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akadajet posted:So many people in this thread are shocked and awed that people use their computers for more than playing Tetris and watching pornography. No dude lol I’m just surprised at the need to stack three 3080’s instead of getting one of those purpose made 3D render cards like the Vega or or Quadro or whatever also I’ll gladly accept porn as an answer if you’re into VR 3D high refresh rate stuff
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You seem to have very little comprehension of how GPGPUs are constructed, operate and are presented to an OS.
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akadajet posted:So many people in this thread are shocked and awed that people use their computers for more than playing Tetris and watching pornography. hey man, some of us use our expensive Macs to post on dead gay forums
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:22 |
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Apple should release 4K/120Hz porn to really show what this new MacBook can do. Or just tell me where to find 4K/120Hz porn. Please Tim
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:23 |
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Al-Saqr posted:No dude lol I’m just surprised at the need to stack three 3080’s instead of getting one of those purpose made 3D render cards like the Vega or or Quadro or whatever also I’ll gladly accept porn as an answer if you’re into VR 3D high refresh rate stuff octane will scale linearly over as many gpus as you throw at it which has led people to do ridiculous builds like this
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:27 |
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repiv posted:octane will scale linearly over as many gpus as you throw at it Wooowww ok that makes more sense that’s interesting!
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:28 |
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Ok Comboomer posted:Things are alright for Mac games Also worth noting that Apple Arcade exists and is crushing it. Everything on Apple Arcade is on iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and macOS and there are some stone cold bangers on there
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jokes posted:Apple should release 4K/120Hz porn to really show what this new MacBook can do. If you have 6 or 7 grand kicking around you can make it yourself.
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akadajet posted:If you have 6 or 7 grand kicking around you can make it yourself. Hey, look at that. Johnny 5 is still alive.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:48 |
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Ok Comboomer posted:It’s going backwards if you’re measuring from like the halcyon days of 1991. I didn't realize that EVE was getting a Mac client, interesting. Make fun of my taste in games all you like, but I was actually playing on Macs Left 4 Dead 2, TF2, Guild Wars 2, and Rocket League, none of which work anymore. There was also the caveat that some other games that had a nice Mac client don't have cross-play multiplayer between Mac and Windows, meaning that Company of Heroes 2 on Mac is a complete ghost town. Also, Fortnite did have a Mac port, but doesn't anymore. It's been pulled a few months ago. The big waves of Macs losing games were when Catalina ditched 32-bit compatability: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/5E0D-522A-4E62-B6EF and then when OpenGL kept getting worse, and then finally when Epic & Apple got into their fight so Rocket League & Fortnite are banned. GPU-wise, the M1 Max has memory bandwidth similar to an RTX 3070, so Macs are about to have a GPU that can handle just about any game that's able to launch on them.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:51 |
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If you're gaming on a Mac nowadays just use a streaming service like GeForce Now.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:56 |
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The M1 Air is pretty good at Openemu and DOOM WADS and I’m not sure what else you need
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 15:59 |
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chaosbreather posted:Also worth noting that Apple Arcade exists and is crushing it. Everything on Apple Arcade is on iOS, iPadOS, tvOS and macOS and there are some stone cold bangers on there What would you recommend?
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:02 |
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magiccarpet posted:If you're gaming on a Mac nowadays just use a streaming service like GeForce Now. This feels like a poor solution when a 14" Macbook Pro has a GPU much more powerful than the 1060 in my dekstop.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:03 |
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My experience is that if you have a Mac/iThing and a modern console, you will get a Venn diagram that covers pretty much all of AAA gaming and a good amount of strategy, puzzle, and casual games. You will struggle to play MMOs. Multiplayer games will be hit and miss especially because the porting company has to follow behind the official patches and port those too so you're often out of sync. You'll miss out on a lot of indie gems and niche games from smaller developers. You'll miss out on console exclusives for the console you don't have because while there might be a Windows port eventually, there won't be a Mac port.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:04 |
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Ok Comboomer posted:You mean the era that started in 1997? I mean the era after Steve died and they clearly let Jony and his designers run wild with “minimalism” and removing ports and making everything (including iOS text) thin af, I’m not sure what they were trying to prove The bad keyboard/dongle era really sucked and everyone told them and it still took like 3 years to start fixing keyboards A MacBook with 1 port lol, gtfo Edit: so 2016-2021, arguably is what I’d call the “bad keyboard era” Comfy Fleece Sweater fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Oct 19, 2021 |
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Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:I mean the era after Steve died and they clearly let Jony and his designers run wild with “minimalism” and removing ports and making everything (including iOS text) thin af, I’m not sure what they were trying to prove ah, I didn’t know it was Steve who was making the keyboards good
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:24 |
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Steve sprinkled a tiny bit of his lifeforce on every Mac keyboard pbuh
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:28 |
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I personally want to see how Supreme Commander scaled if ported over to M1. Not particularly graphically challenging other than quantity of sprites, notoriously CPU-bound, especially in late game, etc.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 16:30 |
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So, you need to buy a 96W USB-C adapter to get that fast charging to 50% feature for the 14-inch MMBP.. Luckily it's offered as a choice during config for $20 more than the standard 67W...
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:03 |
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I did it I switched my order to the $2500 14 inch Delayed my estimated ship date by 2 weeks though
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:05 |
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The EVE on Mac thing is confusing me, I thought there always was an OSX client back in the day? Did it get discontinued or something, as I'm sure I wasn't using Bootcamp to play it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:The EVE on Mac thing is confusing me, I thought there always was an OSX client back in the day? Did it get discontinued or something, as I'm sure I wasn't using Bootcamp to play it. Presumably you were using the Intel client
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EL BROMANCE posted:The EVE on Mac thing is confusing me, I thought there always was an OSX client back in the day? Did it get discontinued or something, as I'm sure I wasn't using Bootcamp to play it. They had a version that wrapped the Windows version in an emulation layer, now they're launching an actual native version
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:21 |
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I know they showed the Max with about fourteen external monitors. Does the Pro have any limitations there?
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:32 |
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Pro can do two, Max can do 4
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Another notch in Tim's belt
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:36 |
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repiv posted:They had a version that wrapped the Windows version in an emulation layer, now they're launching an actual native version Ah that makes complete sense!
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Pro can do two, Max can do 4 How does this work, exactly? The exact wording on Apple's web site is: Apple posted:Up to two external displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz at over a billion colors (M1 Pro) or The 6K60 display out would be over the Thunderbolt ports and 4K60 would be the HDMI 2.0, so does that mean that using the second thunderbolt display out on the Pro disables the HDMI, or does it mean the Pro actually does 3 monitors (2 thunderbolt + 1 HDMI)?
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 17:59 |
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Very disappointed that we have examples of M1 Macs running Crysis through Wine+x86 emulation but no memes about LOOK WHAT THEY NEED TO MIMIC A FRACTION OF OUR POWER
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:04 |
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Hasturtium posted:Hey, look at that. Johnny 5 is still alive. And needs input.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:30 |
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Shower thought, but it would be cool if Apple was holding the Mac Mini while they developed a game controller and lined up game developers to port Developers get a user base that spends more money than the average and the ability to target the entire vertical stack of tech devices running a controlled subset of hardware. Apple gets to defy the "macs can't game" thing that has been around forever and grow into a new segment. We already suspect that the M1 Pro/Max can trade blows power wise with the current generation of consoles
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:30 |
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I don’t play EVE but I downloaded the M1 build to see how it runs and it kinda blew me away. An easy 60fps on my fanless Air. It’s an older game I know but dang I love this machine.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:36 |
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BlackMK4 posted:Shower thought, but it would be cool if Apple was holding the Mac Mini while they developed a game controller and lined up game developers to port 2006 called, it wants its fantasies back. Against all odds, Apple has found a bigger market for trash games on iOS that makes more money with less effort.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 18:59 |
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Has anyone gotten Skyrim or fallout to run on an M1?
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 19:06 |
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LionArcher posted:Has anyone gotten Skyrim or fallout to run on an M1? Not sure about those, but apparently the Windows version of TESO runs and looks better via emulation than the Mac version does running on Rosetta 2
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 19:13 |
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pyrotek posted:How does this work, exactly? The exact wording on Apple's web site is: Pretty sure it's just 2 and 4. If you have 2 Thunderbolt displays connected my guess is the HDMI just won't work.
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 19:26 |
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do we think the air refresh will get the promotion display? i kinda hate the new chunky design with the little feet and i can't use the new pros for my work (because coreML/metal is a travesty) but i like high refresh displays so if this is my best chance at one i may as well get it now. i'd rather get an air with 120hz tho
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# ? Oct 19, 2021 20:43 |
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Obviously it's my own personal opinion, but if the Airs do get the ProMotion displays, it won't be for a couple of years probably, since it's a good delineation feature between the Pros and Airs.
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The iPad Air also doesn’t have ProMotion, so I’m sure the MacBook Air wont have it either
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