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Given the amount of people using Apple desktop gear across the planet and beige box towers, I beg to differ.
Beg all you want, but it won't change my mind. Just because someone uses something because it is all that is available does not mean they want it.
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.…
While I could be wrong, I think the Mac Studio may be their "desktop aimed at designers and programmers" -- get the M1 Max instead of Ultra, bump the SSD up to 1TB and the RAM to 64G and it's $2600. By no means cheap, but not the wheeze-inducing iMac Pro prices or the second-mortgage Mac Pro ones. The caveat is whether they're going to bring out an Apple Silicon-based "big iMac" that's a more direct replacement for t…
If anyone thinks Apple is not very serious about AR/VR consumer products, their renewed focus on creative professionals, intense workloads, and GPU performance seems to suggest otherwise. Whatever the marketing out of Microsoft Surface, it's the Mac that has always enabled creative workflows. I'm genuinely more excited about the Mac than any other product, which I haven't felt or said for many years. Nice work, Apple…
A professional will work with whatever tools he needs, Mac or otherwise. It's pretty narrow-minded to think that it's the domain of one OS.
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
Perfect. Recently went to a 40" ultrawide display to share between work laptop (during work hours) and personal desktop (after hours) to simplify my desk, and felt the Mini was probably just a little too limiting/low-end. Finally, the replacement to my 2015 iMac 5k.
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).
As a dev, I think this is neat - but unfortunately, to this very day, the most important workloads usually are single-threaded, even the ones that are multi-threaded, rarely scale to more than 8 cores. This usually means that the advanced M1 variants don't really offer an advantage over the base offering, although, more RAM is always nice.
The CPU that could do that would be innovative.
As a comparsion a quick build on PCPartPicker: Xeon E5 22 core, Radeon RX 6900 XT, case, power supply, 64 gb of ram, motherboard, 1TB SSD and CPU cooler. Comes in at just shy of $5,000 That CPU isn't as powerful as the one the M1 Ultra beat in their specs, but should be about the same GPU as they compared and beat. If the benchmarks are to be believed.... the $4,000 Mac Studio will be an absolute powerhouse in the pr…
If anything this just reminds me how frustrating their product line was pre-M1 for so many years. I'm still dealing with the legacy of having to work with people with 16GB as the ceiling and projects that simply do not fit in them.
Where does this fit in the lineup of Macs? The 27" iMac is gone and the Mac Studio looks like it's taking the place of that or could even be the new Pro. I don't want that thing on my desktop, I want a big all-in-one. At least the Studio Display looks like it could be used to stuff some kind of M chip in down the road for a "pro" all-in-one option.
Just look at the pricing on the combo.