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I got the new Apple case and so far I‘m positively surprised. I was expecting worse. I don’t think the sides are much different from the back. They also show the fine woven texture, likely from the same material. Just the padding underneath is harder. The main issue will be how the case ages over time. Like with sneakers, jeans or wooden furniture, aging can add a nice and pleasing patina. If this will also by the case with the new Apple cases, time will tell. It can go both direction – shabby and worn out or nicely worn in with character and patina.

I’m a professional film maker and apart from dedicated digital film cameras I quite often also use my iPhone for professional work. To me it sort of replicates the look of typical high-end TV cameras. Small sensor, therefor a high depth of field and a slightly over-sharped but attractive image. A proper digital film camera on the other hand feels more like shooting on film stock to me. Both has it’s place in my work. But I would never do a handheld shot on a iPhone for professional work. It is either on a tripod or stabilised with other means. 

mattinoz said:

So what's in a modem that is different / hard compared to the M1?

Seems an odd statement to just hang out there.

You are (also) dealing with analogue signal processing at incredibly high frequencies. Designing a microprocessor is stacking up Lego bricks, designing a G5 modem is wizardry and magic with thrown in quantum effects. So to speak.

viclauyyc said:

sflocal said:

viclauyyc said:

Well, it looks good on number in the presentation. But let’s not forget the Ultra is comparing with a 2 year old Xeon. 2 years is a lot in computer technology. Not to mention, arguably AMD’s Epyc is the fastest CPU in the PC world. 

Let’s hope the future Mac Pro will be even faster with 4/8 sets of CPU. But it might cost $8000 on the entry model.

Intel's offerings until just recently have remained stagnant on the Xeon side.  It's only right to compare it with Apple's current Mac Pro offerings, even though it's 2 years old.  It's still incredible how Apple has pushed the performance envelope in those two years where Intel was nowhere to be seen.

While AMD's offerings is also impressive, when compared in terms of performance-per-watt, ASi outperforms them both.

Honestly, I don’t understand why Apple is so emphasis on performance/watt. Sure save energy is good and less noise from fan. But no one really care if their $100000 sports car use much less gas than the next car. People care about how fast it can go and how it handle the corner, not gas/miles.

The low power consumption also indicates how much room there still is for further performance gains. Desktop systems are usually limited by their power consumption and more important by the heat that has to be dispersed from tiny areas on the dyes. Apple proves that they have plenty of headroom with their chip design.

I totally see the mothers side. I, as probably most adults not familiar with these sort of games, would never expect the possibility of spending this ridiculous amount of money on loot-boxes and the likes for power-ups and fancy digital clothes.

No-one in the right mind would throw over $10,000 into a mobile game. So why is it possible in the first place? For oligarchs? If I see a multi $1,000 item on my bill I either remember the purchase (eg. a new MacBook) or I expect a mistake by the bank or a fraud. I would never think of a mobile game my nice is playing.

Remember the days when mobile phone roaming costs abroad could add up to the 10,000s? I have quite a lot of friends (here in Switzerland, we have borders everywhere) that walked into this trap. They simply had no clue, that their phone bill of a few $10 a month could explode into the 10,000s eg. by taking a walk close to a border and ending up in the wrong network. They never willingly agreed to these costs. You could argue, that they forgot to make the right settings on their phones but they where totally unaware of the possible costs involved. It is like buying chewing gum without looking at the price and being charged $1,000 at the till.