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the 24GB are for the MBP
For Air too: https://www.apple.com/macbook-air-m2/specs/ > Configurable to: 16GB or 24GB Store is updated too, 16GB upgrade is 200$ and 24GB is 400$.
The 24GB unified memory is a really nice upgrade (the M1 MBA has 8GB upgradeable to 16GB). The CPU/GPU upgrades are predictable and wlecome but the memory is huge. A lot of development isn't CPU bound but is memory bound or at least can really benefit from more memory. This upgrade makes the MBA an entirely viable dev machine for many workloads. I have a MBP (Intel) but it's expensive. Getting a viable machine for $1…
I hoped the notch would be just an experiment and Apple would get rid of it the next iteration. It seems I was wrong. It looks so weird to have your top menu bar split in two, I really don’t get why it is necessary.
It's empty space, and the whole row goes completely black in most fullscreen cases too as the screen is 16:10 BELOW the menu bar.
You forget it as easily as you forget that you have a nose right in the middle of your vision.
The 24GB unified memory is a really nice upgrade (the M1 MBA has 8GB upgradeable to 16GB). The CPU/GPU upgrades are predictable and wlecome but the memory is huge. A lot of development isn't CPU bound but is memory bound or at least can really benefit from more memory. This upgrade makes the MBA an entirely viable dev machine for many workloads. I have a MBP (Intel) but it's expensive. Getting a viable machine for $1…
I have the M1 air with 8GB and it's unusable with pycharm on an external 4K display.
Pricing looks excellent ($1200 to start); I was expecting a bigger bump. We'll see about the 16G price and availability.
No it doesn't. It's essentially Air with just a few incremental upgrades, the same chip just with a few updates. It's a money grab. They will keep selling Air for $999 and pressure consumers into a higher price, as they typically do/and is their business mantra.
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Ml (Using Pytorch or Tensorflow) still much much better on cuda from what I have heard.
Oh it's no contest. You may as well be comparing chihuahua to a mastiff. Still, it's better than nothing and useful to have around for development and small-scale experimentation.
I am deciding on a new Laptop. I am still worried that my workflow (heavy on docker) will suffer under Apple Silicon. Has someone some (very) recent experience on Docker + M1/2?
That can be a big if, though. And otherwise you are stuck running everything under qemu, which is going to be very slow.
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Apparently you'll be able to use Rosetta to execute x86 in a Linux VM: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
A bit curious about the reasons behind the 24 GB limit. Also sad the Mini didn't get an M2 option. :-( The Mini is a true workhorse machine.
I wonder if a M2 mini would have been perceived as competition for the macStudio.
Macbook Pro 13" is smaller than Macbook Air at 13.6". What's the point of Macbook Pro 13"?
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I think the only excuse for that huge notch has to be they are planning to put Face ID in there at some point in the near future and don't want the design language to change again when that happens. i.e they are pre-reserving that space in the menu bar.
Face ID and some lidar stuff most likely, the notch being the same shape and size as the iPhone one is not a coincidence.