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How about when connecting an external monitor? My 2019 Mac Book Pro will get very hot after a few minutes and many people report the same.
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The RAM limitation on the first gen M1s makes this claim a bit dubious.
https://www.diyphotography.net/this-700-computer-can-edit-8k...
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Heh, I'm in the 2020 MBP group. But I still think these M1 Macs--as awesome as they undoubtedly are--are not quite yet ready for developers. Virtualization support still looks iffy, and while I really don't care much whether my container is Arm or x86, the ecosystems and tooling around those architectures are still at different levels of maturity. The exciting (or depressing, for the 2020 crew) thing is that the fact…
I bought my MBP for personal projects, in which I don't use Docker or any other virtualization-based tooling and I could live with 16GB RAM. I expect the kinks with things like Brew to be worked out in a matter of weeks. So I think these would do fine for my purposes
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857
I've had more success using MacPorts (https://macports.org). About 80% of what I've tried has worked. Most things that don't work, you can download source and build it yourself. Autoconf, automake, cmake, pkg-config etc work via MacPorts.
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A machine that wont outperform the new mini $6000 16 cores 32GB of ram least powerful gpu on the list 2GB of storage $8,799.00 28 cores 48GB of ram same gpu 4GB of storage $14,699 MSRP on a 2020 Toyota Corolla $19,600 AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X 32-Core 3.7 GHz Socket sTRX4 $2,629.90 Cost of the same basic GPU about $219 Cost of complete system equivalent to the almost car priced mac about 4200. 9k-15k isn't "a lot"…
3970x 32-core is I got curious... - amd 3990x 64-core 128 thread $3849 - 256gb g.skill ddr 3600 $978 - noctua nh-u14s cooler $80 - samsung 980 pro 1tb nvme pcie4 $229 - evga 1000w power supply $207 - fractal design define 7 $170 - asus trx40-pro mb $396 - nvidia rtx 3080 $699 (?) - steve jobs: a biography $15 (hardcover) = a really maxed out system $6623 probably 1/2 that for a 5950x/am4 system EDIT: ok, I had to kno…
You'll save a fair bit of $600, run quite a bit cooler, it will be much easier to be quieter, and have twice the disk space. Or buy 2x2TB NVMe (motherboards with 2x m.2 are common these days).
Sure the 5600x/5700x isn't as fast in throughput, but how often do you max more then 6/8 cores? Per core performance is near identical and with more memory bandwidth per core you run into less bottlenecks.
I bet over a few years more people would notice double the disk than the missing extra cores.
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Okay, but offering no machine suitable for developers and power users will eventually hurt them when they leave whole ecosystem.
> suitable for developers and power users Important to note 'some' here. I'm a developer and power user, and haven't had a desktop computer in almost 10 years.
Not to speak for anyone else, but one thing I gently disagree with: > Given that Hackintoshers are a particular bunch who don’t take kindly to the Apple-tax[...] I have zero issues with an Apple premium or paying a lot for hardware. I think a major generator of interest in hackintoshes has been that there are significant segments of computing that Apple has simply completely (or nearly completely) given up on, includ…
Apple does not want to offer to the hackintosh/enthusiast market because they are the most price conscious segment. Targeting that segment means putting out extremely performant, low-margin commodity machines. Doing so then cannibalizes the market for their ultra-high-end stuff. Not only that, though. Enthusiasts are also extremely fickle and quick to jump ship to a cheaper hardware offering. If you look at all of Ap…
Considering Apple has only went after those who profiteered by selling pre-built Hackintosh and not everyone who are profiteering from Hackintosh scene; I would say Apple did care about the Hackintosh community in some way.
I thought the higher performance/price Hackintosh, especially with Ryzen might force Apple to act differently but now with M1, Apple needn't worry about Hackintosh performance/price anymore.
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Okay, but offering no machine suitable for developers and power users will eventually hurt them when they leave whole ecosystem.
> Okay, but offering no machine suitable for developers You mean... software developers? The same people who almost universally use a Mac?
For a while osx had the edge because it had a nice interface while still offering a lot of unix. Now windows and linux has caught up in the areas they were lacking before. Meanwhile apple has been caring less and less about people using the cli.
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> As for Zoom, YouTube, and Netflix, existing hardware is more than fine enough. Didn't suggest these were jobs existing CPUs struggle with. I said the video encode/ decode makes the CPU much more efficient which increases battery life.
But existing CPUs already use accelerated decode for these tasks. They have been for years and years. Those hardware decode blocks just aren't powerful enough for 6K RAW video, but they are fine for YouTube, Netflix, and Zoom, and indeed it's already accelerated. So there is literally no benefit.
If there were no benefit, Apple wouldn't be able to decode 8K video with a low end Mac mini. People wouldn't be seeing vastly better battery life when viewing videos and using Zoom.
Did anyone find a review / benchmark of QEMU emulating x86 on ARM?