No "max" or "pro" equivalent? I wanted to get a new Macbook Pro, but there's no obvious successor to the M4 Max available, M5 looks like a step down in performance if anything.
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#22This is only the base model, no upgrades yet for the Pro/Max version. The memory bandwidth is 153GB/s which is not enough to run viable open source LLM models properly.
The memory capacity to me is an even bigger problem, at 32GB max.
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#23The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
What I would do for Snow Leopard on the M class hardware.
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#24No 16”?
They'll announce that along with M5 Pro and Max in March or so.
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#25The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
Well besides software that runs in data centers/ cloud most other software is turning to crap. And people who think this crap is fine have now reached to position of responsibility at lot of companies. So things would go only worse from here.
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#26The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
Apple has always been a hardware company first - think of how they sell consumers computers with the OS for free, while Microsoft primarily just sells the OS (when comparing the consumer business; I don’t want to get into all the other stuff Microsoft does). Now that they own the SoC design pipeline, they’re really able to flex these muscles.
Not really. Back in the day you wouldn't buy a MacBook because it was powerful. Most likely it had a very shitty Intel CPU with not a lot of cores and with thermal challenges, and the reason you bought it was because macOS.
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#27And here I am, selling my Macbook M4 Pro to buy a Macbook Air and a dedicated gaming machine. I've tried gaming on the Macbook with Heroic, GPTK, Whiskey, RPCS3 emu and some native. When a game runs, the performance is stunning for a Laptop - but there is always glitches, bugs and annoyances that take out the joy. Needles to mention lack of support from any sort of online multiplayer, due to the lack of anticheat sup…
Sometimes I just feel like buying the latest and greatest game, I have an m4 too, the choices are usually quite abysmal. I agree.
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#28The modern Apple feels like their hardware teams way outperforming the software teams.
Yup. And the marketing department is ahead of both of them.
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#29Despite the flak Apple gets, there M-series continues to impress me as I learn more about hardware.
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#30No "max" or "pro" equivalent? I wanted to get a new Macbook Pro, but there's no obvious successor to the M4 Max available, M5 looks like a step down in performance if anything.
I assume that would come with the next release cycle of the MacBook? Isn’t that supposed to be early next year?