#developer transition kit

Apple ups Developer Transition Kit Mac mini return credit to $500 after developer complaints

Prior to the release of the M1 Macs, Apple offered developers a $500 Developer Transition Kit (DTK) that included a Mac mini equipped with an A12Z Bionic chip. The DTKs were available on a temporary basis, and earlier this week, Apple said that it would soon begin asking developers to return the Mac minis in exchange for a $200 credit leading, predictably, to complaints from developers. Apple…

Apple Silicon Macs will continue to support Thunderbolt

Apple is promising the company will still support Intel’s Thunderbolt USB-C connectivity standard on new Apple silicon computers, despite dumping Intel processors in favor of Apple-designed ARM-based chips.

In July 2020, Intel announced the Thunderbolt 4 controller 8000 series, which includes JHL8540 and JHL8340 host controllers for computer makers and JHL8440 device controller for accessory…

Apple silicon-powered Macs promise screaming performance

Apple silicon-powered Macs show promising performance benchmarks which have appeared on Geekbench as developers begin to speed test these new Macs. It appears that even with an older Apple A12 SoC variant (A12Z), they already run as fast as some Windows devices.

Apple’s Developer Transition Kit is powered by Apple silicon

Jonny Evans for Computerworld:

This data doesn’t tell the whole story. For…

First benchmarks of Mac mini powered by Apple silicon emerge

The first benchmarks for Apple’s Developer Transition Kit, a Mac mini powered by Apple Silicon, reveal that the company is very slightly under-clocking the A12Z Bionic SoC, with, as expected, Rosetta 2 also negatively impacting performance.

Apple’s Developer Transition Kit

Malcolm Owen for AppleInsider:

In terms of performance, the single-core tests resulted in a range of between 736 and 844…

Once again, Apple does something no other computer company can do

By SteveJack

Yeah, I typed it: “Computer company.”

Sosumi.

What are the HPs, the Lenovos, and the Dells of the world supposed to do now? (Apple is currently worth over 43 times Dell’s market value, by the way.)

As it stands currently, the Windows PC dreck cannot compete with Apple. Even when they were all stuck in steerage on the bad ship Intel, Apple retained the glaring macOS advantage. Now,…