if i'm Intel right now i am scrambling
apple doesn't usually announce hardware at wwdc but they famously announced the
transition to apple silicon in 2020 and today before they've even completed
their transition they announced the next generation m2 and it might just impact
the industry like Linus impact's hard drives of course that's not even all
they announced so let's get into it shall we
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the most exciting news for the computer industry to come from wwdc
has to be m2 arriving in new macbooks
due out next month m2 puts a one and a half year cap on
m1's extraordinary debut love it or hate it m1 was is impressive
and while there are still teething pains this next-gen hardware
looks even better built on what apple calls second gen 5
nanometer technology apple is boasting a CPU with 33 larger cash for its
performance course this along with significant enhancements
to the efficiency course works out to roughly 18 more raw CPU performance than
m1 according to apple's select industry standard benchmarks
i'd recommend only looking at the m1 versus m2 performance graphs here
because well apple's efficiency and power curve
graphs are basically worthless without knowing how
they're drawing those curves because they do not look that way
there is a new media engine that apple says handles even faster prores decoding
support which is just bonkers and they're claiming that it's now
capable of handling 8k h.264 and h.265
something that i recently found lacking with the m1
in terms of GPU performance the m2 gets access to an extra two cores that along
with an updated memory controller with half again more bandwidth works out to a
35 performance improvement over m1 again
in select industry standard benchmarks
that beefed up memory controller lets the m2 soc address up to 24 gigs of
memory which sounds like they're using an odd channel arrangement like Intel
did back in the first gen core i7 900 series
in fact with a 50 yeah yeah that sounds about right it's tough to put this in
perspective because quite frankly Intel and AMD for that matter don't have
anything that we know of that can really come to blows with this
both their platforms are geared towards a more modular approach but as we've
seen even the best apus don't hold a candle to the m1 thanks in large part to
how tightly integrated it is it's tough to see a future where the
industry fails to follow apple's lead here what's more if we assume m2 will
follow the same pattern as m1 then m2 pro should get access to 48 gigs of
system memory m2 max 96 gigs and m2
ultra a massive 192 gigs of total system memory
available to both the CPU and GPU cores
pcs do still have the high end workstation and server market those
theoretical m2s aren't quite mac pro territory yet
and apple's still mum on when the new mac pro will be coming they weren't shy
about introducing new m2 hardware though interestingly none of the listings that
were put up early on b h ended up making the cut
first up is a redesigned macbook air that takes after the 14 inch macbook pro
here doing away with the wedge shape but maintaining a thinner profile than the
thickest parts of the old air and coming in a hair lighter
at 11.99 it's a little more expensive than we'd like
but the m1 air is still available for 9.99
for the extra spend you're not only getting m2 but a 500 nit liquid retina
display complete with a notch housing a 1080p facetime camera
magsafe and a new 4 speaker sound system
that somehow supports spatial audio despite firing from the rear
if you buy the more expensive model with the 10 core GPU and 512gb of storage
your choice of a handy dual port 35 watt
or a single port fast charging 65 watt power adapter that can do 50 in 30
minutes is on the house otherwise it's a
20 upgrade for either of them from the basic 30 watt
i guess they just couldn't get the costs down enough on the base model
either way it looks like you'll be getting a color matched magsafe charging
cable to go with the four available finishes so
that's kind of neat what's a little strange is that apple is also adding m2
to the 13-inch macbook pro with touch bar i guess they either still have more
of those chassis lying around that they need to get rid of or people just really
like the design i know there are some that are religious about it
either way apple claims that the pro's integrated cooling allows for the m2 to
reach its full potential a claim that we'll have to put to the test once we
get our hands on them like the new air the refreshed pro is
supposed to launch next month starting at 12.99 for acres of RAM and 256 gigs
of storage interestingly the up model version is
the same price and specs as the up model air which pushes me towards the air
being the better buy in that case but again we'll have to see
we'll have them linked below in case you want to check them out since it's just a
refresher of an existing sku there's really not a whole lot else to say about
it for now which isn't something i can say about the macOS iOS ipad os
ecosystem the newest macOS named ventura contains
some interesting new features that are mostly shared throughout the entire
lineup in fact pretty much none of it is exclusive to macOS stage manager is an
interesting window management feature that creates a second vertical dock of
open apps on the left hand side of the screen where only the open Windows in
the current app are shown you can drag Windows from one stack onto
the screen and then add it to the current stack and like Windows 11's
window groups feature their size and layouts are remembered as you switch
between them the difference here is that they're not tiling
but what's fascinating about this is that it's also coming to the ipad
allowing for the first time for an ipad
full window management including Windows over Windows resizing the whole nine
yards it goes even deeper for ipad os because
now you have full external display support
no longer are you limited to a clone of the current non-standard display
resolution but you get a fully extended desktop at the display's native
resolution that you can drag Windows into it's not quite macOS yet but this is
the kind of quality of life feature that has been sorely missing from ipad os and
something that i have been asking for for a long
long time what's going to make this even better are system-wide enhancements apple is
referring to as desktop class apps which
includes things like a systemwide undo and review system enhancements to the
files app like changing file extensions and getting folder sizes
inline find and replace and even customizable toolbars with an API that
makes all of this accessible to third-party developers in fact pretty much all of the new
features apple talked about are available to third parties including
some features that were previously apple only like the new enhanced maps views
for cities the weather app and the new collaboration feature
collaboration is what it sounds like it turns any compatible app into a live
workspace with its own message threads and real-time activity updates kind of
like a shared google docs file collaboration can be accessed directly
via the share sheet and if shared to a group it automatically pulls everyone in
alongside collaboration is a new concept called freeform which is basically a
giant whiteboard that supports multimedia as well as what apple calls a
full complement of drawing tools including apple pencil support i can see
this being used a lot by artists looking to do group art i mean it used to be a
thing back with old versions of open canvas and more recently with draw pile
and those artists with apple pencils can now be assured that they're in a color
accurate environment thanks to a new reference mode for ipad and they can
give themselves more room to work with by adjusting the ipad's display scaling
these improvements might sound like little things and it's surprising it's
taken this long but make no mistake these are huge and
turn ipad into an even more viable tool for a lot of people
and when they're done with work gaming is getting an overhaul across the
ecosystem with the metal three API now
granted i prefer that they went to something a little bit open and just picked up vulcan
but they did show off two major new components
metal effects upscaling and a fast resource loading API
both do what they sound like with metal effects upscaling performing a temporal
and spatial upscale of the rendered scene like dlss and fsr do and fast
resource loading pulling assets from the SSD directly into video memory allow
direct storage the first title to support metal 3 that
was shown off is resident evil village which is due out later this year it's
tough to make a call on how effective it is over stream but
upscaling makes a lot of sense on small displays like those on the ipad and
especially the iphone you can trade visual fidelity that you probably didn't
even notice to begin with into better performance better battery life or both
it's about time i'd be here all day if i talk about
every new feature apple brought up but there are some big ones and first in my
mind is pass keys a way of accessing websites and services
without using a password or even sending the key itself over the internet
effectively negating password phishing attacks for Linux gurus and advanced mac folks
private key authentication instead of using a password is nothing new
but what apple is doing with pass keys is making it accessible to the masses
and they're working with the fido alliance to make it an open standard
pass keys are going to be integrated directly into apps and synced via icloud
keychain on apple's platforms and they'll be backed by the secure enclave
built into apple silicon and presumably t2 enabled Intel max with touch id i
devices can use face id instead speaking of which the new lock screen
apple's clearly taking a few notes from google's material you here with the
ability to customize the lock screen with widgets and typefaces and multiple
lock screens that function almost like apple watch faces that can be tied to
specific focuses these widgets can interact with depth
information from photos to appear behind foreground objects which can then be
moved around as well part of another really cool feature that
detects objects and photos and lets you select them it'll be interesting to see how apple
handles this because cutting stuff out like that is a difficult effect to get
just right kind of like how it's tough to get your body temperature just right but the swag
kit is both a sweater and a jacket it's not too heavy not too light lt2store.com
which is also true of spatial audio where the effect really works best if
the software knows the geometry of the old melon apple didn't really go too deep into it
but iphones can now take measurements for airpods that allows them to tailor
the effect to the shape of your head which should make binaural listening
significantly more enjoyable for everyone a curious new feature you might also
enjoy is the ability to use your iphone as a webcam
at first this seems both obvious and ridiculous
yes iphones have excellent cameras but
clipping onto your display is a bizarre concept
what it gives you however is a wirelessly connected webcam that not
only has features like center stage and portrait modes but can also do
simultaneous multicam and not the way you might think
the demo they did on stage looks a little too good to be true to me
but basically you can get both the normal angle and a desk angle
simultaneously thanks to the ultra wide lens on newer iphones and some
undistorted software trickery thankfully if you don't want to bother
with that you can now hand off facetime calls between your devices which is a
more common thing to want to do than you might think
speaking of software trickery though apple's putting tesla on notice with
next-gen carplay which is basically a preview for that apple car we keep
hearing about not content with just the media console
now the iphone is going to take over your entire vehicle including the
instrument cluster which can then be themed in a way that's similar again to
apple watch faces carplay takes over every screen and
communicates directly with the vehicle that displays speed tachometer and even
maps or widgets on the dash provide climate controls and media controls on
the center and passenger displays and probably more
like oh there's just so much this event was two hours long you guys they talked
about privacy features like safety check that can help people escape abusive
situations by unsharing everything and logging out of all their devices
live sports updates and play highlights in apple news easier child account
management for parents with quick setup with new idevices being able to edit and
send messages and mail the fitness app is on iphone now too
spotlight can search live text in images with full window rich results
oh and live text from video which means
you can finally get code snippets or recipes or whatever without needing to
take a screenshot that doesn't even cover everything like here's a list of
all the other stuff that i can think of off the top of my head it's probably not
even exhaustive ultimately wwdc is for developers first
and while a lot of it felt like it was directed at consumers virtually every
major feature has an open API while i would say that the ecosystem
enhancements overall represent more of an iterative approach than a revolutionary one things like stage
director could completely change the game for productivity especially with
single display workflows and even more especially on the ipad
now m2 is a little more up in the air for me if apple's claims are accurate
then it represents a solid improvement over m1 i appreciate that almost as much as i
appreciated the snark about apple's marketing department coming up the name
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reaction to the wwdc in 2020 where apple announced m1 where we called it a slow
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