AniMill

The death of the Mac Pro has started. The Mac Studio was always meant to become the content creators’ workhorse. Shame. How cool would a render beast be with multiple video cards. But really, who needs so much local render power any longer - web render farms have become so cheap that keeping up your own farm simply isn’t worth it.

Did Apple just Sherlock the Blackmagic Camera app? I just used the BMC app for recording a Keynote presentation to an external SSD and the iPhone 15 Pro got stupid hot. Is this normal?

I’d be fine with a new iMac Pro at the same 27” like I currently have (2017 first release). But what I want is for Apple to release a simple Mac Mini Pro/Max. Just give me the 2021 MacBook Pro without a screen, but all the guts & glory from inside. That’s it. I should only cost 2/3 of the same spec’ed MacBook, so for a 64GB RAM w/ 4TB SSD it should cost ($4900 * 0.67) $3300. That would be an insane deal. Even at $4000, it would be a solid done deal.

please Apple - make my year.

Conspiracy theorists here: Live Photo is a scam to use up iCloud storage. I, and many friends and family, see no use of this option - and we detest it can’t be forced off…only temporarily disabled. But it always somehow turns itself back on. Texts take longer to send because of it, and it chews up data. I hate it. Please Apple, just give us a OFF.

/rant

Where’s the Mac Pro? I wonder if they are waiting to release the M2 Extreme where 4 or more clusters work in concert? Where the M1 Mac had only one edge for their interconnect, perhaps the M2 Max could have 2 edge interconnects permitting 4 chips. Or maybe they’re working on a “co-processor” setup where the redundancies of multiple M2 Max chips are consolidated to a set of Maxes and a series of daughter chips permitting the user to configure the system to what best applies to their work: 4 GPU only chips added, 2 more 48-core CPU clusters, or more video coprocessors. This would permit an actual upgradable chassis component design.

dope_ahmine said:

Apple beyond PCs in gaming??? Yeah, right

I really think they meant BEHIND.

The ghost of Ive hovers relentlessly.

I loved my iMac Pro. It was a stopgap til the Mac Pro could be resurrected, but I also feel many users appreciated the single chassis solution the iMac Pro offered. And the performance was solid. Today I have a Mac Studio M1 Ultra connected to two monitors: a widescreen LG and a 16:9 Asus. I’ve got good desktop real estate because I can put the Studio pushed away, but I really miss that 5K display. It’s a shame Apple killed Target Display mode, I’d bet many an iMac Pro (or standard) user would have just purchased the Studio head instead…so yeah, they had to kill the Target Display. :-(

I dare to assume that kind of wishful thinking, that the pro tablet COULD be a full solution, still drives a large parte of iPad Pro sales. Except maybe for Procreate based illustrators, but even there, I find a budget Wacom to be more sensitive than Apple Pencil… Anyone with a better actual experience?

I just got the 11” Pro, but only the 512GB. I use it with AstroPad Studio on my M1 Studio Ultra as a Wacom replacement. It’s much more useful and flexible. With screen mirror and full Apple Pencil support I’m super happy with the utility and performance. If I wanted, I could use it with my MBP M1 14”. I actually use the iPad Pro for a vast portion of my work and consumption cycle. But I agree with you on it being crippled by iPadOS. I wish they’d offer a MacMode when the iPad is connected to a MagicKeyboard. Give us the power it offers running regular Mac apps when connected to the MK and a mouse. No, I don’t think it would cannablize regular MBP, but if it did better to self-cannablize than lose a customer to another platform.

Why does this amuse me?
“Excuse me, do you have any Grey Poupon?”
“Why of cour… TOO CLOSE! TOO CLOSE!!”