WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.320 Mesh shaders, ray tracing, and space black finish? 00:00:02.840 --> 00:00:05.720 No, believe it or not, you didn't just travel back to 2019. 00:00:06.300 --> 00:00:12.620 You watched Apple's scary fast event announcing, among other things, their latest M3 chip lineup. 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.600 But, while some of what they talked about felt a little... 00:00:16.500 --> 00:00:19.680 yesterday's news, but magical this time, typical Apple, 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:24.280 the rest of it was full of some pretty big dunks on the rest of the computer industry, 00:00:24.420 --> 00:00:27.860 which is also becoming kinda typical Apple. 00:00:27.860 --> 00:00:32.840 I mean, here, think about all the variety in the world of PC laptops. 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.500 Apple's, by contrast, are downright boring. 00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:38.960 They don't even have touchscreens, for crying out loud. 00:00:39.340 --> 00:00:43.560 And yet, they deliver time and again on what matters, 00:00:43.760 --> 00:00:47.960 so effectively that I can't even blame folks for flocking to them. 00:00:48.480 --> 00:00:55.320 Say it with me, PC industry, nothing else matters until you get these things right. 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:57.560 Power efficiency, performance, 00:00:57.860 --> 00:00:59.460 and portability. 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:04.420 Come to think of it, now that they've got a new process node, the number three is everywhere here. 00:01:04.700 --> 00:01:09.700 Three nanometer on the M3 chip with three main M3 SKUs. 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:16.660 The announcement video is 30 minutes 31 seconds long, held on October the 30th in 2023. 00:01:16.920 --> 00:01:21.380 What is next? 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Hetzner has recently launched their new high-performance cloud servers that now have dedicated 00:01:27.040 --> 00:01:30.860 vCPUs, which provide a fantastic price-to-performance ratio. 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:35.600 Check them out at the link below and use code LTT23 for 20 euros off. 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:44.480 Apple's main focus today was showing off, once again, the most powerful laptops we've ever created, which is kind of a no-doy moment. 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.480 I mean, why would you make a new one that isn't better? 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:53.360 But after all those years of Intel missing their tick-tock development cycle and rehashing the same 14 nanometer chips, 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:56.840 it kind of makes sense that Apple feels the need to rub some salt in their teeth. 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.480 Or rub some salt in their exes' wounds and clarify that, yes, generational improvements are actually a thing. 00:02:02.880 --> 00:02:04.360 Let's start with the GPU. 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:12.060 They're claiming that their new three nanometer hotness is the biggest leap forward in graphics architecture ever for Apple Silicon. 00:02:12.600 --> 00:02:15.360 And considering what they had before, they're probably right. 00:02:16.020 --> 00:02:21.360 Hardware-accelerated ray tracing and mesh shaders, while nothing new to PC gamers, are 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:27.000 certainly going to be a key part of their path toward making games look incredible on the Mac. 00:02:27.320 --> 00:02:33.640 Alan Wake 2, for example, just came out to rave reviews over their implementations of these key technologies. 00:02:33.780 --> 00:02:40.000 But while the game looks amazing, older 10 series NVIDIA cards struggle with it due to Alan Wake 2's 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:45.120 requirement for mesh shaders having dropped support for vertex shaders altogether. 00:02:45.440 --> 00:02:51.040 So, while Apple's announcements might not sound impressive if you've been hearing these words for almost half a decade, 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:56.520 in typical Apple fashion, they're showing up to the party just in time for their implementation to 00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:58.360 actually be useful. 00:02:58.360 --> 00:02:59.860 Kind of smart, really. 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:03.960 But they've also got some outright new stuff, like dynamic caching. 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:10.500 In a nutshell, mSilicon Macs use unified memory that is shared between the CPU and the GPU, and 00:03:11.040 --> 00:03:16.020 normally, some portion of that memory would be reserved for the GPU by looking at the 00:03:16.660 --> 00:03:23.460 maximum amount it could possibly need for the most intense parts of a game or a video editing workload, and then 00:03:23.580 --> 00:03:25.580 holding that all the time. 00:03:25.580 --> 00:03:26.480 But now, 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:29.840 M3 can dynamically determine exactly 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:31.000 UND EXACTLY 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:36.240 how much memory it actually needs in any given moment and allocate that to the GPU. 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:38.440 It's on all three of the new chips, 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:41.140 there's that number again, and it supposedly 00:03:41.780 --> 00:03:44.660 dramatically increases the average utilization of the GPU. 00:03:45.100 --> 00:03:47.420 We're gonna have to wait and test it for ourselves, of course, 00:03:47.420 --> 00:03:51.920 but if it's done well, this is a major benefit of a tightly integrated system. 00:03:52.180 --> 00:03:56.320 Though you'll be paying a major premium for it, especially if you shell out 00:03:56.480 --> 00:04:01.600 for the 40-core GPU version of the M3 Macs rather than the 30-core base one. 00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:06.260 Cutting-edge costs though, and if they're vague and nebulous slides are to be believed, 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:13.940 M3's performance per watt is about to put even more pressure on the likes of Intel, who recently resorted to rehashing old CPUs 00:04:14.220 --> 00:04:17.520 again with their 14th gen desktop processors. 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:20.360 14 is really not Intel's number, hey? 00:04:20.940 --> 00:04:26.040 Speaking of Intel and CPUs, this whole event had major jilted ex-lover vibes. 00:04:26.040 --> 00:04:29.280 Am I right? Like, how many times did they mention Team Blue? 00:04:29.500 --> 00:04:35.700 Intel, Intel, Intel, Intel, but be that as it may, the CPUs on these new chips look very, uh, 00:04:36.220 --> 00:04:39.480 so long, see you later, don't need you, impressive. 00:04:39.860 --> 00:04:46.800 First, not only are the P-cores and the E-cores 30 and 50% faster than the M1 respectively, 00:04:46.900 --> 00:04:49.720 but they've improved the branch prediction on both and 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.440 strategically juiced up core counts, so the regular M3 in the now entry-level 00:04:55.440 --> 00:05:02.360 14-inch MacBook, buh-bye 13-inch model, is an 8-core CPU with a 10-core GPU and support for up to 00:05:02.680 --> 00:05:08.120 24 gigs of unified memory. The M3 Pro sports 12 CPU cores, 00:05:08.580 --> 00:05:12.620 18 cores for graphics, and up to 36 gigs of unified memory. 00:05:12.620 --> 00:05:18.080 That is a pretty good amount of memory for a laptop, and it's not even close to the Max, 00:05:18.400 --> 00:05:25.000 the M3 Max that is, that offers up to a whopping 16 CPU cores, up to 40 GPU cores, 00:05:25.440 --> 00:05:32.560 and up to 128 gigabytes of unified memory, a feature that previously was only seen on desktop Macs. 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:40.760 The only thing I don't like about all of this is Apple's de-emphasis on what kind of CPU cores we're looking at. 00:05:41.120 --> 00:05:47.640 See, this generation, it's not a problem yet, because only the Max SKU deviated from their previous 00:05:48.020 --> 00:05:54.240 one-to-one ratio of performance to efficiency cores, and it did so in a positive way, with a three 00:05:54.240 --> 00:05:55.240 three-to-one ratio of performance to efficiency cores, and it did so in a positive way, with a three 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:55.440 three-to-one ratio of performance to efficiency cores, and it did so in a positive way, with a three 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:56.560 three-to-one split. 00:05:56.560 --> 00:06:04.220 But, I also kind of feel like we're being primed to not think about what kind of cores we're getting, so that maybe they could go 00:06:04.380 --> 00:06:06.380 the other way in the future. 00:06:06.520 --> 00:06:12.760 But that's for future Linus to complain about. For now, the M3 lineup has more going for it than just a new chip. 00:06:12.980 --> 00:06:18.200 Apple continues to lead the way on laptop displays, with their Liquid Retina XDR display peaking at up to 00:06:19.380 --> 00:06:24.700 sixteen hundred nits in HDR, and six hundred nits in SDR, all while running at 00:06:24.700 --> 00:06:32.040 120 hertz. That is astonishing for a machine that runs on battery. And speaking of, they couldn't 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:37.480 resist taking some shots at Intel over their crummy battery life, boasting that an M3 machine 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:44.980 will give Intel Mac owners up to an additional 11 hours of battery life alongside the up to 11x 00:06:44.980 --> 00:06:50.700 performance uplift. An uplift that is consistent whether you're plugged into the wall or running 00:06:50.700 --> 00:06:56.280 on the aforementioned battery. That's really cool because now if you feel the need to step outside 00:06:56.280 --> 00:07:01.720 for some fresh air or just to change the scenery, you don't have to worry about a worse digital 00:07:01.720 --> 00:07:07.660 experience because of it. Just unplug, pop your M3 MacBook into an LTT backpack, which has lots 00:07:07.660 --> 00:07:12.120 of space for even the 16-inch in there, and an air tag in the hidden pocket, and walk away. 00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:18.000 LTTstore.com. But hey, maybe you like having a stationary computer. Where's the love for you? 00:07:18.740 --> 00:07:20.520 Well, the good news is the new iMovie. 00:07:20.700 --> 00:07:26.980 iMac, which comes with a 4.5K display now, is getting the regular M3 chip. The bad news is 00:07:26.980 --> 00:07:32.480 that's all the love you get. Apple, where the heck are the Pro and Max models, guys? 00:07:34.360 --> 00:07:40.700 Oh wait, I get it. They probably could have done that, but launching three dyes across three 00:07:40.700 --> 00:07:47.240 chassis, that seems like it was the right number today. But more will almost certainly follow if 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:51.820 Apple's to keep hold of their efficiency crown. The just-announced Snapdragon X, 00:07:51.920 --> 00:07:57.440 Elite looks poised to make the competition a lot more interesting, and Microsoft's decade-plus 00:07:57.440 --> 00:08:03.240 long slog to make Windows on ARM a reality feels like it's finally on the cusp of bearing fruit. 00:08:03.960 --> 00:08:12.560 Of course, most of the comparisons I saw Qualcomm making were to M2, and you can't actually buy any 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.520 of that stuff today. So if you're looking for something to compete with a MacBook, 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:21.130 you'll have to check the links below where we'll have, um, MacBooks. 00:08:21.950 --> 00:08:30.310 Don't expect them to be cheap. 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