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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Why wouldn't you? Especially if the machine doesn't need to touch random internet addresses, quite possibly none at all. If ALL you need is a media server and backup NAS, you can block it from the entire external internet.
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- Post #9,797
- Sunday at 4:12 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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This has evolved from "Apple won't allow me to do what I want" to "Apple doesn't sell it in the color I want". You are clearly not serious in your claimed desires - if you were you'd now be asking tech questions about how to do this, not finding ever more foolish reasons why what Apple does...
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- Post #9,796
- Sunday at 4:10 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple GIVES YOU THIS TODAY, FFS. Not with an aTV but with a mini. Buy a 10 yr old mini, connect drives to it, and you are golden. It's so tiresome to keep hearing this whining from people who are so clueless about what Apple machinery can do right now. You do know, don't you, that you can run a...
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- Post #9,790
- Saturday at 4:14 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Neither I nor Apple are psychic. We especially cannot understand the desires of someone who simultaneously claims that USB4 or TB bandwidth is too slow for their needs AND that cloud storage somehow matches that same need. Look I have no idea what you have in mind. The average NORMAL person...
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- Post #9,786
- Friday at 1:47 PM
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Are you unaware that Apple automatically includes pretty good RAID SW? (And has done so for decades.) I've used it for over 20 years and never had a problem (as opposed to the occasional horror stories I hear from people running dedicated NAS'). So collect as many drives as you want, hook them...
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- Post #9,782
- Apr 24, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

We have Private Cloud Compute and XCode in the Cloud as the first two steps to this. I wouldn't be surprised if a next step is announced at WWDC. WWDC in two months...
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- Post #9,777
- Apr 22, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

I assumed this was for exolabs (or at least running exolabs SW).
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- Post #9,776
- Apr 22, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

https://blog.kevinchisholm.com/internet/googles-first-production-server-rack-circa-1998/
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- Post #9,775
- Apr 22, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Lack is a strong word. Apple does matrix mul in the GPU by using a permute network to rearrange data as required. The patent is described in my GOU volume. The cost is a permute network (which can be used for many other things) but you save area. You lose the capacity for weird formats like FP8...
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- Post #9,751
- Apr 4, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Very interesting! Thanks!!! So would it be correct to say that analog signal processing is also happening in the MSP chip? *Something* must be tracking the analog waveform (not least for purposes like soft decisions, or slightly shifting the read and write voltages), but obviously (?) that...
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- Post #9,703
- Mar 19, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Is the SSD design they describe new? We always talk about the SSD "controller" being part of the SoC. But it seems like Apple actually has kinda a split SSD controller, perhaps a part that handles overall transaction scheduling and data movement (maybe even crypto) within the SoC, and then...
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- Post #9,698
- Mar 18, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

Is Blender CPU of any interest other than as a dick-measuring contest? What I mean is: does anyone actually do real Blender work using the CPU (I don't know, maybe because they're using some weird material that can more easily be represented using CPU code, or they're testing new algorithms...
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- Post #9,678
- Mar 14, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

And I didn't say anything about the "AI" market. Or the M3 Ultra market. I specifically attacked the phrase "run DeepSeek at home". As others have pointed out, there's a legitimately interesting market for these things as AI workstations in businesses and colleges (and for other use cases like...
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- Post #9,668
- Mar 12, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

This is a market as non-existent as the market that wish to run a home email server or home web server. There's something deeply broken inside the vast mass of much of the internet that they UTTERLY refuse to learn from the past, no matter how often the same thing occurs... The same people who...
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- Post #9,657
- Mar 11, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

That's a business question, not a technical question. Do they have a large enough pool of customers who want the extra DRAM but NOT the extra compute or bandwidth of an M5 Ultra? I have no idea.
- name99
- Post #9,619
- Mar 6, 2025
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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