell.

EDIT: The base $2000 new Macbook pro does come with a M1 Pro on the US apple Store....
Who do you think is responsible for the new iMacs?

They took a very versatile all-in-one, removed almost all of the ports and added an external power brick -- just to make it a bit thinner. Which is even more ridiculous considering it's a desktop.
Will Pop OS run Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020? That's literally the only thing I use Windows for.
Especially now, I’d assume more people are doing work at home _and_ at the office. Sure, you could get two desktops and probably for cheaper, but then you have the cost of time wasted switching contexts and messing up file sync, etc.

I personally work from home but go to a coffee shop as my “office” for a bit every day. Mobility is crucial to my, and many others’, workflows.
There are a lot of different use-cases for SDcard/microSD. It's not useful to everyone, but I think it's definitely useful enough to have built in. Same with HDMI.. I'd probably use SDcard more than HDMI (like for setting up Raspberry PI, accessing videos from dash cam or using my old camera, which is still better than iPhone for some types of pictures). I think those ports are aimed at the professionals in certain sector, but lots of regular people use them too.

Recently I've also used microSD with USB-microSD adapter instead of USB sticks (like for music in the car).. last time I wanted to buy USB memory stick it was the cheaper option, and the adapter isn't much bigger than a typical USB memory stick anyway.
The fine print:

>Testing conducted by Apple in September 2021 using preproduction 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 Max, 10-core CPU, 32-core GPU, 64GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD, as well as production Intel Core i9-based PC systems with NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 graphics with 24GB GDDR6, production Intel Core i9-based PC systems with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 graphics with 16GB GDDR6, and the latest version of Windows 10 available at the time of testing.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20211018005775/en/Gam...
Touchscreen is not that bad for laptops that can transform into a tablet, but that's a fairly different class of devices.
I am not sure I buy that argument—the US has been incredible for entrepreneurs for a long time.

You're right about the lack of a social safety net, but US entrepreneurs are succeeding despite that. Whether it is talent, funding, taxes or mindset something appears to be working.
It ends in USB-C =)
While it's true that the LGPL doesn't specifically require dynamic linking, it requires something that is effectively dynamic linking. The way you'd have to do static linking isn't something that is easy to set up in most build systems, and deprives you of the ability to do certain post-build steps (such as signing the build) or certain build options (LTO) without some pain.
I have seen some youtubers use the word central planner as an insult for government institutions. In my opinion there's a different class of central planners that nobody really gives a damn about. Billionaires influence governments and also have an outsize impact on the economy either by concentrating wealth and thereby denying that wealth to others or by directing their wealth on things that they personally care about but the majority of the economy does not.

The conventional trickle down hypothesis is that giving the rich money lets them do their job more efficiently because of centralization. That is basically a belief that only people who do not believe in a liberal(or free) market would have. The idea that 300 million decision makers are worse than a handful of billionaires is absurd. If the work of these billionaires is truly needed then let people make that decision for themselves and give them the option to avoid them.
Yeah I got AppleCare for AirPods because I was told they just replace it completely vs only replacing the battery. And I’ve heard the battery will not keep up high capacity if you use it daily a lot as I do
The differences between the A14 and A15 are so small it doesn't matter. I suspect the CPU/GPU cores come from the A14 but the ProRes accelerator comes from the A15.
> Didn't the original Macbook Air have a USB-A port?

It did
Why 1TB? 640GB ought to be enough for anything...
Can anyone comment on how well M1 chips work with X86 development workflows e.g. Brew, Docker, etc? I know there are still problems if you're heavily dependent on Virtualization software like VMWare and Virtual Box.

For example, will I be able to just do the same "brew install x" for the majority of the *nix apps, libs, services, etc. that I use daily?

How bout Docker Desktop and Docker images? For example, if all my teammates are using older Intel Macs, PCs, etc. and we deploy and develop using X86 images, will I need to be very careful that I don't end up pushing Arm based Docker images to our repo? Will I need to have modified Docker / Docker-Compose files that reference Arm versions of our images so they can run on my machine?

This just seems like a pain if you're the only one using Arm, while the rest of the team and various environments are on X86-64. It took years before most Node, Python, Java, etc. incompatibilities between Unix and Windows were ironed out, and I still run into issues when, e.g., an inexperienced developer on Windows hardcodes some 'backslashed' path in their app or assumes Windows line endings instead of standard Unix.
It was fixed but not brought back to its former glory.
>It displeases my sense of aesthetics.

Or lack thereof.
These prices all feel like standard MacBook Pro pricing to me. I just ordered one (M1 Max, 64GB, 2TB) and it cost as much as that tier always seems to cost me.
Weirdly these machines have a "6.1 repairability rating" when you go in their store. I wonder what ifixit will think of them.
Startpage was purchased by an advertising organization that apparently "specializes in targeted advertising":

https://restoreprivacy.com/startpage-system1-privacy-one-gro...
Further discussion 4 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27649270
I'm with you at this point.

I used to be a ddg user exclusively. The only time I use google is when searching a location nearby. Ddg has gotten worse over the last year or two, unusable almost for anything that isn't current events. It is full of blog spam whenever I search anything.

I've been using gigablast here and there, it's good for obscure, completely organic search results, but that means it's results feel like search before google existed. Brave fills the gap for me, it feels like how google used to feel before all the cruft started getting added in.
I thought this link was far better: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/10/introducing-m1-pro-an...
It's insane to me that manufacturers still haven't figured this out. Reducing the travel by .1mm is extremely worth it if you can give a slightly squishy/springy bottoming out with a rubber gasket. It dramatically reduces typing fatigue.
It's not that noteworthy, given that affordable Samsung 980 Pro SSDs have been doing those speeds for well over a year now.
Lucky you. I search eshops with

black shoes site:https://shittyeshop.com

on Google because of abysmal search on 99% of sites.
Good for you. I wish I could do that, just will myself to be happy at any time. I wish alcoholics or drug addicts could will themselves to stop using drugs. I wish the obese (40% of Americans) could simply choose to eat less food and start exercising. If we could all choose to be happy regardless of circumstances, there would be no problems in the world.
I guess Trump and Bush must have missed the memo. I guess the Nobel Prize recepients missed the memo that they had a lot of political powers too.
The more hilarious thing was the hate for it.

I would much rather have more usb-c ports that can do anything and add dongles, than have ports that are functionally limited.
The maxed out 16-inch model comes in at a cool $6099.
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And no liquids, and repeat this hassle at 50% of the airports you stopover (depending on how lazy they were when designing the “safe” zones and terminals)
My girlfriend also loved her 11" Macbook Air and was disappointed that the smallest option is now a 13" Air.
I'm interested to see how the GPU on these performs, I pretty much disable the dGPU on my i9 MBP because it bogs my machine down. So for me it's essentially the same amount of memory.
Think you misunderstood the parent comment. Full screen doesn't somehow add pixels into a bezel
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Considering that CUDA is a
proprietary technology from Nvidia, how could they?
Backtracked and it was from an ad. The family plan was the solution I am afraid.
Unfortunately still no bitcoin payment option.
> I had the impression that RT is a propaganda tool[1] for the Russian government not an independent news organization.

Surely then you will likewise acknowledge that Euronews is a propaganda tool for the European Union not an independent news organization.
Yes, you're right on. But in those 5.2 million sessions there's everything, including the many applications that use our embeddable editors free of charge.

So, it's a cool metric, but it doesn't tell the complete story.

Actual monthly ARPA at BEE is around $27 for our BEE Pro product (hosted email & page design suite) and over $600 for our BEE Plugin offering (embeddable email, landing page & popup builder).
I find DDG good for queries where I know my answer will be one of the top 5 results for sure. If I am skeptical about my question I usually find G fetches better results. But DDG satisfies about 90% of my queries so pretty happy with it.
Did that happen in the US in 2020? I thought the overwhelming majority of those claims were dismissed.

The real crime is calling bribes “campaign contributions” and pretending that our politicians (of all parties) aren’t selling their votes to the highest bidder.
> If you're using Windows 11 Home, you must have both an Internet connection and a Microsoft account to run Windows 11 at all. No, Internet, no Microsoft account, no Windows 11. You can't set up a local user account or use your PC at all.

I feel like this is really burying the lede. This is another one of those gaps that truly makes me wonder how anybody thinks that Microsoft considers Windows anything but a toy OS, not suitable for doing any tasks that the user considers remotely important to them. (Another example is one I've brought up here before, where Windows 7 would restart your computer without your consent, in the middle of whatever you were doing, if you went long enough without updating).
Memory is very stackable if needed, since the power per unit area is very low.
Ask HN: What does HN think of the new 14“ MacBook Pro?
Apple has shown us the Monterey-powered M1 pro and max laptops, and they are even faster. The keyboards seem to be fixed.

But is it what we want?

1. S3 standby/sleep support required

2. low weight for luggability, 2.5lb maximum

3. survives table-to-floor falls

4. always-on-AC battery deaths unacceptible

5. survives being in a bag, accidental activation

6. Linux support for all hardware

7. trackpads on par with Apple, at least

8. keyboards with clear actuation, spill resistance and backlighting

9. kill switches or modular hardware for camera and mic

10. bright matte screens, with vertical space

11. memory and I/O performance approaching Apple's M1 SoC

12. HDMI, USB-A, 3.5mm, 10gbE, SD, USB-C periferals are what people own, support that

13. trackpoints are great for text-editing

14. quiet operation, no blinken-lights

15. prefer no webcam over shitty webcam, no BT/WiFi over shitty BT/WiFi

16. USB-C charging, Thunderbolt 4 both sides, GPU that can be turned on and off

This list is compiled from an Ask HN two days back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28861949

And here are some laptops mentioned as OK in that thread:

0. MacBook Air M1 (newcomer), Framework (if you can get one)

1. Old school ThinkPads (some of them, like X220), X1 gen9 Carbon ThinkPads

2. MacBook Pros 2013-2015

3. Dell XPSs aimed at developers (some of those), HP Elitebook 840, Asus Zephyrus G14

4. MacBooks before touchstrip, Purism/Librem 14

5. Chrome-books (some of those), Lenovo Yoga 7 PRO, ASUS Zenbook Flip

As for myself, I see Apple moving in a direction I don't care for. Both the hardware and the software.

I'm not buying a laptop this year, again.

Please share your thoughts, and favourite laptops.
> They'd be dumb to pause and say "oh yeah we were stupid, here's your old toys back."

Maybe I'm weird, but my respect for a company that did that would go way up, not down.

Obviously they wouldn't say "we were stupid", but I'd absolutely appreciate an admission along the lines of, "during our design journey over the past X years, we've realized our customers prefer having a full function key row on their keyboard / more ports / MagSafe / etc., so we've listened and are bringing them back!" To me, that signals a group of folks who know they are fallible, listen to customers, and do their best to meet customer needs.

But of course admitting those sorts of things wouldn't be consistent with Apple's brand. Apple is all about "we know better than you know what you want and can do no wrong". Which is fine, and seems to have created a lot of success for them, but it's always turned me off.
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Full screen doesn't extend to the sides of the camera on current laptops. All that's there is the bezel.
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you should be using the cloud for everything, obviously /s

More seriously, I had not considered the secure enclave angle, which is worrisome.
Mine have this rating approximately (AirPods Pros from ~1.5 years ago) and I worried about battery life.

It turns out a few minutes in the case will give you a lot of listening time. Have an in-person meeting? Any reason to put the AirPods away? Throw them in the case and they'll charge a significant amount in 15 or 30 minutes.

My problem ended up being defects which Apple said they would replace the AirPods for, but I need to take them to a certified Apple repair shop. When I did, the shop decided the defect wasn't present. So... I just live with it now.
> the firms CAN'T turn off their contracts on the blockchain. Anyone can call the contracts.

I don't think the issue is with the technology per se as much as with someone being paid to market it. Grandma isn't going to roll her own wallet. She might see a 4% yield on what looks like a savings account and not realize the added risk.

Agree that short of nation-state involvement, the contracts are probably there to stay. (Though if a state wanted to get particularly nasty, they could go after anyone maintaining them.)
I think that’s a valid point about large legitimate transactions. But I think crypto has a valid use for medium legitimate transactions, for example, buying a car off Craigslist or sending money to your family overseas
VA efficiency is driven way down by the fact that it is an integrated system that covers a very small, diffusely distributed segment of the population, which is the worst possible case for an integrated (in your sense of having dedicated staff and facilities) system.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said but I do wonder whether the typical crypto “investor” does realize the risk. In many cases (like Tether, for example) I’m not sure the risk has been adequately disclosed prior to purchase.
The fate of youtube has always been to become television.

Countering the Tragedy of the Commons eventually raises the cost of creating and engaging with user-generated content relative to commercial content.
For me these devices look incredible. Can anything come even close to the performance/energy usage of these? And with a great screen, sound, and good webcam?

And as an iPhone user, the notch really isn't a big deal. In fact it's a positive because you get more usuable screen space.

Yes they're expensive, but, for something we use every day for 8hours+, it seems worth it.
And function keys!
Built-in SD would allow for cheap permanent storage upgrades to the cheaper macbooks. Apple may be listening to what people want in laptops, but I don’t see them cutting into their own upsells by that much.
The system is heavily corrupt. The premise that it is mostly working with some flaws itself is heavily flawed.
FP abbreviation is probably not a good idea here, while talking of Floating Point and Fixed Point, a little bit confusing.
RT may be a propaganda outlet, but so is pretty much everything else bigger than Joe Rando's blog. Better to use those that you know and can correct for the bias of than being led by those with unknown motivations who keep their backers hidden. Can you honestly hold RT as "worse" than outlets like the New York Times that also uncritically function as establishment mouthpieces?
> In the whole of the USA, there are only 80,000 accredited investors.

Incorrect. Maybe you're basing that number off the (alternative) 2 million in liquid assets, but the income threshold is something like 200k/year for 2 years. A quick google shows estimates ranging from 8%[1] to 13 million[2]

[1] https://www.archerinvestors.com/accredited-investors/
[2] https://dqydj.com/accredited-investors-in-america/
HDMI makes more sense imo. You can hook up an SD card with adapter, connect the camera via USB-C or wireless. With Displays you aren’t as flexible.
Mandatory microsoft account and online connection needed to install the OS? No thanks!
Pretty sure it had free educational license tho
Pretty big difference between saying something inappropriate during a comedic performance and jacking off in front of non-consenting people.
But that will affect the price of other crypto assets. How that manifests itself is complicated in a ~$1.5 trillion market.
No M1 Pro/Max Mini announced and my conspiracy theory on that is: they couldn’t justify a high price tag for it and instead are pushing pro users to the MacBook Pro and eventually Mac Pro and maybe iMac Pro. If they did an M1 Pro Mini would cannibalize these MacBook pros.

I’m glad I pulled the trigger two weeks ago and I just received my M1 mini last week, I am relieved and will be continuing to enjoy it
It's still there, now with better support for high impedance headphones which is great for music producers.
Isn't Tether just being held to their own claims? They only need to be 100% backed because they say they are 100% backed.