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Introducing the next generation of Mac

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Post by xondono »

blux wrote: post #194

Lots of comments from people complaining about the lack of 32GB of RAM. Can someone explain to me the need for 32GB of RAM as a developer? Is it the IDE or your particular application area? As for me, I do all my professional development (C++17/Linux, Vim, EDA industry) on a five year old T450s with 12GB of RAM. For me the limiting factor is CPU power for sure. I only run out of RAM running some of the larger custome…

I do CAD.

Both SolidWorks and Altium are such RAM hogs that I’ve had to upgrade to 64GB.

It would be lovely to work on laptops, since it’s the default assumption for most managers, so I either stick out as a weirdo for asking for a desktop every time I switch jobs, or shut up and spend most of my day dealing with slow laptops and random crashes, and having to make design choices around my computer (unnecessary) limitations.

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Post by paulpauper »

Is the macpro worth the cost? I want to keep 300+ browser tabs opens, 6+ chrome user sessions, and many other programs running. My PC usually gets sluggish after a day of this. I don't do graphics design or gaming, but rather need to keep a lot of tabs and sessions open on chrome and to a lesser extent on Firefox.

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Post by ethanp61 »

blux wrote: post #194

Lots of comments from people complaining about the lack of 32GB of RAM. Can someone explain to me the need for 32GB of RAM as a developer? Is it the IDE or your particular application area? As for me, I do all my professional development (C++17/Linux, Vim, EDA industry) on a five year old T450s with 12GB of RAM. For me the limiting factor is CPU power for sure. I only run out of RAM running some of the larger custome…

Any applications with image processing are usually bottlenecked by the available RAM on a system. If you're running any ML applications, it's most efficient to run models on batches of images and batch size is determined by RAM.

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Post by masklinn »

samjmck wrote: post #187
KMnO4 wrote: post #47

Surprisingly, the dealbreaker for me on this current generation is 2x TB3 ports on one side. I really like being able to charge from either side.

You can charge from either side though. You just don’t get all the bandwidth that USB4/TB4 normally provides.

You can’t charge from either side if there are only ports on one side, which, if I understand the design and Gp’s comment correctly, is the case for the ARM macs. Which would be those GP meant as “this generation”.

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Post by geoah »

blux wrote: post #194

Lots of comments from people complaining about the lack of 32GB of RAM. Can someone explain to me the need for 32GB of RAM as a developer? Is it the IDE or your particular application area? As for me, I do all my professional development (C++17/Linux, Vim, EDA industry) on a five year old T450s with 12GB of RAM. For me the limiting factor is CPU power for sure. I only run out of RAM running some of the larger custome…

Chrome (~1-4Gb), Slack with quite a few orgs (~2Gb), Discord again with quite a few orgs (~1Gb), Docker for local dev work (~1-8Gb), Gopls (golang's language server) (~1Gb per open vscode).

Running out of RAM is not my main problem, continuously swapping is as has a performance hit across the whole system for some reason.

As with many things, it's not a NEED, it's more that having to care about what I have open at any given moment gets annoying.

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Post by twalla »

mLuby wrote: post #97

- 16GB RAM - 1TB SSD - 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 - 2 Thunderbolt - 2 USB B - Headphone jack - MagSafe power - HDMI - SD Card Reader - Physical function keys row MacBook design peaked in 2015.

you forgot:

- retina display

- actually good keyboard

- the ability to upgrade storage

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Post by pgrote »

callamdelaney wrote: post #150

I'll be sticking with my 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13". Great machine, not too thin, heavy enough, no stupid touch screen, usb ports, great keyboard. Everything apple has done since hasn't compared.

>2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13"

How long will OS updates be distributed for it?

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