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  1. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    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
  2. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    "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
  3. I bet the Nvidia shield will get the update once it's officially released.
    3 points
  4. Google launches Photos redesign with new tabs, a map view, and a new icon

    I love google photos.
    3 points
  5. I agree, the Apple just wanted more control (and profits) as usual, otherwise they would have gone to AMD
    3 points
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    I literally cannot think of a single Iphone app, that I would want to run on a computer.
    2 points
  10. 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
  11. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20152 to the Dev channel

    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
  16. Worth reapplying CPU thermal paste, or not?

    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
  17. Solar Power finally kicked off today.

    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
  18. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    I wonder how an iPhone app is going to work in a non touch macOS.
    1 point
  19. They should have just gone AMD.
    1 point
  20. 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 world
    1 point
  21. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    The curved borders; same shape icons. Don't know if i'm neutral or dislike.
    1 point
  22. Hands-on with the macOS 11 Big Sur developer beta

    "Big Slur"
    1 point
  23. macOS Big Sur is version 11, ending 20 years of macOS 10

    * 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
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  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. Not only that, RISC is a better instruction set code. Intel was stupid enough not to work wiht Microsoft on supporting x86-64 on IA64 because they didnt had any other vision besides dollar bills And yet, from what I've seen, ARM has been adding higher level bits to it's arch over time, it's no longer clear cut RISC vs CISC like the old days. I'm interested in seeing how Intels own bigLITTLE mobile chips turn out, and you can bet AMD has it's own plans in the work. They're not going to leave ARM alone anymore.
    1 point
  28. 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
  29. Amazon Honeycode allows you to build mobile and web apps without any code

    Ha, that is exactly where my head went as well.
    1 point
  30. 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
  31. Sure I had the problem as well in FF months ago, I'm sure it was a change Youtube made which broke ad blockers, until the devs updated the extensions.
    1 point
  32. Hands on with the first iOS 14 developer beta

    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
  33. 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 tb3
    1 point
  34. Share if your Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) is blocked

    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/windows10
    1 point
  35. Microsoft releases Windows 10 build 20152 to the Dev channel

    One feature i would like to see brought back is the F8 Key. So I had a computer I recently worked on, it would start to boot, would get the spiny thing, it would go away, it would come back but then just stay there. I wanted to get into safe mode. So I killed power, had to do it 3 times (each time shuttering, about the poor hard drive) until FINALY it put me at "Please Wait" and went to the recovery screen. I then went to safe mode. It is pure and UTTER BULLS*** that they removed the F8 function, it makes troubleshooting a MAJOR pain the ass. Their excuse was that there was not enough time to press F8, which is a bull**** excuse because if you enable F8 from the command prompt and reboot, when you press F8 it works just fine. Just to see if I could save some time I tried booting off a windows 10 installer media and went into the repair options. Most options were there, but not startup settings. going to stop thinking about it for today because, whenever I think about it, my ###### gets brought to a boil.
    1 point
  36. Until the 30 series or AMDs next round of cards come out, yes.
    1 point
  37. Share if your Windows 10 May 2020 Update (version 2004) is blocked

    https://www.sysnative.com/forums/downloads/sfcfix/ Run this and then try.
    1 point
  38. 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 pipeline
    1 point
  39. 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
  40. Apple announces that its Macs will start using its own custom ARM processors

    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
  41. They did it before, they will do it again
    1 point
  42. Apple did it before with the move from PowerPC to Intel. This time it is easier as a lot of companies / developers have both Mac apps and i Phone/iPad apps. In the long run makes development a hell of a lot of easier to have one platform.
    1 point
  43. If they pull this off as effortlessly and as effectively (performance and efficiency) as they claim to be (highly doubt it), I will probably switch to Macs. This has always been the OneWindows future that Microsoft envisioned.
    1 point
  44. 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
  45. As a Windows phone user I really like where this is going.
    1 point
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    I'm glad people are using this already :)
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    cool. i'll join later today :)
    1 point
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    Isn't there already like 2 or 3 Neowin groups?
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    Will be there saturday, but i demand a cookie.
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