MacBook Air 15-Inch Review

• 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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