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Sure as hell won't get better now that they're owned by Microsoft. You can expect DirectX to take center stage for their upcoming releases.
Blizzard isn't the only company capable of supporting both Metal and ARM. All the iOS games do both today.
Apple finally releases a powerful affordable desktop computer. Now I am worried it's the start of WW3 or otherwise the end of the world. Going outside now to look for flying pigs
What? $2000 for the Studio plus $1600 for their 5K display means Apple's new entry level workstation now costs $3600. That's a LOT more expensive than the old iMac 27 i7 at about $2400. To sum up, Apple just hiked their entry level workstation's price by $1200. AND they convinced you they performed magic. No, I think that flying pig you saw was proof that Jobs' reality distortion field is still alive and well.
Which is quite a bit more than the studio + display.
A vanilla iMac (or blueberry :D ) is a consumer device.
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It looks like they made a taller computer then cut it off 2/3 of the way down. Something about the proportions read as simply wrong .
But if it works, well its better than Jony Ive‘s „design is everything, function is last“ approach. - Like the Mac Pro (2013) which was thermal limited even with the launch configuration and could not be refreshed because more power would mean less power through throttling - Magic Mouse 2 which well u could not use while charging - Macbook Pro Touchbar which is there because there was nothing else to „inovate“ - MacB…
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If people listened to that advice Apple's stock price would be cut in half. 99% of Mac users can get along fine with the base m1 models.
I'v seen (more than once) Apple Store employees push people away from higher-end devices, or from buying devices altogether (happened with me) when they didn't think the bigger sticker price would serve the customer well, so at least apple is happy to give that same advice to their own customers.
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$8k for 128GB RAM, 8 TB solid state storage and 22 trillion ops/sec isn't exactly a bargain. I do however image that the performance per watt will be really good.
Try and price out a PC with those specs, it will come in around $6k minimum, but much more power intensive and very very loud
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"With the limited space they have"? They chose how much space they had to work with...
Because nobody outside hardcore computer nerds wants a beige box tower with 14 drive bays sitting on their desk. People want quite little boxes that gets work done without having to have dedicated room for loud machines.
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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.
I gifted a thumb drive with USB A on one side and USB C on the other.
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I don't think there are any Macs that don't have a headphone jack, with the possible exception of the Mac Pro.
The current model Mac Pro at least supports add-in PCIe cards. So you are only 1 sound card away from having as many headphone and other audio jacks that you want.
It's at the top to the left of the USB-A ports.