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Binary Badger posted:Thinking about picking up a CalDigit TS3 Plus dock, and Amazon has it for $279 while Apple has it for $249? WTF? I would just get a Dell or Lenovo TB3 dock, CalDigit has been around for... three years? Really? Data Graham posted:I mean I dunno about you folks but Trap sprung, Thinkpad laptop user spotted
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Hadlock posted:I would just get a Dell or Lenovo TB3 dock, CalDigit has been around for... three years? Really?  , looks like they’ve been around since 1999.
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Feb 24, 2020 08:15
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:I just a couple of Windows VMs on my 16GB 2013 -- but mostly just for QAing the frontend of some non-resource intensive software, so 2GB per VM is fine, probably overkill. All depends on your use case. Depends on what you're doing. My 2017 13" MBP runs a single VM like poo poo.
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VM performance on mac is so bad, (or maybe all my macs are slow) I just gave up and remote into an esxi box at work, and at home I run my hackintosh as a vm on linux just to run vms on linux instead of osx.
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Perplx posted:VM performance on mac is so bad, (or maybe all my macs are slow) I just gave up and remote into an esxi box at work, and at home I run my hackintosh as a vm on linux just to run vms on linux instead of osx. It's just the low-power i5 CPU. My X260 runs them like equal poo poo. Like I thought for sure something was horribly wrong. Nope. Runs perfectly normal on my bigger Mac. But yes Mac is slower than poo poo compared to the same machine running teh linux.
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Feb 24, 2020 16:08
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I've got a 16 GB 2015 rMBP with i7 (and dual core to boot) that runs multiple VMs (four at last count) in VMWare with no problem. I did cheat and shove in a 2 TB SSD with a Chinese adapter to do it, though.
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Feb 24, 2020 18:40
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https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/24/mac-apple-designed-processor-2021/ ARM Mac(s) will be out first quarter of 2021, according to Ming Kuo, and he's fairly accurate.. The end of Intel supremacy for Macs? Who knows.. Gonna be interesting to see if anyone steps up to the plate to port ARM Linux..
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Feb 24, 2020 18:50
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I guess i'll predict 3-5 years of Rosetta like crap until apps have been updated to work at native speed.
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Feb 24, 2020 18:58
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Uggggggghhhhh. No more Boot Camp may be a dealbreaker for me.
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Are there are any interesting rumors for a new iMac being announced in March? I just sold off my 2013 Macbook and need a new Mac. I'm thinking I'll buy an iMac but I know they release new ones in March.
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The 12" MacBook/Air is the only thing that would make sense. The 13" will be all new, the 16" just got refreshed, those are staying the way they are for 3+ years. The iMac has to stay Intel (maybe they'll bring out a 20" model, but not the 27") It would be so hilarious if Apple came out with a $899 ARM Tower that is the expandable Mac everyone wanted.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2020/02/07/custom-imac-macbook-pro-extended-delivery/ Delivery of BTO iMacs, iMac Pros, 13-inch rMBPs are being held back so that may mean new ones are due to be released real soon now, can you wait until end of March?
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My 16” just got delivered so look forward to that getting an update just outside my return window
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phosdex posted:Are there are any interesting rumors for a new iMac being announced in March? I just sold off my 2013 Macbook and need a new Mac. I'm thinking I'll buy an iMac but I know they release new ones in March. My guess is June. There’s a somewhat silly leak of a guy behind cook at Apple using a larger iMac that people are pretty sure is a 32 inch.
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Luceo posted:Uggggggghhhhh. No more Boot Camp may be a dealbreaker for me. ARM Windows!
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Gay Retard posted:ARM Windows! The homeless first, please.
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https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/24/apple-will-soon-let-mac-pro-owners-install-their-own-chassis-wheels Wowzers, Apple will soon sell the Mac Pro wheels as an aftermarket, user installable kit! For a price higher than getting tires for my old Crown Victoria.
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SourKraut posted:What about the USB-C Pro dock? It has TB3, and when CalDigit has their usual sales, can be had for $160-180 usually. It doesn't have as many ports as the TS3, so that would be the only issue. The TS3 Plus has an overheating issue with the MBP16s if you don't update the firmware, but that's the only issue I've seen here or read about. Caldigit released new firmware in December to address the issue. I love the TS3 Plus, except for needing two different video output cables, and I've been using Caldigit as a brand for years now. Rock solid products in my experience.
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Binary Badger posted:https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/02/24/apple-will-soon-let-mac-pro-owners-install-their-own-chassis-wheels Tires? You can buy actual car wheels for that price.
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So if we wind up getting ARM Macs how will that affect the state of gaming? Will ARM Macs also get the GPU or will they do some kind of crap where the Mac gets an A14 but in order to keep the heat down they continue to rely (ha) on AMD Navi GPUs? If they get the GPU then there's no excuse for not being able to code good 2D/3D games on the Mac.. or tvOS/iOS..
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Binary Badger posted:So if we wind up getting ARM Macs how will that affect the state of gaming? Hope you enjoy mobile games.
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there's some good stuff on apple arcade but yeah that's all you'd be playing
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Binary Badger posted:So if we wind up getting ARM Macs how will that affect the state of gaming?
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I'd like to think they'd confine the ARM processors to the plain Macbooks or the Airs, and leave the Pros alone, but I also wouldn't have imagined the 2016-18 MBPs ever being released, so...
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Binary Badger posted:So if we wind up getting ARM Macs how will that affect the state of gaming? Theres nothing that runs on the switch (tegra x1) that wouldn't theoretically run substantially better on A-series hardware from 2016 or later. The only thing keeping tier-1 games away from iOS at this point is Apple.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Theres nothing that runs on the switch (tegra x1) that wouldn't theoretically run substantially better on A-series hardware from 2016 or later. moving to a custom arm chip might be a boost to most mac's GPU abilities. Isn't the A series chip's GPU much faster than the intel iGPU? And that is before it could be coupled with a desktop/laptop cooling solution and/or scaled up for more cores and power. edit I don't think Apple's Game plan is making a AAA gaming system, I think their goal is to get the iOS games onto macOS. badjohny fucked around with this message at 20:28 on Feb 26, 2020 |
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Just get a console what's the point of gaming on a desktop especially one that is antithetical to gaming culture. With ARM Apple can at least avoid the 'should have went with the other x86 CPU brand' pitfall.
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Seriously though. If the 13/14 inch MacBook Pro isn’t released in March I’m going to through a sulk.
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Sri.Theo posted:Seriously though. If the 13/14 inch MacBook Pro isn’t released in March I’m going to through a sulk.
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New hardware is going to get scarce in about three months once backstock begins running out Someone elsewhere was pointing out that things like there's a three month supply of clothing in US warehouses right now Foxconn (one of Apple's primary contract manufacturers) does have factories in Vietnam, Malaysia etc but those could be impacted any week now.
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Hadlock posted:New hardware is going to get scarce in about three months once backstock begins running out It’s one of the reasons I’m Probably going to grab the new iPhone 9. I figure new phones in the fall will be delayed, and my iPhone 6s+ is getting long in the tooth.
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Linguica posted:Have you been following the news out of China lately? I didn’t think the manufacturing areas had been hit? That being said it’s a pretty good reason.
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japtor posted:Hell I assumed dozens of stripped down VMs in 16GB was referring to Docker in the first place. Docker on Mac runs in a single Linux vm, but this is using some tiny rear end virtual box stuff. But yeah how many vms do u need to run???
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Exchanged my 128GB model for the 256GB Air. Much better. Also I, at least temporarily, fixed my late 2009 iMac. If nothing else, it makes a good DVD player.
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Just touched a 16"MBP for the first time. Why is the trackpad so big? I'm on a 2015, and I've never once thought 'Man! If only the trackpad were twice this size! I could really track with style!' Like, your left palm is resting on it just to reach the spacebar. Weird.
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lord funk posted:Just touched a 16"MBP for the first time. Why is the trackpad so big? I'm on a 2015, and I've never once thought 'Man! If only the trackpad were twice this size! I could really track with style!' The giant trackpad is cool and good. The real question is: Why is your trackpad so small?
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Luv too have no dead space to rest my fingertips on below the spacebar anymore, and have my left thumb interfering with my pointer or just never use the space bar with my left thumb again
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You're fingering it wrong (that's what she said before anyone else smartypants a comment)
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