Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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so £2332 (no vat) for M1 max 10core /32 core gpu/ 64gb ram/ 1TB.
it was another £400 to go to 2tb but i dont store stuff on computers apart from current jobs so better off putting the money towards more fast thunderbolt ssd drives.

the base Ultra is £3332 (no vat) which is exactly what i had planned to spend on a laptop.
not sure what to do now, could get that and keep using my 2016 MBP for another year or so for tethered shooting on location which i don’t do that often.

Missed opportunity to call it Big Mac.

What are the power options for the ultra? Take it on location on a cart run from a battery?

no idea, they will be used for DIT no doubt, seen a few carts with those with the old trash can pro’s built in.

I'm tempted with one for my cart/that reason. Would need to do some measuring.

USD price is equivalent to 2136.56 GBP here before tax here for the same specs, so that's a surprisingly competitive price for the UK...

ecoflow, they're awesome

That Studio is quite an ugly box , isn't it?

I don't get it, the displays look super nice, but the computer's design feels like a heavy-handed first sketch by some intern 🤷

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I dunno. Feels like the usual reduction design we're used to from Apple. Anything that's not a box would feel like a novelty, similar to the old pro trashcan design.

Ugly and unneeded for the M1 max version at least. I can't help they are going for bigger=more power=not a Mac mini=$$$$$$$.

it does come across as the 1st PC post Ive era, I dont hate it but I am not drawn to it, maybe thats what they want ?!

Pretty sure I'll get one of these once there's more software support and stability for the peripherals I use.

Also, never buy the first iteration, unless you really have to :)

I don't think it's that ugly but I'm coming from a 2010 Mac Pro so this is offering a big performance increase with huge power savings and I get a big chunk of space under my desk back.

Feels like apple is more and more going for the safe route tbh, both in product designs but even more so when it comes to presentations. There's very little of 'let the product talk' in there, but plenty of superlatives telling us how great their products are.

Isn't the Studio Display hardcore overpriced for what it is? It's basically a 27" iMac (including price) without the Mac.

i don’t care what it looks like, for me it’s a cheaper way of accessing the ram/processor i need without having to buy an imac with a shitty screen, an £8k mac pro or use a MBP as a main machine.
it’s a £1k saving over a MBP with likely better thermal handling.
It’s pretty much what i was hoping for apart from not having 128g ram option in the base model.

Sure, but find a 27" 5K alternative. There is none, as far as I know. Maybe Apple buys all the panels there is? I tried to buy a LG 4K a while ago but couldn't find any for sale in Sweden

they will soon put the mac in it and sell as new 27 imac

will they though? it would have been announced yesterday if so, the M-TurboNutter Mac pro is next and was mentioned at the end of the presentation.
a Mac screen and mini does the same job as an 27in iMac.

27" imac is huge among prosumers though, I'd imagine. And design agencies. They've always been great value for money so can't really see them leaving the lineup long term.

I think apples main struggle is to deliver enough CPU's for the whole lineup

find a ... 5K alternative

Well yes, there aren't any as 5k is a super weird thing. I only half suspect it's by design to lock out their use by other operating systems, GPUs, etc.

4k would've been good enough, if not then 8k exists... but nope.

See todays news re. Budget iPhone. It proves your point.

There'll be a 27, they've probably released this one first to tempt people to spend monies on something with a higher profit margin.

The most competitive machine they have right now seems to be the MacBook Air and I think they'll turn that into a consumer/student model (white bezels) to differentiate from the pro machines, with pro price tags....and maybe bring back the 12" MacBook as an executive model

Yeah it looks rubbish. 1st Gen boxy version, all about the performance. The pretty design can wait until they run out of impressive hardware spec jumps. Oh, rose gold too.

Feels like apple is more and more going for the safe route tbh, both in product designs but even more so when it comes to presentations. There's very little of 'let the product talk' in there, but plenty of superlatives telling us how great their products are.

indeed