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Tim Cook, I have a Mac obsession

2 points by jzombie 4y ago

In 2022, I purchased three M1 machines; two Macbook Pro M1 Pros, and a M1 Studio Max. I've also invested more than 4 months salary into Apple and I am proud of it. My primary use case is software development and experimentation (mostly in the realm of WebRTC high-fidelity audio streaming between peers on ad-hoc networks we set up). The M1 Studio is colocated in Wisconsin and I am in Nicaragua. I've rented various Macs from macminivault.com over the past 2.5 years and decided it would be more economical to just buy a new Studio and ship it to them. Absolute phenomenal experience. I'd be interested in hearing if anyone else has this Mac obsession like I do, or perhaps I'm just crazy. I could care less about any of their other technology. Just the Macs, but I love Apple Music as well.

gardenhedge 4y ago
Seems like a waste of money really
mejutoco 4y ago
If it works for you. I try not to have a fetish for powerful machines, and treat them as tools. Sometimes it is difficult, when looking at some GPUs etc. but overall it works. If you need a tool for work or personal hobby and can afford it, why not.
m348e912 4y ago
Why don't you ship it to your home?
- jzombie 4y ago
  As I'm in Nicaragua, the power quality isn't always the best here, plus I wanted a decent server where I could run basically any software I wanted to on. It's not a huge trade-off for me running it remotely. I primarily connect to it over SSH, but often use NoMachine if I want to interact w/ the UI.
  - m348e912 4y ago
    Cool, I have a Macbook as well and really like it. I'd love a maxxed out m2 but it will be a while before I need to upgrade.
    - jzombie 4y ago
      I feel the same. If there's anything I wish I had done more, it probably would have been getting the 64GB version of the Studio instead of the 32GB. I run a lot of VMs on it, including a Mac VM that is used to run some GitHub Actions on as a build target for some WebRTC stuff. But even if the memory pressure gets high along w/ CPU usage doing some video encoding, the system stays as responsive as ever.

2 points by jzombie 4y ago

gardenhedge 4y ago

Seems like a waste of money really

mejutoco 4y ago

If it works for you. I try not to have a fetish for powerful machines, and treat them as tools. Sometimes it is difficult, when looking at some GPUs etc. but overall it works. If you need a tool for work or personal hobby and can afford it, why not.

m348e912 4y ago

Why don't you ship it to your home?

jzombie 4y ago
As I'm in Nicaragua, the power quality isn't always the best here, plus I wanted a decent server where I could run basically any software I wanted to on. It's not a huge trade-off for me running it remotely. I primarily connect to it over SSH, but often use NoMachine if I want to interact w/ the UI.
- m348e912 4y ago
  Cool, I have a Macbook as well and really like it. I'd love a maxxed out m2 but it will be a while before I need to upgrade.
  - jzombie 4y ago
    I feel the same. If there's anything I wish I had done more, it probably would have been getting the 64GB version of the Studio instead of the 32GB. I run a lot of VMs on it, including a Mac VM that is used to run some GitHub Actions on as a build target for some WebRTC stuff. But even if the memory pressure gets high along w/ CPU usage doing some video encoding, the system stays as responsive as ever.