Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 280

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 280. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Third prime should run at twice three or four, and four times two.

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(Thunderbolt) 5

Third prime (5) should run at twice three or four (Thunderbolt 5 should deliver 80 Gb/s speed, twice that of TB3 or TB4), and four times two (and four times that of TB2).

2: The third of XV brought AI for some.

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(macOS) 15.1

The third (version of macOS 15, which is shipping in last week’s new M4 Macs) of XV (macOS 15) brought AI for some (it did).

3: If E > P and E + P = GPU what does E equal?

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6

If E > P (6 > 4) and E + P = GPU (Macs with the full base M4 chip have 10-core GPUs) what does E equal? (6, the number of E cores in the full base M4 chip.)

The common factor

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They are properties of the new M4 Macs announced last week.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.