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Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta
BergischNRW and 2 others reacted to Atoqir for a topic
Tried it and love it. Apple redesigned a whole OS and a whole suite of stock apps, notification center, system settings and icons just in 1 go. As mainly a Windows user I envy this. Microsoft has been doing Fluent design for years now and it still looks early alpha design wise. I wonder why the Fluent team makes all these gorgeous concept videos without actually implementing more than 5 percent.3 points -
Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta
suni08 and 2 others reacted to Brandon H for a topic
"Big Sir" lol this is what came to mind the first time I heard the name; I wasn't looking at my screen at the time to see it was "Sur" so I chuckled a little.3 points -
Google releases first Android 11 Developer Preview for Android TV
B V and 2 others reacted to +Warwagon for a topic
I bet the Nvidia shield will get the update once it's officially released.3 points -
Google launches Photos redesign with new tabs, a map view, and a new icon
spikey_richie and 2 others reacted to +Warwagon for a topic
I love google photos.3 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr and 2 others reacted to dontbeevil for a topic
I agree, the Apple just wanted more control (and profits) as usual, otherwise they would have gone to AMD3 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
MS Bob 11 and 2 others reacted to George P for a topic
My gaming PC is rocking a Skylake i7 6700k and I don't see the need to upgrade it anytime soon. Apple just wanted more control and are quick to list any excuse they can to justify it. This is about boosting profits through tighter control of things.3 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
eilegz and 2 others reacted to Mobius Enigma for a topic
Intel screwed up, but my understanding is that Apple has been wanting to break away from partners like Intel, and eventually AMD as well. Apple won't stop with Intel, as AMD and other are also being shoved aside in taking over their own supply. AMD will be ok for a while by sucking up to Apple for GPU sales, but Apple has no intention of keeping AMD GPUs and they hate NVidia. The industry is at a weird place I wouldn't have guessed a few years ago. Intel has problems, and NVidia has even bigger problems. If AMD's NAVI 2 is what is rumored, and equal to or ahead of NVidia in every aspect, NVidia has nothing to fall back on. (Unless they keep currency mining and calling it sales income. Oops.) NVidia is in more trouble than Intel, as Apple hates them, and the Linux and OSS community hates them, and even Microsoft doesn't care for crap they pulled with DX10/11 and setting back gaming technology because of a lack of features in their 8800 GPUs at the time. NVidia's only hope to survive is in OEM deals, and if AMD is stomping their performance and price, those deals won't last long. Just as we are seeing with major OEM shifting to AMD's 4000 mobile APUs sooner than planned. Back to Apple: Apple only cares about Apple, and if they can make an additional $1, even if they screw customers, they have and will do it. (See how they designed the power connectors in their MacBooks, shoving high voltage in a place that wears and shorts to lower voltage components, often not only failing, but blowing out hardware. Even now, the latest Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air are all slower than they should be with current Intel CPUs. See 100c throttling MacBook, etc. (Only the cheapest or fanless notebook designs hit these temperatures and slow with the same CPUs.) There are jokes that Apple is doing this on purpose, so their CPUs will look better compared to their Intel models. Sadly, like many engineers, I don't think it is a joke, as they need Intel running a bit slower so the performance difference drop of the Apple silicon won't seem as drastic as estimates put it.3 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr and 2 others reacted to Mobius Enigma for a topic
Yes they were, but they also were trying a massive architectural shift all at once, which could have been a major performance accomplishment, but instead turned into problem forcing them to break the technologies apart. Specifically when moving to 10nm and below, they weren't just resizing a few things, they pushed to change everything to get the biggest benefit from the shift in smaller cell size. Intel's gamble screwed them, and the part of complacency is accurate in why this happened, as they wouldn't have taken the gamble if AMD had been more competitive. Instead, they would have implemented incremental shifts to the newer node sizes and probably be in good shape, instead of scrambling like they are doing now. So complacency hurt Intel in many ways beyond neglecting current consumer products. Side Notes: The recent AMD 3000 Zen 2, was a massive hit to Intel, but with Intel holding the fastest core speeds, they assumed they could stay ahead a bit, as they have with the 9900K and 10900K easily beating AMD in core performance - which is still important in some market segments like gaming, AL/ML science, etc. However, AMD's 4000 mobile release surprised and scared Intel shitless. The 4000 series is Zen 2+ and beat Intel in every aspect, from power/battery, multi-core speeds, and the holy grail that Intel was counting on - core speeds. The AMD 4000 mobile APUs are impressively more efficient and often faster than AMD's 3000 desktop CPUs while using a fraction of the power. This also means the Zen 3 coming later this year will AT LEAST be faster than the 4000 mobile Zen 2+. At that point, Intel has nothing to offer over AMD, and at best will have to move to be the 'cheap' option until they can catch back up.3 points -
Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta
margrave and one other reacted to FFX for a topic
I literally cannot think of a single Iphone app, that I would want to run on a computer.2 points -
AMD's latest mobile processors are 30 times more efficient than in 2014
Jim K and one other reacted to Mobius Enigma for a topic
The new mobile processor are impressive. However, rolled up tin foil would out perform what they did in 2014. Thank god that sad stretch is over.2 points -
Solar Power finally kicked off today.
trieste and one other reacted to +BudMan for a topic
So being start of day 94 of solar thought I would update this - even if nobody looking.. 3 billing cycles have have completed.. You can see the huge drop in what paying comed.. $16 per month to comed, this is just the cost of having a connection.. There has been no cost for electric used, since have produced more than used.. Currently I have 474 kwh rolled over.. So going into 2 biggest months for me jul and aug.. Have reserve even if can not produce what I consume next couple of months... If these next few days in June can stay sunny on track to hit 1Mwh for the month.. That is pretty slick if you ask me Need to avg 31 kwh per day for the next 6 days, for june sofar running at 33.9 kwh avg per day.. Current calculations work out to $336 savings from last year total cost.. While its not a huge amount, sofar leasing seems like a viable option to me for anyone wanting save a few bucks..2 points -
Microsoft quietly removes option to manually defer feature updates through Windows Update
dustojnikhummer and one other reacted to George P for a topic
Sounds like the change was to so IT could have complete control over every system through group policy, this way every system should be on the same schedule. Besides haven't feature updates been a manual process anyways? Why have the option to defer them when they're not installed automatically anymore, think the change was back with v1809? You actually have to go and click download and install now unless your system is EoL, then it will upgrade on it's own.2 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr and one other reacted to dirtyvu for a topic
Skylake was the reason the Surface Pro 4 had such teething problems. And Skylake is the reason that Microsoft is hesitant to be on the tip of the arrow anymore. Remember that Microsoft was practically the first vendor to use Skylake. And SP4 took so many firmware and software updates to deal with all the power-related issues (sleep issues were so huge). I remember my SP4 waking up all the time, draining the battery and resulting in a hot machine in a backpack.2 points -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
dead.cell and one other reacted to 31067 for a topic
It's around the time when rumors started circulating that Intel was having problems with the development of their 10 nm fab process.2 points -
Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20152 to the Dev channel
ben-noon and one other reacted to excalpius for a topic
Give me a break. They're just dumbing down what used to be their professional OS to the prosumer/consumer level in preparation for abandoning the professional market entirely. If that's what Wall Street demands, so be it. It makes sense for what's left of Apple to just focus on increasing net profits by making their own chips, etc. But it's quite obvious that Apple's just going "full retard" here by turning Mac OS into "Big Screen iPhone OS". The notification/widget/control area and icons are straight from iOS, ffs.2 points -
Worth reapplying CPU thermal paste, or not?
Peresvet reacted to ThaCrip for a topic
I should have been clearer. I completely cleaned the old stuff off (with 91% isopropyl alcohol) of heatsink/CPU and reapplied from scratch. what you see in those two pictures is shortly after I removed the i3-2120 CPU before I installed the i5-3550 and I completely cleaned off that before applying Arctic Silver 5 with the usual small-ish dot in the center of CPU. so I was just wondering if it's worth re-doing or do you think I am good since my current temps are safe?1 point -
Solar Power finally kicked off today.
+Dick Montage reacted to +BudMan for a topic
You will understand when your wife is going through that part of her life She is mid 50s - her body temp goes nuts...1 point -
Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta
wingliston reacted to Pere Ubu for a topic
I wonder how an iPhone app is going to work in a non touch macOS.1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
wingliston reacted to neufuse for a topic
This is just Apple being Apple, if they dont have complete control they find a way to get it... It will be their own CPU's, SoC's, GPU's on all hardware eventually... heck if they could they'd probably make their own capacitors and resisters and say they are the best ones in the world1 point -
Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta
macoman reacted to +Warwagon for a topic
"Big Slur"1 point -
macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10
adrynalyne reacted to neufuse for a topic
* looks at MS's revenue, income and usage numbers * yeah dark times coming man...... uh you'll see 1st will be xbox one x series x one x industrial flop people have been saying that since the first xbox...1 point -
Microsoft quietly removes option to manually defer feature updates through Windows Update
GSDragoon reacted to dontbeevil for a topic
what an article title1 point -
Microsoft quietly removes option to manually defer feature updates through Windows Update
devHead reacted to eddman for a topic
Yes, it's not an issue. Configuring update settings through group policy is the better option anyway. If you use windows 10 pro or enterprise, even at home, you could set automatic update to always notify before downloading updates. I've done that and windows never installs an update until I manually click the button. IINM, feature updates eventually move to the regular updates list and will be installed along other updates.1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr reacted to RejZoR for a topic
I picked older 5820K over (at the time) new 6700K. While 6700K was made on newer 14nm node (yeah, 14nm back in 2015) and 5820K on 22nm, I couldn't get past the fact 5820K was more obtainable, slightly cheaper and had 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads. Which proved to be a great decision. My ancient 5820K runs at 4.6GHz all core at insanely low 1.180V. It's a 6 years old processor that behaves anything but old. Probably one of the best investments of all times. Though Core i7 920 before it wasn't bad either. Had it for about 6 years too.1 point -
Amazon Honeycode allows you to build mobile and web apps without any code
adrynalyne reacted to neufuse for a topic
because these kind of apps always do well.......1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
wingliston reacted to George P for a topic
you're only thinking from your perspective, a desktop perspective. Mobile machines make up the vast majority of PCs out there and Skylake was a poor mobile processor. We're long past skylake for mobile though, and as a few others have said there's also AMD chips now if you're tired of Intels per showing and power draw. You can lay down a number of "reasons" for switching but it's really just money, as with every business move. Apple now gets to keep a bigger cut of profits from every device sold instead of giving intel a piece.1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
samw61 reacted to dirtyvu for a topic
you're only thinking from your perspective, a desktop perspective. Mobile machines make up the vast majority of PCs out there and Skylake was a poor mobile processor.1 point -
Amazon Honeycode allows you to build mobile and web apps without any code
dontbeevil reacted to Mobius Enigma for a topic
Ha, that is exactly where my head went as well.1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr reacted to spaceship9876 for a topic
Apple is just interested in the lower power consumption, that would also allow them to fit a thinner lighter battery in their laptops. Being able to use much of the same code between ios and macos would be very helpful for them.1 point -
Amazon Honeycode allows you to build mobile and web apps without any code
hellowalkman reacted to dontbeevil for a topic
MS powerapps?1 point -
Former Intel engineer reasons that Intel's Skylake lineup led to Apple opting for ARM
Slackerr reacted to The_D0lph1n for a topic
I have a coworker who used to work at Intel and his recounting of his time there indicates to me that upper management was really focused on cutting costs. They were closing sites, and moving people around, and putting more tasks on each engineer, making engineering managers also do design/technical work (bad idea, as a manager who must perform both management and engineering duties will do poorly in both), and a whole bunch of classic "clueless management" moves that only served to hamper and overwork the engineers on the floor. There were also product development/management decisions that would only make sense to bean counters, I mean, finance specialists while leaving the engineers scratching their heads. This was during the Skylake time period as well. He said that a lot of more senior people, Intel veterans, left in the year before he left because they were tired of the mismanagement. As with a lot of company declines, the problems start at the top, while the engineers feel the brunt of the bad decisions.1 point -
Hands-on with the watchOS 7 developer beta
IvxnFajardo reacted to Max for a topic
Took me a second to work out that was a feather. It looks like a close up of a scrotum 😂1 point -
NASA Mars 2020 Rover (build and mission thread)
bguy_1986 reacted to Jim K for a topic
Time to shake the dust off of this thread since we're a month away from the launch window ... Rover is named Perseverance Helicopter is named Ingenuity Launch Window: July 22 - Aug 11 Launch Vehicle: ULA Atlas 541 Mars Landing: Feb 18, 2021 Landing Site: Jezero Crater, Mars Rover is named Perseverance Helicopter is named Ingenuity Currently the launch is scheduled for July 22 at 9:35 a.m. ET with a two-hour window. Some pictures: Here is a video of how the helicopter will deploy from the rover. The NASA Perseverance Rover Website1 point -
Hands on with the first iOS 14 developer beta
dead.cell reacted to Slackerr for a topic
Ah, so you didn't do the iOS beta a couple of years ago that fried hardware. Good ol' Apple, so much better than everyone else, except that one time, and that other time, and that other time... I can perfectly recall iOS 13 beta draining battery like crazy, don't be silly. This one is surprisingly solid and functional.1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
margrave reacted to MateerL for a topic
I doubt it, Apple is a very small part of Intel's market and so far their shares have not moved by the news. i would have preferred for Apple to go to AMD myself. I was hoping they would announce AMD macs at the WWDC too. I was bummed when they didn't. I'm curious what happens to thunderbolt. Only reason they stuck with Intel was cooler/power efficient chips and TB3. I don't recall ARM Socs supporting tb31 point -
Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20152 to the Dev channel
excalpius reacted to Ryster for a topic
Squares with icons in them are "terribly outdated" now? Perhaps if they just rounded the corners of the squares, then they'd be just like Apple.1 point -
Share if your Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) is blocked
Barney T. reacted to He's Dead Jim for a topic
Well it cheked for disk drive space and a couple of other things which I cant remember, but it said my system was OK, so I just clicked through the "next" button. It seemed pretty minimal and quick so I probably didm't pay too much attention, the actual install still took ages though, with a "Getting Things Ready" screen appearing stuck at 70% for so long I almost gave up. You can get the Update Assistant here; https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows101 point -
Nvidia GeForce driver version 451.48 includes DirectX 12 Ultimate support
jesseinsf reacted to chaos mage for a topic
Until the 30 series or AMDs next round of cards come out, yes.1 point -
Starship SN7 prototype 'pops' during a cryogenic pressure test to failure
hellowalkman reacted to +virtorio for a topic
It died doing what it loved.1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
derekaw reacted to Eternal Tempest for a topic
Cliff Notes from WDDC 2020 * Universal 2 Binary – Single Binary can be compatible with “Intel” and “Silicon” ** Microsoft Office & Adobe CC are in active development (demo Office, LR, PS) * Rosetta 2 ** Allow (most) existing mac apps to be compatible with Silicon macs ** Demo showed off Maya 3D * iPad & iPhone Apps compatible on Silicon mac devices *Timeline ** 2-year transition ** Silicon version will start to come out this year ** Intel support to continue for years (unspecified) ** New Intel Mac’s still in pipeline1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
derekaw reacted to Joshie for a topic
I've realized that this might be the thing that makes me overcome my decades-long ban on Apple products in my life. I would still rather lick a trashcan than let anything descended from QuickTime near me (iTunes), but I have this nagging feeling that iOS on Mac is going to have a profound effect on desktop gaming, which would, by extension, have a profound effect on desktop computing.1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
derekaw reacted to Rosyna for a topic
It seems Microsoft is always trying to do things ahead of time and failing right before others jump on the train. Apple has made multiple successful transitions. 68k to PowerPC, PowerPC to Intel. Microsoft has had zero successful transitions. It’s always been i386 with other architectures being one-offs or for an extremely niche market. Don’t compare Apple’s ARM transition to Microsoft’s failed ARM transition (three generations of slow SoCs!!); compare Apple’s ARM transition to Apple’s past transitions.1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
wingliston reacted to dustojnikhummer for a topic
Windows 10X will be DoA... ARM is not the future for the average user any time soon. Windows 10X is going to be where Windows as a whole ends up, it's not going to be DoA. You'll be running it on desktops soon enough. You mean the OS that still relies on non-functioning UWP, uses built in apps that haven't been updated since 2015 and hasn't gotten an Insider build in months? IMO Win10X is dead.1 point -
Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors
derekaw reacted to Nexus1974 for a topic
They did it before, they will do it again1 point -
Apple announces iOS 14 with an app drawer, widgets on the home screen, and more
watsxn reacted to Slackerr for a topic
Now if only apple allowed changing of your default apps. There are reports that it will be a reality in iOS 14. Even though the only app I need replaced is the mail client to Outlook because it supports shared mailboxes.1 point -
Apple announces iOS 14 with an app drawer, widgets on the home screen, and more
watsxn reacted to 300z for a topic
As a Windows phone user I really like where this is going.1 point -
Really should use spell check
He's Dead Jim reacted to jnelsoninjax for a topic
A guy sends a text to his next-door neighbor:"Bob, I'm sorry. I've been riddled with guilt and I have to confess: I have been helping myself to your wife when you're not around, probably more than you. I know it's no excuse but I don't get it at home. I can't live with the guilt any longer. I hope you'll accept my sincerest apology. It won't happen again." Feeling outrage and betrayed, Bob grabs his gun, goes into the bedroom, and without a word, shoots his wife.1 point -
Join Neowin Folding@Home Group
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Join Neowin Folding@Home Group
cheap license reacted to Nightz for a topic
cool. i'll join later today :)1 point -
Join Neowin Folding@Home Group
cheap license reacted to +StevoFC for a topic
Isn't there already like 2 or 3 Neowin groups?1 point