Notices by Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo: (paul@tapbots.social)

Dude’s got a ton of let them eat cake energy. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/114428946535261829

M3 20/8 (yellowish) vs M4 12/4 (blue) on a clean build. The actual code compile times are pretty identical but that freaking single threaded Asset Catalog task kills the Ultra.

@octothorpe personally seeing plenty of places where I'd expect the M3 Ultra to win where it just doesn’t. Most the code compilation stuff I’m testing is a toss up. Really want to see the M3 Ultra win big somewhere, but it ain't happening.

Brutal
https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/11490477?baseline=11490482

I just had to give it a try…

Now we have the Pump portion of Trump’s Dump and Pump. Wonder how much he made…

TIL Seagate drives have a “power on hours/year” rating. Some of their consumer models are only rated for about 7 hours a day. What a world!

After asking the question close to a dozen times throughout the years, I can’t believe I never asked: Is Apple AI Apple’s Vista?

This is fine. 🔥

🤔
https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/113936294358713782

The 5090 launch is a total joke of a paper launch. On eBay there's two sets of listings the > $4k for probably real cards and the < $4k for photos of cards. Both are ridiculous.

You call it a “Feature" I call it a nasty surprise.

I haven't looked at Mini PCs in a while, but apparently there's a new N150 generation (apparently just an N100 with slightly higher clocks and higher TDP). The exciting change on these is an internal PSU, as a wall wart hater I highly approve. Unfortunately I haven't found a dual 2.5GbE version, which kills these for me.
https://www.bee-link.com/products/beelink-eq14-n150

If true, this might've been useful, I don't know like 6 months ago.
https://systemli.social/@anneroth/113876930684502448

I went with this storage setup on the M4 Mini. 4" TB cable to TB enclosure with a 1TB drive and some double sided tape. Got the internal storage usage down to about 140GB by disabling Messages in iCloud, TimeMachine, clearing up a bunch of unused simulators and moving Music/Photos to the external drive. Pretty good other than increasing power usage by a couple watts.

Another bit of space saving.

GarageBand: gets installed automatically, easy enough to nuke from /Applications but that still leaves 2GB of left over junk in /Library/Application Support in the GarageBand and Logic folders.

Learned about this option today, helpful on the 256GB machines.

Now how do I nuke this stuff?

And the Oscar for most unlikable character in a live action short film goes to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0BXZhdDqZM

My M4 (non pro) Mini buying guide:

Storage 256 or 512. 256GB is a pain but doable, 512GB is easy to live with but $$$$. For both get an external 1-2TB SSD for things like Music/Photos.

RAM stay at 16GB, if you need more, upgrade to the Pro.

10GbE upgrade is reasonably priced if you are likely to use that or 2.5GbE. Certainly cleaner than a T3 dongle but not needed.

Who should buy? M1/M2 Mini owners. They are still reasonable machines, but the M4 is a pretty nice bump.