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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > Mac Hardware - 5k Supremacy
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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Feenix posted:

iMac?

16" M1 Macbook Pro

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

 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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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

 Let’s say I want a better monitor for my MBP 16” M2 than my $200 Sceptre and let’s say I don’t want to spend $1800 on an apple display, what’s a good recommendation?

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Inner Light posted:

You're going to have to spend a lot of money to get a monitor that looks sharper than the built in display, which is class leading. Assuming you are just talking about increasing size here.

300 is like bare minimum you're going to spend for an average size. I spent ~$325 on 27" Acer Nitro XV272U Pbmiiprzx in 2021 which is no longer really sold, but I am happy with it.

We have a monitor thread that can possibly help you out with better advice! https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3372494&pagenumber=964#lastpost

Thanks! :wotwot:

ooh, I forgot about Dell. I used to love their monitors.

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

anothergod posted:

Your what?


My uncle used to work for Nintendo but now works for Apple and got me a sweet pre-release version. :smug:





Nah, was a typo. It’s an M1 max

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

what happens when they run out of nanometers? we all just give up on computers right? back to pencil and paper. hell yeah

They go to Picometers. Then Femtometers. Then Attometers. Then we ascend off the material plane.

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

 Would the new Pro M2 Max with 96gb RAM be perceptibly faster than an Pro M1 Max with 64gb RAM?

When I went from my 2016 Pro to the M1 Max , my Keyshot render time went from 2 minutes to about 20 seconds. Often more like 12 seconds.

Will the M2 keyshot render before I hit the button?

Will video rendering and InvokeAI be like stupidly faster?

E: holy loving poo poo, is this right???? It seems like processor wise the M2 Max is a little bit faster, maybe 10-20%. But the graphics speeds for video?? Am I looking at this right?

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Doctor Zero
Sep 21, 2002

Would you like a jelly baby?
It's been in my pocket through 4 regenerations,
but it's still good.

BobHoward posted:

Yes, but probably not because of the RAM. Unless you actually need more than 64GB RAM.

in general, the CPU, GPU, and neural engine improvements are incremental. Won't leave your M1 in the dust. If you decide to conspicuously consume you'll probably be happy with the performance uplift, but you can safely skip a generation here if you don't have to have the latest and greatest.

Thanks. I think you may have just made my bank account happy.

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