I’d enjoy having an AI that can hold intelligent conversations tbh…

I have a feeling it might be more enjoyable than most comments online from humans.

Engineered Outrage: “The Outrage! The Outage!”

The what? What does it matter apart from nonsense?

The same goes with advertisements.

Most people like to pretend politics doesn’t matter because they think overall it doesn’t affect their lives. This is the consequence of a large percentage of the population acting this way.

Look at it through the filter of not just “The System” which is not-representative and excessively complex putting many many people off a system that they’re born unto with no say no matter how many sales-pitches are made about it.

You can challenge your nostrum that in fact many people end up making the same decision by many many different means and methods and that means not just all are stupid, but the sheer diversity would indicate more sense of “truth” in that response than a singular message “You must vote because it matters/makes a difference!”

As to “hate”, the word in English is misleading, for one of the most intense negative emotions that people can experience. Apathy or loss of trust might be more appropriate premise.

8-Core CPU:

• Up to 35% faster than M1
• Up to 20% faster than M2

1. 4-Cores (Performance) Top = 4.056 GHz (or ~3.6 GHz when all cores are loaded)
2. 4-Cores (Efficiency) Top = 2.748 GHz

10-Core GPU:

• Up to 60% faster than M1
• Up to 20% faster than M2

1. Dynamic caching, where cache and memory are allocated dynamically based on the actual requirements of applications.
2. Hardware-based ray tracing, mesh shading and AV1 decoding.
3. However, only two displays can be used at a time.

The other interesting summary figure is more-or-less maintaining power efficiency as before on lower power with comparable performance to other chips at higher power usage.

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Either way it is spun (pun intended), it’s very impressive performance boost and fast cadence of release by Apple. notebook.check is a handy website, thanks for posting OP.

Apple is of course bumping up HARDWARE Specs to increase Price all the while ignoring the biggest Value-Added = Software/OS which most users would benefit from. Agree it’s primarily aimed at higher prices and price laddering.

My guess Apple will keep the Price Ladder and charge more for the high end for people who will spend more anyway and want Premium features eg OLED.

iPad sales iirc Mini = 7% compared to say one of the Pro models at about 28%.

I think Apple’s Pricing Ladder would suggest:

• Mini
• Regular
• Air
• Pro - OLED only?

Again for the price laddering and then also sales volume.

I browsed Apple Arcade yesterday considering where Apple are with games on the App store. The problems I observed (subjective and cursory):

1. The core line up of games presented are more like basic phone-toy games where they are based around tap and clicking at things as stimulation.
2. Contrast this to indie-games that release on PC all the time and are more broad in design than “basic toys” but embrace deeper mechanics in their respective genres and wider genre availability.
3. Very difficult to search and filter games, the categories seem jumbled and confusing. Little criteria to search eg top rated by users or curators etc
4. Fundamentally maybe touch input is a limitation meaning more tendency towards these toy-games of tap-click and games instead of external input devices?
5. It’s surprising the online gaming ie multiplayer is not stronger genre/category on these devices albeit a few exceptions eg brawl stars for example.

Yeah that’s true about publicity. Still I think Indies over a period of time will create more sustained interest and a developer community of indies is really helpful too a variety of ways.

Technologically this is impressive. However, I’m surprised Apple has not done more to port more Indie-Games onto their devices as a strategy to build larger collection of fun affordable games across many genres?