The purchase process is going to somehow involve all of these things, except for the ear thing. The way that headphones distribute weight on your head is extremely different from where the weight and how they distributed with the VR headset. Most people who tried it are blaming it on the fact that Apple loves to use metal because it's high quality and it's nice and it's durable. It's also heavier than plastic. They did it on the AirPods Max. Those ear cups have made them metal. They're very durable, but they're heavier than if they're made of plastic. And Mike said the the Vision Pro felt heavier on the front of his face than a meta quest pro, which
- Pre-show: SwiftUI requires Wi-Fi
- “Siri” utterances were trifled with? (via Jackson Ames)
- Vision Pro
- New Macs
- 15” MacBook Air
- Mac 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
- macOS 14 Sonoma
- Post-show: John’s special treat
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