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hmm

...in Apple terms.

I reckon give it 6 months or so for the ‘real’ Pro machines to show up.

Sounds like I should hold fire on my iMac then

Depends what you're doing it with it. I'm someone who never closes tabs* or apps and am happy with an 8GB machine. Open Activity Monitor, go to the Memory tab and look at the graph on the left. If it's green - especially if you're in the middle of doing something intensive - you're all good.

(* Safari tabs, not Chrome tabs)

iPads always outperform MacBooks on single thread benchmarks when new ‘A’ processors are announced but multi thread processes fall short of Intel / AMD every time

How many cores are you comparing? Intel has been cramming more and more into their designs, which looks good in benchmarks but doesn't help you if your workload isn't heavily multicore friendly.

There's also the thermal issue. Multicore chips work best when they can get rid of heat, which can't happen in an iPad.

I have 32GB in my 16” Pro and regularly wish I’d got 64GB.

Hyped for this new architecture though. Hopefully by the time the beefier Pros are out it’ll be possible to run legacy x86 Windows apps in a Win10 ARM VM via Microsoft’s x86 to ARM emulation/translation. I have to use many bits of native Windows software for work and Parallels/Bootcamp is has been nirvana for me.

Does anyone else regularly get a box with Cannot Load Mail whilst using icloud Mail?

On my phone, it never happens, on my mid 2015 MBP running OS Catalina v 10.15.7, its probably 50% of the time..

I regularly run CleanMyMac, and just use it for normal work and home use etc..

Any help greatly appreciated

What's your use case with 64GB?

I'll probably give it another month or so to see if they slip out a 10th gen intel upgrade but very much doubt it. Then will pick up:

2.3GHz 8-core 9th-generation i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz
64GB 2666MHz DDR4 memory
AMD Radeon Pro 5600M with 8GB of HBM2 memory
4TB SSD storage

But not sure on CPU and whether to opt for the higher option (2.4GHz 8-core 9th-generation Intel Core i9 processor, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz)

I'll mostly be using it in Mac OS and working in Resolve and Fusion but I'm a sucker (for my sins) for bootcamp gaming (PUBG mainly) so don't trust parallels etc for competitive games and am concerned the higher CPU will throttle faster or if you disable that then the lifespan will be greatly reduced. Only want to play in 1080p so hoping I'd get 3-5 years out of it without very noticeable slowdown.

I work in AV & often have several Aftereffects, Photoshop, Premiere projects open, along with ffmpeg encodes running in the background, with a Windows VM running hefty and poorly optimised media server production software and a load of proprietary, poorly optimised 32-bit control programs.

32GB gets munched in a second and I find myself having to consciously manage which projects to close, which VM to suspend...

Mine has the 2.3GHz i9, apparently the 2.4GHz is materially faster as it’s a better-binned piece of silicon and runs at lower voltages for a given turbo state than the 2.3.

What’s been a real game changer for me is being able to exploit the T2 chip’s hardware-accelerated h.265 encoding via ffmpeg. Delivering previews to clients has never been so quick.

Mine has the 2.3GHz i9, apparently the 2.4GHz is materially faster as it’s a better-binned piece of silicon and runs at lower voltages for a given turbo state than the 2.3.

That's interesting - I'd read almost the opposite of that but goodness knows where so probably just nonsense and not on somewhere like r/videoengineering

I think that's the thing - I see a lot of promise in the new M series chips but it ain't there yet and the current gen intel are still solid things (particularly with the 5600m).

So long as they don't drop support off a cliff for bootcamp for at least a few year it'll do me fine.

I've used beefy but aging desktops twinned with underpowered laptops for ages but traveling around to shoots means it's tough to do remote edits / preview stuff shot in 8k to clients on the fly. Main thing is I want to have (near to) desktop performance, mobile so I can use a single machine and not have to archive Resolve databases / duplicate projects etc.

Could you not build a render station out of a mac mini and maybe an extra gpu? Not super mobile but it'll fit into a rucksack

8-core 16" Pro with heaps of RAM and a 5600M is as good as it's gonna get for you right now.

I have thought that tbh - and I may pick up a couple of minis for live streaming (intel again probably unless they sort out VMix for Silicon) but I think as a main machine the 16" is the most flexible.

Could always cruise around with this in my rapha rolltop

I've been telling him that for years...

It'll make you look like you've got the launch codes to something very lethal. I'd say go for it.

Apparently currently Docker doesn't run on the M1 so it might take a while to get support for it, not to mention other more closed vendors like VMWare, VirtualBox and Parallels. So I would hold off before that happens. (a comment in the issue tells us virtualisation is supported in the hardware... that's how little info the outside world currently has on the M1)

Apple will give me £270 trade-in for my 2016 13" MBP, is that good enough, or ruinous?

seems bad. I sold a 2014 13" MBP for £400 on FB marketplace a few months ago

Thats shit.

Hyped for this new architecture though. Hopefully by the time the beefier Pros are out it’ll be possible to run legacy x86 Windows apps in a Win10 ARM VM via Microsoft’s x86 to ARM emulation/translation. I have to use many bits of native Windows software for work and Parallels/Bootcamp is has been nirvana for me.

I'll raise them £5 and offer £275.

Need to replace my aging 2013 which now needs plugging in at all times and an external keyboard as the internal has gone :D

Apple values things at fuck all for trade in, but it is convenient and they don't quibble. As with most things, if you have the time and want a bigger return, look elsewhere

The no fuss aspect is appealing.

“Will you take £150 and post to Sydney?”

Crap

This is the machine - 256 GB HDD, what do you think it's worth, no box etc:

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