I’ll admit, ever since the API changes and strike, I have not really moderated this subreddit (or really any subreddit) that much, but as mentioned above, I still handle the Apple Event megathreads each time as I love experiencing the Apple Events with all of you.

So you were doing little mod work overall, someone else can create a megathread those 2/3 times a week and you can still interact “with all of us” like you love so much.

I don’t care at all who is a mod or isn’t.

Option 3: You were already not doing much with your mod position during most of the year. The obvious choice is right there, leave the mod team and let others pick up the slack on the events (which is a time a lot of people is probably interested, so likely other mods are available as well), or get a new mod that would actually do more than just show up 2 or 3 times a year.

You can still contribute and be a part of the community without being a mod.

The funny thing is that a LOT of those that say things like that, have an iPhone SE and a 10 year old MacBook and talk as if those that got a 1800 dollar Galaxy Fold are poor.

Obviously there’s nothing wrong with those. Just saying it’s a weird ass mindset to pretend your cheaper and significantly older product is better because it has some brand and not another.

Apple really did amazingly well with their marketing. They managed to make some people believe that a literal consumer product, that sells into the hundreds of millions each year, is some sort of ultra premium item that’s unattainable and brings some prestige above the rest and it generates some inexplicable weird fetish.

They said it had an E N O R M O U S D I S P L A Y.

Sometimes I think they do it on purpose just to fuck with us.

With all these CGI effects used on the presentation of Spooky Tim Apple, I can see the price increase coming to cover for the extra expenses!

The one that I said could compete with the M series is their upcoming X Elite platform with the Oryon CPU. Here’s a thread from a few days ago about it.

As for the GPU side for which I used the Snapdragon 8 gen 3, you can look the Geekerwan review here.

Yeah, like someone else replied, they were using the M2 Max for single core instead of the M2. Which obviously paints things in their favor.

I hate all companies doing that. Just like when Apple compares to “the Intel powered Macs” or vs the “best selling PC” (which obviously is gonna be worse) and that stuff.

Obviously it’s all complex. It’s not all lineal. Power draw can be fine for most tasks and then be super high on the top end (kind of like the A17 which is power hungry with those P cores) and that could be fine or not depending on what you need.

We have to wait for the reviews once it’s out. That’s why I wasn’t asserting what they said, just left it at what they claimed and what they could achieve.

Depends on what you are measuring/bragging about.

Efficiency is the one that’s still a win for Apple. But raw power has been surpassed by Intel and AMD. Also Apple’s GPU was already surpassed last year with Snapdragon 8 gen 2, and even more with the gen 3.

Plus the upcoming Qualcomm’s chip may be comparable in power efficiency, they claimed 30% less power use at the same performance as the M2 Max. So M3 would need to be much better in that sense to still have bragging rights next year.

Basically, significantly different story from when the M1 released where the gap was bigger. The others are catching up fast.

Very obvious after the updates they did to the A17. It was mostly GPU stuff, and in particular things for games that make way more sense on a computer than a phone.

They added mesh shading, ray tracing, metalfx upscaling… So yeah… No surprise there.

Obviously that means the M3 needs to be based on A17. But at this point it’s likely it will.

It will be interesting to see if the game devs support them or not. And what the base configurations will be on the Macs. Because unless even their lowest end Macbook can play games comfortably, most devs won’t bother porting their games at all as the market would be too small.