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Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by asabla »

cyberpunk wrote: post #146
cyberpunk wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's your internet connection? I'm playing on a RTX3080 thanks to geforce now, but I admit it's only possible due to my living in a big city with a very low ping connection to nvidias data centres. But the economics make total sense. It's like 15/euro a month. A RTX 3080 would cost me like 1200 euro to buy at the moment, without the rest of the PC to go with it. And I'd need to run windows, which I've not done since…

And cyberpunk 2077 or farcry 6 on full on ultra settings makes me almost want to cry it's so pretty. I'll walk past a puddle and just... walk back and forward. It feels like what your teenage overclock made crysis look look like in the early 2000's, I can recommend.

ha! are you me?

Had the benefit to purchase my self a beasty computer right before Cyberpunk launched.

I don't know how many times I just stopped what I was doing and just look at something shiny/bright.

Last time I felt this way must have been back with HL2

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by JAlexoid »

cyberpunk wrote: post #127
Tiktaalik wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. If Apple supported gaming more I'd be able to drop this PC. Could be the sort of thing that could cause an avalanche of switchers. You'd also pull over the entire games industry into the Apple space. Right now we code on PCs. As Apple silicon gets better, it's gonna be more and more painful to not be able to make use of that.

How's your internet connection? I'm playing on a RTX3080 thanks to geforce now, but I admit it's only possible due to my living in a big city with a very low ping connection to nvidias data centres. But the economics make total sense. It's like 15/euro a month. A RTX 3080 would cost me like 1200 euro to buy at the moment, without the rest of the PC to go with it. And I'd need to run windows, which I've not done since…

I'm in a rural area 1.5 hour north of NYC - I use GeForce Now and Stadia with 6ms latency. It's available to more than just the big cities.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

colesantiago wrote: post #162

Is there any point to building a PC anymore?

At the moment the PC market is upside down, too. If you're building a professional workstation, you'll find with current prices that a business XPS desktop is cheaper by a significant margin over building your own workstation with the highest end parts available today.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by JohnTHaller »

MuffinFlavored wrote: post #108
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?

I have a 10-core CPU with a performance advantage of 23% over an M1 Max in Cinebench R23 (AMD 5800x) and a 1,280 CUDA core GPU (GTX 1060 6GB) that cost a little over $1,000 US total.

UPDATE - Sorry, I originally listed this as a 5900x by accident. I need more sleep.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by speed_spread »

quirino wrote: post #12
cube2222 wrote: post #2

Looks like all the people saying "just start fusing those M1 CPU's into bigger ones" were right, that's basically what they did for the top of the line new M1 CPU (fused two M1 Max'es together). And since the presenter mentioned the Mac Pro would come on another day, I wonder if they'll just do 4x M1 Max for that.

If they do create another chip for the Mac Pro, I wonder what they'll call it. We have the M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max and M1 Ultra so far.

M1 Double Plus Good

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by hughrr »

JohnWhigham wrote: post #172
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.…

Jony Ive leaving was a massive improvement for Apple.

This. So much this.

Getting what we need not what Jony says we needed.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by brimble »

yewenjie wrote: post #107
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?

They have been off-and-on. They had a few notable price cuts back in the twenty-teens that made them damned competitive. At times they've been a rip-off but most of the "LOL look how expensive Apple is" stuff achieves such large gaps by comparing them to significantly worse hardware and calling it "equivalent". Plus theirs is the only consumer phone and computer hardware with a healthy used market, so you don't take as big a hit on recoverable value as soon as you "drive it off the lot".

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by dmje »

The clauses on those sentences don't scan.

Stunningly compact. Extensive connectivity. Outrageous performance.

I mean, you've gotta either go

Stunning size. Extensive connectivity. Outrageous performance.

or

Stunningly compact Extensively connected. Outrageously performant.

Anyway. Not sure anyone apart from me will care.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by mynameisvlad »

yurishimo wrote: post #137
mynameisvlad wrote: post #3

I think from a design perspective, this is the most disappointing Apple release so far. It's just way too tall, imo. There's a lot of empty space on the front which just seems odd. I'm not exactly sure what they could've done to keep the Mac Mini footprint, but this ain't it.

I'm convinced the design is a tradeoff to make this work in the datacenter. With the exact same footprint, racks of Mac Mini servers can be converted to fit these with very little effort.

Unfortunately, the height (3.7") is just above a 2U (3.5") rack. It's also not a multiple of a Mac Mini height (1.4") which means you'll have some leftover space if you're replacing 3 Minis with one of these.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by madeofpalk »

cyberpunk wrote: post #127
Tiktaalik wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously. If Apple supported gaming more I'd be able to drop this PC. Could be the sort of thing that could cause an avalanche of switchers. You'd also pull over the entire games industry into the Apple space. Right now we code on PCs. As Apple silicon gets better, it's gonna be more and more painful to not be able to make use of that.

How's your internet connection? I'm playing on a RTX3080 thanks to geforce now, but I admit it's only possible due to my living in a big city with a very low ping connection to nvidias data centres. But the economics make total sense. It's like 15/euro a month. A RTX 3080 would cost me like 1200 euro to buy at the moment, without the rest of the PC to go with it. And I'd need to run windows, which I've not done since…

RTX3080 but you've got low bitrate mpeg artifacts. I've tried them, they're fine when its your only option.
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