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Apple Tests New High-End Macs with M2 Max and M2 Ultra Chips Ahead of WWDC

24 points by mfiguiere 3y ago

brucethemoose2 3y ago
I really wish I could buy a Max and: - Have the GPU/Metal work in linux. - Get the high RAM config for less than a bajillion dollars. I think AMD/Intel will have something similar soon, but its still really frustrating to see such cool hardware be so... Appley.
- viraptor 3y ago
  You can already use GPU on Linux with M1 max and M2, so M2 max shouldn't be far away. (https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support)
  - brucethemoose2 3y ago
    AFAIK they can run OpenGL. Thats a far cry from full metal and vulkan support. My main interest would be running AI models (which are probably going to need metal or vulkan on a linux Apple GPU), and the secondary interest would be Proton games (though Vulkan).
    - viraptor 3y ago
      Yup, OpenGL now and Vulkan will happen at some point in the future. Although if someone gets interested, maybe they'll reverse engineer ANE and expose that...
andrewmcwatters 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225508/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/apple-tests-new-high-end-mac-chips-ahead-of-developer-conference https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225508/https://www.bloom...
rudedogg 3y ago
Isn't the M3 supposed to be released soon-ish? The way they've done the Mac releases makes no sense to me. I like the regularity of iPhone releases, if I want to upgrade I can look at what is released in September. With the Mac releases they're all over the place.
- vosper 3y ago
  Scuttlebutt (aka mac rumour articles) mostly now say end of this year or sometime next year for M3.
- wmf 3y ago
  I think this is due to time-sharing a single development team among all the Mac models. The M2 was ready before the M1 Extreme was released and M3 may follow right behind the last M2 Macs.
- icedchai 3y ago
  I'm guessing we'll see M3 near the end of this year. It was roughly 1.5 years from M1 to M2, and M2 was only released last summer. Some of their machines (iMac 24", Mac Studio) are still on the M1 line. Others, like the Air, still offer the M1 option.
mark_l_watson 3y ago
Cool. I was developing today on a M1 MacBook Pro using Keras and TensorFlow, libraries that support Apple Silicon fairly well. I will wait and see but the future for DL dev on Apple Silocon may get competitive. I am also watching George Hotz’s work on supporting AMD GPUs.

24 points by mfiguiere 3y ago

I really wish I could buy a Max and: - Have the GPU/Metal work in linux. - Get the high RAM config for less than a bajillion dollars. I think AMD/Intel will have something similar soon, but its still really frustrating to see such cool hardware be so... Appley.

viraptor 3y ago
You can already use GPU on Linux with M1 max and M2, so M2 max shouldn't be far away. (https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Feature-Support)
- brucethemoose2 3y ago
  AFAIK they can run OpenGL. Thats a far cry from full metal and vulkan support. My main interest would be running AI models (which are probably going to need metal or vulkan on a linux Apple GPU), and the secondary interest would be Proton games (though Vulkan).
  - viraptor 3y ago
    Yup, OpenGL now and Vulkan will happen at some point in the future. Although if someone gets interested, maybe they'll reverse engineer ANE and expose that...

andrewmcwatters 3y ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225508/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-31/apple-tests-new-high-end-mac-chips-ahead-of-developer-conference https://web.archive.org/web/20230531225508/https://www.bloom...

rudedogg 3y ago

Isn't the M3 supposed to be released soon-ish? The way they've done the Mac releases makes no sense to me. I like the regularity of iPhone releases, if I want to upgrade I can look at what is released in September. With the Mac releases they're all over the place.

vosper 3y ago
Scuttlebutt (aka mac rumour articles) mostly now say end of this year or sometime next year for M3.
wmf 3y ago
I think this is due to time-sharing a single development team among all the Mac models. The M2 was ready before the M1 Extreme was released and M3 may follow right behind the last M2 Macs.
icedchai 3y ago
I'm guessing we'll see M3 near the end of this year. It was roughly 1.5 years from M1 to M2, and M2 was only released last summer. Some of their machines (iMac 24", Mac Studio) are still on the M1 line. Others, like the Air, still offer the M1 option.

mark_l_watson 3y ago

Cool. I was developing today on a M1 MacBook Pro using Keras and TensorFlow, libraries that support Apple Silicon fairly well. I will wait and see but the future for DL dev on Apple Silocon may get competitive. I am also watching George Hotz’s work on supporting AMD GPUs.