Welcome to the Tech Meam ride home for Tuesday, October 29th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

A whole bunch of new Max, plus the first dribbles of Apple Intelligence. Apple is taking a big step in weaning itself off of China Reliance for manufacturing.

Microsoft accuses Google of astroturfing and potentially the return of startups buying startups.

Here's what you miss today in the world of

tech.

So I have a bit of a dilemma. We know Apple is releasing a bunch of stuff this week and they're

breaking it up into individual days. Like as I was finishing up editing yesterday's episode, Apple released as expected a refresh of the 24 inch I-Mac.

But I had given up waiting for them. Usually they released things at 9 a.m. or 10 a.

But once nothing came, I went with the show. So something is coming today

likely the new Mac mini but again I don't know when so we'll see if I wait for

it. I'm going to go with what we know now though. First up the IMAX

quoting Mac rumors. As expected the M4 chip in the IMac is available with up to a

10 core CPU and up to a 10 core

GPU.

Apple says the iMac with the M4 chip is up to 1.7X

faster for daily productivity tasks

and up to 2.1X faster for demanding workflows like photo editing and gaming compared to the iMac with the m1 chip.

In the iPad pro the m4 chip is up to 25% faster than the m3 chip

and this year over year improvement should be similar

for the IMAAC. All variants of the M4 chip have a faster 16 core neural engine

that boosts the performance of Apple Intelligence but keep in mind that Apple Intelligence is also

available on previous generation iMac models with the M1 and M3 chips. The new IMac

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