M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari's experimental WebGPU

Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by chrisco255 on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @04:32PM (#26334905)

For me, I think it's a novel concept, but it's rarely used in practice. I like having it as a scrub bar for video/audio apps or for fine-tuned volume control and it's nice for emojis. But other than that, I rarely interact with it.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by samatman on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @10:57PM (#26338431)

Every now and then I overcome decades of muscle memory and push the buttons on a modal from the touch bar.

The ironic thing is that I would use it a lot, if, and only if, there were any browser which displays tabs as favicons on the touch bar.

But there just... isn't. It's completely baffling, the Safari preview is useless and Firefox has a 'touch to select address bar' button which I always forget is there.

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Re:M1 MacBook Air hits 900 GFlops in the browser with Safari... by bodyfour on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @11:34PM (#26338650)

I've found it occasionally helpful when using a fullscreen app, such as having access to Camera/Mute controls while on a video conference without having to remember the hotkey.

But I also wouldn't be particularly sad if it disappeared.

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