@Al1885, you’re the man when it comes to modding. I’ve only modded one bass, including adding small clover Hipshot USA Ultralite tuners. This was on my Sire U5 shorty, and it was big improvement over the first-gen stock tuners, both in weight and in tuning accuracy/consistency.
I also have Hipshot USA UltraLites on my current Mayones and on my coming-soon(?) Mayones custom build.
I really dig their quality and functionality. What don’t you like about Hipshot products?
It’s an ARM based chipset, not Intel, and while there is an ARM version of Windows, to get Windows games to run in Windows on Apple Silicon would require Microsoft to produce something like Rosetta.
There’s also stuff like Parallels, but most games are terrible in Parallels.
Yeah, I had Parallels on my Intel Macbook. It took away too much performance and was not 100% compatibel. Must be worse on ARM.
Then I went dual boot, but booting into Max OS always felt like stumbling into Kindergarten while I was looking for the University, if you know what I mean.
Finally I removed the MacOS Partition and lived happily ever after, ok except that the Mac had no Del key (only backspace) and some drivers were hard to get…
I heared that there will be proper Windows ARM Notebooks soon, which can compete with the M3 (rumours say that this is Apple’s reason for rushing the M4).
Let’s see how good those Notebooks really are and how it will resolve stuff where I need my RTX GPU for…
It would still need something like Rosetta to run Intel binaries and Windows has nothing like this (besides VM’s, which generally suck for games)
It’s been a long time that I did anything with “real” compilers, but does Microsoft support some kind of bytecode approach that should make it CPU-independent.
Windows UWP runs on Intel and ARM, right?
PS I just noticed that I haven’t done anything in C# and VB for years now. Damn you, Javascript/Typescript! ^^
This has nothing to do with Windows itself, it’s that the games will be highly optimized intel binaries that will not run natively on an ARM.
MacOS can run intel binaries on Apple Silicon perfectly but that’s because of Rosetta transpilation. Windows has no such feature.
Ah! I learn every day 
apple is pulling the ad off TV. from them:
“Creativity is in our DNA at Apple, and it’s incredibly important to us to design products that empower creatives all over the world. Our goal is to always celebrate the myriad of ways users express themselves and bring their ideas to life through iPad. We missed the mark with this video, and we’re sorry.”
The rumours I’ve seen irt getting the M4 out the door this year are that they are supposed to be optimized somehow for AI. These new chips are supposed to allow for on device LLM processing and Apple is trying to jump on this bandwagon sooner rather than later. Similar features are supposed to also be a part of IOS 18 on iphones as well.
I wonder what this even means, and how it compares to a desktop with a beefy ish gpu
From the press release announcing the M4:
The new Neural Engine chip is capable of processing 38 trillion operations per second. Apple says it’s the perfect chip for AI-based tasks.
I guess my question is, for a consumer grade product… how much do we really need on device LLM processing?
Exactly my thought. Now AI is THE big thing, but is it as important as optimizing other hw/sw stuff?
Why is video encoding still too slow? Why does my Excel take so much time to load? Why does text input sometimes stutter? Even on a very fast device?
I’d rather have a super smooth performance than more AI that I rarely use!
At the data center level, I think AI and ML are going to revolutionize a lot of industries over the next decade. In some good ways, and some bad. At the consumer level, thinking of a smarter Siri in this case, I think it’s a gimmick. Basically, this year’s blockchain. A solution desperately in search of a problem.
My program managers are all about jumping on the Microsoft Co-pilot bandwagon, so we’re working on integrating that into Azure right now.
They do have x86 translation built in to the ARM version of Windows:
It’s how I was able to run Windows within a hypervisor on my M1 MBP, including third party applications compiled for x86. There is definitely a performance overhead, but it is quite usable. It does not work for drivers, though, as I understand it.
Yeah! My girlfriend is also testing it for her job. It breaks GDPR on so many levels…
I have an AI background, but I am very reluctant about accepting it.
I kind of want to go back to the good old times where we were hunters and gatherers … and humanity was still purely human!
Besides emulation, didn’t Apple (I’m not a developer) release some kind of toolkit to allow games to run natively on Apple silicon last year?
I miss the days of being a wizard, where I’d walk into a room and make people’s computers magically start talking with other computers. The younger people on my team are incredibly smart. Smarter than I was then and smarter than I am now. That said, my skills have gotten rusty, I don’t do as much “screwdriver turning” as what I used to.
I’ve worked professionally with a number of OS - they’re all fine. Currently I have a Mac laptop for work, a Windows desktop that is for personal use, but occasionally gets used for work and also both dual-boots into Linux as well as runs WSL2 - Windows Subsystem for Linux.
For those who like running Linux, but also love the stability and ease of not having to mess with Linux drivers, WSL is amazing. It basically lets you run a Linux kernel concurrently with Windows, and it runs exactly like a Linux instance on bare metal would. It’s not being virtualized.
It’s a bit like the internet and when we suddenly found everything down to your toaster connecting to the internet. No real need for it but the marketing people love that stuff. So why not an AI in your toaster that will decide for you just how dark your toast should be…
Echoes of Douglas Adams: " He had found a Nutri-Matic machine which had provided him with a plastic cup filled with a liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The way it functioned was very interesting. When the Drink button was pressed it made an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject’s taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject’s metabolism and then sent tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centers of the subject’s brain to see what was likely to go down well. However, no one knew quite why it did this because it invariable delivered a cupful of liquid that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. The Nutri-Matic was designed and manufactured by the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation whose complaint department now covers all the major landmasses of the first three planets in the Sirius Tau Star system."
Oh cool, I didn’t know that. That’s great.
