The headset is called vision pro for a reason. The non pro version that they can make now would be unacceptable Apple standards, right? What they're releasing, I feel like, is the minimum spec of one of these things they will ever release. But it is expensive right now. They will come out with a non pro one, but only when the non pro one can be way cheaper than this one and equal or better specs. And so Apple has essentially taken itself out of the high end of VR gaming with their design of this product by saying it must be standalone.
- 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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