November 17 is the day we get to see apple "chipped" macs.

Again, like everything Apple, it's all smoke and mirrors that the kool aid drinkers guzzle down. They are no more secure, faster, better for anything other than looking like you're the next Francis Ford Coppola at Starbucks. This book comes with every macbook sold now...

 

30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why pcworld.com | Today

Security researcher Red Canary has discovered a new malware target at Macs running both Intel and M1 chips but there’s a twist: It doesn’t actually do anything.

Silver Sparrow isn’t the first malware to infect Apple’s new M1 chip. Last week, security specialist Patrick Wardle reported on adware that was compiled specifically to target the new ARM chip in the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, and Mac mini. The developer certificate associated with that malware has also been revoked by Apple.

 

It does something, they just don't know what. Why would anyone do something like that and NOT do anything. Unless it's to test the security of the systems. hmmmmmm. Something bigger coming down the pipe soon?

 

M1 Mac users are reporting excessive SSD wear and tear pcworld.com

If M1 Macs are performing too many writes on the SSD, that could lead to drive problems down the road.

Twitter user @never_released started a thread that shows a report of an M1 Mac with very high write counts for a computer that’s only two months old. That led other M1 owners to run the same report, and many have also found excessive usage, including Macworld columnist Dan Moren.

It’s possible that there’s an error in the reporting tool, but it’s also possible macOS is doing something to the SSD to cause these spikes. If so, it's concerning because the SSD drives on these new Mac are not user-serviceable and costs hundreds of dollars to replace.

 

Wonder if they are using excessive read/writes to the SSD to make it "fast"?

 

On Linux, I set the drive options to NOT record access entries for files and directories (noatime and nodiratime) to avoid excessive writes to an SSD's file system.

The article doesn't say if they're using Apple's File System (APFS), but if it is a journal based file like ext4 on Linux, then that may behind the cause of things.

 

I barfed when I finished watching. I guess people must be really stupid to think integrated graphics is the best thing since sliced bread. Titanium chassis? Who cares. How will having a titanium chassis improve FPS? Increasing neutron absorption?

I am really embarrassed that people can be steered and fooled by gimicry and false advertising.

 

It won't. But it will sure look great on the starbucks tables.

 

speaking of apple, my siblings just bought iphone that cost $1.7k USD.. two of them

talk about sheeple and rip off

I guess when you want to win social points, thats the stuff you buy. and im still using s3 from like 7+ years ago.

 

seeing how much "freedom" they've got on apple, they probably can't do a damn thing until apple "feed" them the update.

 

You are a brave soul. what version of android are you running?

 

My guess is it's a bug causing excessive and unnecessary swapping of RAM contents to disk rather than anything to do with entry records. If it were a memory leak on the other hand it would show full RAM usage which it seems is not the case.

 

Ugg i double posted by accident...

To play devils advocate here as someone who uses both platforms (Android/iOS), and at one time despised iPhones:, the maxed out S21 Ultra is in the $1.3-1.4K+ range similar to the $1.4K maxed out 12 Pro. Also it's not like there aren't deals on both platforms, I got my iPhone 8 Plus as a buy 1 get $700 Visa credit for a second hidden deal from T-Mobile (not the standard credits every bill with an extra line one)

As someone who exclusively had Android devices for a long time since their debut (My first iOS device being the 7 Plus), I will say timely updates and years of software support outside of Google's own branded devices were generally a problem for a very long time which Google has only recently managed to somewhat mitigate with pressure on OEMS and changes to make it easier to have base updates inspite of OEMs UI customizations and changes. As for my old Nexus 5, it was a decent device but when it faced issues Google directed me to LG since I didn't buy it directly from the Googe store and resulting after sales service was terrible. Apple for a minor signal issue (which actually ended up being my carrier having profile provisioning issue) I walked in and got a replacement after making an appointment. As for Samsung I avoided them due Touchwiz and glitchy UI. Hardware wise the LG G2 and HTC Butterfly were by far my favorites smooth and had great battery life. Overall in regards to length of software support, after sales care and in regards value deprecation of the product for resales, in my experience Apple has can edge. Even Google at times seems to give certain feature tests to iOS app variants ahead, and some of the apps I use on both platforms some seemed to have more effort put in on iOS versions. Lastly realtime audio latency among others was another issue that Android didn't fix for a long time, granted its more of niche thing.

As to negatives on iOS yeah I dislike the inability side load apps without resigning them every 7 days... and till recently the inability to change default apps to third party ones which they now slow seem to be backing off from. And yeah they can at times screwup up updates too but are generally faster at fixing them. I'm sure there are others but that's all that's on my mind right now, and some of you already have some of that covered in your posts.

 

im terrible with phones dont even know how to check lol

@Aivxtla I just don't feel these phone should worth that much at all. the amount of materials involved to build this does not justify it. new tech cost should not push it this high.

 

Oh I don't disagree with you at all, I'm on the same page. Just pointing out prices can be similar on both platforms depending on which Android phone you buy. I definitely think prices are going out of hand from the early days where maxed out high end phones were sub $1K. These days mid/low end phones can be pretty smooth and tick most boxes, without compromising too much on user experience. At the same time wanting high end even when you don't need it is no different than what people do with maxed out PCs with Threadrippers or with stuff like Optane drives or MLC/SLC SSDs... when they probably don't need it for their usage. But it's human nature to to call out people in regards to one thing in a market area and then not realize we may be doing the something similar in regards to something else. I'm definitely guilty of that myself lol.

 

I have been in the mobile phone game since the beginning of cellular technologies. I worked at a phone store in 2000-2003. the high end phone was either a classic black and white screen black berry or the motorola 270 here in canada. Both were 599.99 and we thought that was crazy. You could walk in and walk out with a v120 motorola for 0.00 down, no taxes up front and only 10 dollars a month on your bill. Now, we have to pay tax on the device which in my case was 165.00 up front, and have 42.00 extra per month on my bill to subsidize it. Prices of the phones are gone wacky.

 

If you do anything personal on your phone, I would highly suggest buying a cheap new phone so you have at least security updates. Plus you can use new apps that are not available on your phone. The samsung a21 would be a perfect cheap device.

 

I do any banking and stuff on computer. on phone, at the most only order food with credit card thats about it.

 

It could be a bug OR just that 8GB/16GB isn't big enough, and the new M1 Macs have to page in/out of virtual memory (on the SSD) to compensate for the large set of allocated memory that is used by whatever apps these chaps have used, but are not necessarily running at the time of any screen grab.

 

I will stick to my windows intel machines. Thanks. the XPS is faster in ripping 4k videos anyways. Mainly what I will be doing, and editing photos. So, my laptop now is acceptable in all my creative work, besides editing 4k videos. I am building a new video editing rig for that. While we are on the road, we can use iphone videos and pop up some on our social media sites using that, and when we get back, rip some good 4k footage with the desktop beast.

 

It's definitely not looking like a normal case of you just have low physical RAM, considering this wasn't an issue till recently (compared with previously on Intel Macs). 8GB RAM is merely aggravating the OS swap bug with earlier symptoms, rather than it being the main cause. It's apparently also affecting Intel Macs (remains to be verified) according to newer reports and even those with RAM as high as 32GB. Thankfully my 1.25 year old MBP16 w/2TB SSD is still showing 100% with 18TB written.

It highly likely the OS is swapping unnecessarily rather than any bug on individual apps. If the said bug is calling for large swathes memory but not using it, it would still trigger more swapping at which point of course the low RAM models would be affected earlier. And yet poor MS gets so much flak for code quality lol. Catalina crashed regularly in the early days before the 2nd-3d point update due to a sleep bug, and things seemed good on BigSur and now this. I will admit for all the minor bugs & glitches W10 has been stable at the core and I don't recall any such major issues at least from my use on my Latitudes and Precisions.

 

I have found the same with my dell and acers running windows 10. Rock solid. Mobile connect is causing me grief from the last update. As I said, Apple is 100 percent smoke and mirrors, like here is this thing....no no don't look over there at that, that's not what you need to see only this over here. (that analogy is better in person with the actions, ha ha). But you get what I am saying. No one talks about the unstable, stale OS that MacOS has become. It is essentially the same since 2006. Change only the icons and wallpaper.

 

I was originally going to say that Rosetta2 might also be a variable in play depending on what apps these users are running, but if you're saying ppl are reporting problems on newer x86 based Macs, then it's gotta be something in macOS 11 itself... And I'm assuming everyone reporting this is using Big Sur.

32GB is a somewhat large memory set to be working with (assuming normal, light browsing, word processing, and simple spreadsheet) unless these people are running image rendering, movie creation, apps with large data sets or perhaps tons and tons of smaller apps causing memory to be switched out on context switches between processes.

 

The 2021 MacBook Pro 16 may not be the performance upgrade we expect from Apple notebookcheck.net | Today

According to a new report, the next MacBook Pro 16 will feature an Apple M1 chip, not a more powerful next-generation model.

Minor changes could include a switch to a flat design and the return of legacy ports though, along with slimmer display bezels for the new model.

It seems Apple will take same turnaround as Dell did with their high end Aw gamingbooks. Re-introduce smart card reader as a must have feature, LOOL


Great idea... First remove it then add it in as a nice new feature for new models Maybe it will be removed again for the 2023 models?

 

What really gets my goat is that Apple and their fanboys are going crazy over external/appearance tweaks. It will look nicer. It will be thinner. The battery will last longer. It will be the greatest laptop of 2021.

Once you get under marketing veil, any wise consumer will see that Apple's vision of an iPhone-Mac is no different than the overpriced BGA junk being spawned by some celestial random number generator. $3k for a 16" MBP with Apple Silicon. That's three Legion 5s - a computer I don't care how it looks or that it won't last more than a year with use.

 

That's the only thing that matters for most apple users. How it looks. I watched one video where a creator was on macbook, switched to a windows pc, decreased his rip times by half. it was like 13 mins for a 40 min fat cut on the mac and like 4 min 30 sec on the windows machine. The keyboard was better, the screen was better, the battery life was better....but since the programs didn't "tornado" when he closed them, he went back to mac. FACEPALM.

 

Gaming on the Mac is getting worse every year - time for a paradigm shift notebookcheck.com

Macs have never been the first choice for gaming enthusiasts, but the situation for Mac users has deteriorated significantly in recent years. Apple seems to have given up gaming on the Mac - but there is at least a glimmer of hope.

Read the last sentence in the Commentary Article... " because it could take a few years before complex games on ARM Macs work properly"

 

This is the future Apple has for Apple gaming.

 

I am SOOO excited for gaming on the Mac.

 

LOL! Not big on the gaming scene, but seriously Apple? This is what you are telling customers to look out for in 2021? Yikes!!

 

I like this YouTube channel, but some of their discussions are over the top. I was forced to make the following comment:

" I don't agree with the level of enthusiasm, especially based on leaks and speculations. There won't be a doubling of performance with number of cores; look at 5900x vs 5950x. Regarding accelerated processing units, that is appropriate for phones and tablets where space and power constraints are real. Laptops and desktops which draw power from an outlet do not have that limitation, and performance should not be gimped because the device needs to be temporarily disconnected. Gimped performance should get gimped prices. An equation Apple will never be able to solve."

 

Intel vs. Apple: The former Mac actor railed against the M1 MacBook Pro in new commercials notebookcheck.net

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Intel (YouTube)



@Mr. Fox Paid by Intel, but Apple is a No Go anyway

 

These are super funny! I love intel. Apple hires the "pc" guy to act like a moron at a release event, so intel hires the "mac" guy to show how boring and stale apple has become. Their PC has not changed since he did those commercials.

 

Intel vs. Apple goes into the next round: A new website is aimed specifically against MacBooks with M1 notebookcheck.com


Last words is still not said.... The bashing will continue... From both sides The unknown question is... Will AMD be brought into this cat fight? LOOL

Redesigned iMac with M1X chip will offer the "true pro levels of performance" that can be expected from the next-generation Apple Silicon

According to industry observers, it will be the redesigned iMac and not the MacBook Pro 16 that will truly be able to unlock the full potential of an expected M1X Apple Silicon. Even with an updated cooling solution, thermal restrictions will prevent the MacBook Pro 16 from hitting the performance heights of a larger M1X iMac device.

 

It's still an apple sold product running apple software, a MASSIVE NO GO for me.

 

Apple’s M1 chip has an unfixable security flaw baked into the silicon notebookcheck.net | Today

A software developer has uncovered a security flaw in Apple’s vaunted M1 SoC. The only fix for the issue would be for Apple to redesign the chip although the chances of the vulnerability being exploited maliciously are low.

 

Key word here is LOW. Not "although nobody could do it". Same old same old from apple. Crow about security and privacy and still have exploits themselves. What a joke.

 

Both U.S branded ODM/OEM offer the low.


A YouTuber installs an Intel Core i9 in the 21.5 inch iMac to outperform the M1 notebookcheck.net

 

Of course it does. After about 30 seconds the M1 falls flat where intel keeps going. Look at any video editing benchmarks done by independent sources. Not that Luke is that by any means. But, people in the video editing industry have benched the M1 against 3 year old i7 with heavy video edits and the m1 can barely cope, where as the i7 etc just powers on through.