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However, unlike their rollout of USB-C on iPhones,
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which happened because of EU pressure,
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side loading may only be allowed in the EU itself.
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But while Apple is preparing to do the unthinkable,
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letting their users decide something for themselves,
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the trillion dollar company is reportedly also quietly cooking up a Hail Mary in the form of several appeals,
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challenging the EU's decision to label the iOS app store and iMessage as gatekeeper services.
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Apple doesn't think of itself as gatekeeping anything.
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And if they are, it's more like a girl boss gaslight situation.
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Like, wow, yes, queen.
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Constructive criticism isn't real.
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Anyway, get ready to provide a whole new level of tech support for your iPhone using friends.
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In other Apple news, concerns over the company's decision
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to limit the base model M3 MacBook Pro to eight gigabytes of RAM, sorry, unified memory,
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have been somewhat validated,
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according to YouTuber Max Tech.
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He put an eight gigabyte and a 16 gigabyte M3 MacBook Pro head to head,
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and found that, unsurprising to nearly everyone,
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the 16 gigabyte laptop enjoys a sizable performance boost over the eight gigabyte model,
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exporting photos and videos as much as three times faster,
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despite only having two times the remembering power.
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Now, enthusiasts only got more upset about Apple's decision to under-equip the base model MacBook Pro
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after the company's VP of worldwide marketing, Bob Borchers,
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totally borked himself by telling Billy Billy creator, Yee Lee
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that eight gigabytes of RAM on the M3 MacBook
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Pro is analogous to 16 gigabytes on other systems.
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Now, you can acknowledge that Apple's software and hardware optimization is high art,
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while also being glad you weren't drinking some delicious 2% milk when you heard Borchers claim.
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Because I changed my pants enough times in one day, okay?
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But hey, at least Apple used two separate NAND modules for the storage this time.
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Well, Apple asked for that.
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They don't care.
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Intel has been waiting its turn to be called out for some nonsense,
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so thank goodness that MSI released a BIOS update for its Z790 motherboards
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that enables support for the incredibly generic sounding
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Intel Application Optimization feature, or APO.
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The feature is actually pretty cool.
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Hardware Unboxed did some testing with their now updated MSI boards,
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and credited APO as a fix
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for the way Intel's efficiency cores, or E-cores, handle gaming.
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But despite sounding like something that should work on pretty much any Intel chip with efficiency cores,
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like the 12th and 13th gen lineups,
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APO only works on select 14th gen core processors.
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And when Hub asked Intel,
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what's the deal with that?
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Intel gave a bone chillingly corporate response.
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Intel has no plans to support prior generation products with application optimization.
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Hello?
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I'm a human being.
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I have feelings.
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Beep boop.
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Hardware Unboxed also asked Intel
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if they plan to support more than the only two games that work with APO right now,
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Metro Exodus and Rainbow Six Siege,
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to which Intel replied, yeah, probably.
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Quick Bits, man, they are, they're so cool.
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I'm in a rush today.
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I didn't have time to think of something amazing.
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Okay, well,
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NVIDIA has announced the H200,
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an upgraded version of the H1.
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The H200 GPU,
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which is so in demand for running AI right now
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that the US's dollar value might get tethered to it soon.
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The H200's specs appear to be largely similar to the H100's,
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except for the memory,
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which is upgraded from HBM3 to HBM3e,
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boosting memory bandwidth, clocks, and capacity.
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The H100 had 80 gigabytes of VRAM,
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while the H200 has 141.
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Think about all the things you could do with that.
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Like emulate 8.88 gigabyte M3 Macbook Pros
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Yeah, you're gonna do the math.
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RTX 4090s are still pouring into repair shops with melted power plugs
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more than a year after problems with the card's 12 volt high power connector were first reported,
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according to Alex from Northridge Fix on YouTube.
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He says his repair shop still gets about 20 to 25 4090s in per week,
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proving once and for all that the 4090 owners
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just didn't plug them in right, guys.
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You gotta push it all the way in.
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It's your fault.
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Thankfully, PCI SIG has now redesigned the connector,
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so hopefully future generations of financially questionable decision makers
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won't endure the suffering you have.
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It's not actually your fault.
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I was joking.
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Stop writing that comment.
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Australia's ports are reopening after being shut down by a massive cyber attack three days ago,
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according to DP World Australia,
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which is not related to what you're thinking of.
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It's actually the country's biggest ports operator,
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which still sounds...
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Damn it.
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The cyber attack caused huge delays and congestion,
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and some data was apparently stolen by the perpetrators,
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who are believed to be foreign state actors.
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But I reckon they should see whether the front fell off.
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Widely reported issues with SanDisk Extreme Pro SSDs
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are the result of hardware issues unfixable by any firmware update,
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according to data recovery company Atingo.
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