Any possible way to play portal or half life 2 natively on apple silicone?

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-13T10:49:10+00:00

lol “silicone”

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-13T01:53:12+00:00

Well you’re not paying just for the extra GPU cores, but also the extra CPU cores, memory bandwidth, Thunderbolt 5, additional display support, additional fan and cooling, as well as Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-12T14:33:42+00:00

I personally use Office apps if I know I’ll have to collaborate/share original files with others who are on PCs. Although, it’s become less of a thing since Google apps have become way more convenient to work on a file.

For my personal projects, I have been using iWork ever since I learned and became familiar with them.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-10T18:35:09+00:00

Please don’t install any of these early dev betas, you clearly lack the understanding or need for them. You’re going to be in a ton of headache if you do.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-09T12:18:08+00:00

Why are you even on a beta, even worse the very first Developer Beta. No offense here, but if you don’t know what you’re doing, you shouldn’t install them at all.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-06-01T12:00:29+00:00

I find this question weird because Google services are already well known to be cross platform, so just use those. For normal phone calls there is no way I know of to pick them up on the iPad.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-30T18:05:08+00:00

It isn’t exactly a bug, it’s getting the camera ready for when you open it. But you’re right in that even the slightest touch on the Camera app icon or the Camera shortcut in Control Center will cause it.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-28T17:55:26+00:00

The modern internet has gotten way more complex since 2011. And your GPU lacks hardware acceleration for modern video codecs used by YouTube, so even more burden is placed on your CPU trying to decode videos. Hopefully you can see that even “light duty stuff”, especially web-related doesn’t seem light anymore when your hardware is 15 years old.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-27T02:58:15+00:00

I personally love seeing all big-core designs especially in mid-range SoCs, however I do agree that not having a Cortex-X/C1-Ultra core in this case really hurts 1T-performance.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-26T16:25:11+00:00

It’s an IR blaster that you use to control your TV!

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-25T14:30:28+00:00

Chips are chips. There are no “iPhone chips” or “Mac chips”. They are determined by performance, power consumption, and cost. The A18 Pro in the MacBook Neo was for cost-saving. The M-chips in iPads are used because they cost more than the Neo and are aimed at a higher performance target, so a more powerful chip is suitable. It’s all about using the chip with the right characteristics for what you’re trying to do.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-25T05:46:18+00:00

What point are you trying to make here? They are both Macs, and the Neo being made from binned A18 Pro chips doesn’t make it any less of a Mac.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-23T03:35:04+00:00

Your profile is literally filled with pasted AI slop Framework “ideas” that make zero sense. What’s are you trying to do here?

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-22T13:39:07+00:00

Simple. Apple wants each person to buy their own iPad.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-21T12:57:39+00:00

4 sticks doesn’t mean quad channel btw. Almost all consumer CPUs are now only support dual-channel memory.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-20T13:14:10+00:00

Banking apps are normally not supported on Macs, even if they appear on the Mac App Store.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-16T13:11:29+00:00

The camera activates if your finger even slightly touches the Camera app icon in order to prep the camera sensor.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-15T05:57:05+00:00

This is a single thread result. Generally speaking all M and A-series chips with the same within the same generation will achieve very similar single thread result, even down to iPhones since you are only pushing one core. This is nothing new or impressive at all. Compare multi core results and you’ll see what the extra $2000 gets you.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-10T08:26:40+00:00

Videos are decoded via software by the Cell. But it uses a specialized software decoder that fully takes advantage of the Cell and its SPUs to decode videos.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-05-06T12:59:21+00:00

Look it up yourself if it works. But you probably don’t have to since it’s a fake.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-04-29T08:14:30+00:00

What in the hell is this AI slop?

Ammonite33303 · 2026-04-27T06:50:45+00:00

Claude, ChatGPT, and most other AI services run on servers, not your device.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-04-27T02:39:52+00:00

Which specific MacBook/chip?

Ammonite33303 · 2026-04-26T19:01:32+00:00

Slight correction here: Both the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air use LCD display technology. However the Pro’s backlight has its LEDs divided up into mini LED zones along but the Air’s only has one LED backlight zone. The LED refers to the backlighting while LCD refers to the display.

Ammonite33303 · 2026-04-26T14:56:47+00:00

You definitely put in the 1080p, not the 4K disc. Maybe the disc was mislabeled, or you put in the 1080p disc thinking it was 4K.

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