docno42

muthuk_vanalingam said:

docno42 said:

Welp it's only a kidney and a half day.  16" MacBook Pro with M1 Pro, 64GB of RAM and 2TB of disk for $4,299.  Delivers November 3rd-ish.  Expected delivery was October 26th when I first started look - the dates zoomed up quickly!

I guess you meant M1 Max. M1 Pro supports only max 32GB of RAM, isn't it?

Yes, the M1 Max.  I though the main difference between the M1 Pro and M1 Max was just the GPUs.  If it was also RAM then I feel a bit less guilty for splurging for the M1 Pro since 64GB of RAM was a hard requirement for me.

EDIT: Just looked at the tech specs more closely - yup, you are right.  For 64GB you have to get the M1 Max.  Glad I didn't try the M1 Pro and then into some loop of confusion as to why I couldn't pick 64GB of RAM - it was bad enough slipping from October to early November in the time it took me to make my choices and check out!

Paradroid said:
Oh I have ideas. But if I share them with you, you'll then have a perfect straw man opportunity to disagree with my ideas on design direction. No thanks.

lol - more unlimited unkown.  Love it.

auxio said:

For audio apps, a lot of the problem is with old plugins (VSTs and similar) which aren't being maintained anymore, so they need to figure out a way to host them via emulation while the main app is native.  I also have a couple of old audio devices which don't have updated drivers, so I'd need to find replacements for those.

People were also having USB/Audio interface issues.  Hopefully that's just driver stability and not some inherent flaw in the hardware.  Are the T2 Intel Macbook Pros still having interface issues?  I haven't paid much attention lately as I don't do much with audio these days. 

StrangeDays said:

Using a regular USBC-HDMI cable is not a dongle. It’s just using a cable, as we have used various IO cables for decades. 

Semantics - whatever you want to call it, it's another *thing* you have to remember to have with you, not leave behind, find out one day it suddenly has some problem and needs to be replaced (while you are stuck without functionality in the meantime), etc.

Whatever your choice of pedantry, in the end it equals more friction for every day use.  For what?  A port on the side of the machine that offends someones sensibilities?  How utterly ridiculous.  Thankfully the likes of you LOST the argument and saner heads prevailed.

EDIT: Ha - just realized who I replied to.  What a shock; the king of pedantic nit pickers.  

anome said:
Magsafe power you can make an argument for, but my desktop setup is kind of reliant on my power being on the other side, so I either forego one of my only 3 TB ports, or have my power stretching across my desk and bending at an odd angle.

Pretty sure TB ports support power and data at the same time.  You want everyone else to get a dongle for HDMI, just get a dock for your machine to only need one cable.

Seems like a small sacrifice you were willing to force everyone else to make