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Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by ar_lan »

nouveaux wrote: post #36
nerdjon wrote: post #15

More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming. Would love too see something like Proton but for Mac (given up hopes for native support). I hate that I have my gaming PC and then my Mac for everything else. I have to wonder though what their plan is for the M2. Are they laying the groundwork for when the M2 comes out all of these variants will be ready at the same time? Or a gradual…

I don't feel the need to play cutting edge games anymore. Playing Windows games in Parallel on my M1 is pretty good. I was shocked to see how well it worked. It's unlikely to run Elden Ring well. However, the vast majority of games are fine.

Technically, I think this is illegal (Microsoft doesn't have a license for ARM support that isn't Qualcomm based). So for the pirating community this might not be an issue, but for long term survivability of the industry that would need to change.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by tannedNerd »

nerdjon wrote: post #38
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same. That chunky PC serves only one purpose now and rest of the time is unused.

The unused part is what bothers me, like I actively make sure I use windows for as little outside of gaming for various reasons. But for the price to use it, ok not rarely since I game a lot... but considering I also have consoles. I would say I use my Mac more. I just wonder if this is ever going to be a realistic alternative or am I just always going to have 2 personal computers.

What Im hoping for is with fiber/5G things like GeforceNow become more popular. I used it recently thanks to 6 free months from ATT when I had an unscheduled layover due to a missed flight, and it was actually playable with 7 Days to Die (a FPS). Granted it wasn't as good as my home machine, but this was also over hotel wifi so not bad

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by xrisk »

nerdjon wrote: post #51
mshockwave wrote: post #41

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Same, I want to run AAA games using these crazy Mac hardwares. A more interesting question will be: how hard it will be to implement such Proton for Mac? Is there any previous project?

Doing some quick searching around. I know there is Crossover, Wine technically works on Mac from what I can tell also. So not sure if there is a technical reason Proton couldn't work on Mac other than just not building it. Apple does talk a lot about gaming now on the iPhone and iPad, I would love to see them talk about it more on Mac (especially with how powerful these are) and maybe work with Proton like Steam is f…

Crossover is proprietary. Pure Wine cannot run x86 apps on ARM if I understand correctly.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by karlshea »

unfocussed_mike wrote: post #78
cududa wrote: post #60

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They literally said in the keynote that the new Mac Pro is in the pipeline

Right, but the keynote is marketing. And they've been saying that for, what, nearly a decade now? [0] And in that time they have chipped away at that segment from different directions, with the iMac Pro and the Mac Studio. The latter of which is a beast already. What's left? Render farms, scaleable computing. I guess I think there will be some sort of new machine in that segment. But I figure it's not going to be wha…

> And they've been saying that for, what, nearly a decade now?

The latest generation is from 2019?

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by alberth »

Mac Pro scale up?

How is this going to scale up to a Mac Pro, especially related to RAM?

The Ultra caps at 128 GB of RAM (which isn't much for video editing, especially given that the GPU uses the system RAM). Today's Mac Pro goes up to 1.5TB (and has dedicated video RAM above this).

If the Mac Pro is say, 4 Ultra's stacked together - that means the new Mac Pro will be capped at 512GB of RAM.

Would Apple stack 12 Ultra's together to get to 1.5TB of RAM? Seems unlikely.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by xwowsersx »

Could/would this machine makes sense as a development machine? I use a Macbook Pro (M1) and it's always docked...I basically don't need it to be transportable. I could also use more power (I'm regularly running a bunch of docker containers + PyCharm + DataGrip + Android Studio).

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by yewenjie »

areoform wrote: post #22

I would like to highlight just how much Apple is focusing on their customers and use cases right now. It seems that they're targeting products to what their professional customers actually want. And in this case, it's a 3.7" little thing that can process 18 streams of 8k video (fully specced out). That's kinda crazy, and they're doing it at a price point that's competitive compared to all of the companies out there.…

Wait, how and why did Apple suddenly become cost-effective?

Re: Apple Mac Studio

#108

Post by MuffinFlavored »

areoform wrote: post #22

I would like to highlight just how much Apple is focusing on their customers and use cases right now. It seems that they're targeting products to what their professional customers actually want. And in this case, it's a 3.7" little thing that can process 18 streams of 8k video (fully specced out). That's kinda crazy, and they're doing it at a price point that's competitive compared to all of the companies out there.…

Not only that...

> 20-Core CPU

> 48-Core GPU

> 32-Core Neural Engine

for $3,999

is that kind of like... a bargain?

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by randmeerkat »

Anon1096 wrote: post #83
randmeerkat wrote: post #72

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Some more donations to Proton’s Patreon would probably help. They only get about $400 / month right now… https://www.patreon.com/protondb

That is a Patreon link ProtonDB, not Proton. Proton is funded by Valve and ProtonDB is unaffiliated.

You’re right, thanks for pointing that out.
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