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Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by meerita »

alluro2 wrote: post #524

I was blown away by M1 Pro, and used it for 4 years before it became a little sluggish, and replacing it with an Asus S16 running on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (an excellent laptop). One of the main reasons was missing my old Linux setup. I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how quick it felt and did anything. A tangible and significant difference, and I really feel it would be good getting it, or…

I'm still on my M1 Pro. I bought one M5 for one of my employees and after 5 minutes playing around I am thinking in getting a new one.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by Twirrim »

alluro2 wrote: post #524

I was blown away by M1 Pro, and used it for 4 years before it became a little sluggish, and replacing it with an Asus S16 running on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (an excellent laptop). One of the main reasons was missing my old Linux setup. I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how quick it felt and did anything. A tangible and significant difference, and I really feel it would be good getting it, or…

I'm always a little cautious about "tried it in the store" experience. If I nuke and rebuild my machine (either Linux, or Windows), it's always significantly faster than it was before. Over time stuff just tends to accumulate that you don't notice. Like the old days of needing to defrag hard disks.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by kulahan »

Does anyone know if they’re actually at 2nm transistors, or if this is more marketing talk? It’s kinda like when TVs advertised their contrast ratios (do they still do that?) but they all used their own measurement methods, so dynamic contrast ratio became a worthless metric.

Do you think that little moniker will just disappear in a decade or so as we reach 0nm advertisements, or do you think they'll just add more decimal places? 0.0001 nm! Next year, 0.00001!!

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by aucisson_masque »

hasteg wrote: post #116
paxys wrote: post #38

More validated by the day that my $450 M4 Mac Mini (16GB) was the best deal in computing for a long, long time.

I live right next to a micro center and remember when they started offering that deal... still so pissed at myself for not buying one. I ended up just buying a raspberry Pi for what I was doing, but seeing as where the prices are now, I messed that up a bit. Also my worst sin was not buying 64GB of DDR5 when I was doing my computer upgrades back in August last year.

Mac mini aren't that good for home made server, raspberry sure ain't powerful but there are in-between.

Not being able to upgrade the SSD or the ram is a big issue, not so much on a portable laptop.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by Jnr »

zer0zzz wrote: post #617
alluro2 wrote: post #524

I was blown away by M1 Pro, and used it for 4 years before it became a little sluggish, and replacing it with an Asus S16 running on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (an excellent laptop). One of the main reasons was missing my old Linux setup. I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how quick it felt and did anything. A tangible and significant difference, and I really feel it would be good getting it, or…

Why buy all that for Linux when there’s asahi for the m1?

Because it still doesn't fully support all of the hardware on M1. I know it because I used Asahi while I had M1. Now I have M4 for work and it doesn't support Asahi at all.

I just use Linux PC as much as possible instead. And that 4$ M4 is just a fancy presentation computer I use when I travel.

Personally I would spend thousands on an actually great Linux laptop, but there are still none around.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by ciupicri »

al_borland wrote: post #302
ciupicri wrote: post #91

> M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps I can't believe that Apple still comes with this bullshit like 32 GBs is a lot. It's a lot for video memory - vRAM, but not RAM.

The M6 is a base level chip, for normal users. Anyone needing more than 32GB of RAM is likely going with higher end chip that supports more RAM.

I can accept the fact that something is low level, but don't present it like it's high level.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by emp_ »

greenowl wrote: post #581
alluro2 wrote: post #524

I was blown away by M1 Pro, and used it for 4 years before it became a little sluggish, and replacing it with an Asus S16 running on Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (an excellent laptop). One of the main reasons was missing my old Linux setup. I've briefly tested M5 Pro in an Apple store and was surprised by how quick it felt and did anything. A tangible and significant difference, and I really feel it would be good getting it, or…

Still rocking an M1 Air - 2020 build. 8GB ram. No slowdown or deterioration at all. Battery health reports the battery max capacity at 84%. Best computer I've ever owned, by far.

Great to hear! The absolute best Air Form Factor, I've debated a lot buying a used one because I dislike the square form of M2+ Air compared.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by jonplackett »

bayindirh wrote: post #117

I know, this is a bit of a meaningless comment, but it's funny in a way. Feels like late 90s again: - Xiaomi: We have matched Apple in CPU performance. - Apple: *Meep Meep...*

I think it’s weird to say Apple is faster than Xiaomi when both are just using arm chips and using TSMC to build them, and this chip is only any faster because TSMC made a smaller node.

I know Apple do some special hardware software integration magic too.

Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

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Post by upboundspiral »

kulahan wrote: post #633

Does anyone know if they’re actually at 2nm transistors, or if this is more marketing talk? It’s kinda like when TVs advertised their contrast ratios (do they still do that?) but they all used their own measurement methods, so dynamic contrast ratio became a worthless metric. Do you think that little moniker will just disappear in a decade or so as we reach 0nm advertisements, or do you think they'll just add more de…

It's all marketing talk, sort of.

Our transistors are about 30 nm give or take. But we've found new ways of aligning them so that if we had continued using old techniques, the density we get would be "2nm".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_nm_process

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