• No new Mac Mini but Apple did indeed announce its M2 processor yesterday.  (AnandTech)
  
  The updated chip provides 18% faster CPU performance, around 30% faster GPU, and bumps the memory bandwidth and capacity by 50%.  Not by increasing the number of chips, but by moving from 16Gb LPDDR4 RAM to 24Gb LPDDR5 RAM.
  
  Probably really two 12Gb chips stacked; I don't think 24GB dies are in production just yet.
  
  
  
• The M2 is going into a new 14" MacBook Air and an updated 13" MacBook Pro.  (Thurrott)
  
  Both with that damn display notch.

• Apple also announced MacOS 13 Ventura and consigned my 2015 iMac to the dustbin.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Anything made before 2017 is no longer supported.
  
  
  
• Python 3.11 is somewhere between 0% and 80% faster than 3.10.  (Phoronix)
  
  Again, not as fast as PyPy, but a useful increase in speed nonetheless.
  
  
  
• LG's 2022 range of Gram notebooks is shipping now.  (Liliputing)
  
  I don't think any of them has the Four Essential Keys, but what you do get is a 17" laptop that weighs three pounds rather than three kilograms, while maintaining a respectable battery life.
  
  The new models have Intel 12th generation CPUs, mostly the i7-1260P with four performance cores and 8 efficiency cores.  It's not a lot faster than last year's models - an AMD 6000-series would do much better - but it is faster.
  
  Dual SSD slots in all models, but soldered RAM in all models.

Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, June 07 2022 11:15 PM (oJgNG)

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