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Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by AlanYx »

egypturnash wrote: post #410
qbasic_forever wrote: post #371

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Beautiful high resolution and crisp text rendering. I want looking at a dense page of code to look as beautiful and comfortable as reading a magazine. A comfortable keyboard and trackpad are a must too. Give me as much battery life as possible--at least a day or more. Performance, memory, and storage are less of a bottleneck these days and today's higher end specs are generally good enough.

I want looking at a dense page of code to look as beautiful and comfortable as reading a magazine I am trying to imagine what a page of code laid out by a professional designer would look like and I can hear a million programmers screaming bloody murder in my head about the thoughtful use of whitespace, proportional-width fonts (even though they are ones chosen to clearly differentiate between confusing characters li…

>I am trying to imagine what a page of code laid out by a professional designer would look like....

You'll probably love this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.06030

Nicolas Rougier has also implemented a few of those ideas in a series of packages for Emacs called "NANO Emacs"; the actual implementation goes beyond what's discussed in the paper and is worth checking out.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by jollybean »

rconti wrote: post #61
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.…

It's insane how boldly (for Apple) they focused on ports and cables. I can't remember a previous demo video that showed so many ugly cables hanging out the back of the machine. They've finally realized it's a selling point!

On that kind of device it doesn't cost them much and those features are more appreciated. It's not much of a war. On the laptops it becomes a bit more of a design conundrum. I'd imagine they have different leadership teams, and, Jobs + Ive are both gone. So there's that.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by assttoasstmgr »

ilamont wrote: post #252
rconti wrote: post #61

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It's insane how boldly (for Apple) they focused on ports and cables. I can't remember a previous demo video that showed so many ugly cables hanging out the back of the machine. They've finally realized it's a selling point!

My jaw hit the floor when I saw USB A ports. If only it had multiple HDMI ...

And yet none on the front. So your shoebox full of thumb drives are useless and you have to plug them in from behind.

Just to be clear yes I know USB-C thumb drives exist but they are next to useless because their whole purpose is to shuttle files between devices. Devices that likely don't have USB-C yet.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by the-golden-one »

ghostly_s wrote: post #378
BonoboIO wrote: post #64

The design of it looks a bit off to me. Like a cheap mac-ish intel nuc designed by huawei with their matebooks. https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/29/17396818/huawei-matebook-...

I just don't get why they wouldn't turn those usb-c ports the other way so they line up nicely with the sd slot....

like this? https://twitter.com/thijsvlierop/status/1501295909275111425?...

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by temac »

AlphaSite wrote: post #130
ejb999 wrote: post #42

I'd buy one in a second if only it would support running vmware fusion - I still have to have one foot in Windows world, and not being able to spin-up and old windows vm is a deal breaker for me. (M1 chips won't support it). Sure hope my latest macbookpro with intel chip lasts a while, I fear it may be one of the last ones they make.

For what its worth there is a tech preview: https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-pu...

For now do not attempt to run Win11 on it though. It kinda sorta works a little after doing tons of workarounds including some really crazy ones (network through a kernel debugger stuff or something; manually installing x64 store packages if you want the store, etc...), the graphics is crap, rdesktoping is not very good. Seems fine for Linux VMs though (then use them with ssh).

If you want Win11 use Parallels, it works very very very well.

You can even run Fusion tech preview and Parallels at the same time :)

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by pvarangot »

kiratp wrote: post #401
unfocussed_mike wrote: post #73

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Why does it need expansion slots? Is that still a thing? :-) Drive bays, yeah. Maybe some approach towards coprocessor boards. But none of this new direction shrieks out "install your own graphics card" anymore.

This is one of the reasons why - pro audio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIQINCWMd6I

There's USB-C MADI/DANTE stuff already and it handles a lot of bandwidth with similar latency to those PCIe cards. That guys setup is a niche in the niche.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by temac »

hughrr wrote: post #74
gzer0 wrote: post #62

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Have you tried Parallels? It works incredibly well on the M1 macs. https://www.parallels.com/

Also UTM if you are a cheap ass like me. https://github.com/utmapp/UTM I use native virtualisation to run Debian arm64 and emulation to run Debian x86-64

Quite slow and not multicore for x64-64 though. It eventually works, but you better take a spare PC for any non trivial task.

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by assttoasstmgr »

runjake wrote: post #276
ilamont wrote: post #252

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My jaw hit the floor when I saw USB A ports. If only it had multiple HDMI ...

They did better with the limited space they have — they included a bunch of multi-functional USB-C ports that can be used with dongles for additional HDMI ports!

Are you referring to the front panel which is about 3.5" high x 7.7" wide and about 90% an empty blank face?

Re: Apple Mac Studio

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Post by forgotmyoldacc »

hughrr wrote: post #4

This is actually really cheap. Maxed out at £7999 is less than half the price of an HP Z with similar numbers configured in which it probably can’t even get near the mac. And it doesn’t need $1000 wheels.

My workstation build with Epyc is ~$5,000 and has more cores (24 core), more memory (256 GB), faster GPU (3090), a 2TB pcie 4 SSD and I suspect will perform better on standard benchmarks. Definitely not as compact as the Studio though but lot more extendable.
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