539: The Strap Situation

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

Myke on Cortex

Top Strap

HiFiMAN HE6

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

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