Apple Mac Studio review
theverge.com
theverge.com
What do they think the "Pro" in MacBook Pro stands for ?
> Bad Stuff: expensive
They are comparing their old $16,599 machine, which could cost up to $52,000 (as per their own article) to a $6,199 machine that wipes the floor with the old one and call it expensive ?
You shouldn't have to plan your technology purchases on a decade-long timescale, just to avoid the duds, obsolete, and dead-end products. A big company should be a bit more disciplined imho.
If you can't buy the hardware you need at an acceptable price, your real problem is that the software you need doesn't run on another platform. That's a much more solvable problem.
The problem was you couldn't buy a high end MBP without touchbar and defective keyboard, or a non-obsolete Mac Pro for years, at any price. Yes, use a PC was an answer to that for a lot of people.
I guess you haven’t been talking to the 3.5mm jack lovers. Just about every device they make has something people complain about. It comes with the territory.
I will find it disappointing though if the new Mac Pro doesn't have an option for a lower end cpu (like an M1 Pro) and consequently a lower price tag.
Why do Apple games have a problem with micro stuttering?
>With many recent professional Mac reviews, the story has been: Apple makes great hardware, but the software — specifically Adobe’s Creative Cloud — isn’t optimized for Apple’s ideas.
But at this point, Adobe has had quite a bit of time to catch up. Apple has sold a whole bunch of M1 devices — the demand is here, and Adobe has responded. Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, Audition, Media Encoder, and more are running natively on Apple Silicon (and After Effects is available in beta). And the story has basically flipped: the Mac Studio now appears to be one of the few computers that can unlock the full power of Adobe’s software.
https://www.theverge.com/22981815/apple-mac-studio-m1-ultra-...
Not that there are a lot of high end games that have been updated to support ARM and Metal that they can test, but World of Warcraft and Balder's Gate 3 are examples that have done so.
The neat thing about Rosetta is that it provides backwards compatibility, not that it gives full native performance.
All the ports are on separate boards too. This might be the most repairable mac in a while.
This is sort of like saying "Great - the doors on my car can be replaced!" Obviously they can, but am I ever likely to need to do this? Probably not.
I've never once had to replace a USB or HDMI port on my desktop computer. I have routinely had to replace CPU, GPU and memory, none of which are serviceable on this machine. The computer's I/O ports being on separate proprietary daughter boards is not really a consolation, I'm certainly not celebrating this machine as a victory for reparability - the SSD is effectively the only user-serviceable component.
At least with other integrated SoCs such as those from AMD, you can buy and replace the SoC on a standard socket too… it’s not a given that putting everything on the same die prevents upgrades or replacements the way this design does. The SoC does not need to be permanently attached, but that’s how Apple force these machines to be close to obsolete within 5 years and then require the purchase of a whole new computer again.
Proprietary CPUs/SoCs make aftermarket upgrades difficult but not impossible - the G4 era professional machines from Apple had socketed CPUs and after market options did emerge (companies like Sonnet back in the day), despite only apple using the chip.
This is closer to complaining that you can't swap your GPU core out.
They should keep the same chassis and allow competent users to swap out the board for an upgraded one, but we know that's not happening.
In the meantime, the life expectancy is greatly increased by the ability to swap SSDs and add new ones without having to scrap it and buy new.
Yeah because firing up Photoshop to change colors of a photograph or Premier to splice some video requires a desktop which costs more than every piece of technology I’ve bought over the last decade as a software engineer put together.
Apple knows what they’re doing, and they’re laughing all the way to the bank with customers like the Verge.
Edit: Yes, I know I’m talking about the older model which doesn’t alter the point I’m trying to make in that they overpaid for something they don’t understand.
The Verge does a lot of 4K edits for their content, not just photoshopping.
For hobbyists they are a nice to have; for a professional they can absolutely free up hours in a day for them to do other work. For small shops that can mean one less employee; for solo artists that can allow them to take on work they couldn’t otherwise.
But otherwise fully agree, sometimes things just make sense for certain people/tasks that seem otherwise absurd for many others