CheeseFreeze

Couple of things that bother me with Big Sur:

1. Too much white in the finder. Ouch.
2. Menu bars are hard to read and blend in too much with the content. Buttons don’t look like buttons.
3. Selected window state looks too much like the unselected window state.
4. Terrible translucent menu bar. I want an opaque one! Much easier to look at. I can’t do that because the “reduce transparency” setting completely ruins the dock in the process.
5. Uneven icon design. As an example the battery icon in the preference pane and the FaceTime & messages icons look like they’ve been made by an intern who applied for engineering but now has been placed in the art department. No even worse; like 12 separate teams worked on the designs and they got merged in the end.
6. Overall “toy look”. I want my desktop to be clean and minimalistic.

It all feels very uneven. As if it wasn’t rethought from the ground up but they “reskinned Catalina”.

lkrupp said:

CheeseFreeze said:

I’m personally most concerned about soldered SSD’s. They only last 5 years or so and that renders the computer useless, whereas I would like to be able to replace it.

5 years? Really? Where did you get that from? I have a late 2013 iMac with a 1TB Fusion drive. DriveDx (a respected disk health monitor app) reports the 128GB SSD portion of the Fusion drive is 100% good and has 67% of its life left. So after 7 years all is well and predicted to function well for more years still.

So, really, where did you come up with this bullshit number?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ontrack.com/amp/en-us/how-long-do-ssds-really-last/Y3FlazhwYUFXdDNFMUs4eDhuUk1VZ1R3Rnl3PQ2

beeble42 said:

Rayz2016 said:

hmlongco said:

I agree that the new M1 chip looks like it could run any of those apps and get great performance. My question, however, is whether or not it can run Resolve, Final Cut [Pro X], Frame.io, Adobe and Nuke all at the same time... given the 16GB limitation on RAM.

That's the question.

Having said that, a lot of it depends on what kind of optimisations they've done with the OS.

But conventional thinking would reckon 16GB is quite tight for high end video work.

16GB is tight for high end web browsing. But the real constraint is the gpu. Especially since it's sharing RAM with everything else. A slow GPU means far fewer real time renders of transitions and effects. This as a massive impact on speed of workflow. I don't see this Mac Mini being used for any serious editing work. But perhaps there will be a future model that has expandable memory, or at least more memory options, dedicated gpu or egpu support, etc. Has anyone seen any gpu benchmarks posted?

I agree - with 2.6 teraflops, although unclear how that translates to real world use, seems like a modest GPU and underpowered for high end work. That said, it depends on WHEN it is too slow. If you work with proxy footage that still looks great and only the rendering to a final format is slow, that is much more acceptable since it won’t hurt the author during the creation process. If the GPU however falls flat on its face during the creation process, that’ll be an unacceptable bottleneck, especially when eGPUs are not supported.

riverko said:

CheeseFreeze said:

I’m personally most concerned about soldered SSD’s. They only last 5 years or so and that renders the computer useless, whereas I would like to be able to replace it.

Well, someone probably forgot to tell to my MacBook Pro Retina Mid-2012 that his SSD is 3 years over due...

This is not Blade Runner where there’s a fixed lifespan engineered.

I’m personally most concerned about soldered SSD’s. They only last 5 years or so and that renders the computer useless, whereas I would like to be able to replace it.