do 4x512gb builds actually make sense now to run a big model (beyond a cool demo)? or are 200-500B moe models the sweet spot? In which case clustering 256gb builds might make more sense.
Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
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Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
#782Earlier quoted context omitted.
An additional £1,000 for a 2TB drive is crazy though, rapidly takes the new Mac mini from a good price to a nuts price
I happily booted and ran an Intel Mac mini using a 4TB drive in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure, and I do the same for an M4 Max Mac Studio using an 8TB drive in a USB4v2 enclosure (OWC Express 1M2 80G). You'll just have to be careful to match the enclosure to the ports on the system. The base-model M6 Mac mini still uses Thunderbolt 4, so a USB4v2 enclosure would be wasted.
Funnily enough I do the same with my Intel iMac... I have a 2TB Thunderbolt 3 Glyph drive as my primary and boot drive and it works a dream... if I got one of these new Mac minis without upgrading the drive, presumably I could just plug this straight into it and apple will do its magical migration thing?
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#783I used to think Apple was ngmi but turns out they didn't have to do anything new and still win
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#784I 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…
Yep, vote with your wallets. It’s about time Apple learned that excellent hardware alone would not make up for what macOS lacks and where it fails for development.
We just need a better alternative lol
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#785Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually, Microsoft came with "modern" smart phone much sooner. Actually too soon, technology wasn't there (price, computing power, size, weight, battery life). Apple never came first ... but often just at the right moment and had marketing skills to make it a new trend.
I'm the opposite of an Apple fanboy (typing this on a Windows box), but this is some grade A nonsense. Sure, MS launched PDAs and phone-ish devices long ago, running Windows CE and whatnot but they were awful . It's absolute bollocks that the iPhone was a splashing success because of Apple marketing. It was a splashing success because it worked spectacularly well. Random non-tech people would randomly pull out their…
Whenever I've seen an explanation of UX (to differentiate it from UI), one classic example was Tesla's supercharger network.
We all remember Steve Balmer's comments about the iPhone when it was launched. That, without a physical keyboard, it wouldn't appeal to business users.
Yet, you can see the night and day difference between using the native keyboard and using a simulated one in games like Wordle. Whatever tricks they pulled to make the keyboard work like magic speak to the execution of the smartphone that Apple excelled at.
And that separated the iPhone from whatever came before it.
Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
#786Apple is a terrible company through and through that should have been broken up million years ago. But, nobody dares to question apple. My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. There are a few forums and LLMs tell me it is logic board. I took it to Best Buy - a location suggested by apple support and they say we could replace battery but there is no guaranteee it will work. Logic board replacemen…
My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. It's a seven year old laptop. Did you want to be buried with it? All in good humor, my guy, only wondering about your expectations. The error seems to be Intel related, Apple is the manufacturer, but you are out of warranty. What is your issue?
Muh nagios, I can’t be buried but I expect it to run forever like my Toyota. Apple has been caught before to deliberately slow down macs and iPhones. It doesn’t matter it has intel processor or not. Apple’s current suppliers are Broadcom and Qualcomm. Do you get to their throats? No. You blame apple since laptop is sold under apple brand.
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#787I think I remember that at the 8nm architecture times there were talks about "reaching the physically possible limit" with the size of the transistors.
These are 2nm. While normally pretty cynical, I am experiencing one of those "what a time to be alive" moments.
Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
#788Apple is a terrible company through and through that should have been broken up million years ago. But, nobody dares to question apple. My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. There are a few forums and LLMs tell me it is logic board. I took it to Best Buy - a location suggested by apple support and they say we could replace battery but there is no guaranteee it will work. Logic board replacemen…
All Apple fanboys are butthurt. I hope we see real competition one day and Apple is broken up.
Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
#789Apple is a terrible company through and through that should have been broken up million years ago. But, nobody dares to question apple. My 2019 macbook pro recently started giving me CATERR errors. There are a few forums and LLMs tell me it is logic board. I took it to Best Buy - a location suggested by apple support and they say we could replace battery but there is no guaranteee it will work. Logic board replacemen…
All Apple fanboys are butthurt. I hope we see real competition one day and Apple is broken up.
This seems to be the favotitr solution for the anti-Apple crowd: make it so no one can buy Apple products. Misery loves company.
Re: Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
#790I think I remember that at the 8nm architecture times there were talks about "reaching the physically possible limit" with the size of the transistors. These are 2nm. While normally pretty cynical, I am experiencing one of those "what a time to be alive" moments.
I hate to be that guy, but the nm number is completely unrelated to the actual size of the features printed on the chip. It’s become mainly a "chip manufacturing generation" label. But generation over generation, the features printed on the chips are becoming significantly more compact and advanced, so truly "what a time to be alive"! ;)