407: It Isn't a Big Grapefruit
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2020
⏱️ 110 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: You heard it here first: Marco is really starting to justify a new Mac.
- Follow-up:
- You can restore stuff from iCloud here (via Ryan Fegley)
- Accelerated TensorFlow for macOS probably just uses the GPU
- Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via
@hishnash)
- Neural Engine can be used as well, though. (via
- Apple did make an ECC RAM controller in the past (via Max Lein)
- Lots of info about scaling the M1 via Jonathan Dietz
- Cerebras, the big-die ML accelerator (via Andrew Bunner)
- Memory bus thoughts from Wade Tregaskis
- Dual M1 Macs
- “Low-effort” Mac Pro
- TMSC Achieves Breakthrough in 2nm Manufacturing
- Alexander Graf virtualizes ARM Windows on Apple Silicon
- Marco’s Mini Monologues
- Smart Speaker Size Comparison (scroll down a bit)
- Panzarino’s observation about Qi chargers
- …and his FU
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- Yes, John is aware of breadboxes.
- Tesla’s “Mission Accomplished”
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | My iMac fan noise problem is worsening. |
| 0:03.4 | Oh, so I guess you're buying a new Mac then, probably a Mac mini? |
| 0:06.2 | No, you just need to take it off of his desk, put it into a case and carry it around on the street for a while and unpack it. |
| 0:11.0 | That's what fixed it last time, right? |
| 0:12.3 | Actually, yeah. |
| 0:13.9 | Yeah, the transportation to the beach did, I guess, dislodged off the dust. |
| 0:18.2 | I don't know. I'm getting nearer than in my rope here. |
| 0:21.2 | It's pretty bad. It's now audible most of the day, even when it's ostensibly idle. |
| 0:28.6 | Like when there's nothing in activity monitor or I set menus showing this actually using the CPUs, |
| 0:33.3 | it's now idling at like 72 degrees Celsius and like 13 to 1400 RPM fan speed, which is not normal. |
| 0:44.4 | And this isn't even just Catalina being Catalina because it process through reboots too. |
| 0:48.7 | So I'm just, this is the worst time in possibly a decade to need a new high performance desktop Mac. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.2 | I did actually, because I actually looked the traded in value for my iMac Pro is almost $3,000. |
| 1:09.7 | Wow, that's not bad actually. |
| 1:11.4 | I know. I was like, that's actually, I could just trade it in and just buy like, you know, the highest spec Mac mini |
| 1:18.6 | with the new chip, which is like $1,700, but I would only then have two terabytes instead of four. |
| 1:26.1 | And I would have only 16 gigs of RAM instead of 64. |
| 1:28.7 | And I'm a little hesitant to go that route. |
| 1:32.6 | And I'd have to, you know, go get my stupid LG 5K and bring it to the B-Action. |
| 1:36.8 | I'm no way in hell I'm ordering a second one, but you know, just to move that one here. |
| 1:42.4 | So it's, it would be kind of a, an ordeal. |
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