TL;DR: macOS Sonoma launching on September 26 brings desktop widgets, Game Mode for gaming performance, web apps in the Dock, new screen savers, Safari profiles, and more features to compatible Macs.

  • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    macOS has no games. Apple: “here’s gaming mode!”

    /s

    There is actually so much in Sonoma and tied to its release. Apple’s GPTK makes 90% of PC games playable. Sonoma also brings a slew of improvements to general rendering.

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      Apple’s GPTK makes 90% of PC games playable.

      Yea, but most of the work was done by Valve and the open source community, not Apple

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      Apple’s GPTK makes 90% of PC games playable.

      Using GPTK through Whiskey enabled me to play the Portal games again, games I’ve been unable to play since Apple ditched all 32 bit support and Steam didn’t see the value in updating them. It’s wonderful.

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    Grocery Lists in Reminders automatically group related items into sections as you add them

    Unless it groups them by aisle, it better not touch my grocery list…

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    1 year ago

    Hey Apple, how about you start putting proper GPUs in your computers first, before wasting time on this “Game Mode” nonsense. Software tricks are no replacement for silicon.

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      1 year ago

      Their integrated graphics are apparently sufficient for a significant amount of games. I don’t think they’re going back to using third party gpus

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        Absolutely not. They’re not going to forfeit the massive battery life advantage from switching to ARM, nor do they want the heat from a dGPU cooking the batteries.

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            I don’t think dGPUs are power efficient, even when downclocked. I’m pretty sure that’s why those laptops also have iGPUs that are utilized when full performance isn’t needed.

            I’m not sure how M series graphics are for performance per watt though. I’d be interested in a comparison between graphics options on perf/watt.

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      I have a 15" MacBook Air, which has the basic M2 chip. As of this weekend I’ve put just over 40 hours into No Man’s Sky, running it at full native resolution on Ultra. An older game now, sure, but it’s still pretty heavy.

      My Mac has no fan, and still barely breaks a sweat. I’ve been blown away by what it can do.

    • johnthedoe@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I hope Apple haters realise they sound just as annoying as die hard Apple fans.

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        Moreso even. They just come to your community to display their hatred, as if there’s nothing better to do.

        How many Apple enthusiasts go to Linux communities and laugh at their OS unprompted?

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      1 year ago

      Sure. Now get grandma to buy a Linux machine and deploy a distro. Or even any creatives that don’t want to bother with sudo everything. Each ecosystem fad their pros and cons.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve used Linux as my main OS for most of the last 16-17 years and switched full-time to Mac a year ago.

      It’s absolutely foolish to compare the two OSes.

      Does Linux give you a lot of flexibility? Sure. But I can trash my Mac laptop’s install and be back up and running exactly where I left off with a restored-from-backup install in an hour.

      Can you get that with a homebrew setup where you archive BTRFS/ZFS snapshots elsewhere? Sure. But I’m at the point of my life where I simply do not care anymore to fuck with it.

      The extra $500-1000 or whatever is a completely meaningless amount of money for an out-of-box experience that “just works” without fiddling with stuff.

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        Admittedly, NixOS fixes this with a single config file that can rebuild your system in minutes, then the built-in backup tool can restore your files. So yes, absolutely. That being said, that’s limited to a few declarative distros

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          I haven’t messed with NixOS but just using Nix is fantastic. I’ve been meddling with it on-and-off in VMs for the last few months and I’m a big fan.