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> I have also realized that there is a lot out there in the world besides video games

My favorite part about being a reformed gaming addict is the fact that my MacBook now covers ~100% of my computer use cases. The desktop is nice for Visual Studio but that's about it.

I'm still running a 5700XT in my desktop. I have absolutely zero desire to upgrade.

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Same here - actually, my PC broke in early 2024 and I still haven't fixed it. I quickly found out that without gaming, I no longer have any use for my PC, so now I just do everything on my MacBook.

Put Linux on it, and you can even run software raytracing on it for games like Indiana Jones! It'll do something like ~70 fps medium 1080p IIRC.

No mesh shader supports though. I bet more games will start using that soon

I don’t think a reformed gaming addict wants to be tempted with another game :P

Im a reformed gaming addict as well and mostly play games over 10 years old, and am happy to keep doing that.

PCI reset bug makes it necessary to upgrade to 6xxx series at least.

Same here. I got mine five years ago when I needed to upgrade my workstation to do work-from-home, and it's been entirely adequate since then. I switched the CPU from an AMD 3900 to a 5900, but that's the only upgrade. The differences from one generation to the next are pretty marginal.

Parallels is great for running Windows software on Mac. Ironically, what with the Microsoft push for Windows on ARM, increasingly more Windows software gets native ARM64 builds which are great for Parallels on Apple Silicon. And Visual Studio specifically is one of those.

The only video game I've played with any consistency is World of Warcraft, which runs natively on my Mac. Combined with Rider for my .NET work, I couldn't be happier with this machine.

Still have 2080 RTX on primary desktop, it's more than enough for GUI.

Just got PRO 6000 96GB for models tuning/training/etc. The cheapest 'good enough' for my needs option.

Is this like a computational + memory need? Otherwise one would think something like the framework desktop or a mac mini would be a better choice right?

I need both compute and memory. Video/image processing models take a lot in training. And the bigger the better at these sizes. So it will run trainings for weeks nonstop.

> I'm still running a 5700XT in my desktop. I have absolutely zero desire to upgrade.

Same boat. I have 5700XT as well and since 2023, used mostly my Mac for gaming.

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