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Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by rainbowzootsuit »

FroshKiller wrote: post #10
rainbowzootsuit wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Perhaps a EGPU via thunderbolt would work? (Not that GPUs are so readily available right now, but just to get N monitor ports as needed offloaded) Have you investigated that at all? I recently ran into something somewhat similar of needing "active" displayport adapters to connect more than two monitors at a time to a video card.

M1 Macs do not support eGPUs.

Ah ok. Would be functional for the Lenovo presumably.

Another possibility is a device that merges monitors' and then presents as one to the computer intended for video walls.. I know of the ones that Matrox makes but might need windows to setup.

https://www.matrox.com/en/video/products/video-walls/quadhea...

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by FpUser »

aulin wrote: post #29
TwoNineA wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I got 2 LG 4k monitors plugged into my Mac Mini M1, one USB-C (43 inch), and one HDMI (27 inch rotated). In both cases the Mac runs them at 60 hz, the 43 inch slightly scaled and the 27 inch around 1440p scaling. If I put them at full resolution (unscaled) they still run at 60hz.

how deep is your desk to be able to use all that screen real estate? I already suffer eye strain with my 34 4k as it's already too high

Not Mac user but here is my experience with multi-monitor. I used to have 2 32" 4K monitors at full resolution. One was pivoted to vertical specifically for coding. My main desk resembles an airfield so space wise it was ok. However recently I found myself tired to turn my head and body when shifting attention between two. I am back to just a single 32" 4K. The other monitor went to a different computer.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by tasogare »

nsxwolf wrote: post #31
FroshKiller wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The specs page for the Pro on Apple's site was up front about this and still is. Check it out here: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/ Scroll down to Video Support and see: "One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz." When I was making a buying decision back in November, the limited external display support came up in every analysis & review I read. I'm not trying to give you a hard time here, bu…

A lot of people missed it. No one expects features to be removed from the latest and greatest model.

Looking at the number and type of ports is a pretty good indication that features are being removed. I love the 2015 form factor: retina, good keyboard, thin enough, 2 USB-A, 2 Mini-DisplayPort, 1 HDMI, jack, SD card port, MagSafe. I wish a M1 model with an equivalent enclosure would be produced.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by MertsA »

Nextgrid wrote: post #11
clashmoore wrote: post #2

As mentioned in the epilogue regarding single monitors, I feel that Apple was a little too silent regarding that limitation. It also caught me off guard especially as I purchased the LG 4K thunderbolt/usb-c monitors from the Apple website with the hope of connecting everything via daisy chain. I haven’t yet definitively found a DisplayLink hub that can output its video via thunderbolt and/or USB-C so whenever I see a…

If your objective is to use two monitors side by side, couldn't you find a device that presents itself as an ultra-wide monitor (combined width of both monitors) and allows you to connect two monitors on the other end?

No, that'd be a problem with the dock and menu bar straddling the two monitors. Not to mention maximizing a window would split it between monitors.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by auslegung »

tyingq wrote: post #13

I wonder how well the litany of terrible apps that you typically have to run in a corporate environment are doing on M1s. Things like Cisco's Anyconnect VPN, MS Teams, Active Directory Auth, and so on.

From the article, https://doesitarm.com and https://isapplesiliconready.com

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by barkingcat »

nsxwolf wrote: post #31
FroshKiller wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The specs page for the Pro on Apple's site was up front about this and still is. Check it out here: https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-13/specs/ Scroll down to Video Support and see: "One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz." When I was making a buying decision back in November, the limited external display support came up in every analysis & review I read. I'm not trying to give you a hard time here, bu…

A lot of people missed it. No one expects features to be removed from the latest and greatest model.

It's called wishful thinking with blinders.

What? The M1 MacBook Pro is not the magical device with no compromises???

People were way too enthusiastic and purposely skipped over any weaknesses of the form factor.

People were claiming that it was capped at 16G ram because there were no purpose for having 32G ram (it was amazing to see the hacker news technical set reclaim Bill Gate's "640K ought to be enough for anybody" and "1 monitor is enough for every use case").

There are no perfect computers. Even Apple has to compromise. They were clearly stated but people just didn't want to accept that the M1 isn't a perfect computer that could do everything.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by f6v »

vetinari wrote: post #34
f6v wrote: post #15

M1 is such a smooth ride. I didn’t expect everything would just work. I use R and Python for computational biology and didn’t have a single issue with installing packages.

Did you try pandas? Anything that requires cffi?

Pandas works fine for me. But it’s a moderately sized data, below 100k rows. Dask works as well, though I can’t judge the speed.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by tyingq »

auslegung wrote: post #45
tyingq wrote: post #13

I wonder how well the litany of terrible apps that you typically have to run in a corporate environment are doing on M1s. Things like Cisco's Anyconnect VPN, MS Teams, Active Directory Auth, and so on.

From the article, https://doesitarm.com and https://isapplesiliconready.com

Both of those seem pretty binary, like "rosetta yes/no" or "works yes/no", and don't seem to have a way to say something like "works, other than split tunneling", etc. Or, as pointed out in another comment, "disrupting Sidecar".

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by hobs »

barkingcat wrote: post #46
nsxwolf wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people missed it. No one expects features to be removed from the latest and greatest model.

It's called wishful thinking with blinders. What? The M1 MacBook Pro is not the magical device with no compromises??? People were way too enthusiastic and purposely skipped over any weaknesses of the form factor. People were claiming that it was capped at 16G ram because there were no purpose for having 32G ram (it was amazing to see the hacker news technical set reclaim Bill Gate's "640K ought to be enough for anybo…

Apple didnt have to compromise here, but did - they've definitely sold customers on the "everything just works" approach, and so updating those details and then expecting all the customers who were literally sold on the concept of not having to check on all the details to check them... interesting approach.

My mother bought a new macbook m1 with me telling her about the monitor stuff and she cant even get her 1080p normal external to work with the dock that the apple store sold her.

Re: Onboarding with an M1

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Post by supermatt »

barkingcat wrote: post #46
nsxwolf wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of people missed it. No one expects features to be removed from the latest and greatest model.

It's called wishful thinking with blinders. What? The M1 MacBook Pro is not the magical device with no compromises??? People were way too enthusiastic and purposely skipped over any weaknesses of the form factor. People were claiming that it was capped at 16G ram because there were no purpose for having 32G ram (it was amazing to see the hacker news technical set reclaim Bill Gate's "640K ought to be enough for anybo…

I’m not aware of anyone (except those using VMs) who are complaining about the memory. I personally went from 16gb to 8 and don’t miss it. Do you actually own/use an m1 Mac?
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