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“Peek Performance” Apple Event Scheduled for Tuesday

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It's probably their time yet, but I'd love to see the Mac Mini and iMac counterparts of the 14/16" MBPs. A new display more in line with the pricing of the old Thunderbolt Displays would be nice too.

My wallet is extremely ready for a new 5k display.

The 27" 5k LG displays are a really awkward resolution. Running with 100% display scaling, text is too small to read. Running at 200%, screen real estate is not big enough. This leaves non-whole-number ratios which cause crazy problems with macos font rendering; text glistens as you move a window around and even/odd pixels are doubled or not. There's no way to get clear text. Windows handles this much better.

Personally, 5120x2880 27" running at 2x is perfect (well, except that it's 16:9 instead of 16:10, but one can't have everything I suppose). Anything lower (e.g. 1.75x or 1.5x) would make UI elements unusably small for me.

I don't own one of those LG's, but I do have an iMac that uses the same display panel and it's by far the best desktop class display I've ever used in every regard but refresh rate. The only problem is that it's tied to the iMac with the integrated Intel hardware aging like milk. The LG display has myriad issues which make it a terrible purchase for the money, so it's not a good alternative.

For me the awkward point are 4k 27" displays: not high resolution enough to run at 2x, too high resolution to use at 1x, and smudgy text at any fractional scale. I really wish that 5k 27" would replace 4k 27" entirely in the market.

I have a 27 4k LG display and it has GUI scaling set to 200% (so smooth fonts and images, but readable text) and there is plenty of real estate.

"Peek performance" is the event's tagline mentioned in the email from Apple, although it's not included on the website:

https://imgur.com/HhzXhhG

"Peek" initially got my hopes up that the event is related to Apple's XR glasses, but it seems more likely that it's a reference to screen improvements for iPads or Macs.

They're re-instituting PEEK and POKE from the Apple ][

If it were "Peak Performance" I'd think it's the Mac Pro - given the logo as all the Apple logos multiples, I like to think we're going to see a 2 or four socket M1 monster with 128+ cores.

But being "Peek"... who knows.

Once again, you can thank me...I have the hottest coolest Apple thing...for a week.

If they upgrade Macbook Airs to M2, and M2 comes with ARM v9, I might be building a new DIY server farm :)

Out of curiosity, what in ARMv9 are you looking for that isn't either optional or already mandated in ARMv8.5? I'm actually not sure what ARMv9 additionally mandates over ARMv8.5...

SVE/SVE2 is optional in ARMv9 [1], despite all the reporting claiming otherwise.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0487/latest

You’d build a server farm from a MacBook Air?

Y’know, now that he mentions it: no cooling system, no ventilation, and takes up less rack space than a Mac Mini. Probably will have Thunderbolt 4 ports and you can route power and data through one of them. MacBook Air Colo, I can see it.

Except you're paying for a screen, keyboard, and trackpad you'll never use. Mini's are much more cost effective.

An M2 Mini with a 10G port... I'd be really tempted to buy a few.

Unfortunately true.

About time. Even since the disappointing M1 Max. Lets see what they announce.

Disappointing?

No wireless. Less space than a Nomad.

Lame.

(lots of whooshes here. https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)

edit: I have been thoroughly schooled about not immediately recognizing a quote from the turn of the millenium presented out of context not as a quote. Sheesh

> “No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame,” said Rob “CmdrTaco” Malda on Slashdot on October 1st, 2001. (The Nomad, if you're wondering, was a pre-iPod MP3 player that was the size and shape of a Sony Discman in its early incarnations)

Not a fan of explaining the joke, but between you and another commenter, I think it’s necessary here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_NOMAD

This is what iPods used to be stacked up against in tech circles.

> edit: I have been thoroughly schooled about not immediately recognizing a quote from the turn of the millenium presented out of context not as a quote. Sheesh

No disrespect intended. Sorry! :)

Well, technically correct M1 Max doesn't include wifi on chip, but it's just plain wrong that it has less space. Starts at 32GB which is more than 30 hard drive GB of the largest Nomad.

huh? Wanna try again?

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