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punk rebel ecks posted:The Mac Studio seems like a reasonable deal. Judging by the backlash am I misreading the specs? So it costs more but the base spec is decent, so I'm just like  here sitting on the fence about it...I'll probably get it refurb or from the edu store if possible.
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Ordered a studio with the ultra chip, and the new display. Was working all day so my delivery time got bumped a couple weeks. All good - looking forward it. Now to sell this iMac.
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Mar 9, 2022 10:44
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frogbs posted:drat, I was really hoping they'd release those rumored M2 Airs. Welp, guess i'll keep an eye on the refurb store in the meantime or see if they announce new ones in summer. I think most of the rumors were that they would NOT get announced yesterday, and that they will come out later this year. I'm planning on replacing my Chromebook which is getting EoLed in 2023 with the new MacBook/MacBook Air.
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Mar 9, 2022 11:13
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AlternateAccount posted:And they didn't call it the Mac Pro THICC, miss opportunity imo The Big Mac (Mini).
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Mar 9, 2022 11:26
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Mercurius posted:I guess that's something else in the favour of the new Studio as it has a 10GB Ethernet port on all models, not just the M1 Ultra version. Also as an option on the m1 mini, at a price point lower than any 10g thunderbolt nic on the market. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 11:52
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Apple giveth, and taketh.. $1600 Studio Display DOES NOT COME WITH POLISHING CLOTH! Quelle horreurs! $1900 nano-texture version does.. so, $300 to get a polishing cloth Guess they didn't hit that trillion dollar valuation by not penny pinching Edit: I still think we're not gonna see an M2 until 4th quarter this year at least since most of the brains trust that developed the A-series chips has left the company Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Mar 9, 2022 |
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Mar 9, 2022 15:53
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Mercurius posted:...Another alternative would be to see if you can pick up some of Apple's older 27" Thunderbolt displays because you can definitely daisy chain those together into a single Thunderbolt port... Thanks to everyone who chipped in; this is the solution I went with, though I looked into all the others. Found a pair of refurbished 27" Apple Thunderbolt displays. I would have preferred a higher-resolution option, but the lovely wife will not care.
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Mar 9, 2022 17:30
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I'm still dailying a 2013 27" imac with 27" TB display
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Mar 9, 2022 18:20
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Shaocaholica posted:I'm still dailying a 2013 27" imac with 27" TB display same, except not the extra 27 tb display, always wanted one tho
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Mar 9, 2022 18:26
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You want to buy mine? I'm finna ready to offload this whole setup.
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Mar 9, 2022 18:28
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Shaocaholica posted:You want to buy mine? I'm finna ready to offload this whole setup. tempting, but my current setup requires me to switch to a windows machine and iirc the TB display doesn't really work with them. speaking of which, will the new studio display work with a windows machine?
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Mar 9, 2022 18:44
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Binary Badger posted:Apple giveth, and taketh.. Latest rumor from mg says late spring early summer. And chances it’s ready to go is very high. Somebody from the brain trust leaving doesn’t effect something like the next base chip.
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Mar 9, 2022 19:16
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Binary Badger posted:Edit: I still think we're not gonna see an M2 until 4th quarter this year at least since most of the brains trust that developed the A-series chips has left the company the a15 was such a marginal upgrade on the a14 that i think they are probably waiting to base the m2 on the a16 cores
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Mar 9, 2022 19:49
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Last Chance posted:tempting, but my current setup requires me to switch to a windows machine and iirc the TB display doesn't really work with them. speaking of which, will the new studio display work with a windows machine? A lot of PCs these days have TB3 connections so if yours does you might be able to use Apple’s TB2->TB3 adapter like a lot of our staff at work do to keep using the old Thunderbolt Displays on their TB3 macs. They haven’t mentioned anything about Windows compatibility on the Studio Display yet but my LG 5K works on Windows computers (for the most part) so I’d be surprised if there isn’t at least some compatibility. At the very least it looks like it’s capable of stepping down to USB-C for the iPads but I don’t know whether the fact it’s powered by an A series chip will make things more tricky.
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Mar 9, 2022 20:15
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Last Chance posted:tempting, but my current setup requires me to switch to a windows machine and iirc the TB display doesn't really work with them. speaking of which, will the new studio display work with a windows machine? https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/09/studio-display-with-pcs-with-caveats/ Short answer: yeah Long answer: yeah but no Center Stage or TrueTone on Windows, also forget firmware upgrades, webcam supported by macOS only
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Mar 9, 2022 20:19
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Mar 9, 2022 23:54
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Mar 10, 2022 00:11
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hatty posted:How is ARM windows in Parallels anyway? Incredible. I only use it to run some graphing/stats software, but Windows 11 loads and runs like it’s native and W11’s x64 emulation is fast as hell on a MacBook Air.
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Mar 10, 2022 05:21
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is a macbook's windows emulation good enough to run games at this point? or are the graphics cards not there yet?
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Mar 10, 2022 06:10
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abelwingnut posted:is a macbook's windows emulation good enough to run games at this point? or are the graphics cards not there yet? M1 performs quite well with emulation/wine/MoltenVK/etc, but it’s largely game-dependent. What games do you want to run? If you Google/YouTube it, there’s a pretty decent and sizable community of people making Windows and Intel Mac games run on Apple Silicon. Some games run best with VMware, some games run best with CodeWeavers’ CrossOver (which you will almost certainly need to get if you plan to run a bunch of things), some run best with patching or special additions/modifications to code, and plenty of others run best native or via Rosetta 2. For example, Disco Elysium and EVE both have native M1 versions and are best played like that, although AFAIK Apple is pushing to have all those native games run at a locked 60fps—so if you’ve got the horsepower (M1 Pro/Max/etc) and a capable display you could feasibly run the Windows versions in emulation and get even better performance. Also in general lots of Mac ports are simply worse or not as well-optimized vs their Windows counterparts (or they don’t get DLC) and it’s not exactly uncommon to hear about games that are way better played in their Windows forms from Steam via CrossOver even if there are official Mac versions available. Hades has a Mac version but it still needs Rosetta 2, but it runs great because of course it should. There are a couple of websites/forums/etc compiling lists of compatible games and their performance/limitations/methods & hacks/etc so I’d start there. So far people have gotten everything from GTA V to Witcher 3 to Battletech to Elden Ring running, although be prepared to deal with a lot of bugs and a very “Linuxlike”experience, esp with the community.
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So where does Apple go now from M1U? Doesn't seem like you can inter connect any more M1M together.
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the talent deficit posted:the a15 was such a marginal upgrade on the a14 that i think they are probably waiting to base the m2 on the a16 cores Shaocaholica posted:So where does Apple go now from M1U? Doesn't seem like you can inter connect any more M1M together.
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Shaocaholica posted:So where does Apple go now from M1U? Doesn't seem like you can inter connect any more M1M together. I interpreted their comment to mean this is the last of the M1 family, unless there's a Mac Pro version, which would maybe be a different beast given it probably has external RAM and so forth. Otherwise, onto the base M2 model.
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Mar 10, 2022 10:44
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Is it possible to buy something in-store with the Education discount? And in that same line, is it possible to put a down payment on a product to lower the monthly cost? This is my sort of my graduation gift for my nephew, but the plan is to put $1K down towards a Mac Studio through the education pricing, and that in turn cuts down the monthly installments a fair bit. However, everywhere online says the only way to put a payment down to lower monthly installments is by doing it in-store. But then I’ve never heard of how Apple verifies people getting Education pricing in-store either.
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Mar 10, 2022 12:24
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They look at your student/faculty ID.
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Mar 10, 2022 12:30
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LODGE NORTH posted:Is it possible to buy something in-store with the Education discount? Just get him $1k in Apple gift cards and then he can apply them to his account + use them on his purchase. Or go with him to the store to make the purchase and have him show his college ID/email address while you pay. The student requesting the product doesn’t have to be the same person flashing the cash/plastic—otherwise family members would never be able to buy their kids/grandkids/etc computers with Edu pricing. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 12:57 on Mar 10, 2022 |
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Mar 10, 2022 12:52
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Ok Comboomer posted:Just get him $1k in Apple gift cards and then he can apply them to his account + use them on his purchase. Sounds easy enough. Part of the whole thing he wants to do is use the money to lower the monthly installments, which seems to be the bit I can’t find any concrete info on. Would giving him the gift cards automatically do this when he tries to purchase something online?
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Mar 10, 2022 13:02
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LODGE NORTH posted:Sounds easy enough. Part of the whole thing he wants to do is use the money to lower the monthly installments, which seems to be the bit I can’t find any concrete info on. Would giving him the gift cards automatically do this when he tries to purchase something online? Not sure. Like I said, if you’re concerned and you know that you can do it in person, then you can absolutely go do it in person. Your nephew can also use gift cards/Apple balance in the physical brick+mortar store.
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Yeah, just not sure if that’s something that can be done in person or not — or at all. I may just have to carve out time to go and ask so I’m not stuck with Apple gift cards and no real way to use them for this specific purpose. We shall see. Thanks everybody!
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Mar 10, 2022 13:23
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They didn't ask for a student ID when I picked up my MacBook last month.
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Mar 10, 2022 14:13
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Is there a way to get my monitors to always connect I'm the same order? I have two external monitors hooked up to my MacBook Pro M1 Max and it seems random as to which monitor gets assigned to the left side or the right side when I hook it all up. Doesn't seem to remember which display is which.
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Does your nephew already have a laptop? I can't imagine being tied to a desktop as a college student, especially when most of that power will be sitting idle unless he's cranking out animated movies or something.Detective No. 27 posted:They didn't ask for a student ID when I picked up my MacBook last month.
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I should mention, I paid online.
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LODGE NORTH posted:Yeah, just not sure if that’s something that can be done in person or not — or at all. I may just have to carve out time to go and ask so I’m not stuck with Apple gift cards and no real way to use them for this specific purpose. We shall see. I mean, just ask Apple? They have staff dedicated to helping people buy things. https://contactretail.apple.com/Help for online chat or https://www.apple.com/retail/ to find a local store and get their phone number.
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https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/10/m2-macs-with-tsmc-4nm-process/ Latest rumors seem to indicate we'll have M2s announced by WWDC, they'll be on a smaller process so more efficient, and get a whopping two more GPU cores for the space savings that 5nm -> 4 nm tech provides Why yes I did just put in an order for a 14-inch 24-core GPU MBP, yes that is why I am sobbing
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Detective No. 27 posted:They didn't ask for a student ID when I picked up my MacBook last month. They rescinded the requirement: quote:UPDATE: 2022/01/24 13:44 EST BY AROL WRIGHT
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Mister Facetious posted:They rescinded the requirement: That was a different verification scheme they were planning to apply to online purchases. The physical stores have always had an inconsistently-enforced policy of asking for some proof that you qualify for the discount.
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Baronash posted:Does your nephew already have a laptop? I can't imagine being tied to a desktop as a college student, especially when most of that power will be sitting idle unless he's cranking out animated movies or something. He’s recently gotten a job that starts the week after he graduates and it’s entirely WFH for the foreseeable future. I don’t know exactly what he does, but he is that artsy type. doingitwrong posted:I mean, just ask Apple? They have staff dedicated to helping people buy things. https://contactretail.apple.com/Help for online chat or https://www.apple.com/retail/ to find a local store and get their phone number. I came here after asking their support team and them not understanding my question. The three people I spoke to thought I wanted to either use gift cards to pay for the thing in full, pay part of it now and part later, or some combination of both. I only ask SA questions when the defaults have stalled on me.
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Binary Badger posted:https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/10/m2-macs-with-tsmc-4nm-process/ fwiw, the alleged leaked roadmap docs that have, so far, been right about everything seem to peg the Gen 3 M chips as the first big major leap over their predecessors, with Gen 2 being much more modest of a jump.
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