macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
macOS Sonoma Launching This Week With These New Features
Apple previously announced that macOS Sonoma will be released this Tuesday, September 26. The free software update includes many new features and...
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.
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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.
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
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.
Sacrifice battery life? Are you suggesting that an alternate GPU has better performance to watts ratio? Are you suggesting that they don't reduce power consumption when not processing graphically intense applications?
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.