[bluetomcat]

Now looking for an affordable M3 Max MBP that should cost less than my car :-)

[eru]

Here in Singapore, everything that Apple does costs less than any car you could buy.

[sofixa]

I know you're exaggerating because car prices in Singapore are very high (with good reason and kudos to the Singapore government for handling this well), but it's not true:

There are a bunch of second hand cars below 6000 Singapore Dollars on this website[1], which is the price of the 64GB/1TB Mac Studio[2].

1 - https://www.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing.php?MOD=&PRC=18&...

2 - https://www.apple.com/sg/shop/buy-mac/mac-studio

[coolspot]

You forgot one little thing that you need to buy a car, which is the Certificate of Entitlement that you need to own a car in Singapore.

So it is $6,000 (car) + $100,000 (CoE)

[eru]

You are right in principle. However, CoE is actually a bit less expensive at the moment. See https://www.motorist.sg/coe-results

[dagmx]

If you’re looking at second hand cars to make your point, shouldn’t you also look at second hand computers too?

Also why look at a mid tier upgrade spec when you’re looking at a bottom tier car?

[eru]

> If you’re looking at second hand cars to make your point, shouldn’t you also look at second hand computers too?

Nah, my cheeky statement didn't talk specifically about new cars only. So it's only fair to look at second hand cars.

I was specifically talking about the most expensive Apple products vs the least expensive cars.

[hmottestad]

“We also tested DMP activation patterns on other Apple processors and found that m2 and m3 CPUs also exhibit similar exploitable DMP behavior.”

Found this on the exploit site.

But it also says: "We observe that the DIT bit set on m3 CPUs effectively disables the DMP. This is not the case for the m1 and m2."

So if libraries set the DIT bit then M3 should be safe.