Exactly: The AI appliance market. A new kind of home or small-business server.

I’m expecting Apple to release a new Mac Pro in the next couple years who’s main marketing angle is exactly this

> I’m expecting Apple to release a new Mac Pro in the next couple years

I think Apple is done with expansion slots, etc.

You'll likely see M5 Mac Studios fairly soon.

I fear they no longer care about the workstation market, even the folks at ATP Podcast are at the verge of accepting it.

Seems like it could be a thing.

Also, I’m curious and in case anyone that knows reads this comment:

Apple say they can’t get the performance they want out of discreet GPUs.

Fair enough. But yet nVidia becomes the most valuable company in the world selling GPUs.

So…

Now I get that Apples use case is essentially sealed consumer devices built with power consumption and performance tradeoffs in mind.

But could Apple use its Apple Silicon tech to build a Mac Pro with its own expandable GPU options?

Or even other brand GPUs knowing they would be used for AI research etc…. If Apple ever make friends with nVidia again of course :-/

What we know of Tim Cooks Apple is that it doesn’t like to leave money on the table, and clearly they are right now!

There’s been rumors of Apple working on M-chips that have the GPU and CPU as discrete chiplets. The original rumor said this would happen with the M5 Pro, so it’s potentially on the roadmap.

Theoretically they could farm out the GPU to another company but it seems like they’re set on owning all of the hardware designs.

TSMC has a new tech that allows seamless integration of mini chiplets, i.e. you can add as many CPU/GPU cores in mini chiplets as you wish and glue them seamlessly together, at least in theory. The rumor is that TSMC had some issues with it which is why M5P and M5M are delayed.

Apple always strives for complete vertical integration.

SJ loved to quote Alan Kay:

"People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware."

Qualcomm are the latest on the chopping block, history repeating itself.

If I were a betting man I'd say Apple's never going back.

It’s really the only common reason to buy a machine that big these days. I could see a Mac Pro with a huge GPU and up to a terabyte of RAM.

I guess there are other kinds of scientific simulation, very large dev work, and etc., but those things are quite a bit more niche.

Google Voice for local, VOIP. ms for toll-free text and call in US and Canada. No live calls. Everything goes to voicemail and we call back.

Income growth? From where?

I use the third-party app Harmonic to browse HN and it has a dark mode. It's quite nice, actually. Though I do think your tone is unusually inappropriate for a feature request.

I used it and it was good. The thing about the compression for me was that because it wasn't for broadcast or sharing it didn't have to be as rigorous or detailed. Plus, it's a desktop. Stuff doesn't change as often as often as in a movie.

How does this differ from Maigret and similar tools?

Intrigued. Still looking, though for robust multilingual end-to-end PDF to PDF archival OCR for consumer hardware that can replace OCRmyPDF without excessive customization for each run.

This method is already heavily used at scale by job vacancy indexer sites.

The author provides good template/suggestions for how to cold email too

Oh, my heart. This is difficult and lovely and so complex. I want to wrap them all up in my own love.

After trying a dozen or more paid and open source, I keep going back to MacWhisper. The dictation feature is in advanced beta but works well. The only thing I want it doesn't have is to have different models chosen for different tasks at the same time: one model for each drop folder, a different one for dictation and then another general-purpose one for drag-and-drop. I have the memory for it and MacWhisper can flush a model after a certain amount of unuse time anyway.