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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    9 months 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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      9 months ago

      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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    9 months ago

    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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    9 months 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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      9 months 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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        9 months ago

        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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            9 months ago

            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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      9 months ago

      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.