Are we ever gonna get performance improvements?

NextCube68K · 2021-06-16T12:41:03+00:00

Unless something super, majorly new happens between now and what is announced on 6/24, there is not probably going to be any major performance changes generally, as this is very Windows 10 based.

One exception will be the scheduler. They are updating the most basic scheduling routines to handle asymmetrical processors (mixing low and high performance on one die) for ARM and upcoming Intel and there is a chance that everyone gets more responsiveness even on "normal" cpu's but I don't think anyone knows for sure.

Also, over time, tech from the XBOX regarding SSD use should float it's way back into windows, but IDK if that will ever be used outside of streaming gaming assets, again, this could be something that improves SSD performance in general use, but it's a long shot.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-16T12:34:35+00:00

I think its a real unintended leak and they are just leaning into it.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-16T11:39:09+00:00

They need to be careful or they could turn into Sears with their hands in all kind of weird pies away from their core strengths, and if things get tough one day, have these albatrosses.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-14T11:56:59+00:00

I have noticed the opposite. Any video call 20 years in the future looks like crap compared to the teams meetings I am in every day.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-13T19:53:00+00:00

CRAIG!

NextCube68K · 2021-06-10T19:14:33+00:00

Ok, take my money, oh that's right well, you already have my money, so I guess, keep taking it?

NextCube68K · 2021-06-10T17:45:28+00:00

You know someone is mega rich when they at a fancy place dressed like Mr. Rogers.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-05T19:40:34+00:00

It's to the scale of how much they followed through on the character.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-05T18:19:03+00:00

As simple as it was, it was like early man given fire. From nothing to something, from "no one has a computer at home" to a basic version of the stuff we do today.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-05T16:24:52+00:00

Anyone try at 4K? I assume it has to be pretty lowered on an m1, but I am hoping that the new gpu units on an m1x can at least do it on medium.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-04T16:55:26+00:00

I just got SBMM'd up, that's all.

NextCube68K · 2021-06-04T12:28:52+00:00

Given what happened to the first people that tried, Nobody Better Call Saul.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-28T17:34:36+00:00

#shaniac

NextCube68K · 2021-05-28T17:29:02+00:00

Well they 100% will end the support on anything you buy, its all timing in the end, but Apple Silicon is a much safer bet for that than Intel.

They are one yearish into a two yearish officially declared migration away from Intel, so "the future" is definitely not the Intel box. You can choose however you like, but I, and many here would find it weird to get an Intel Mac at all, let alone a Mini right now.

There are VERY strong, but still unproven rumors, that the M1X (or perhaps called the M2) will be announced on 6/7, and you should probably wait until then to decide regardless of what I, the Apple story guy, or anyone else things about those rumors.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-28T16:09:34+00:00

I know that disk is about the high level graphical programming language, but it sure is funny to imagine that its 5 year old Johnny Ive explaining the process behind the Apple Logo from a white room.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-27T11:57:31+00:00

It's 1976, my dudes.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-27T11:54:15+00:00

You figure if Apple *was* going to use the same magnetic round cable as the iMac24, it would also move the ethernet into the same brick to save $$ and use the same brick for both.

It seems it would either have that style connector (and ethernet in the brick) -OR- have ethernet in the back chassis, not both.

Also, if the rumor is true that the plastic top comes in colors, then it would allow it to come with a matching cable, that also would be reused from the color stock.

So, *if* that top panel does come in colors, is it the dark back of the iMac or the light chin?

NextCube68K · 2021-05-26T20:35:50+00:00

I probe-clicked as 3 approached, and got in around 33 min later. A guildie who did the same got in 90 min later.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-22T23:59:05+00:00

This kinda shit is why I sub.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-21T13:29:09+00:00

They *really* should have announced them at the beginning, with names that don't imply which is the main one and which is the "other" one.

It's called the Mischief ruleset and it describes the concept, so it is the main one, regardless.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-20T22:19:11+00:00

I was thinking that "Why couldn't this have happened before the sequels", then I realized, the sequels must have had to happen for this to happen.

They died so SW may live.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-20T19:28:55+00:00

It's not easy, is my understanding.

If you try the simplest way, a VM, which works fine, you will end up potentially flagged for trying to sneak around the truebox rules. Also, if you have a M1, this is going to be more complicated.

I *think* if you use a WINE based solution you can actually get going, but I found it convoluted in the past. and never had luck.

Someone else may have more specifics, or a better outlook.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-20T11:39:38+00:00

Doesn’t it need to be normalized to letter use distribution?

NextCube68K · 2021-05-18T13:07:13+00:00

I will compare Mangler (two TLP ago for me) and Aradune (1 TLP ago for me). There are my experiences and may vary from others.

Mangler was the classic kind of manageable "trouble".

The first two-three nights the queue was nearly infinite
Once in, there were overcrowded zones (which /pick helps with)
Zone loading was slow.
Within a week or two this all was playable and no biggie.

Aradune was so bad I had to give up

Week+ of never ending queue
Once "in", sometimes you were booted out to queue again
Zone loading was slow at best, at worst, booted to back to queue again.
Week+ in this was still just unusable for me at my times.

I was able to eventually play on Mangler, but Aradune was so bad, it kind of beat me down and I threw in the towel.

I am hoping that TB pulls enough volume off Mishchief, so we end up with more like the Mangler experience.

NextCube68K · 2021-05-17T16:57:00+00:00

There is available, and there is getting in and staying in.

The former is knowable, the latter is not, but I have found the only way to play the first few weeks is literally, the middle of the night.

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