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    Safari always using significant energy. How to fix this?

    I have a brand new MacBook Pro 16 inch with M1 Pro chip and 32 GB of RAM. Whenever I work on safari my battery stats always show that it is using significant energy even if only a single tab is open. Is it normal or something I should be worried about?
    • DonarRaja
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    • apple silicon m1 pro macbook pro macos safari
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  2. Kaptajn Haddock

    My M1 Mac mini beats my Macbook Pro M1 pro, wtf?!

    I just ran a Speedometer test (https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.0/) on my M1 Mac mini 16/512 vs my Macbook Pro M1 pro 14" 16/512, both freshly rebooted with no other apps running than Safari, and the mini (score 355) constantly beats the M1 pro (score 345). Wtf? Isn't the M1 pro supposed to...
  3. mattyjoe

    M2 MacBook Air throttling is being vastly over-exaggerated

    From the evidence I've seen, I believe firmly that people are vastly overhyping the effects of the throttling in the M2 MacBook Air. The YouTube review I've seen so far with the most thorough benchmarks is Dave2D's, and he went so far as to say that "if you're someone that wants a very powerful...
    • mattyjoe
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    • apple silicon benchmark benchmarks cinebench m2 macbook air m2 macbook pro mac macbook air performance throttling
    • Replies: 304
    • Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
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    M2 Pro/Max Macbook Memory pricing

    Here's a pricing experiment: Since we now know the M2 chip is able to be loaded with up to 24gb of unified, with options of 8gb and 16gb, it stands to reason that the future M2 Pro/Max Macbooks will have up to 48gb and 96gb of unified memory respectively. Assuming M2 Pro MacBooks will have...
    • albozr
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    • apple silicon m2 max m2 pro m2 pro max macbook pro 14 inch macbook pro 14" macbook pro 16 inch macbook pro 16" ram unified memory
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
  5. tubuliferous

    To those who think the MacBook Air M2 isn't a good value...

    Out of genuine curiosity I looked at a Dell ultrabook to see how new PC offerings compare to the MacBook Air M2. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/latitude-9330-laptop-or-2-in-1/spd/latitude-13-9330-laptop/ The current-generation Dell Latitude 9330 seems like a...
    • tubuliferous
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    • apple silicon apple silicon m2 comparison macbook air value for money
    • Replies: 88
    • Forum: MacBook Air
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    New Macbook?

    Hi everyone! I posted a bit ago about my current 2015 Early 2015 Macbook Pro (2.9 GHz Dual-Core Intel Core i5 w/ 8GB RAM & 512GB SSD). Thanks so much for all of the help and support - I upgraded the battery and while the device is running much better, I'm financially in a position where I'd like...
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    LG34WK95U suddenly in LowDPI again (M1 Max)

    Hi LG34WK95U owners, we all been through hard times with this nice display on Apple devices - especially on Apple Silicone. On My M1 Max MacBook Pro things went quite well so far. I'm connecting the display through a Sonnetech TB4 Hub which always worked great. Got some LowRes after Sleep a...
  8. jumpcutking

    MB Pro 13 m2 - touch bar is still here!

    I was very impressed that the Touch Bar survived into the next generation. Actually very glad. I’ve gotten to love it since it disappeared in the pro 14/16 models. What are your thoughts?
  9. WilliApple

    Why the M2 MacBook Air won't come at WWDC

    Alright. It did end up coming at WWDC. I was wrong :( I have been trying to avoid leaks and rumors a lot, but I keep accidentally seeing more than ever M2 MacBook Air at WWDC!!! Reason 1: Not out of stock Now one of the first reasons people said were, the M1 MacBook Air is out of stock. I...
    • WilliApple
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    • apple silicon apple silicon for mac apple silicon m1 apple silicon transition m2 chip m2 macbook air mac pro mac pro apple silicon wwdc wwdc22
    • Replies: 129
    • Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
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    I wish to be like Johny Srouji.

    I'm a computer engineering student and Apple Silicon is the very thing that inspired me to change my major from computer science to engineering. I heard about how Johny Srouji is in charge of the development of Apple Silicon and how he got really good grades all throughout primary, secondary...
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    Apple Silicon MS Teams (Beta)

    https://9to5mac.com/2022/04/25/microsoft-teams-apple-silicon-mac/ I installed it but reverted to the intel version. There is an issue that makes the colors all funny for shared presentations and also attendees' cams. A coleague said that I looked like I was in greyscale too. Apart from that, it...
    • mattdeezy
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    • apple silicon microsoft teams
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  12. sierramist

    15-inch MacBook is my dream machine

    13 inch MBP user here and it is not an M1. Phew.. Yeah, it sucks at this point. I have long waited for the day I finally give this machine a proper place called the bottom drawer and embrace the sassy new Apple Silicon Mac. But I don't like MBPs to be honest. They have this flat and thick...
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    Coming from a 2010 iMac, need help deciding on what to upgrade to.

    So I've been wanting to upgrade my mid 2010 imac to something new and spiffy for a while now. I'm a starving artist, but my main uses for the imac are photoshop/blender/sketchup/zbrush. Right now I can still get by on my ancient 27incher as it is, but the screen is going and it's starting to...
    • Kupo12
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    • apple silicon futureproofing imac 27" mid 2010 upgrade
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: iMac
  14. im_jerry87

    Guys, Please don't compare CR23 or Geekbench GPU compute scores for Apple silicon against an x86 processor or Nvidia/AMD GPU respectively.

    tl;dr - They are not fair comparisons. I'm not going to be very deep but just enough to make you guys understand things. 1. Cinebench R23 CR23's render engine uses Intel Embree which is Intel's library to accelerate Ray tracing compute using CPU. It supports various SIMD instruction sets for...
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    Is my M1 MBA using too much swap memory? Why is my Intel MBP not using as much?

    The following Activity Monitor screenshots were taken on idle. M1 MBA 8GB RAM 256GB SSD Monterey: * CPU Load * Memory Pressure * Disk Intel 2019 MBP 16" 64GB RAM 1TB SSD Catalina: * CPU Load * Memory Pressure * Disk I use my M1 MBA purely for streaming (mostly YouTube) or...
  16. trickster is meaningless

    Developers/Musicians using M1+ Macs

    Hey all, A lot of the focus around the M1 is on video/photo editing. However there aren't a huge number of reports on audio or software development. I'm going to refer to M1 here as the generation rather than the specific chip, so that'll encompass the Pro/Max/Ultra. My daily driver is a 2016...
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    MacBook Pro 14" display defect

    There is something wrong happening close to the top-left screen bezel. The defect is getting worse as time goes by. See the picture attached. Did anyone experience something similar? The MacBook is three months old. I have already asked for a replacement before (because of a defective keycap)...
  18. Kuckuckstein

    Dedicated Apple Silicon XServer

    Back in 2004 - 2006 we used an Apple XServer at my institute. Was sad when few years later I heard that Appel retreated from server business, although it was probably the right decision back then. These days, was just looking into establishing my own server and I just felt that with the Apple...
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    Qualcomm Nuvia vs Apple Mx

    I think this interview on Anandtech was an interesting read but one thing in particular caught my eye: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17233/interview-with-alex-katouzian-qualcomm-svp-talking-snapdragon-microsoft-nuvia-and-discrete-graphics It seems that when Nuvia-based SOCs finally release...
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    Screen recording in 4K on M1 MacBook Pro?

    I know that OBS allows you to record screen in 4K as long as you have 4K monitor but OBS is not available officially for Apple silicon. Anyone knows what's the alternative? I just want to be able to record screen in 4K resolution on Apple Silicon. Thanks
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