4 posts tagged ‘Apple M4 Max’
M4 Macs Can’t Virtualize Older macOS
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Howard Oakley: Running a macOS VM for any version before 13.4 Ventura on an M4 Mac results in a black screen, and the VM fails to boot. This is true whatever settings are used in the virtualiser, even if it’s set to boot the VM in Recovery mode. It’s also true when that VM has […]
High Power Mode for M4 Pro Macs
Andrew Cunningham: Last year’s M3 Pro chip was a departure from the M1 Pro and M2 Pro. Compared to the M2 Pro, it came with more E-cores but fewer P-cores, as well as fewer GPU cores and less memory bandwidth. As we wrote at the time, this meant that the architectural improvements to M3 mostly […]
MacBook Pro 2024
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): With M4, MacBook Pro is up to 1.8x faster than the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 for tasks like editing gigapixel photos, and even more demanding workloads like rendering complex scenes in Blender are up to 3.4x faster. With a Neural Engine that’s over 3x more powerful than in M1, it’s […]
Apple M4 Pro and M4 Max
Apple (Hacker News, MacRumors): All three chips are built using industry-leading, second-generation 3-nanometer technology, which improves performance and power efficiency. The CPUs across the M4 family feature the world’s fastest CPU core, delivering the industry’s best single-threaded performance, and dramatically faster multithreaded performance. The GPUs build on the breakthrough graphics architecture introduced in the previous […]