cybershot
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No hopefully about it, you can. 10% off. Either via Unidays or I 'think' they will accept your Uni ID badge in the actual store. Take other ID too.
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No hopefully about it, you can. 10% off. Either via Unidays or I 'think' they will accept your Uni ID badge in the actual store. Take other ID too.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
also theEDUstore - Exclusive savings on Apple products for University students and staff if you have an academic email address.
elbows
Well-Known Member
Yes, and I dont think there is anything inherent to Apples chip designs that would enable more significant generational leaps in overall performance. The biggest gains were at the start, in comparison to other inefficient designs by other companies, especially when viewed via the power/efficiency/heat angle.
To get a more notable leap between generations than seen this time, a move to a smaller nm fabrication process would be required. And such a move for the M chips was delayed this time for practical manufacturing reasons, so the performance increases werent as large as some fo the hype sites originally anticipated months ago. The other way to really leap in performance is via significant increase in number of CPU and GPU cores, but the practicalities of such a move are related to all the power/heat/nm process stuff I already mentioned.
Within those confines its still possible to see larger leaps in highly specific tasks, if such tasks are heavily reliant on stuff they have tweaked such as memory bandwidth, cache sizes, or notable improvements to some of the other parts of their chips like the media encoders and neural engine.
The GPU is where my own interests in greater performance lurk, and so for me yesterdays announcements were less about hardware improvements and more about the resolution upscaling stuff they've added to Metal in version 3. And this is basically Apple playing catchup with what Nvidia and AMD have managed with such upscaling tech in recent years, stuff that has helped better balance framerate with resolution and visual quality. Its a good thing they came up/copied each other with this technique because even with improved GPU performance over time, it was hard to scale GPU performance up to the levels necessary to cope with the sort of resolutions people are using these days. And I remain disgusted by the amount of watts that top end GPUs on Windows and Linux are using these days.
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nick
Pleomorphic Adenomas R us
So here is a removal of the "think"
I just ordered an iPad Air
Entered son's school email address and went to the edu store:
Ipad went from 719 to 675 (6% off)
Pencil went from 119 to 106 (11% off)
cover was unchanged at £79
Didn't actually have to "use" his email address - except to get Unidays to send it a validation email (not even sure if he clicked on it)
I imagine (remember?) that there are different levels of discount dependent on whether you are school, Uni, student. teacher or whatever) - but the above was good enough for me - since I was going to buy them anyway, so didn't do much research
FWIW this was to replace an Air 2, which has a pretty dead battery and now runs too slowly to be fun. I got in Dec 14. IMHO a 7.5 year lifespan is pretty good for tech
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
For anyone who has upgraded to Ventura, Safari finally supports push notifications so you can turn on desktop notifications for Urban75 etc.
See https://www.urban75.net/forums/account/preferences for the setting to Enable Push Notifications
See https://www.urban75.net/forums/account/preferences for the setting to Enable Push Notifications
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redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Not sure I'm keen on that, too many notifications already - but thanks for the heads up LL.
What's your (or anyone else?) impression of Ventura aside from that?
2hats
Dust.
Broke my golden rule (never adopt until at least a minor .2/.3 release) - running 13.0 on Apple M2 hardware (fresh install, not an upgrade from any previous version) - it seems pretty stable; for a dot-zero release not too bad. Quirky, but then Apple always rearranges the furniture between major releases and one has to figure out how to put (most of it) back. Seems to largely work, though a few niggling bugs - some irritating issues with external displays but usable (others have reported them not working at all), screen locking configuration appears buggy, had to hoop jump to migrate calendars/contacts (but that's more down to my unique workflows and wanting to perform a clean install as oppose to an upgrade‡). Not encountered any obvious userspace software issues but then 90-something percent of what I use is open source so native compiled; the little third party commercial software I am using all runs fine. Hopefully it will be pretty much polished by 13.2 (after they fix the things they break in 13.1 whilst trying to fix 13.0).
‡ Always best, IMHO, to install afresh rather than upgrade. Leaves less surprise turds in the filesystem to trip up on (unlikely to have been identified by the vendor plus provides a known clean baseline for bug reporting) and presents the opportunity to spring clean and bin/archive a lot of historic cruft.
‡ Always best, IMHO, to install afresh rather than upgrade. Leaves less surprise turds in the filesystem to trip up on (unlikely to have been identified by the vendor plus provides a known clean baseline for bug reporting) and presents the opportunity to spring clean and bin/archive a lot of historic cruft.
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ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
What is a 'push notification'. The word 'notification' sounds like it might be annoying, and 'push' makes it sound even worse.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I think it means you get pinged each time anyone posts nonsense on urban75 even if you're looking at some other bit of the internet at the time.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
Monterey has been sketchy with external displays all the way through ... With things getting half fixed at certain intermediate releases and then getting half broken again at the next one.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
As teuchter says, it uses the built-in MacOS notification system - which pops up bubbles on the right of the screen by default when a programme wants to tell you about something- this can do it when you get a reply, a mention, a new conversation message, a post to a thread you’re subscribed to etc. lots of options in the settings on the boards so each user can select.
Previously you might have it set to send you an email for example, this is more immediate and appears on your screen.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
I quite like Ventura - installed it on an M1 Mini - my work MacBook Pro won’t allow me to install it and my 2016 MacBook won’t support it.
Stage Manager works well, though I’ve not played enough with it to see if there’s anything but “this app is on this screen, other apps are icons at the side” to it.
Apart from that, the settings panel is different but nothing earth-shatteringly exciting.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Oh goodness no, I don't want that. . . in fact that sounds like all of those annoying messages I get on my phone and watch about you tube videos, facebook shit and tweets etc I couldn't give a shit about. How do I get rid of them?
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
Turn off notification in settings on phone or watch. If it’s Apple gear, all notifications can be disabled controlled in Settings > Notifications
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Thank you. It's not apple, just android phone. Sometimes they just start happening even though I have had the apps for ages. Facebook has been on my phone for at least a year, but only recently it constantly wants to tell me about friend requests . . . (but not every one, it seems slightly random). You tube too, it came with my phone. In the last few months I get endless notifications for things it thinks I might like to watch.
Olio is new on my phone, but only seems to inform me of new items after they are gone. . . on top of all these alerts, my phone seems to have a delay and filter as to what it decides to tell my Garmin. I wish there was some solid logic to it. Or maybe just a setting I chose to switch on, rather than settings I have to find and switch off.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
It's possible that the app updated, so old settings were over riddled. I get it's fustrating but it's only a couple of clicks to turn them all off.
redsquirrel
This Machine Kills Progressives
Updated to Ventura on my MacBook Pro, mostly for the schedule send feature on Mail which is something that I've been wanting for years. Apart from that I've not really noticed many changes.
Except that the battery seems to get hotter? Anyone else noticed similar? I'm not sure if it is part of the 'optimising performance' process, just mi imagination or what?
Except that the battery seems to get hotter? Anyone else noticed similar? I'm not sure if it is part of the 'optimising performance' process, just mi imagination or what?
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
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danski
"vibey"
Wrong thread?Hitting another flag ship seems quite a big deal.
The Russian Black Sea Fleet May Have Lost Another Flagship
The Black Sea Fleet isn’t safe in the western Black Sea. It isn’t safe in Sevastopol. The only place it might be safe is the only place where it’s totally irrelevant to the wider war: in ports in Russia proper.www.forbes.com
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
elbows
Well-Known Member
It didnt used to be unusual for the built in search feature to reindex everything after an OS upgrade, leading to a period of higher CPU etc use in the hours after installation. Whether that is still the case I cannot say but it should settle down reasonably quickly.
I updated to Ventura on my 2019 iMac. What a faff ! Something was interrupting the process (Backblaze? Dropbox?) and after 3 days of frustration, I eventually had to restart in 'safe' mode to install it successfully.
But everything is running smoothly, and both Music and Safari seem more reliable and slightly faster than before, if I'm not mistaken.
But everything is running smoothly, and both Music and Safari seem more reliable and slightly faster than before, if I'm not mistaken.
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