Mac Studio with M1 Ultra - Good Lord!

[Pork Chop]

I am watching the Apple event from today: https://www.apple.com/apple-events/march-2022/

The Mac Studio with M1 Ultra is way faster than a decked out $20,000 Mac Pro with 28 core Xeon and a $5,400 upgraded graphics (W6900X).

The GPU performance is up to 80% faster than the 32GB W6900X. It can access up to 64GB of RAM.

That is an insane level of performance for $4,000. I so badly wish there was awesome PC game support for macOS with Apple Silicone cos it has the potential to be an extremely high-end gaming PC. My understanding is that the GPU is a bit faster than a 3090 while using 200 fewer watts. Unreal!

The Mac Studio will just plow through massive workloads like editing 8K video. Supports up to 18 streams of 8K ProRes video.

Also, not a fan of the Studio display. It's $1,600 - only 600 nits and 60Hz. Love that it's 5K. Should be 32" in my opinion.

They should have built a monitor like the MacBook Pro's - thousands of miniLEDs and thousands of zones for real HDR. Plus, huge brightness and ProMotion.

LOL

 

[phaZed]

Meh. All that power and nowhere to go.

 

[Pork Chop]

Meh. All that power and nowhere to go.

Right

 

[Pork Chop]

LOL

 

[frase]

Apple & Their Followers get so excited about the products lol.

 

[Pork Chop]

The Studio Display is basically an iMac without the computer for the majority of the cost (or more if you get the $400 adjustable stand).

Such a joke.

 

[frase]

Yeap like the airMac you get the air though not the Mac, thats $5,000 extra.

 

[Archon Prime]

Haters gonna hate.

 

[timeshifter]

Haters gonna hate.

Yep.

I was thinking we need a dedicated "I hate Apple" thread. It's rare to see a thread concerning an Apple product here where the haters don't start taking pot shots at the company.

 

[phaZed]

We have to dish it out because the media is nothing but fawning for Apple while they never have anything good to say for anything else. Not to mention the false advertising and the death of computing that is Apple. The company is a massive POS tax cheating, customer gouging company with less than desirable practices everywhere you look. Not to mention, they "take credit" for industry standards they never touched and patent stupid **** that should be unpatentable. Their stock prices are artificial and totally speculative and Apple is one of the largest purveyors of "stock buybacks" and other shenanigans.

Present company excluded, Apple users are the most ignorant, dumbed-down class of computer user I come in contact with, largely because of the "hidden" nature of OSX and iOS...

This is going to be largely a "paper launch" anyways - seeing as they have been barely able to get their current stuff out to market.

 

[overburnz]

We have to dish it out because the media is nothing but fawning for Apple while they never have anything good to say for anything else. Not to mention the false advertising and the death of computing that is Apple. The company is a massive POS tax cheating, customer gouging company with less than desirable practices everywhere you look. Not to mention, they "take credit" for industry standards they never touched and patent stupid **** that should be unpatentable. Their stock prices are artificial and totally speculative and Apple is one of the largest purveyors of "stock buybacks" and other shenanigans.

Present company excluded, Apple users are the most ignorant, dumbed-down class of computer user I come in contact with, largely because of the "hidden" nature of OSX and iOS...

This is going to be largely a "paper launch" anyways - seeing as they have been barely able to get their current stuff out to market.

so everyone that owns an apple product is ignorant? so only PC users know what's good? have you ever used an Apple product on a daily basis or you just like to trash talk?

Your comment makes me believe that you, and people that think like you, are the ignorant ones, because I have used multiple brands of products, (not just one!) and I can tell you the pro's and con's of both.. and if you really are an "IT professional" you should have a broader view of all products and be able to see why brand "A" is a better option than brand "B", and I can assure you that I have multiple Apple products and I have never came across the ecosystem they have in any other brand! The reliability of their products is by far bigger than any other brand, not saying they are the only option or best brand, but at least I speak of experience (years of it, not just 5min toying around with a product of a brand I hate and will not find anything positive about it because I don't want to)

 

[phaZed]

so everyone that owns an apple product is ignorant?

No, that is exactly what I did not say. I will ignore the rest as it is predicated that I said that, of which I did not. I have owned 5 or 6 Apple laptops and Desktops over the past 12 years+ (and have one in the office for Apple-only work - cause you practically have to with their BS.)

See, this is the problem, if anyone has a negative opinion of the company - I'm the ignorant one that isn't "really an IT professional". I literally hack Apples for breakfast with Kali Linux... I know a little bit about them, excuse me very much. I have predicated my "hate" for Apple based on facts, not feelings.

 

[sapphirescales]

It's rare to see a thread concerning an Apple product here where the haters don't start taking pot shots at the company.

Jeeze, I wonder why? Apple sheep always get so butthurt about anyone saying anything even remotely truthful about the computers and the company that makes them. It's like a religion/cult.

The reliability of their products is by far bigger than any other brand

I'm so sick and tired of this BS being spouted. I still run a cheap Acer laptop I bought back in 2007. Apple products are no more "reliable" than anything else. In fact, almost every fricking year they have massive issues with their products and are forced to issue recalls. Apple products are absolute overpriced trash.

 

[timeshifter]

I still run a cheap Acer laptop I bought back in 2007

I've got an 2017 Acer all in one desktop on a shelf that's on it's 3rd motherboard.

 

[overburnz]

Jeeze, I wonder why? Apple sheep always get so butthurt about anyone saying anything even remotely truthful about the computers and the company that makes them. It's like a religion/cult.


I'm so sick and tired of this BS being spouted. I still run a cheap Acer laptop I bought back in 2007. Apple products are no more "reliable" than anything else. In fact, almost every fricking year they have massive issues with their products and are forced to issue recalls. Apple products are absolute overpriced trash.

Clearly you've never used multiple apple products.... you can't say something without using it, and yes I will always say the ecosystem is a big part of me liking Apple products, if you don't like it it is one thing, saying they are no good is just nonsense.... is like saying linux is a terrible OS when that is not true, maybe it is just meant for some of us, not all....

 

[overburnz]

No, that is exactly what I did not say. I will ignore the rest as it is predicated that I said that, of which I did not. I have owned 5 or 6 Apple laptops and Desktops over the past 12 years+ (and have one in the office for Apple-only work - cause you practically have to with their BS.)

See, this is the problem, if anyone has a negative opinion of the company - I'm the ignorant one that isn't "really an IT professional". I literally hack Apples for breakfast with Kali Linux... I know a little bit about them, excuse me very much. I have predicated my "hate" for Apple based on facts, not feelings.

that's what I read, but please, enlighten me

 

[phaZed]

If this is the part you need enlightenment on, I said, "Present company excluded, Apple users are the most ignorant, dumbed-down class of computer user I come in contact with".

If we had three classes of computer users, Windows, Linux and Mac - does it mean I am saying Windows Users are all brilliant, Linux Users are all geniuses and Mac users are all ignorant?

Please answer that.

Within Classes, you have subsets of classes.. and potentially subset classes of the subsets.

With the people that I deal with on a daily basis in both break-fix and MSP work with over 6000 customers.. my anecdotal experience is that Apple users are the least technologically advanced, least knowledgeable CLASS of computer user.. and it makes sense, to me, as to why that is. When you look at the "ecosystem" that you prefer... an ecosystem that caters to only allowing corporate approved Apple products and services... it doesn't leave much ability for advanced usage in many instances.

My average Mac user knows how to click on Safari - and that's about it. Finder? Forget about it. Don't even get me started on trying to explain to every Mac user (and lots of Windows users, too) that a webpage is not on your computer, it's on "theirs". Or iCloud, Jesus. What a cluster.

 

[frase]

Is Jesus in the iCloud now?

 

[timeshifter]

My average Mac user knows how to click on Safari - and that's about it. Finder? Forget about it. Don't even get me started on trying to explain to every Mac user (and lots of Windows users, too) that a webpage is not on your computer, it's on "theirs". Or iCloud, Jesus. What a cluster.

IMHO they're all eff-ing clueless regardless of platform.

 

[VISA MC]

I am an apple user. Deskrop, laptop, iPad, phone and watch. Everyone’s experience is different obviously, in my little corner of the world I make a living supporting windows. There isn’t a large Mac following around here. I have not yet found something I can’t support using my all Mac ecosystem.

I will say that I think the reason apple users are dumbed down is because they don’t need tons of experience. The systems mostly just work for them. I was troubleshooting a printer the other day for a customer and part of the instructions from the support folks were to go into the registry and make these edits. I feel like end users never should have to do that.

I feel like that would be similar to Chevrolet saying “oh to fill your oil just go out to your garage and go ahead and lower the engine 3” out of the bottom of the vehicle” end users shouldn’t be exposed to that.