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djtriptych | 4 months ago

Same. I have an M1 Max Studio and it's just laughing at the little workloads I throw at it (pro photo editing, music production, software dev, generally all at the same time).

It just never sweats AT ALL - it feels like a decade from obsolescence based on what I'm doing now.

It would have to be an order of magnitude faster for me to even notice at this point.

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zahirbmirza|4 months ago

Obsolescence for Macs comes when Apple decides not to allow your mac update the OS to the latest one.

j45|4 months ago

Hasn’t happened in a long time and people seem to use a utility open core to install newer or the latest macos on old Macs.

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

culi|4 months ago

then you turn it into a hackintosh or install linux on the machine instead (Asahi Linux is looking pretty good for silicon)

phony-account|4 months ago

> Obsolescence for Macs comes when Apple decides not to allow your mac update the OS to the latest one.

That doesn’t make it obsolete, at all.

oblio|4 months ago

You're not opening enough Chrome tabs. Or Electron apps.

unknown|4 months ago

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andrepd|4 months ago

You're clearly running low-intensity tasks (pro photo editing, music production, software dev, generally all at the same time) instead of highly-demanding ones (1 jira tab)

djtriptych|4 months ago

lol

j45|4 months ago

So many articles I’ve read about the Mac Studio is how it very easily could be a 10year computer effortlessly.

The additional cooling in them seems quite helpful to their performance compared to the same chip in a laptop.

kinnth|4 months ago

yup I'm an M1 max laptop, i actually went upto an m4 pro and went back the m1 max, it could handle more trading screens!

poultron|4 months ago

Obsolescence comes when Apple conveniently "optimizes" a new architecture in the OS for a new chip... that conveniently, ironically, somehow severely de-optimizes things for the old chips... and suddenly that shiny new OS feels slow and sluggish and clunky and "damn I need to upgrade my computer!." They'll whitewash it not as planned obsolescence but optimization for new products. Doesn't have to be that way, shouldn't be that way, but its incredibly profitable.

MPSimmons|4 months ago

Maybe by that time ARM linux on this platform will be excellent and we can migrate to it for old gear. I still have a 2011 MBP running Linux on my electronics workbench and it is just fine.