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by DCKing 6y ago
Simply asserting this without evidence does not make it so. If Apple truly had this strategy they're doing a horrible job at it. Mostly since you are free to boot (or work on doing so at least) NetBSD and countless other things on prac
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by DCKing 6y ago
I'm not sure how that means anything when it comes to locking down Macs. If you're trying to make a general argument "Apple is capable of doing bad things", that's of course trivially true but does not at all imply
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yeah. Someone - cough cough Microsoft - would need to be convinced to write a Boot Camp Assistant app equivalent (okay), a Windows bootloader (okay), various device drivers for Apple Silicon hardware revisions for Windows (big ugh), graphic
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's a bad faith argument. The presupposition is that Apple is inherently motivated to actively lock things down, because that's what they do with the iPhone. This glosses over that Apple has no reason to actually do so, only has
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Indefinitely? How do we know it's a feature vs a temporarily convenient oversight? I would point out that Apple has permitted booting alternative operating systems throughout their m68k (at least the m68ks that could meaningfully
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by DCKing 6y ago
Yes, this applies to both DDR5 and LPDDR5. Leaks indicate that DDR5 CPUs and motherboards by Intel and AMD are not going to be out this year though, at least not on the desktop.
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by DCKing 6y ago
Unless something weird happens, the next generation of the Apple M-line will use LPDDR5 memory instead of the LPDDR4X used in the Apple M1. While it probably won't support error correction monitoring , LPDDR5 has built in error correc
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by DCKing 6y ago
They're going to need good leadership to pull this off. AMD doesn't have a great track record when it comes to these integrations. AMD bought ATI while promising the same integration "synergies". GPU style compute was go
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by DCKing 6y ago
That's a good explanation, but I'm sad they're committed to just wasting everybody's time.
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by DCKing 6y ago
What was the point of Red Hat taking over CentOS then? If they're just transparently killing of the "free version of RHEL", that surely won't work in anything but name? There's an obvious need for a 1:1 RHEL clone,
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by DCKing 6y ago
> A lot of the lead is process Given that this TSMC 7nm->5nm process improvement has lead to the smallest gen-on-gen performance improvement for Apple's iPhone chips - the performance gains from the A13 to the A14 are the smalles
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's a bit higher than I was expecting for sure, but I'm not exactly mind blown by it. AMD is famously unable to sell their high end cards to the Steam audience (at least in recent years) so the ability for a new and hyped Nvidia
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by DCKing 6y ago
Not saying that's not impressive, but you had me thinking for a second that Nvidia was already going past AMD's previous top end card. But that's actually the 5700XT, which is 4.5x as popular as the RX5700 non-XT. The RX5700
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's a conservative spec for sure given the rest of the M1. Samsung has shipped their own LPDDR5 in the Galaxy S20 since February. Maybe production capacity is still too limited.
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by DCKing 6y ago
It's a daunting task to get a new GPU architecture in the Linux kernel that's likely as complicated as AMD's. The AMD driver takes up a sizeable chunk of the Linux kernel [1], although that figure includes lots of autogenerat
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Originally they were going to have a Zen variant that ran ARM. Was AMD's K12 related to Zen in any way? AMD's predecessor to that, the Opteron A1100 series, was bog standard Cortex A57 cores. I figured K12 would be at best an
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by DCKing 6y ago
> Is there anything stopping MS from copying Apple's approach? One thing I don't completely understand about Rosetta2 is when it performs static recompilation and when it's doing dynamic recompilation. I'm under the i
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by DCKing 6y ago
Even if Microsoft's x86-64 emulator will be slower than Rosetta2 (and given their different approaches, it likely will), having that run on an ARM Mac will likely still be the best experience for Windows on ARM. The thing holding back
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by DCKing 6y ago
The Ryzen 5800U is all but confirmed to still be on TSMC 7nm. The Zen3 desktop counterparts are also still on 7nm. There's a good chance it'll be 2022 before we see AMD chips on 5nm unfortunately, almost certainly for mobile chips
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by DCKing 6y ago
iPhones don't really contain any hardware that does not have more or less a conceptual equivalent in other smartphones. I suppose with "TPM" you mean the "Secure Element", which on iPhones and modern Android phones
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by DCKing 6y ago
I don't really get this narrative about the T2. Apple removed the T2/integrated it into the M1 and didn't lock down things any further. If they were going to lock it down, this would have been the time for it, given there&#x2
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by DCKing 6y ago
Well we can talk about this! > Docker requires a hypervisor which wasn't part of the A12Z processor they shipped in the DTK. It also depends on Go. Apple did have prerelease hardware that supported virtualization, which they suppli
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by DCKing 6y ago
> I'm not sure why this is remotely surprising or noteworthy. It might not be for you, but then I'm curious why it's noteworthy enough to have two layers of comments about it. If you don't want to talk about that then
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by DCKing 6y ago
I don't believe I'm saying, suggesting or hinting that this is not going smoothly for a transition like this. If you read my comment as somehow saying this transition is not going smoothly, I'd like to understand why you&#x27
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by DCKing 6y ago
I don't think the chip's announcement time really should go into anyone's consideration time here, since it's Apple's own choice to go for these timelines and release a "Pro" product in November :) I mean
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by DCKing 6y ago
It really seems that nearly everything that's not a full native ObjC/Swift stack or is not a web browser (or based on one, like Electron) is not ready yet right now. It really seems Apple did not care enough to get especially gola
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by DCKing 6y ago
If you don't know why they want to lock it down, if Apple says they don't want to lock it down, and Apple Silicon Macs show no further evidence of things being locked down (they're just different), then why do you still think
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by DCKing 6y ago
I believe it's not clear because Apple is set to gain nothing if they would move against "open computing", and only lose. iOS has not been an open computing platform since the start, and Apple appears to have trouble changing
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by DCKing 6y ago
> It's not exactly baseless since Apple actively opposes open computing. > They are slowly but surely moving towards not being apple to run anything not Apple on OSX as well. I would argue that both of these statements are comple
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by DCKing 6y ago
Parallels/VMWare (even Docker maybe) on Apple Silicon Macs will be the first desktop class Linux ARM computers in wide circulation. Certainly putting a popular and performant package for the same software stack as the Rasperry Pi sho

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