MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max

kept by eddie mar 06

Apple announces MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max, claiming up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing and up to 8x AI image generation over prior generations.

The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe
macOS Tahoe's oversized rounded window corners shrink the only resizing hit area to 19×19 pixels, breaking a basic interaction that worked for decades.
also on macOS Tahoe, Apple
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons @ tonsky.me
Apple's macOS Tahoe icons violate long-standing design principles, resulting in inconsistent, illegible, and confusing menus that hinder usability.
also on macOS Tahoe, Apple
Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM - Ars Technica
Google's Gemma 4 12B model uses Multi-Token Prediction and a streamlined multimodal encoder to run efficiently on laptops with 16GB RAM, matching larger models.
also on LM Studio, #ai, #developer-tools
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding models have reached surprising quality and usability over the past six months, now offering ~75% of frontier-model accuracy for many development tasks on a 64GB M2 Mac.
also on LM Studio, #developer-tools