You can install your own software on a personal computer, there is a freedom of choice. Apple tells you what you can install on a Mac. archive.ph/ks4uO
Will this make Apple Silicon Macs a fully open platform?
No, Apple still controls the boot process and, for example, the firmware that runs on the Secure Enclave Processor. However, no modern device is “fully open” - no usable computer exists today with completely open software and hardware (as much as some companies want to market themselves as such). What ends up changing is where you draw the line between closed parts and open parts. The line on Apple Silicon Macs is when the alternate kernel image is booted, while SEP firmware remains closed - which is quite similar to the line on standard PCs, where the UEFI firmware boots the OS loader, while the ME/PSP firmware remains closed. In fact, mainstream x86 platforms are arguably more intrusive because the proprietary UEFI firmware is allowed to steal the main CPU from the OS at any time via SMM interrupts, which is not the case on Apple Silicon Macs. This has real performance/stability implications; it’s not just a philosophical issue.
And wouldn’t it be a lot cheaper to just build your own PC rather than pay the premium for the apple logo?
It’s not virtualization. It’s actually booted and runs on bare metal, same as the way Windows runs on a normal Windows computer: a proprietary closed UEFI firmware handles the boot process but boots an OS from the “hard drive” portion of non-volatile storage (usually an SSD on Windows machines). Whether you run Linux or Windows, that boot process starts the same.
Except the boot process on a non apple PC is open software. You can create custom a bios revision. The firmware on an apple computer is not open source. AFAIK you cannot create a custom bios on an apple computer.
Apple’s base configurations are generally cheaper than similarly specced competitors, because their CPU/GPUs are so much cheaper than similar Intel/AMD/Nvidia chips.
No idea what you mean by this. You cannot buy Apple’s hardware due the restrictions Apple places on any purchases. Any hardware you can buy from Apple has a premium.
If you’re already going to buy a laptop with a high quality HiDPI display, and are looking for high performance from your CPU/GPU, it takes a decent amount of storage/memory for a Macbook to overtake a similarly specced competitor in price.
I think you mean that Apple uses its own memory more effectively then a windows PC does. Yes it does, but memory is not that expensive to make. To increase the storage space from 256GB to 512 is £200. I can buy a 2TB drive for that. More importantly, it can be replaced when it wears out. Apple give you a replacement price that means you need a new computer.
Apple computers are designed to make repairs expensive. They may have pseudo adopted the right to repair, but let us see how that goes before believing the hype.
The typical laptop you buy from the major manufacturers (Lenovo, HP, Dell) have closed-source firmware.
FTFY: The typical laptop MOST buy from the major manufacturers (Lenovo, HP, Dell) have closed-source firmware. Though, I totally agree there are some PC suppliers with shitty practises. Where we disagree is that is if the firmware is fixed by the hardware manufacturer, then you have control over everything on the system. It is only when you have control of the base functionality of the system that you can say you are in charge. This may be too literal for you, but I just see that as a trust level you have in the manufacturer not to abuse that control.
17 inch screen (2560X1440) over the 15.3 inch (2880X1864)
16gb memory - 8GB upgrade to 16gb=+£200
1TB SSD over 256GB (upgrade to 1Tb=+£400)
8 full core/16t CPU (AMD5900hx) over an 8 core non hyperx cpu, 4 cores are cheaper variants.
All of the PC components can be upgraded at the cost of the part + labour. Everything on the Apple will cost the same price as a new computer to replace. Mainly because it is all soldered onto the board to make it harder to replace.
I can’t help but notice you’ve chosen a laptop with a worse screen (larger panel with lower resolution).
I would choose a larger screen over that marginal difference in dpi every day of the week. People game on TV screens all the time with lower resolution because it is better.
The CPU benchmarks on that laptop’s CPU are also slightly behind the 15" Macbook Air, too, even held back by not having fans for managing thermals.
You cannot compare an app that runs on two different OS. That is just plain silly. Cinebench only tests one feature of a system. That is the CPU to render a graphic. Apple is built around displaying graphics. A PC is a lot more versatile. There is more to a system than one component. Let’s see you run some raytracing benchmarks on that system.
Well, that’s becoming less common. Lots of motherboards are now relying on soldered RAM
I wouldn’t buy one. You will always find some idiotic willing victim. In the future though ram is moving to the CPU as a package, but that will be done for speed gains. Until then only a bloody fool would buy into this.
An apple system has one major benefit over a PC system - battery life. Other than that I would not recommend one, even then I would give stern warnings over repair costs.
you’re not addressing my point that the price for the hardware isn’t actually bad,
I disagree. It is not only that the hardware is cheaper and a lower spec with the exception of the CPU, the design is geared around making upgrades and repairs near impossible or unfeasible. Software has much more support on a Windows OS. Video editing has been bread and butter for many years now, but Windows has caught up due to improvements in hardware and software. In my mind this negates the case for buying a Mac currently, but I can easily see it was a good buy in the past.
The outlier is Macs are good in battery life. Therefore there is a niche market that is an exceptionally good return on your investment.
Why not? Half of the software I use is available on both Linux and MacOS, and frankly a substantial amount of what most people do is in browser anyway. If the software runs better on one device over another, that’s a real world difference that can be measured. If you’d prefer to use Passmark or whatever other benchmark you’d like you use, you’ll still see be able to compare specific CPUs.
Because you cannot use Cinebench unless you are comparing the same system setup. Comparing two OSs is just stupid and cherry picking. Apple has a very trimmed down OS compared to the complexity of Windows. Apple OS dumps the need for legacy code with a closed system designed for specific hardware. Windows still caters for code written for DX CPUs under x86 architecture. This as well as the many other reasons why not. I noticed you ignored my offer of comparing back to back raytracing result, and now fail to even mention it.
You are obviously enamoured by the Apple model, I am not. There really is nothing that you could say that would convince me otherwise. I will wish you good day, and hope you agree to disagree.
I am out of the loop on this one. I am probably wrong, but…Wasn’t the bill nullified by the fact apple has the sole right to supply the replacement parts? Or does the bill work as intended where replacement parts can be sourced elsewhere as well as documentation being made available?
My point was that it may have been made useless. I seem to remember Louis Rossman complaining about it, but I have no idea over which issue. There is no point in having a right to repair act if it can still be abused in some way shape or form by large manufacturers.
I think the problem with this one was that manufacturers can hold all the cards on the cost of buying replacement parts. This would open up the issue of people being gouged. I was hoping that someone could give me more accurate information on the issue.
I read this wondering if there would be something strange, or an overreaction. There’s nothing like that at all. It’s basically just a law that forces tech companies to respect people and their right to privacy. Most of it is common sense stuff that you think they should do without having to be told....
Life is too short to upset someone this much. We obviously have a difference in where we see humour. You get yourself a beer my friend, while I delete the posts.
Works as well as ublock origin, which I use on my PC.
Don’t get me wrong I would never advice anyone to use a Macbook over a PC. There are some people who are embedded in their ecosystem, but generally they are expensive to buy and expensive to repair machines. But not having a decent adblock is not one of the reasons I would use.
This is quickly going to be come Russia’s Epstein moment imo. Prigozhin has faked his death a few times now. He had a wardrobe full of disguise gear in his St Petersburg house. He could quite easily just vanish into Brazil.
I have all my hardware set up, including a new chair. MineCraft and baulders gate 3, terraria, and some freebies are my only games so far. I have a massive console and physical game collection that I love, so I’m really just looking for things that are definitively better on pc, only on pc, or software that I may not know...
As someone who is British, not the drunken type. You couldn’t pay me enough to go to Benidorm. I cannot see how you can have your cake and eat it. The areas like Benidorm are actively selling this environment because they know it attracts certain types of idiots who will pay for it.
Air BnB is a plague that should be only done under license imo. I have a lot of sympathy for those who live near them. In the UK if someone is causing grief because of business being ran in populated area, then there are options to have that business removed. I would hope Spain has the same functions.
Air Bnb is causing issues in a lot of rural areas in the UK. Wales is looking seriously at the option of charging tourism taxes. This will have a big impact on those who have bought houses just to lease them as Air BnB. I personally think that any valid police call outs should be charged to the owners of Air BnB. I do not see why the community should pay the costs of policing when someone is reaping the benefits.
It seems the clown show has become more important than the information people glean from watching his channel. This will be a reputation issue that will take a long time to remove.
This would cause such a shit storm that the Tories would never been seen as a credible option again. ECHR is embedded into the Good Friday Agreement. This would throw the whole process up in the air. That would antagonise not only the EU but the US also. They have been threatening this since Johnson. I could easily believe they are crazy enough to go through with it right at the end of their term. Labour would put us straight back in again.
Inews has done an article on just this. It looks like they want to finish off the job of smashing the country to pieces before they are kicked out.
I am not affiliated in any way shape or form to the channel linked. However, I also find the similarities of Trump and Johnson very stark in the way they behaved around inciting populism....
Johnson did not need a riot, they actually have control of most offices and are manipulating the environment. Something Trump could not do so easily in the US.
Right to protest laws are non- existent in the UK now. There were attempts to take over the judicial system. They actually taking the electoral commission under government control. they have been using public money for campaigns in by-elections. They stopped any investigation into Russian interference. It is known the Tories take donations from Russian sources. The audit office declared government fraud at £55b last year, our PM refuses to investigate. We have a PM that has just gave licenses to oil companies, who in turn gave £1b to his family’s company infosys. International law being ignored to fuel yet more populism.
That complacency has been very prevalent in the UK for years now. I have been pointing out for years of the comparisons between our government and how the NAZI’s took control in the 1930’s. It is only now that people are taking that claim seriously, sadly.
This reaches further than the UK has implemented over the last five years. The Tories have done most of this under other guises. To give a single person this level of power is the most dangerous thing a country can do. It is currently abused on a huge scale in the UK. We have the most dishonest government ever in our history imo. They abuse the offices they are in control of. Trump is looking to gain the same level of powers.
Giving government control of the media is callously stupid. There is no truth in UK media anymore. They only report on things that keep the government in a good light. The problem of Brexit is that no one will admit to the truth about it. This would mean the government is brought under the spotlight for its failings, and rather than stand up to the issue, everything is just never spoken of. It has taken seven years just to get the problem of Brexit mentioned. And still no one wants to resolve it, that is either in government or opposition. The main opponents of the issues around Brexit are from the minor parties.
The government took over our Electoral commission. We have have a government department that is only ever used for political gain. They will investigate other parties, but are not allowed to look into things concerned with the people in power now. There was an order not to look into Russian intervention with the Brexit referendum itself. Public funds are abused for political campaigns. Standards are just held up anymore.
Governments need accountability. Without it they run amok in an effort to hold onto their own positions. This leads to rabbit holes that are difficult to get out of. Corruption runs out of control. Lobbyist find it very easy to buy out legislation which is never good for the population at large.
All of this comes under the light of the infamous page 48 of the 2019 tory manifesto. Please learn from the mistakes that have happened in the UK and never allow a government to push this sort of agenda.
The world has become complacent about democracy for the people. By the time you realise he is not just a clown it will be too late and it will take you another four years to remove him. People are willing to back him with large amounts of cash just so they can get a leverage with legislation that will make them even more money. Don’t be conned by the persona, follow the money tree, then think if you should be worried.
There are no rules displayed on the side bar for me. There is a short synopsis of what the sub is about and some stats under that. Using edge as a browser.
I really do not understand why people are kicking up a fuss here. This is what Blizzard does to every game since merging into Activision. Activision’s idea of a good game is to make you spend more and more time in the game. They reduce spawn rates, they nerf players and they make drops be exactly what you do not need or...
He shouldn’t be allowed to use his NATO membership as a lever to coerce other member states into doing things they are not comfortable with. If Erdogan wants to carry on this track then NATO should be re-evaluating if they want Turkey as a member.
Russia is also not the Threat it was. It still has vast nuclear weaponry. You could argue that having a nuclear threat based in the black sea could prove useful, but would you really want your best technological advantage in such a precarious position. It would take very little to blockade and trap a sub in the black sea. We also have a credible land link to the black sea now.
So yes, this would be true back in the 50’s when Turkey was invited. It is not so much the case now. Military transport is vastly more refined. Even the political landscape around Russia has turned on its head. Turkey’s significance is diminished many fold because of this.
I have learned to be very much anti Blizzard/Activision. I find some of their practises for nickel and diming customers abhorrent. In saying that though, I have some very long standing friends from my WoW days.
I used to love D2. I played it for years. D3 was ok until they brought in the resistance crap, then I never played it again. I played D4 on the free weekend and was not impressed. I have some mates that are playing it daily though, so there must be something there.
I am about 100 hours into Grim dawn instead of D4. I have to say I am loving it. I am also reading comments in the steam discussions of people saying they have dropped D4 to come back to GD.
This is a comment on one reviewer (Darthstrukt)
Long time Diablo OG since the original. Currently have 2 x 100 characters on D4 and have been waiting for season 1 to start. I bought this game to kill time while waiting for season 1 to D4 and I am shocked that I’m actually enjoying this much better than D3 & D4! I am barely finishing Act I and only have 8 hours of game play so far but if this game continues to impress then this might surpass D2! Well done!
UPDATE: 50+ hours within 5 days of ownership and I’m addicted. I just completed Veteran campaign + AoM DLC (took my time to explore). I am barely getting started with FG DLC but the Crucible and SR have been refreshing. I am running a guide for Warder from RektbyProtoss and it has been a fun experience.
This game is a MASTER PIECE! If you’ve been on the fence look no further and just buy it, it’ll be the most fun ARPG you’ve ever played. Good job Devs!
If you want an explanation of GD, add a comment and I will organise a tempt discord channel. I still consider myself very much a mediocre player. The game is very complex. I have also just made a spread sheet to make constellation easier to path. I cannot believe no one has done this already.
I must admit the £70 price tag stopped me dead. I still have mates who invest a lot of time in Blizzard software. Which makes me return for short spells. I played DF WoW exp for about 4 months and left with 9 months of gametime. I never learn.
Ban it on government devices if there is a perceived security issue. Otherwise, governments should not get to decide who has the best content. By all means educate people on the pitfalls of a platform, but allowing politics to choose our media is a slippery slope.
I can't seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I'm very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality....
No politics is very subjective. Look at the news from Russia in the last few days. That was highly political, and yet very much news everyone had an interest in. Trump's ongoing indictment is another political game being played, and yet most want to know about it. It is a difficult one to navigate. Me personally I would say politics that has an effect on the people of a nation is news. Inter-party shenanigans is not news for anyone but those who take an avid interest.
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 (www.notebookcheck.net)
Apple will honor California's 'right to repair' rules nationwide (www.engadget.com)
Biden administration reverses its sabotage on right to repair?? (www.youtube.com)
I am not from the US, so I would appreciate any extra links on this one....
Weekend PC Game Deals: Platformers to bundle, RTS to keep, and more (www.neowin.net)
Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on (apnews.com)
I read this wondering if there would be something strange, or an overreaction. There’s nothing like that at all. It’s basically just a law that forces tech companies to respect people and their right to privacy. Most of it is common sense stuff that you think they should do without having to be told....
Recommendations of non-Apple products with similar longevity? (kbin.social)
EDIT: Getting a ton of great responses thanks everyone
Wagner boss Prigozhin killed in plane crash in Russia (www.bbc.co.uk)
Russia may annex Georgian breakaway regions -Medvedev (www.reuters.com)
Archive: archive.ph/lWCG9
Just got my first entry level gaming pc! i have about 30 bucks to spend, what should i get for it?
I have all my hardware set up, including a new chair. MineCraft and baulders gate 3, terraria, and some freebies are my only games so far. I have a massive console and physical game collection that I love, so I’m really just looking for things that are definitively better on pc, only on pc, or software that I may not know...
A Summer Rite in Spain: Coping With the British Tourist Invasion (www.nytimes.com)
NYT gift article expires in 30 days....
Weekend PC Game Deals: Triple bundles, double freebies, Forza to try, and more (www.neowin.net)
The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility (www.youtube.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/3337820...
UK could leave European convention on human rights to stop Channel migrant boats (www.theguardian.com)
Archived version: archive.ph/opd7m...
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Michelle Mone & the £65,201,111 PPE Scam (UK) (www.youtube.com)
She is still spending this money today.
Trump Charges Should be a Warning to the USA and the UK (www.youtube.com)
I am not affiliated in any way shape or form to the channel linked. However, I also find the similarities of Trump and Johnson very stark in the way they behaved around inciting populism....
Trump and Allies Forge Plans to Increase Presidential Power in 2025 (www.nytimes.com)
President Biden to establish a monument honoring Emmett Till, a black teen lynched in Mississippi in 1955. (www.independent.co.uk)
A White House official says President Joe Biden will establish a national monument honoring Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley.
Weekend PC Game Deals: Total War specials, cozy bundles, and Elder Scrolls to claim (www.neowin.net)
Diablo 4's pre-season 1 patch is here and no one is happy about it (www.pcgamer.com)
I really do not understand why people are kicking up a fuss here. This is what Blizzard does to every game since merging into Activision. Activision’s idea of a good game is to make you spend more and more time in the game. They reduce spawn rates, they nerf players and they make drops be exactly what you do not need or...
Erdogan Says E.U. Must ‘Clear the Way’ for Turkey Before It Will Support Sweden’s NATO Bid (web.archive.org)
[D4]Should I get Diablo IV?
So I was wondering if I should buy D4....
French senators want a wider TikTok ban (www.politico.eu)
Moderation / Rules of "news" community?
I can't seem to find anything in a sidebar or sticky thread that talks about the moderation / rules of the news community. I'm very interested in coming to this community to learn about news, but right now it seems whats being posted tends to be relatively low (lower?) quality....
Weekend PC game deals on Neowin. (www.neowin.net)
This was always a feature of /r/pcgames. Thought it would be good to start it here now the other place is dead to me.
MEGATHREAD: whatever the hell is going on in Russia right now
please post any subsequent updates here unless they're huge happenings. i just woke up and half our news front page is updates which is nice but also A Lot and most of these don't have to be their own thread
As Reddit Crushes Protests, Its User Traffic Returns to Normal (www.pcmag.com)