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
Apple Mac Studio
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#82Perfect. 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.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, I want to run AAA games using these crazy Mac hardwares. A more interesting question will be: how hard it will be to implement such Proton for Mac? Is there any previous project?
Some more donations to Proton’s Patreon would probably help. They only get about $400 / month right now… https://www.patreon.com/protondb
That is a Patreon link ProtonDB, not Proton. Proton is funded by Valve and ProtonDB is unaffiliated.
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#84I am genuinely crestfallen that there was no update to Mac Mini. That thing has the right balance for most computer science folks who want a Mac. Not everyone needs/runs a silicon Godzilla on their desk after all.
As of the current lineup, Mini is still stuck with 16 GB RAM and a disappointing number of ports.
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#85Great they avoided $1000 stand memes by offering a more reasonable $400 stand. To be more serious looks like a pretty good product that fits well into offices. I stopped working in IT in 2018 but back then SFF was all the rage and a powerful workstation with a smaller form factor will probably be attractive to a lot of customers.
I want a vesa mount one which should be cheaper. Hrumph.
It's "free". No additional cost.
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#86Good to see the kind of computer we can all afford in ten years or so.
This is not really geared towards 'all'. You can see that on the presentation and who they had talking.
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#87More and more I see the M1 chips and I wish Mac worked seriously well for gaming. Would love too see something like Proton but for Mac (given up hopes for native support). I hate that I have my gaming PC and then my Mac for everything else. I have to wonder though what their plan is for the M2. Are they laying the groundwork for when the M2 comes out all of these variants will be ready at the same time? Or a gradual…
Seriously. If Apple supported gaming more I'd be able to drop this PC. Could be the sort of thing that could cause an avalanche of switchers. You'd also pull over the entire games industry into the Apple space. Right now we code on PCs. As Apple silicon gets better, it's gonna be more and more painful to not be able to make use of that.
> If Apple supported gaming more
You mean if gaming supported Apple more, right? The industry's reliance on DirectX and the frameworks that build on it are largely what keep gaming so PC-centric.
If we saw AAA studios embrace macOS-compatible (or better yet Open Source) graphics architecture, the need to have separate gaming PCs (and the insanely expensive GPUs associated therewith) would evaporate.
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same, I want to run AAA games using these crazy Mac hardwares. A more interesting question will be: how hard it will be to implement such Proton for Mac? Is there any previous project?
Well crazy mac hardware is actually not very good compared to PC graphic cards.
The comparison chart for the high spec M1 Ultra was using a 3090.
So even if it "only" reaches 3060 levels of performance in games, I think many people would be okay with that. Reality will likely place it somewhere between a 3060 and the 3090.
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#89I'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.
Why would you overload this machine for that need, though? Just have a laptop sitting on a shelf for when you need to spin up those old VMs, do what you need to do, and put it back on the shelf.
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#90This is such a random thing to complain about but I hate these Mac product pages with the animations as you scroll. I guess they are designed for mobile but I navigate them on a desktop using a mouse wheel and they always look super clunky.