Casey Liss

They have thought of darn near everything. It really, truly is extremely well done. We have one of these in the house. I freaking love it. Every time I go into our living room where it's mounted on the wall, I look up at it, and I see just a delightful picture of Aaron or the kids, and it makes me so genuinely happy. We sent one to my parents, and you think I'm happy about these things. Oh, boy.

They have thought of darn near everything. It really, truly is extremely well done. We have one of these in the house. I freaking love it. Every time I go into our living room where it's mounted on the wall, I look up at it, and I see just a delightful picture of Aaron or the kids, and it makes me so genuinely happy. We sent one to my parents, and you think I'm happy about these things. Oh, boy.

My parents love these. seeing pictures of their grandkids and their friends, and I guess their kids too, scrolling through their living room as well. It really is incredible, incredible stuff. They have a bespoke iPhone and Android app where you can beam things to the frames from afar. It really, really, truly is excellent.

My parents love these. seeing pictures of their grandkids and their friends, and I guess their kids too, scrolling through their living room as well. It really is incredible, incredible stuff. They have a bespoke iPhone and Android app where you can beam things to the frames from afar. It really, really, truly is excellent.

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Thank you to Aura for sponsoring the show. All right. More from our friend of the show, Jonathan Dietz Jr., with regard to SSD performance. Here again, there's a lot here, and I'm going to read pretty much all of it. So bear with me, but it's really fascinating. So Jonathan writes, the state of SSD benchmarking on the Mac is pretty sad.

Thank you to Aura for sponsoring the show. All right. More from our friend of the show, Jonathan Dietz Jr., with regard to SSD performance. Here again, there's a lot here, and I'm going to read pretty much all of it. So bear with me, but it's really fascinating. So Jonathan writes, the state of SSD benchmarking on the Mac is pretty sad.

Nobody should be making buying decisions or even be particularly concerned about the sequential read and write speeds of Mac SSDs.

Nobody should be making buying decisions or even be particularly concerned about the sequential read and write speeds of Mac SSDs.

The results of the two most popular benchmarking tools, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and AJA, system test, AJA maybe, are akin to comparing quarter mile times for a car. Amorphous disk mark is better, but still miles from the type of in-depth testing that a non-tech, rest in peace, used to conduct.

The results of the two most popular benchmarking tools, Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and AJA, system test, AJA maybe, are akin to comparing quarter mile times for a car. Amorphous disk mark is better, but still miles from the type of in-depth testing that a non-tech, rest in peace, used to conduct.

All of them appear to report optimistic write speeds, probably due to the effects of write caching by the system. Perhaps the biggest problem with these numbers, though, is the inability to identify the actual hardware being tested. Knowing the specific Mac model and disk size being tested is the bare minimum for making these results comparable.

All of them appear to report optimistic write speeds, probably due to the effects of write caching by the system. Perhaps the biggest problem with these numbers, though, is the inability to identify the actual hardware being tested. Knowing the specific Mac model and disk size being tested is the bare minimum for making these results comparable.

Ideally, you'd also want the IO reg entry for the controller characteristics property of the Apple ANS3 NVMe controller or Apple ANS3 CG V2 controller object. Man. I don't really miss Objective-C naming. That is not something I miss in my life. Anyway, the property provides many details about the underlying architecture of the SSD.

Ideally, you'd also want the IO reg entry for the controller characteristics property of the Apple ANS3 NVMe controller or Apple ANS3 CG V2 controller object. Man. I don't really miss Objective-C naming. That is not something I miss in my life. Anyway, the property provides many details about the underlying architecture of the SSD.

In particular, the dies per bus key reveals the total number of NAND dies in channels, from which we can infer the number of NAND packages, and the NAND marketing name key tells us the type of NAND used, number of planes, and density. All you have to do is pop open the terminal and run the following command, no teardown necessary.

In particular, the dies per bus key reveals the total number of NAND dies in channels, from which we can infer the number of NAND packages, and the NAND marketing name key tells us the type of NAND used, number of planes, and density. All you have to do is pop open the terminal and run the following command, no teardown necessary.

For M1 through M3, IO reg, well, I'll just put it in the show notes.

For M1 through M3, IO reg, well, I'll just put it in the show notes.