Recent content by Aurelius

I really don't think the Vision Pro suffers because of one virtual Mac monitor, or because it doesn't have Steam games. Rather, it's that it's $3,500, visionOS is still rudimentary, and the reliance on gesture control means that you don't get physical controllers that would be helpful for some...

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: it's easy to champion physical releases up until you move or need more space, and suddenly you have boxes and boxes of discs you need to relocate. That and many people only watch a movie a handful of times at most; I used to collect movies, but then I...

I'd like to see how Tensor G4 steps things up, but rumor goes that Google will at least up its game with next year's models. I'm still happy in iPhone land, but my inclination now would be toward the Galaxy S24+ or Ultra if I went Android, not the Pixel series. Camera quality matters, but...

I remember when RCS was first introduced a long time ago, and I was talking to companies about it. They couldn't articulate all that well what it was, why we needed it, and how it would be widely adopted. It took ages even to get to the point where it was being used as a semi-consistent...

They're high-end for a number of reasons. Yes, Apple is being stingy with 8GB of RAM, but the performance is good (especially for audiovisual tasks), the designs are great, the displays are high-quality, and the battery life is superb.

Apple is likely to repeat the M3 strategy where it upgrades some models this year and others the next, but that's not surprising... it needs to deal with both production volume and the challenges of building very high-end chips like the M4 Ultra/Extreme. I do like what Apple is doing, though...

That's an RTX 4080 versus the lower end M3 Max. Now, even the higher-end M3 Max probably won't beat an RTX 4080, but neither result would be shocking. The RTX 4080 by itself can chew more power than the entire MacBook Pro (typically 150W); if Apple could achieve 4080-level performance with its...

You're still pitting a gaming laptop (and not ASUS' best-built, at that) against a high-end creative workstation. The markets for the two are wildly different! That's... actually not all that great in 2024, especially since the system will throttle back while on battery power (yes, I appreciate...

The comparison with that Lenovo isn't straightforward. The LOQ has a lower resolution (if slightly higher refresh rate) and lower quality display, just one USB-C port (no surprises at the lack of Thunderbolt with AMD), build quality will undoubtedly be worse... you get the idea. Performance will...

That's the one thing about the current Mac lineup that gets me — it's been at 8GB base for some configs for years, and a $1,600 machine shouldn't start there. Now, 8GB on a modern Mac isn't quite like 8GB on Windows, but it's also true that it doesn't magically provide gobs of headroom, either...

The funny thing: I was big on 3D acceleration, but I never had a Voodoo card. I jumped in early with Rendition-based cards and jumped to ATI/NVIDIA when those companies hit their stride. I was generally happy, but it was hard not to be a little envious of people who had dual Voodoo 2 boards.

I wouldn't feel that bad. M2 shipped in 2022; it was just MacBook Pro owners that got the M2 and M3 refreshes in the same year, and that was a fairly long stretch. That and there was a time when Apple refreshed computers roughly every half year as it kept up with chip revisions from Intel (and...

I'm curious as to where Apple can and will go with M4 beyond the Neural Engine upgrade. I could see a raw performance boost thanks to the improved 3nm process, but after that it's not clear. Maybe a newer version of the ARM architecture? Either way, I'd say this is a nice problem for Apple to...

Not as much of a heartbreaker these days, but still... ASUS is clearly making a play for more market share, and isn't as interested in catering to enthusiasts (see also: the 'safer' look of the latest ROG Phone).

In this case I don't see a reason to lie. If anything, Google has a strong incentive to tell the truth as this is a selling point for the Pixel 8.