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shadowself said: I'm running a maxed out 2019 Mac Pro (no, I don't have 1.5 TB of RAM!, but I have a lot). I run high end simulation software in MacOS, Windows 10, and Windows 11 depending on what the software requires. I've been waiting o…
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Bill’s work was tremendously inspiring to me back in the 80s. One of the greats of the computer industry, gone too soon. Very sad. 😢
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davebarnes said: What about the Y2100 problem? Just go to three digits?
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danvm said: And I have work with some of those workstations, and the performance is not as pathetic as you mention. Some of them have advantages over Apple Silicon, specially when comparing the GPU. You say "workstations" whereas what you qu…
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sflocal said: Intel deservedly deserved the boot. I won't miss Intel on Macs. What I will do is continue to keep my 2018 Mac Mini for the long, foreseeable future for those rare times I need to run x86 Windows natively. That's it. Other …
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"Barely fast enough to run ..." -- this is a nonsense statement for any computation that doesn't have some sort of real-time constraint. If you're willing to wait long enough, even a 680x0-based Mac could run an LLM... if it had enough storage. Th…
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killroy said: I wonder if it's the M4 or just the M4 Pro mini. The M4 Pro has thunderbolt 5 Ii may be a negotiation problem between me older versions and thunderbolt 5. I have had zero USB problems with my M4 Mac mini pro, and I have a …
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9secondkox2 said: Still pretty bummed about m3 ultra instead of current gen - especially in terms of GPU performance. Pretty lame decision. I thought the m3 chips were produced on a more expensive, less reliable version of the 3nm process. …
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You must be smoking something good to jump to that conclusion. Sure Apple's logo was on the screen there... along with about 100 others, give-or-take. Everybody wants to be able to use nVidia's monster, and fortunately there is a way... we have th…
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netrox said: Mac Studio with M3 Ultra seems targeted toward users who use AI LLMs and scientific computing where loading massive amount of datasets into RAM can make a huge difference. LLMs are often around 4GB at a minimum (and produces laughable o…
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john-useless said: I've been a Mac user since the original 1984 model … but benchmarks in recent years confuse me, given the nature of multi-core machines these days, not to mention performance vs. efficiency cores, etc. Consider these two ne…
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ApplePoor said: To cover their costs to create and get the operational M3 Ultra, they will need to make a lot of them. I don’t think that’s true. I suspect the original M3 Max design had the ultra fusion connector, but they just masked i…
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keithw said: While it's nice that the M3 Ultra is now finally out, why did it take them over a year to release it? (The M3 line came out on October 30, 2023!) Why didn't they release the M4 Max Studio at the same time as the M4 Max MBP? If …
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My M4 Pro mac mini w/ 48GB RAM and 1TB SSD (plus the external USB3 storage I already had for previous machines) scores a 6.0/5.0 ... it is way beyond what I expected in terms of performance. Its performance even with Rosetta or other forms of virtu…
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mattinoz said: CXL would give more options and space to work with in the machine Including more options 3rd party GPU. Could make sense of Apple nVidia team up. Rumours around model training. A Mac Pro with MPX modules returning could mak…
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melgross said: mattinoz said: programmer said: Multi-chiplet gives Apple options. The ultras so far have been dual chips of the same type, but that doesn’t have to be the case. And they might be able to do edge connectors on m…
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Multi-chiplet gives Apple options. The ultras so far have been dual chips of the same type, but that doesn’t have to be the case. And they might be able to do edge connectors on more than one edge. More expensive and higher power though, so mostl…
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apple4thewin said: Everyone currently trying to come out with a chip using SoC by the end of 2025 or 2026 but apple is already one step ahead. Although would this still share memory or will it go back to the dedicated ram for CPU and other fo…
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netrox said: I haven’t used a mouse since magic trackpad came out. i cannot stand a mouse. Funny, I can't stand a trackpad. I also don't like the current magic mouse though, so I just use inexpensive Logitech mice which work quite nicely…
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I've already done it the hard way. I really dislike having notifications sitting there taunting me all the time... (btw, it was quite a while ago that they were marked as unread again... at least months, maybe years. For some reason the notificat…