AnilIt's interesting that #apple has actually completely blown its deadline for transitioning their entire line over to Apple Silicon (because the Mac Pro still doesn't have a version with the new chip), but nobody really cares because the M1 and M2s are so good.
boop@anildash my only thing with switching back to a mac is that I only really use a pc for work now and I do SO MUCH in excel and shit and I just think that + onedrive works so much better on windows
Derrick Mealiffe@pobrecheeto @anildash While not a solution, you do get used to it (poorer relative performance from a UI latency perspective; OneDrive integration on Mac with M365 is very good if not quite on par), and the other benefits of a Mac make up for the negatives. But I get it.
Buck@anildash I’m actually pleased about it for a different reason. I’m a Hackintosh user and I am enjoying the thought of longer support for macOS on Intel since they haven’t switched their entire line over yet.
Mark Gardner@anildash We want our M2 cheesegrater with slots!
Pax Ahimsa Gethen 🏳️⚧️@anildash I'm just waiting to see if and when they're going to upgrade the iMac 27". (I have the 2019 model.)
Kevin Newman@anildash “Completely blown” if you are judging all or nothing, but since very few of their customers buy the Pro, most customers are happy that the machine they want now has an M1 or M2. Also the addition of the Studio took a lot of pressure off of the Pro transition. For me, the lack of a 27” iMac is a bigger deal than no Pro.
poswald@anildash I just don't think people consider the Mac Pro to be a real computer that Apple supports. When they released it they promised to do better than the trashcan model but I don't think people actually believe they would.
kira :3@anildash I've heard the whole thing about how a new mac pro is supposedly still coming but tbh I'd assumed the studio was just the new pro this whole time
Sebastian Moser@chrisisgr8 @anildash When the Studio was announced they said explicitly that the Mac Pro was still coming, which is exciting since the Studio is already pretty solid
Rachel Greenham@seb @chrisisgr8 @anildash well this is it. They obviously made a point of saying the Mac Pro was still coming because otherwise people would think the Studio was it. And for most people in that market segment the Studio really is it. The people who are really going to need what the Pro can do over the Studio are surely going to be a pretty rarified bunch.
@StrangeNoises @chrisisgr8 @anildash That applied to the most recent Mac Pro, too. I’m just wondering how they’ll make extensibility work!
Jonathan W@anildash some of us are still waiting for a better-than-16GB MacMini too :-} #MacMiniLife
Ryan Legg@anildash and for some use cases, the Mac Studio likely does a better job than the current Mac Pro. It’s been fun to watch the progression
Michael Gartenberg@anildash exactly, somewhere there's a warehouse full of Intel Macs slowly rusting away. I can't even justify an M2 because the M1 is so freaking awesome for everything I do. As for my M1 iPad, it's got a monster engine but it's locked into not going over 55.
CoolMacGames@anildash I completely forgot about their deadline. I think the MacPro M-series will have to wait until they get PCI connectivity going. I am waiting for an M2 Mac Mini before I upgrade my personal Mac.