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Depends on what you want out of a machine. For me, the size and weight "are the upgrade".
Nice ... grats! I just ordered the base 16" Max with the 1 TB SSD and 36 GB of RAM in Space Black. I just started coding school and my M1 Air can only connect to one friggin' display and I need at least two displays ... one for coding ... and the other to see the result of that coding (I was looking at the ultrawides but the resolution and PPI suck even on the ridiculously expensive ones). I also didn't want to leave out the possibility of a third or fourth display in the future. 16" will also be significantly better for when I'm on the road. I'm pretty excited.
Yea about that. Ram speed is not well understood by many people. I've said it before and I'll say it again, there's a reason why we use DDR for the CPU and GDDR for the GPU. DDR is used because of low latency, because CPU's are all about processing data in sequence. Think of an If Else statement and how data is processed. You can't do the else without the if first, and that's the type of data CPU's deal with. While GPU's don't care that much about latency, but more on bandwidth because they deal with math and the math GPU's deal with can be done in any order. While Apple's LPDDR5 is a nice compromise, but it is compromise. DDR4 still has lower latency than Apple's M3 Max, while my Vega 56 has more bandwidth than a M3 Max. With each generation of DDR memory, they increase the latency in exchange for bandwidth which is why modern CPU's have so much cache to compensate for the ram's latency. That doesn't mean my PC is the equivalent of a M3 Max, just means that ram speed comparison's are mostly pointless.You can't put in 128gb of equivalently fast ram no matter how much you spend
That must be a very good employee to spend that much.
Every machine has warranty, but not everyone should be paying for extended warranty. Did you know Europeans automatically get 2 year warranty?
Should be fine. It's not like you can't do work on these machines. The question is, how much does it cost compared to a similar spec PC? I'm not sure what the power efficiency of a Intel Xeon W-10855M is, but it's probably less than an AMD.
Shipping confirmation on mine but no arrival yet.
You might be surprised, they balance out really well. My servers are all metered along with most heavy workstations, and by year end the difference within the same generation is peanuts.
It makes sense that AMD's uses more power under light loads due to their chiplet design. But 10nm is still 10nm, and that does hurt Intel's power consumption. I'd imagine unplugged it isn't something you'd want to do for very long.
Yeah no not gonna do that they are on 24/7.
It’s really not a big deal due to the extra height on the panel. You really don’t notice it given the UI design of macOS.
Stupidness aside, it only takes up the same space as the menu bar, so it's not actually taking up anything extra. There's also this app: https://topnotch.app/
That is actually smart and Apple should have done this.
She is fantastic; started at the bottom in customer support and worked her way up to logistics manager. I just bought her a Neo G9 ultrawide and thunderbolt dock as well. I will spend money on my people if the prove they can leverage technology for more productivity. I have other employees that when given the tools (external monitors, etc) just sit there using their macbook screen as their main and can't figure out how to build an effective workflow. Spending money on productivity for those employees is pointless, but giving the tools to someone that will leverage them into a better workflow is some of the cheapest money you'll spend as a business owner.
I know you have had trouble understanding this in the past, but there are no similarly specced PCs. I can't use that Thinkpad on regional jets (not enough space between the seat in front of you), it's unwieldy to carry around in my shoulder bag, the 14in formfactor is more convenient in the car, battery life is significantly worse, it runs way hotter, it will go slower when unplugged, etc, etc, etc. To most people, those specs matter just as much or more than what processor is in the machine. If it didn't, we'd all carry around desktops.
Nice! Mine wasn't supposed to ship until December 4th and I just got a notice that it shipped today, so that's some good news.
Nice! Mine wasn't supposed to ship until December 4th and I just got a notice that it shipped today, so that's some good news.
I wouldn't go by Geekbench. Try comparing with real world applications. Not that your CPU should win because as gamers nexus did a test with 2700X and even my 5700X is far behind.
The M3 Max can run a 4K display up to 240 Hz. You're fine.
The Samsung 57 is 7,680 x 2,160 so it's more pixels than just 4k. But I believe it should be able to run it from the HDMI port; the question is, can it run it through a thunderbolt 4 port daisy chained to a DP 1.4 dock.
Yeah, I doubt it's going to work with a dock. You'll probably have to plug it directly into one of the Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Depends on the dock but you might be able to get 30hz at that resolution with some luck.
I didn’t know the Corsair dock was actually good. Most of the “good” docks for business cost the same while doing 1 4K at 60hz or 2 at 30hz.
What are you using it with? That link says it only does 4K@60Hz on Macs.
LG C2 42" OLED. 120Hz HDR. Works great with my mbp. The corsair dock is pretty decent but it's expensive as most good docks are. Another plus unlike the Dell is there is no fan noise.
M1 machines are notoriously picky about 4K/120 handshaking. So much so that I’ve found on YouTube that people are using adapters with hacked firmware to make it work properly.
Yeap. Was noted by all the major outlets at launch.
Pare down.
Thanks for the correction. I tend to get most homonyms right, but I don't think it's possible for anyone to get them all correct 100% of the time.
I just put an Apple sticker over a Dell 90w USB-C charger.
Pricing aside, what cable does 1:1 what Apple's cable does? I don't know of any that have active electronics (2x ARM Cortex-M0 processors, one on either end of the cable) that ensure signal integrity for those longer lengths. Signal degradation being a major issue for that level of bandwidth. Who else has that?