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I've basically been disassembling my AEBS 802.11ac once a year, cleaning it, then reassembling it, and it continues to run well.. But yeah a new Airport purchase is still a lock for me.. I honestly wouldn't care if it came in the same exact case so long as I knew it had WiFi 6/6E guts. And hopefully Time Machine has been modded to do backing up over the network better.. even with the old Time Capsules backups seened to be incredibly slow if not over a wire.. (though that could also be due to the lovely USB connection they used)
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Mercurius posted:You know, maybe it is GPU. This was both using the LG 5K and the biggest performance difference I've seen was in stuff like Affinity Photo or Pixelmator Pro working with quite large files. Dunno about Pixelmator, but Affinity Photo definitely uses the GPU. This twitter thread is one of their devs going into why M1's unified memory architecture GPU is a great match for Affinity. The SSD controller is the same across all M1 Pro and Max configs because it's part of the M1 chip, but SSDs often show some performance scaling based on size and the M1 SSD is no exception. Does the Studio have a bigger SSD than the MBP?
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Binary Badger posted:I've basically been disassembling my AEBS 802.11ac once a year, cleaning it, then reassembling it, and it continues to run well.. I've been doing the same except without the obsessive yearly disassembly / cleaning regime. I keep thinking maybe it's time to finally get a WiFi 6 base station now that I have WiFi 6 clients, but the AEBS 802.11ac just keeps on loving working with zero effort from me, which makes me go "meh" every time I try to find a suitable replacement and it's all horrible gamerbranded junk. Even the 802.11ac AEBS only has USB 2.0, so yeah, that's a major bottleneck for backups. I've heard backing up to the internal HDD of the Time Capsule version is much faster since that's a SATA connection.
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BobHoward posted:Dunno about Pixelmator, but Affinity Photo definitely uses the GPU. This twitter thread is one of their devs going into why M1's unified memory architecture GPU is a great match for Affinity.
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I believe the difference is the memory bandwidth.. the M1 Max has a 400 GB/sec memory bandwidth while the Pro only has 200 GB/sec.. for certain memory intensive operations that's a huge 2X difference. And I'd imagine imaging apps need to do quite a bit of memory muddling especially when you ideally need to support undo layers/copies and other range-based operations..
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Meanwhile.. https://twitter.com/markgurman/status/1531701737886732290 Dunno what drugs he's on, has he tried spec'ing a 14 or 16-inch rMBP lately? Freaking August until you see one. MBAs.. June 9th to June 16th? Only two weeks out? Something wonky going on here...
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Binary Badger posted:Meanwhile.. he's citing "regular" M1 Macs, ie, not the Max or Pro models, just the MBA, MBP13, Mac mini and iMac.
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There are base model 14” MBPs in the refurb store fyi
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I swear my i9 has gotten hotter now that I'm waiting on an M1
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"You can't tell me you're not gonna miss THIS?? *burns lap* What would you do without *spins up fans* MEEEEEEEEE"
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for a while after I got my Mac Studio my office was freezing cold and I couldn’t figure out why. Turns out my old 2013 iMac was keeping the place nice and warm before..
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Last Chance posted:for a while after I got my Mac Studio my office was freezing cold and I couldn’t figure out why. Turns out my old 2013 iMac was keeping the place nice and warm before.. I’d be moving to one from a Core i9-7940x with a GTX 1080 Ti, and living in Texas this sounds like a sweet-rear end problem to have. Now I just have to figure out how to make the numbers work.
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Data Graham posted:"You can't tell me you're not gonna miss THIS?? *burns lap* What would you do without *spins up fans* MEEEEEEEEE" "Oh you don't like watching my battery deplete in two hours? Well if you can think of a more energy efficient way to heat up to 90 degrees celsius I'd love to hear it!"
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prom candy posted:"Oh you don't like watching my battery deplete in two hours? Well if you can think of a more energy efficient way to heat up to 90 degrees celsius I'd love to hear it!" “Whaddaya mean you don’t like when I heat the case up to 125 degrees Fahrenheit and throttle? I look so good doing it you shouldn’t care!”
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Hasturtium posted:I’d be moving to one from a Core i9-7940x with a GTX 1080 Ti, and living in Texas this sounds like a sweet-rear end problem to have. Now I just have to figure out how to make the numbers work. I moved from an 8600k and a 1080ti to a studio with m1 max 32 core gpu and I’m loving it. Im also loving the complete silence and the not raising the temperature of my room several degrees.
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LionArcher posted:And i'm going to laugh as everyone online bitches about white bezel's, and everyone still will buy them. 
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The original M1 Air will still be sold alongside whatever else comes out. It looks fine and will perform exactly as well as you need from a small mobile device. I can't imagine the revision will have many/any must-have features *except* the aesthetic revamp.
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LionArcher posted:I'm going to be so pumped if new MacBook airs are released. And i'm going to laugh as everyone online bitches about white bezel's, and everyone still will buy them. My 2006 white macbook was a beautiful machine
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anothergod posted:The original M1 Air will still be sold alongside whatever else comes out. It looks fine and will perform exactly as well as you need from a small mobile device. I can't imagine the revision will have many/any must-have features *except* the aesthetic revamp.
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Even the 8GB M1 air is preferable to any PC for non-graphical work reasons (outside of software compatibility). I’d be surprised if they make a new version that makes the M1 Air a fool’s purchase. With any luck they just slash prices or something.
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Last Chance posted:for a while after I got my Mac Studio my office was freezing cold and I couldn’t figure out why. Turns out my old 2013 iMac was keeping the place nice and warm before.. hahaha I moved my 2015 iMac out of my bedroom a few days ago and now it's freezing in there
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TACD posted:Purchase last year's model? And bring such shame upon my family? I don't know if the reverence of opulence in the apple community is worse than the jokes about it but here we are
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TACD posted:It’s me, I’m going to be sore as poo poo when they release with white bezels, no MagSafe, and I still end up getting one because I want something more portable than a pro It will have MagSafe, at least the rumors point to it.
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jokes posted:Even the 8GB M1 air is preferable to any PC for non-graphical work reasons (outside of software compatibility). I’d be surprised if they make a new version that makes the M1 Air a fool’s purchase. With any luck they just slash prices or something.
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What if they follow the 24" iMac, different colors with light matching bezels? Seems better than sheer white bezels.
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zachol posted:What if they follow the 24" iMac, different colors with light matching bezels? I think people are expecting similar for the Air to have the outer case as the solid anodised colour, the topcase using the matching pastel and then the keys/bezel would be off-white which is how the iMacs are with their matching keyboards.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dockcier/dockcier-a-thunderbolt-3-dock-with-8tb-storage-boost?ref=2gb1ba Interesting Kickstarter project for a TB3 hub that has all the ports you'd want PLUS 100W PD charging PLUS up to 8 TB SSD storage PLUS 15W wireless charging for phone/earpods.. not bad for $120 but I get the feeling it'll burst into flames the second you plug in the last empty port.. also, no SD/microSD slot.. c'mon guys! You missed the final bingo square! Edit: also suspicious: no shots of what is doubtless a Brobdingnagian power brick. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 16:17 on Jun 3, 2022 |
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Binary Badger posted:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dockcier/dockcier-a-thunderbolt-3-dock-with-8tb-storage-boost?ref=2gb1ba That ssd is going to be a 1gb usb drive with a modded firmware to make it look as 8tb, there is no way you can fit 8tb and an alpine ridge chip for that price.
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Binary Badger posted:https://twitter.com/MajinBuOfficial/status/1529809611582328833 This made me giggle because I just yesterday gave up on trying to use Time Machine with my NAS (it pretended to work but didn't, which is not great for a backup) and moved to Synology's own backup thing. And while grumbling about this, wondered why there wasn't some clever way to integrate with the 2TB of iCloud storage I'm paying for. Watching with interest.
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SlowBloke posted:That ssd is going to be a 1gb usb drive with a modded firmware to make it look as 8tb, there is no way you can fit 8tb and an alpine ridge chip for that price. The $120 option is the 0TB storage config with a free M.2 socket. $120 is still a ridiculously low price for a TB dock with that many features from a tiny operation (no economies of scale). You can easily pay $120 just for a Thunderbolt M.2 enclosure. There's a bunch of other red flags. A notable one: the campaign goal was only $6373???? If you believe the timeline they posted, they've got all the engineering done already and now need to invest in tooling, run some pilot production, and ramp to mass production. If you need money to start tooling and production, $6K is a drop in the bucket. Even the $72K they've gotten from the campaign isn't much. If it's a real project that's going to deliver product, it's mostly been funded outside of KS. So... what's the KS campaign for? Hmmmmmmmmmmm
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BobHoward posted:The $120 option is the 0TB storage config with a free M.2 socket.
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BobHoward posted:The $120 option is the 0TB storage config with a free M.2 socket. A thunderbolt bridge chip is about 30$ on its own, the end user price is too low, even if they used reference designs(which cuts implementation testing) and used folded paper as a chassis, I don't see a feasible product. If their "thunderbolt" implementation was just usb-c with a pci-e to usb3 bridge to provide the storage part, I see the price being viable.
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Thanks Ants posted:I'd be amazed if that can be delivered for $120 Probably not. Don't some Kickstarters just deliver the proceeds to the to the creator(s), never to be heard from again? At least Doobie tried to do the right thing....didn't he? Lol.
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Anton Chigurh posted:Probably not. Don't some Kickstarters just deliver the proceeds to the to the creator(s), never to be heard from again? Everyone should be required to read the Saga of the Dune Pro before ever investing in anything like these.
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