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Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by throw74775 »

thx-2718 wrote: post #18
throw74775 wrote: post #9

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What if you needed its other features?

It's a computer. I'm sure the other features are available in other packages in one form or another. That said, for business-to-business I bet these are great machines.

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Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by jasonjamerson »

grouchomarx wrote: post #36
jasonjamerson wrote: post #20

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We've been discussing this as well, the Virtual Production production value is incredible, are they also standing on a stage outside, and this is all being composited live, with foreground passes, etc. without green screen?

Tim may be live but everything else is prerecorded

Yep, you're right. Still they put a TON of work into this. Incredible.

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by jsheard »

bee_rider wrote: post #21
modeless wrote: post #7

I wouldn't buy a $7000 computer without a discrete GPU.

The PCIe slots look easy enough to get at.

Apple showed a lineup of compatible PCIe cards, with a variety of accelerators and I/O hardware but conspicuously no GPUs.

https://i.imgur.com/28J1KfN.jpg

The Apple Silicon transition ended support for external GPUs, so I think it's safe to assume they won't support internal ones either.

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

Doctor_Fegg wrote: post #30
bee_rider wrote: post #17

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Are you off by one order of magnitude? Or does this cost as much as a couple quite nice cars.

I spend a whole bunch more time at my Mac than I do in a car, and gain much more value from it too, so that doesn't seem unreasonable...

Cars don’t usually become obsolete and borderline worthless after 5 years.

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by whynotminot »

modeless wrote: post #32
bee_rider wrote: post #21

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The PCIe slots look easy enough to get at.

Anything you install is a brick unless hardware vendors port their drivers.

Isn’t that true of any PCIe device? Is Apple supposed to develop their drivers too?

Re: Apple unveils new Mac Studio and brings Apple Silicon to Mac Pro

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Post by DonaldPShimoda »

chillbill wrote: post #41

The best thing about this whole event is that they didn't mention AI even once, all they're saying is ML. Which is what it is. AI is a hype word.

I agree. I was really impressed that even with regard to the Autocorrect update, they used technical terms like "transformer model" without using hype words. They very clearly labeled it as a predictive text engine rather than some magical pseudo-sentient enigma or something.
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