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What a great little computer at a very reasonable price. A few interesting things with this announcement: 1. Interesting that they did not have this as part of an event. I think this either means they do not have much else to share around the Mac right now or the opposite, there just won't be room to talk about the iMac or Mac Mini. I am leaning towards the former as a I suspect the other computers in their lineup wi…
Thats actually a really good price. The mac book air with the M chip was absolutly a steal already. I'm surprised by this. Is that some thing to allow cheaper MX / Arm architecture in DCs? Is getting Apple affordable oO?!
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When you factor in memory bandwidth (80GB/s for DDR4) - that's not even close to the M4 (120GB/s base model).
It is not more than 60 Gb/s for extreme overclocked DDR4-4000 and sometimes much less than 50Gb/s for regular 3200 DDR5 is reaching 100 Gb/s overclocked for Intel, and 50-70 Gb/s in stock.
With educational pricing this thing starts as $500, and at 16GB of RAM (finally) I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom builds, they're not the same market). I think this just became the go-to recommendation I'll give to anybody wanting an entry-level desktop computer of any kind. In fact I might buy one for my parents right now to replace the old mac mini the…
One issue to watch out for: Sub-4K res monitors look surprisingly bad on newer versions of macOS with Apple Silicon Macs. And no, it's not simply a matter of non-Retina obviously not looking as nice as Retina monitors - something like a 1440p monitor will look much worse on macOS than it would on Windows or Linux. This is partly caused by a lack of subpixel rendering for text on macOS, but it doesn't affect just text…
The Dyson of PCs
Dunno, seems the opposite. Dyson are plastic, don't last long, and generally aren't serviceable. Apples have been improving repairability, their laptops have many replaceable parts, and generally last longer than PCs. Compare new price / used for 4 years old price on apple vs any PC. In my experience used apples age well, are reliable, still get years of OS updates, and general age better than PCs.
and it even got the newest apple intelligence update for MacOS, which is nice
Are they shrinking minis for future versions of Apple Vision or would an iPhone be enough?
i think maybe in the future, maybe they'll only have 1 chip line - but thats just a wild guess.
This seems like the perfect home media transcoding server (Plex, Kodi, etc). I am curious if these will ever be able to run Linux.
https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
maybe m4 will come soon.
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You may just not be seeing the visual artifacts on your screen because you don't know what they look like, or mentally adjust to what that screen looks like. The same way someone might not notice motion smoothing on a TV, or how bad scaling and text rendering looks on a 1366*768 panel, or different colour casts from different display technologies. All three took me a while before I could tell what was wrong without s…
> You may just not be seeing the visual artifacts on your screen because you don't know what they look like, or mentally adjust to what that screen looks like. Does any of that matter, though? Who bothers with the existence of hypothetical artifacts in their displays they cannot even see?
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I have a Steam Deck, Asus ROG Ally, M2 Mac Mini, M1 Pro laptop, M2 Max laptop (work). All of this runs on either an LG C3 42" OLED or a 34" 1440p ultrawide. Linux GeForce Now can only do 720p or 1080p, can't remember which. Also, it's just kind of laggy in desktop mode. The Macs run so much smoother. My current "main" desktop is actually my Asus ROG Ally. I use one USB C hub that is capable of 4k120hz, and I can move…
> The problem for me is Windows. Perennial truth since XP
Vista was okay after hardware caught up and it got a few patches.
10 was a huge improvement over 8.x, but 11 has had a lot of bugginess for me, particularly related to the new Start menu.