nubus

IIc, IIe, Plus, SE, SE/30, IIcx, Classic, LC, LC II, LC III, Color Classic, LC 475, Centris 610, PB 180c, Duo 210, Quadra 840AV, PowerMac 7500, Power Computing xxx, PowerMac 4400, PowerMac G3 (Beige), PB 1400, AppleVision 1710AV, Newton MP 120, MP 2000, QuickTake 150, eMate 300, iBook (Tangerine), Pismo (PB G3), MacBook Pro (Core), MacBook Pro 15 (mid-2010), OSX86, iPhone 15 Pro.... and waiting for something insanely great! Well, it seems Apple Intelligence is insanely great by functionality - not by name. A new golden era.

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  • 15-inch MacBook Air review: Hits the sweet spot for portability and power

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    thedba said:
    The base 8GB RAM is enough for the vast majority of regular folks that do e-mails, word processing, spreadsheet kind of work. 
    If I would suggest an upgrade for regular folk, I would say upgrade the storage. Nowadays 256GB is hardly enough with all the photos that so many store locally. 
    512 GB is important due to the 2x storage speed. With 256 GB the read/write speed is close to a 4 year old Intel laptop.

    My local Apple reseller only lists 8/256 and 8/512 indicating that 16 GB and 1TB are not what MBA buyers are looking for. Apple adjusted exchange rates USD-EUR making it 6-7% less expensive than expected. This is indeed a very nice computer.
    williamlondonAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • M2 Mac Studio vs Mac Pro 2023 -- compared

    nubusnubus
    Mac Pro.. no longer ECC-memory, half-speed PCI 4.0 (dated compared to other workstations), 192 GB limit shared with graphics, no possibility to upgrade memory or GPU (critical), and no way of upgrading motherboard.... There is no way of keeping a Mac Pro relevant after purchase as Apple stopped offering motherboard upgrades. The Mac Pro is indeed a device with a CPU (M2 Ultra) delivering half speed of just a single high-end AMD or Intel Xeon CPU. 

    Where do we go from here?

    williamlondon

  • M2 Ultra benchmarks show performance bump over M1 Ultra

    nubusnubus

    Double the Intel performance — ouch, indeed!

    Way to go, Apple. Keep up the good work.
    You're comparing M2 Ultra with a Xeon W-3257M introduced 4 years ago. These days both Intel (Xeon) and AMD have workstation processors outperforming M2 Ultra. Some by +100% on multi-core. For GPU things are even worse. The x86 workstations also support workstation class ECC-memory - a feature the Mac had from 2004 to 2023 (not available in Mac Pro 2023), and the x86 workstation are running PCIe 5.0 at double the speed of the PCIe 4.0 used by Mac Pro 2023.
    williamlondonmuthuk_vanalingamentropys

  • Hands on with Apple's new Pro Macs -- Mac Pro & Mac Studio with M2 Ultra

    nubusnubus
    Mac Pro 2023 is all about PCIe. Apple decided to stay on PCIe 4 while Dell, HP,... are shipping workstations with double bandwidth PCIe 5.0. The real question for heavy Pro users is if Apple Silicon is good for them.

    • Buy Mac Pro 2023 and get half speed PCIe.
    • Wait 1 year for M3 Ultra as it might deliver PCIe 5. However, the main reason for Apple to support PCIe 5 is Thunderbolt 5, and that standard won't be ready in time for M3; PCIe 5.0 might not be part of M3.
    • Replace old Xeon-based workstation (from Apple) with new Xeon running other OS, get the latest PCIe, and keep the options to choose GPUs and expand memory as required.
    The direction of Apple Silicon is clear. Pro = Studio in a PCIe 4 enclosure with no other modularity. The Pro crowd will have to make a decision.
    9secondkox2williamlondoncgWerksAlex1N

  • Up close and hands on with Apple Vision Pro at Apple Park

    nubusnubus
    Clearly the hardware and integrations are far ahead of what we could expect. But is this like Segway, Newton, Google Glass, OpenDoc, Google Wave, and 3D-TV impressive tech that won't work outside the lab? A dad hiding behind his avatar when his kids are around? A colleague with non-visor colleagues? The hardware is not the problem.
    williamlondoncaladaniandesignrAlex1N