Apple is so behind on AI. It's even looking like they are getting more behind and not even catching up. People keep saying Apple is often late but better, as if that some sort of vindication. But that's not even true -- Apple does not always come up with something better. But what I want is for Apple to be consistently earlier and better.
I agree in practice, but I distinctly remember both the tech media and tech community at large roasting Siri over things like lack of integration, lack of certain features competitors were racing to bolt in, and the lack of remembered context. At the time it didn't matter that a lot of these features would turn out to be useless, or buggy, or later dropped/removed, it gave the impression that Apple was "behind". Some of that turned out to be Apple waiting to do certain things with on device processing or waiting until low power modes were available, the "Hey Siri" wake work originally only worked while on wall power for instance, but only in hindsight can we see a more deliberate approach to features now that the gold rush feature list race has ended
I feel like this is one of the most underrated aspects of Apple’s typical approach: Not chasing novelties, instead focusing on genuine advances. The haptics in their devices, display quality over resolution, energy efficiency over battery capacity, focusing their silicon on things like decoders and caches instead of clock speed and core count, etc. Siri is better than most people give it credit for, especially when all they want to do with other assistants is play Trivial Pursuit.
And often less. For instance, the max RAM for the Dell XPS tower is 64 GB. Even if you consider the max possible RAM supported by the chipsets themselves, the limits for any consumer PC made with a Ryzen 9 or i9-14900K are 128 GB and 192 GB, respectively. Indeed, I'm curious what consumer chipset you found that could support 256 GB.Well. RAM fans will be happy they're getting 512GB. The 1.5 TB+ fans will still cry it's not enough.
Funny thing is, a top spec'd consumer grade PC [Non-Workstation] tops at 256GB of DDR5 RAM support.
Because my M1 Max has the ugly notch which to this day I hate and the webcam isn’t even that good so they can change it
It will still work but I would not be surprised to see a lot of M4 only AI features in next MacOS.I hope we still get the full fat AI experience on M2 Max era chips. This was a big purchase for me, I don't want to upgrade again for as long as possible.
Hmmm. Most of us are use to framing a question in the URL field that finds us articles that might match what we wish to compare or know about.All Apple has to do is put AI in Safari. And, keep allowing all "older" Macs get the "newer" macOS, without artificially obsoleting them.
MS Edge has it for a long time.
Now it's going to be AI everything because they don't know what else to market :/
Apple is so behind on AI. It's even looking like they are getting more behind and not even catching up. People keep saying Apple is often late but better, as if that some sort of vindication. But that's not even true -- Apple does not always come up with something better. But what I want is for Apple to be consistently earlier and better.
And more opportunities for Apple to limit features for Macs depending on the chips installed. They will start to really mess around with the OS 😹Looks like it will be a yearly update to all the Macs with a new M series chip every year going forward.
Nah, the "AI" will improve memory usage so they'll go back to 4 Gb...but the iMac and Mac mini will still start with 8GB memory
So if you continuously want to enjoy all the available features it would be a good idea to get the cheapest base device and update regularly.And more opportunities for Apple to limit features for Macs depending on the chips installed. They will start to really mess around with the OS 😹
Personally, I don't need AI, as it takes the fun in searching for something. I'd be quite happy, if Apple won't artificially obsolete its own products by taking of parts of the base macOS, when a newer variant is released. The problem I notice is that Apple had learnt how to dictate to users what to buy and when to buy against common sense, at least in the US. It should be the other way, the users should dictate what they want to manufacturers, which will make them to compete with each other -- the amount of Android devices and Windows laptops/computers available in the market, in the EU and the rest of the world proves that. The EU parliament/commission is with the users rather than with the manufacturer.Does Safari need this, or would Safari be better served by Siri being greatly improved to allow voice interpretations of what full phrases you want to search on the web. Instead of this limited general topic matches it offers currently.
Indeed the OS could learn which and when apps are used and therefore memory management could be optimized. But only for M4 chips and newer 😊Nah, the "AI" will improve memory usage so they'll go back to 4 Gb...
Apple Car would have a chip equivalent to four M2 Ultras
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said in a Q&A on Monday that the Apple Silicon team was “heavily involved” in the Apple Car project before it was shut down. According to the journalist, the company was putting a lot of effort into the “AI brain” of the car, which would be powered by a custom Apple Silicon chip.
This new chip would have the equivalent power of four M2 Ultras chips (the most powerful Apple has to date) combined. A single M2 Ultra chip consists of 134 billion transistors and features a 24-core CPU, a GPU with up to 76 cores, and a dedicated 32-core Neural Engine. M2 Ultra powers the current generation of Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
Interestingly, Gurman says that the development of this new chip for the car was “nearly finished” before the project was discontinued. As some of the engineers working on the car project were reassigned to other teams at Apple, the company could reuse the engineering of this new chip for future projects.
Nah, the "AI" will improve memory usage so they'll go back to 4 Gb...
On-hardware FUNCTIONAL AI that can understand you and reply to you in a way that you can also understand, would be an absolute game changer, and yes is an absolutely marketable thing that would actually make me go out and buy one.Now it's going to be AI everything because they don't know what else to market :/
That's true for the Ultra. I was planning to get the M3 Max version but if they launch the m4 max chip 3-4 months later, I am going to have buyer's regret.It's only a name though - you only think it's "almost too late" because you're thinking about the number in the name.
In terms of performance it's by far the lead processor until the next Ultra comes out...which will be 18 months later, the name is irrelevant.
That was an essential purchase for my 68k machines back in the day. And it worked well too, more or less.We are happy to introduce Ram Doubler Ai. We can’t wait to see what you’ll do with it…
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