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MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by renaudg »

tibbon wrote: post #816
mittermayr wrote: post #38

There's also a new Mac Mini, which I found A LOT MORE interesting, given that its keyboard or batteries won't break: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-introduces-new-...

I'm likely going to order one of their Minis with the top CPU option and 32gb ram for audio production here. I've got an 2018 i7 model which is fine, but this one should set me for a _long_ time.

I considered that as well, but price-wise you're now getting into Mac Studio territory, and it's not clear at all which of the two comes out on top.

So I'll wait for benchmarks. I can recommend the MaxTech channel on Youtube for this sort of stuff.

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by KuzMenachem »

pas wrote: post #941
KuzMenachem wrote: post #244

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Genuinely curious: why/how are these countries declining in your view?

brexit was - from an economic suprarational viewpoint - obviously a non-forced error. the resentment that eventually got channeled into this populist surge is very real and stems from the same deepening inequality that plagues the US and other globalizing economies. people scraping by outside London see the decades going by and their lot not improving, and eventually the busy beavers crafting messages found the right…

Totally agree regarding the UK, I was mostly trying to understand where the belief in the "lockstep decline" of the other countries (Germany, France, ...) comes from.

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by prettyStandard »

comboy wrote: post #367
judge2020 wrote: post #137

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The lack of dedicated DisplayPort ports is fairly disappointing to me since their implementation is just "native DisplayPort output over USB‑C" and it doesn't support MST, so you can only do one displayport signal per port, even with a thunderbolt 4 hub with some bidirectional USB-C Displayport cables.

Check out DisplayLink. I'm using multiple monitors with M1 macbook air which officially only supports single external display. Works great so far. I agree with your point though.

I've had two displaylink docks fail on me. To displaylinks credit they sent me the second dock free after the first one failed.

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by bboygravity »

djtriptych wrote: post #837
bboygravity wrote: post #780

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I lolled while reading this. I get like 45 minutes battery time out of my 1,5 year old Dell XPS 17. Not even enough for a meeting.

If you're this bboy gravity just want to say I'm a huge fan! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkrej5EW3Gg

How I whish, haha

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by camgunz »

camgunz wrote: post #939
orangecat wrote: post #733

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As it is, the integer scale is 1512x982, which many websites think (including some you might build!) is a tablet. That's odd, I've never noticed that on my 14". Websites usually choose layouts according to width and 1512 is well into desktop territory. the Air's resolution is more mainstream and usable The Air is 2560x1664, and at the default (non-integer, so less sharp) scaling it presents as 1470x956 which is also…

It's pretty rare; usually it's in the form of a sidebar defaulting to collapsed or a hamburger instead of nav buttons. The main thing is you can't have anything else taking up horizontal space.

Ah yeah, here [0] MUI's xl breakpoint is 1536px, which is 24px wider than the integer scaled width (1512px). You'd also ideally like a little margin too, so really 1600px is kind of a bare minimum for web dev work IMO, so I imagine most people are scaling up to (the non-integer) 1800x1169.

[0]: https://mui.com/material-ui/customization/breakpoints/

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Post by ksec »

coder543 wrote: post #606
mynameisvlad wrote: post #239

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Apple’s M1 chips already offered improvements compared to their previous generation Intel chips, and Intel hasn’t exactly been innovating in the last 2 years. By all accounts, they have been ahead of Intel, at the very least. I’m not exactly sure how Apple was “behind the state of the art” and has caught up. Can you explain?

> Intel hasn’t exactly been innovating in the last 2 years. What on earth are you talking about?! Alder Lake was a huge step up for Intel, and Raptor Lake has improved things more than I would have expected as well. Before Alder Lake, Intel's CPUs honestly sucked. AMD still seems to have a modest competitive advantage in terms of efficiency and battery life (making AMD not that far off from where Apple is in hours of…

> If none of that is "innovation", then I don't know what is!

Generally speaking HN's average knowledge on Hardware isn't exactly up to date to say the least.

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by kirso »

This release literally made M1 PRO the sweetest deal on the market.

I owe first generation M1 Air and it has been an incredible machine for 99% of the population. For the MBP crowd, the 15% improvement is IMO not worth the $

Re: MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max

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Post by counttheforks »

smith7018 wrote: post #240
counttheforks wrote: post #189

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So it works great except half the hardware doesn't work and it's entirely unsupported by Apple, to whom you paid a significant premium for the hardware?

That tends to be how Linux works outside of standard platforms, yes. It takes time for developers to write drivers.

It works great on my custom built PC, and my store bought laptop. Both are perfectly normal pieces of hardware, not apple's weird stuff.
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