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It only has:
- faster memory and up to 192 GB.
- 1 ekstra Thunderbolt port.
That is not much for such a large price difference:
Mac Mini (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $2500
Mac Studio (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $5000
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I am still astounded the huge change moving from an Intel Mac to an Apple Silicon Mac (M1) has had in terms of battery performance and heat. I don't think i've heard the fans a single time I've had this machine and it's been several years. Nor have I had any desire to upgrade.
> Nor have I had any desire to upgrade I never thought I'd see a processor that was 50% faster single-core and 80% faster multi-core and just shrug. My M1 Pro still feels so magically fast. I'm really happy that Apple keeps pushing things and I'll be grateful when I do decide to upgrade, but my M1 Pro has just been such a magical machine. Every other laptop I've ever bought (Mac or PC) has run its fan regularly. I di…
All I want is a top of the line MBP, with all it’s performance and insane battery life, but running a Linux distro of my choice :(
Agreed, but probably getting a Lenovo Legion will be your best bet in the near term.
So what is the role of the Mac Studio now? It only has: - faster memory and up to 192 GB. - 1 ekstra Thunderbolt port. That is not much for such a large price difference: Mac Mini (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $2500 Mac Studio (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $5000
But it is obviously a bad time to invest in a Mac Studio.
I have been out of the PC world for a long time, but in terms of performance efficiency, is Apple running away from the competition? Or are AMD and Intel producing similar performing chips at the same wattage?
AMD's latest Strix Point mobile chips are on par with M3 silicon: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z8WKR0VHfJw
The AMD mobile chips are right there with M3 for battery life and have excellent performance only I couldn't find a complete system which shipped with the same size battery as the MBP16. They're either half or 66% of the capacity.
How many people does this actually affect? Gamers are better off with AMD X3D chips, and most productivity workloads need good multicore performance. Obviously MR is great silicon and I don't want to downplay that, but I'm not sure that best singlecore performance is an overly useful metric for the people who need performance.
Yeah but then you'd have to use Windows. I'd rather just play whatever games can be emulated and take the performance penalty.
It helps that most AAAs put me to sleep...
How many people does this actually affect? Gamers are better off with AMD X3D chips, and most productivity workloads need good multicore performance. Obviously MR is great silicon and I don't want to downplay that, but I'm not sure that best singlecore performance is an overly useful metric for the people who need performance.
People who browse the web and want that fastest javascript performance they can get.
I'll admit to some reflexive skepticism here. I know GeekBench at least used to be considered an entirely unserious indicator of performance and any discussion relating to its scores used to be drowned out by people explaining why it was so bad. Do those criticisms still hold? Are serious people nowadays taking Geekbench to be a reasonably okay (though obviously imperfect) performance metric?
If I could pick 1 "generic" benchmark to base things off of I'd pick PassMark though. It tends to agree with Geekbench on Apple Silicon performance but it is a bit more useful when comparing non-typical corner cases (high core count CPUs and the like).
Best of all is to look at a full test suite and compare for the specific workload types that matter to you... but that can often be overkill if all you want to know is "yep, Apple is pulling ahead on single thread performance".
Good enough to be used for gaming? Really want Apple to get into that because dealing with Windows sucks.
That depends on what you want to play and what other things that suck that you’re willing to tolerate. The GPUs in previous M chips aren’t beating AMD or NVidia’s top offerings on anything except VRAM but you can definitely play games with them. Apple has released their Game Porting Toolkit a couple years ago which is basically like Wine/Proton in Linux and if you’re comfortable with Wine and approximately what a Ste…
Steam Deck-level performance is quite fine, I mainly just want to replay the older FromSoft games and my favorite indies every now and then.