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512gb of unified memory is insane. The price will be outrageous but for AI enthusiasts it will probably be worth it.
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Isn’t unified memory terrible for AI tho? I kind of doubt it even has bandwidth of a 5 years old vram.
While DDR7 DRAM is obviously better, the massive amount of memory can be a massive advantage for some models.
can be configured up to 512GB, or over half a terabyte.
Are you ok mate?
They’re not wrong. 1000 GB is a terabyte, so 512 GB is over half a terabyte.
It’s exactly half a tebibyte though.
512 GiB is half a tebibyte. 512 GB is just under 477 GiB.
Yup.
- 512 GB > 1TB/2 - what article claims
- 512 GiB = 1 TiB/2 - what many assume
- don’t mix GiB and GB
That’s a retcon of hardware producers using measurement units confusion to advertise less as more.
It’s nice to have consistent units naming, but when the industry has existed for a long enough time with the old ones, seems intentional harm for profit.
That’s not a retcon. Manufacturers were super inconsistent with using it, so we standardized the terminology. For floppy disks were advertised as 1.44MB, but have an actual capacity of 1440 KiB, which is 1.47 MB or 1.41 MiB.
The standardization goes back to 1999 when the IEC officially adopted and published that standard.
There was a federal lawsuit on the matter in California in 2020 that agreed with the IEC terminology.
All of this was taken from this Wikipedia article if you’d like to read more. Since we have common usage, standards going back almost 30 years, and a federal US lawsuit all confirming the terminology difference between binary and decimal units, it really doesn’t seem like a retcon.
OK, fine, all the world might say whatever it wants, but my units are powers of 2.
I prefer it too, but just because “gibibyte” is a stupid word doesn’t mean it’s fine to go against standards.
Agreed, but do you pick the de-facto standard of the entire industry (minus storage advertising) or the de joure standard of an outside body that has made a very slight headway into a very resistant industry.
The reality is that people will be confused no matter what you do, but at least less people will be confused if you ignore the mibibyte, because less people have even heard of it
You pick neither, and enforce correct usage of both in advertised products. Tech people will adapt, and non-tech people will be confused regardless (they still confuse megabytes/sec and megabits/sec, and that’s an 8x difference).
taking Apple prices to a new extreme
Well this news means there will be cheaper second hand m1 and m2 machines on the market.
Yes, that’s how computers work. Like all other depreciating assets.
my college buddy and startup cofounder had a pathetically slow old laptop. he asks me the other day, “should i buy an ipad pro?” i was dumbfounded. bro you don’t even have a proper computer. we went around a bunch and he kept trying to get really bad ones like a base model mac mini. finally i persuaded him to get a 16" M1 Pro for a grand (about 700 after his trade in) and he couldn’t be happier.
I’m still using my M1 MBP like 4 years later. Don’t even care to upgrade! these things are great value
Honestly, the base level M1 mini is still one hell of a computer. I’m typing this on one right now, complete with only 8gb RAM, and it hasn’t yet felt in any way underpowered.
Encoded some flac files to m4a with XLD this morning. 16 files totalling 450mb; it took 10 seconds to complete. With my work flows I can’t imagine needing much more power than that.
I thought a few days ago that my “new” laptop (M2 Pro MBP) is now almost 2 years old. The damn thing still feels new.
I really dislike Apple but the Apple Silicon processors are so worth it to me. The performance-battery life combination is ridiculously good.
Ultra brings memories, but Sun was better than Apple.
Though having said that, Sun was kinda greedy too and their hardware was about the same degree of proprietary as Apple’s.
Aesthetically Sun was amazing, though, and Apple is tasteless, aimed at plebes (technically Julius Caesar was from a plebe noble family, but nobody thinks in such nuance or that plebe noble family is a thing).
That extreme’s name? Albert Einstein.
Is memory that small, connected externally, or does that SoC just end up being a large package, with that much RAM on it?
It’s just external and soldered to the motherboard on Macs, no?
