Nightlife Tech Talk with Peter Marks
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Nightlife Tech Talk with Peter Marks

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 20, 202614 min
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  • Technology

Peter Marks, software developer and technology commentator from Access Informatics, joined Philip Clark and listeners to Nightlife with the latest tech news and information.

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ABC Listen. Podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Well, when Apple switched its Macs to its own chips back in 2020, it made a big leap forward in both performance and battery life and left many Windows PCs struggling to keep up. But now Microsoft and its partners are working to close that gap and they've got new processes from Nvidia Efforts to make Windows faster and more reliable and a growing focus on running AI directly on our computers

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But can Windows PCs ever catch up with Apple and what will these changes mean for the computers we buy in the future? Well bring us all the latest from the tech world is Peter Marks software developer and technology commentator from Access Informatics Peter good evening to you. Welcome back to nightlife Thanks Philip, good to be with you.

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Now changing the chip that your computers run on must be a huge technical effort I guess. Were you shocked by this back in 2020? Well, Apple's got a bit of form with this. They've done it twice before. In 1994 they switched from the 68000 processor that powered the original Macintosh, you know the little ones,

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