Apple Silicon (ARM based) Macs buyers and owners thread (1 Viewer)

[DaveF]

Oops: $120 for iPad Air 2.

 

[Sam Posten]

 

[Sam Posten]

 

[Ronald Epstein]

What brand and size of monitor is that?

Thomas is correct. That is the G9.

There is the Odyssey Samsung monitor that is even more curved than that one, but it's designed more for gaming whereas the one I have is designed for work.

 

[DaveF]

Upgraded iMac M1 to Monterey, to see if that fixes "application memory" problem.

After that, disable sleep to see if that fixes it.

If Monterey doesn't fix it, then I'm hoping we can press on Apple to replace the whole iMac. This is not normal behavior for a brand new computer. It feelsl like a Gen 1 fab problem and we should get replacement hardware. But, we'll see.

The good news: a week later, upgrading to Monterey has eliminated the memory error on my wife’s M1 iMac.

The bad news: she can’t tell any performance benefit compared to her 2013 i5 iMac!

 

[Sam Posten]

That just means she’s not stressing the machine as much as she thought she was. The M1 is a beast but only if you need it for beastly tasks.

Whatdya mean this isn’t a gaming laptop???

 

[DaveF]

That just means she’s not stressing the machine as much as she thought she was. The M1 is a beast but only if you need it for beastly tasks.

She runs Adobe creative cloud.

I asked why we bought her a new computer if her 8 year old iMac was super fast enough?

The conversation halted and she changed the subject.

 

[DaveF]

I think this is really a difference between computer geeks and normal people.

I noticed previously how slow it was switching apps or quitting apps, due to swapping on her old Fusion drive. I’m sure that’s all gone with instant launch, switching, and quitting. But she’s a normal person and just works and doesn’t really have an internal logging function for that.

I’m positive that if I could switch her back to the old iMac in a couple weeks, she’d be screaming about how slow it was.

 

[Sam Posten]

Yep. My tolerance for slow compute is completely wiped out. My parents will sit and wait 10 minutes for a computer to boot. I’d die.

 

[Sam Posten]

 

[Dave Upton]

This news started breaking today. Looks like the next Mac Pro will basically be a dual die M1 Max (or double the power of the M1 Max):

Apple silicon roadmap reveals plans for Mac Pro, MacBook Air

Some future Mac chips will have two dies instead of one.

arstechnica.com

 

[Carlo_M]

This news started breaking today. Looks like the next Mac Pro will basically be a dual die M1 Max (or double the power of the M1 Max):

Apple silicon roadmap reveals plans for Mac Pro, MacBook Air

Some future Mac chips will have two dies instead of one.

arstechnica.com

Now Sam can finally fulfill his goal of rendering Toy Story 5 on one machine.

 

[DaveF]

Now Sam can finally fulfill his goal of rendering Toy Story 5 on one machine.

While playing Diablo.

 

[Sam Posten]

The software and infrastructure is the blocker now on gaming, not the hardware.

 

[Ted Todorov]

Good NY Times article on Apple's M1 success:

Opinion | The Chip That Could Transform Computing (Published 2021)

Apple’s custom processors suggest that computers are nowhere near hitting their performance limits.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Good NY Times article on Apple's M1 success:

Opinion | The Chip That Could Transform Computing (Published 2021)

Apple’s custom processors suggest that computers are nowhere near hitting their performance limits.

www.nytimes.com

Just finished reading that terrific article. Made me feel really good.

Not only that, it makes me feel very proud of Apple. For years they had to deal with the bottlenecks of Intel's chip release schedule and delays. Apple couldn't be their own company, on their own schedule, until they did something completely revolutionary.

Creating their own silicone chips was the most revolutionary thing Apple has ever done and they have succeeded beyond everyone's expectations. This is why I am such an Apple fanboy. With the exception of a few product letdowns, whatever that company touches turns to gold. They always manage to put out products that are far more innovative than the competition.

 

[DaveF]

I assure you Apple is not creating silicone chips.

 

[DaveF]

(Autocorrect, I understand. )

 

[Ronald Epstein]

I assure you Apple is not creating silicone chips.

They aren't? What am I misunderstanding here? I thought all their chips were created in-house.

 

[Ted Todorov]

They aren't? What am I misunderstanding here? I thought all their chips were created in-house.

Dave is making a silicon vs silicone joke. Here is mine: Silicon Valley is near San Fransisco, Silicone Valley is in Los Angeles