539: The Strap Situation

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.3 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

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
- 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

Transcript

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0:00.0	I spent all day fighting with the stupid Monterey bug.
0:02.8	I forget now that I'm running Ventura
0:04.6	that how much SwiftUI stuff is broken in Monterey.
0:07.3	It's so bad.
0:08.9	Like I write this code.
0:10.0	I'm like, why is this in here?
0:11.1	And I just change it and make it more sane or whatever.
0:13.2	And then I send it out of test flight
0:14.3	and the Monterey people are like, oh, nothing works anymore.
0:16.4	I'm like, oh yeah.
0:17.4	No, I mean, because you have a SwiftUI app,
0:20.1	you have absolutely no chance of supporting
0:22.2	older operating systems.
0:23.1	Like that's because SwiftUI, it's especially on the Mac.
0:25.6	I mean, no chance there.
0:26.8	I'm on Torre was my thing.
0:28.3	I had to boost the minimum version to Monterey.
0:30.9	So I could get anything to work.
0:32.9	But now Monterey, the one I boosted it to
0:34.8	is the version where nothing works.
0:37.1	So bad.
0:38.5	So I'm not going to cut off sport for it,
	...

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