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Everyone calm down. Not every observation on Apple's stuff is earth-shattering. In fact... none of them are, but Apple is of course partly or mostly to blame fo

Everyone calm down. Not every observation on Apple's stuff is earth-shattering. In fact... none of them are, but Apple is of course partly or mostly to blame for revving up everyone's engines. The M1 Ultra Studio is not what you think it is. It is not Apple's flagship high-performance machine. It isn't. That is still the Intel Mac Pro. The Studio is the Mac Mini update that was rumored 6 months before. The Studio is a Mac Mini, hey just gave it a new name. IOW the Studio is the low-end and entry level machine for professionals. Also, the current newest generation Apple hardware is not a revolution. Certainly, Apple deserves praise for seamless platform switching, nice work, truly. But these new Macs are only a little bit more performant than the previous generation. Check the benchmarks. Apple's best years were 2010-2012, where each year they doubled the performance of their machines of the previous year. It took another 6 years for performance to double again. The M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra are all marginally faster than the previous generation, the Intel Macs. Except for 2010-2012, which was amazing, this slight increase in performance is entirely typical of new Macs compared to whatever model's previous iteration. This twitter guy is talking about GPU and games. I realize GPU is important to the computing industry, but not to me. I've been a Mac user since 1989, and even if it was and is included in the machine, I've never once used the GPU. It just sits idle there while I saturate the CPU. Macs are tools for professionals. Professionals don't play games with their tools. If Apple has somehow offended the gaming community by not catering to their needs, and also boxed the GPU performance in the M1 Ultra, it's really a win-win. Ok, it's a little embarrassing, but regardless, doesn't deserve the expected outrage from the sensationalist reporting. How dare Apple! Right? It's more like, ok, well, that sucks a little, but who gives a shit?

Dylan16807 5y ago
> Everyone calm down. I'd say the overall tone of comments is pretty skeptical.
vimy 5y ago
More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. So does macOS. The days of using a gpu only for games or even graphical apps are long over. I’m pretty sure yours isn’t as idle as you think it is.
- Maursault 5y ago
  > More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. I expect 3D rendering applications, video editing applications and image manipulation applications to use GPU, as they always have since they first could. Machine Learning uses GPU, but the bigger M1 chips have the Neural Engine for that, so maybe not so much anymore on macOS. I doubt anyone would bother mining crypto on commodity hardware. But when you refer to, "more and more (professional) apps," I don't know what you're referring to. DAWs will only use GPU for displaying the interface, iow, barely perceptibly, not for applying filters or effects on audio. Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. CAD software doesn't need GPU. Beyond rendering, video editing, accelerated image manipulation, Machine Learning, cryptomining and games, I don't know for what else a GPU can be used. macOS uses GPU to drive displays and for the GUI, but hardly, and otherwise, not so much. Why would it? How could a GPU make system operating more efficient? Open up your Activity Monitor, under the Window menu open the GPU History window, and you can watch how macOS doesn't really utilize the GPU. It must use it for Quartz screen rendering, but it is such a tiny amount it doesn't even register.
  - monocasa 5y ago
    > Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. All of those use the GPU since modern UI toolkits are designed to use GPU offload. > CAD software doesn't need GPU. Wat.

Dylan16807 5y ago

> Everyone calm down. I'd say the overall tone of comments is pretty skeptical.

vimy 5y ago

More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. So does macOS. The days of using a gpu only for games or even graphical apps are long over. I’m pretty sure yours isn’t as idle as you think it is.

Maursault 5y ago
> More and more (professional) apps use the gpu for compute. I expect 3D rendering applications, video editing applications and image manipulation applications to use GPU, as they always have since they first could. Machine Learning uses GPU, but the bigger M1 chips have the Neural Engine for that, so maybe not so much anymore on macOS. I doubt anyone would bother mining crypto on commodity hardware. But when you refer to, "more and more (professional) apps," I don't know what you're referring to. DAWs will only use GPU for displaying the interface, iow, barely perceptibly, not for applying filters or effects on audio. Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. CAD software doesn't need GPU. Beyond rendering, video editing, accelerated image manipulation, Machine Learning, cryptomining and games, I don't know for what else a GPU can be used. macOS uses GPU to drive displays and for the GUI, but hardly, and otherwise, not so much. Why would it? How could a GPU make system operating more efficient? Open up your Activity Monitor, under the Window menu open the GPU History window, and you can watch how macOS doesn't really utilize the GPU. It must use it for Quartz screen rendering, but it is such a tiny amount it doesn't even register.
- monocasa 5y ago
  > Spreadsheets, accounting software, financial software, municipal software, inventory software won't need GPU. Desktop publishing applications don't need GPU. All of those use the GPU since modern UI toolkits are designed to use GPU offload. > CAD software doesn't need GPU. Wat.