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Apple Silicon Mac Dev Kit Native Multi-core Faster Than Intel i7

July 24, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

New Geekbench scores show a native multi-core benchmark on Apple Silicon Mac Developer Transition Kit (DTK) faster than a 2020 MacBook Pro with an 2.3 GHz Intel Core i7 with 4 cores. While Apple Silicon in a Mac is about more than just performance, that's bananas fast !!!! Remember, it's based on a 2018 Apple processor compared to an Intel in a 2020 MacBook Pro.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Intel, Mac

July 16, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary, Design

Apple transitioning Macs from Intel to their own silicon will achieve a great deal more than just better performance. Just look at everything they've packed into the A series SoCs used in iPhones and iPads. I've worked at Apple, so I know this was inevitable.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac

Apple Silicon Macs: Getting It Wrong – Wash Post & WSJ

July 2, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal are getting it wrong, regarding Apple's motives of transitioning Macs from Intel processors to their own Apple Silicon. Maybe they need reporters that understand Apple.

Apple, Apple Silicon, Mac

Closed Windows: Microsoft Closing All Retail Stores

June 29, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

More bad news for Microsoft on Friday, they announced they are closing ALL Microsoft Store physical locations.

Microsoft

Broken Windows: pro-Microsoft sites say Stability Going Downhill & Win Mail is Deleting Gmail

June 25, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Today's Broken Windows stories from pro-Microsoft web sites report more big bugs in Windows 10.

Microsoft, Windows

Broken Windows: Microsoft Keeps Making More Bugs Than Useful Features

June 18, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary, Engineering

Update after update, Microsoft just keeps breaking Windows. More proof that it was a good move, when I dumped Win-Blows for Mac. It was 10 years ago when I went Mac and never looked back.

Apple, Azure DevOps/VSTS, Mac, macOS, Microsoft, Windows

On The Wrong Side: Facebook, Trump, Brutal Police, Racists – It’s All Interconnected

June 12, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

They are on the wrong side of history. And of right now. Facebook, Trump, brutal police, racists. They are all interconnected.

Epic Games Unreal Engine 5 on PlayStation 5 is Bananas Cool

May 20, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

This first look video of the not yet released Unreal Engine 5 on an also not yet released PlayStation 5 is AAAA-mazing !!!

Gaming

Your Privacy & Security Attacked Again by Attorney General & FBI Director

May 20, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

They Are Lying To You. Defend yourself. Protect your country. Fight for our Constitution. By taking up Obama's call to action. VOTE.

Apple, Security

Cheapest iPhone Has More Processor Power Than Most Expensive Android

May 13, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Android Central says "The cheapest iPhone has a more powerful processor than the most expensive Android phone". Yup... the $399 iPhone SE kicks the ass of every Android phone by a mile, and then some. Including Samsung's top of their line, Galaxy S20 Ultra starting at a whopping $1,399 !!!

Android, Apple, iPhone

Apple COVID-19 Contact Tracing Tech Released in Beta – Next We Need Apps

April 28, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Apple and Google's joint efforts to develop tech to support COVID-19 contact tracing is starting to appear. But for now it's just APIs. To make it work, we need health systems to build support for it into apps.

Apple, COVID-19, iOS

Apple Philosophy When Founded 44 Years Ago Still Rings True Today

April 1, 2020
By Ken Adams

Commentary

Apple was founded 44 years ago today, on April 1, 1976. And it's philosophy then, still looks a lot like the Apple we know today.

Apple

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