So Apple updated the Mac Studio for the first time since the M2 version, but they certainly made a strange choice with the base model being an M4 Max, but the high end being an M3 Ultra. Making the lower end model actually faster than the high end model for single core operations. And the M3 Ultra is upgraded from the M3 Max with Thunderbolt 5, and GPU numbers that match the m4 max at least in core count.
It seems that Apple is going to skip the Ultra connector in some series, but then maybe they should think about skipping every other generation so they can match Max and Ultra to the same generation so the higher end chip isn’t slower in single processor operations. Nor have less possible memory or memory bandwidth.
I run video and with memory and videos sharing RAM I need as much as I can get, and $1600 for 256 GB is about all I could swing, as $4000 for 512 GB is insane. Damn Apple charges allot for RAM. And $4600 for 16 TB’s of hard drive space, OMG!
My last Mac Studio was over 7K and the next one will likely be more, just hope it lasts over 7 years!
I know that losing Google’s paid search money is basically all of Mozilla’s income, but ads and AI aren’t the answer. I would guess that anyone using Mozilla is blocking ads, and AI in a browser is just not worth paying for? I mean Mozilla’s current AI summarizes web pages, but is that a money maker? I mean really? AI costs money to run so you have to pay for it, and I just haven’t seen where AI in a web browser is going to make Mozilla enough money to survive.
And Mozilla needs to survive as there is Chrome/Chromium which you can’t trust cause it is Google, Safari, which is Apple so they will never allow Mozilla’s level of customization, and Mozilla, which makes no money.
Awesome, great news. LumaFusion is a real editor for iPad that works with a timeline like Premiere or Avid and not Final Cut. And it gets better all the time.
Still it also makes me wish that BlackMagic would just release all the DaVinci Resolve pages on the iPad app, instead of having to use keyboard shortcuts to launch them, because then the iPad would have a real editor.
Holy Cow, does this make me feel old. I has an Apple IIc with Green only monitor before I had a Macintosh (in fact I didn’t have a Mac until the Mac Classic, which I still have), but I do remember using the Mac + in School. OMG it was so amazing. It just changed everything.
And of course I still use one today (with a little use of a Microsoft surface, though I still had a Mac too).
And it is also right that they are going too far against non-notarized apps on the Mac! Even worse are permissions in so apps that you must re-up every month!
And yes I can see some shields around NFC on the phone, but yes you need to be able to bypass Apple if you want to, and just install what you want.
Apple though doesn’t want to give up its cut, so this won’t happen unless they are forced and I don’t see them being forced in the US.
They don’t see the iPhones as ours but as theirs and all the software and only regulation could help stop this.
Apple has moved Final Cut Pro to version 11 (it has been at 10 since the new version came out), and it is strangely a free upgrade (since the iPad is a subscription i figure the desktop will be moving that way too).
The new AI tools are Magnetic Mask which is a quick AI selection tool. Awesome to have a fast AI selection tool built in.
And Transcribe to Captions sounds great but it isn’t text based editing which every competitor already has.
And Spacial Video Editing is necessary, though pretty Niche and will likely remain so (though i am sure DaVinci will do it as well or better because of their camera).
It sounds great, but this doesn’t really sound like it needed the version number upgrade here, but still nice new features.
Thanks to Creative Video Tips which I was watching, they have some amazing DaVinci Videos!
After Google tried putting it’s own adds/screensaver into it’s YouTube app on Apple TV it seems something broke, because of late if I pause YouTube and leave the room when the screens, I have my screensaver set for 2 minutes, well if I have a YouTube video paused the video starts playing behind the screensaver EVERY TIME!
This is super frustrating! And maybe it is because I have the screensaver set to come up so quickly but I have a Sony OLED Bravia so I don’t want burn in!
I have previously written about the problems with Appel Photos new People and Pets and my dogs. It keeps tagging Indiana Bones photos (who is dead) to pictures of Pepper Pawtts over and over again. Super frustrating. It really needs the ability to add deceased and born tags. Or take into account keywords?
Well now I have a new problem that is seriously frustrating. I have been going through People and Pets and getting it all setup with contact info for my closets family and friends. Well as of yesterday it combined my wife and my father.
Now my wife is Kelly Lynn Pancho Walker and my dad is Kelly Deanne Walker. And I had them setu correctly and attached to their individual contacts. And they seriously look nothing alike!
And the best part is going through and telling it that my dad is not my wife doesn’t seem to transfer between devices. Over the past 7 days I have had to do the same thing on my computer, iPad and iPhone, and multiple times on some of the devices. And I keep going back and finding more photos of my dad tagged to my wife! In fact I have gone through my 10,000+ photos of my over 15 times and every time there is at least one photo of my father stuck in there, and usually more like 6-10! WTF!
And unlike old versions of photos where I could tag people myself, now you have to let Photos do it, so I have no way to retag photos of my father as himself! And he doesn’t show up as his own person. Again WTf!
Apple makes things simpler with less control for users, which is fine, at least until they don’t work! And then there is no way to fix anything! And this new feature is not ready for prime time, but knowing Apple I don’t know if it ever will be!
Honestly this is the simplest Apple Intelligence available for all compatible devices and if this is the quality, then I am scared of the quality of Apple Intelligence. This is a bug that should not happen!
Key wording photos has always been time intensive so Apple automatically tagging people is great, but not with mistakes like this.
All I can do now is wait see if my father ever reshows as a possible person, is I can tag him and have his photos show up as himself, but I doubt it will ever happen. Will 10 years from now, will photos of my father keep showing up tagged as my wife? It seems pretty likely!
