Linux kernel still gets patches for AMD’s GCN architecture from 2012. Mesa sometimes has game-specific fixes that would affect older architectures as well.
I wouldn’t be worried on Linux, especially not for RDNA 2, as the Steam Deck’s APU is RDNA 2 based and Valve usually provides game-specific fixes for high-profile games should they be required. Architecture-specific “Game ready” drivers never really were a thing on Linux anyway.
Nvidia is already at $5 T now: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/10/29/nvidia-5-trillion-market-cap/
Epic/Tim Sweeney can only do one thing really well: crying to the public.
Fuck Epic. Don’t care if they merge all of their games into one shitty game. Fall Guys was cool before Epic bought it, same thing with Rocket League. Now I don’t care about either game.
They want to be on iOS so bad with their game and store so they can farm credit cards of children’s parents, yet they don’t care about Linux at best, or are hostile against it at worst.
X2 “Elite Extreme” probably in ideal conditions vs. the base M4 chip in a real-world device. Sure, nice single core results but Apple will likely counter with the M5 (the A19 Pro already reaches around 4,000 and the M chips can probably clock a bit higher). And the M4 Pro and Max already score as high or higher in multi-core. Real world in a 14 inch laptop.
It doesn’t “crush” the M4 series at all and we’ll see how it’ll perform in a comparable power/thermal envelope.
I don’t hate what Qualcomm is doing here, but these chips only work properly under Windows and the Windows app ecosystem still hasn’t embraced ARM all that much, and from what I’ve heard Windows’ x64 to ARM translation layer is not as good as Rosetta 2. Linux support is pretty horrible, especially at launch.
In practice, they either use system authentication if you use the implementation bundled with iOS/Android - and sure, that can be Face ID if setup, or other forms of biometric authentication. Both operating systems have APIs that allow password managers to provide their own implementation of passkeys, and in that case you have to authenticate with your password manager - sure most of them support using system authentication (biometrics) as well, but this could also be a master password or hardware key (which work very similar to passkeys by the way).
I’d argue if you don’t assume that whatever system you’re using is reasonably secure/private, you probably shouldn’t enter any passwords on that system either. This isn’t a passkeys vs. passwords problem.
Passkeys use public key authentication. This makes them very resistent to phishing attacks. It’s also not possible for a phishing site to request authentication via a passkey created on a the original website.
Probably why it has a titanium frame even though aluminum would’ve been lighter. I guess if you really want to break it you can (as you can with any phone), but I doubt accidental bends will be an issue.
Waiting for reviews obviously makes sense for a lot of reasons, but leaked battery specs suggest battery capacity larger than the 13 Pro. Add efficiency improvements to that and it should be more than fine for most people.
2x crop on a 48 MP sensor results in 12 MP, not 24 MP. Still looks fine though.
What even is new with the S11 vs. S10 hardware wise? Better glass on the aluminum model and 5G? That’s it?
You can always get the battery swapped for a new one on your 13 Pro should it ever not get you through the day.
I have a 16 Pro so upgrading is probably kind of pointless.
I will say that the base model 17 looks pretty decent once prices at online shops come down a little. Finally you get the 120 Hz display.
I like the slimness/weight of the Air. The only thing really missing for me is the ultra-wide lens (also for macro photos), battery life would probably work out for me and other compromises are minor.
The 17 Pro isn’t a huge upgrade year-on-year, but they finally completed the transition to all 48 MP rear sensors, finally got a decent cooling solution and increased battery capacity (and 12 GB RAM). It finally feels pretty much complete instead of Apple purposefully holding back features. Bit of a bummer that we get the SIM tray version in Europe though, I’ve been using eSIM for years so the larger battery capacity - while I don’t need it in most cases - would’ve been appreciated.
I’m kind of holding out for a foldable iPhone anyway.
But back to you: what are you missing from your 13 Pro?
It wouldn’t have a lot of selection, would it?
Considering the past week that I’ve had?
I feel that mouse
At least you got cheese :)
Pole lap, not in-race lap record.
Not Android, not an Android fork, not reliant on hardware from the company you want to get away from (GrapheneOS requires Google Pixel devices).
Still doesn’t make sense to me to get a Google device (required for GrapheneOS) to “degoogle”.
This only works because Google currently allows it. They could stop tomorrow and while you might be able to continue running GrapheneOS on a device where it’s already installed, they can’t magically update proprietary firmware for example.
Yeah, but the old display supports VRR via VESA Adaptive-Sync. Nvidia supports that as well, but not sure if their mobile GPUs don’t for built-in displays?
If it is supported, I don’t see any advantage of having Gsync vs. standard VRR.
If not that’s a shame. Pretty wasteful having to buy the same display with different firmware just to get adaptive sync working.
macOS is included with every Mac, not free.
It can be beneficial in terms of performance if done right. The native Linux build of Baldur’s Gate 3 runs considerably better than the Windows version via Proton, even though the Proton version already runs better than it runs on Windows natively.