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If only they would also add support for writing on NTFS drives they would probably kill all the competition - who needs a Windows PC when you can have a Mac whi
by qwerty456127 3y ago
If only they would also add support for writing on NTFS drives they would probably kill all the competition - who needs a Windows PC when you can have a Mac which can do everything you needed Windows for?
- whywhywhywhy 3y agoAnyone who needs top of the line gpu performance. M series is great but once you’re on desktops it gets left in the dust by Nvidia for 3D and ML.
- qwerty456127 3y agoCan't you just plug a latest nVidia card to you MacBook with Thunderbolt when you need it? Also doesn't M2 have some sort of an accelerator built-in specifically for ML?
- jsheard 3y agoApple used to support external GPUs on Intel-based Macs but they killed that when they switched over to ARM. It seems the new Mac Pro won't support internal PCIe GPUs either. You're just stuck with whatever GPU is built into the SOC now.
- qwerty456127 3y agoNo PCIe even in non-laptop, non-monoblock Macs? Sounds madness.
- whywhywhywhy 3y ago> Can't you just plug a latest nVidia card to you MacBook with Thunderbolt when you need it? No, even when they shipped that support initially it barely worked and then support ended one OS release. Nvidia stopped shipping drivers so it hasn't been possible for around 6+ years now? Looked into it extensively at the time and price and support wise I ended up having to build a PC to use Nvidia for 3D work (Octane Render). > Also doesn't M2 have some sort of an accelerator built-in specifically for ML? Yes, and it's good for a laptop but to put it in perspective M1 Max takes around 45-50 seconds to generate a Stable Diffusion image, 3090 takes around 5 seconds.
- qwerty456127 3y agoVery very sad news. I hoped to switch from a PC laptop to MacBookAir someday and use a GPU and other PCIe things over Thunderbolt whenever I would need them.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoAnyone who needs an OS that is not a toy, that is relatively open (or rather, allows you to shoot yourself in the foot easily should you want to), that is not dependent on one "benevolent" dictator to not restrict what you can do.
- qwerty456127 3y agoFor example, what useful things does Windows let you do which MacOS doesn't? The only thing I can name when comparing Windows to Linux, besides being able to run full-blown VisualStudio and Adobe, is app-level firewall, but Mac has LittleSnitch.
- fomine3 3y agoGaming. Running every application made with CUDA. Professional application that needs GPU performance more than M2 Ultra, or needs over 192GB of RAM.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoWSL for Unix compatible applications and not having to rely on brew, which is basically curl | sh for hipsters. Thirty years of backwards compatible apps. Thirty years of backwards compatible APIs. Doesn't ban you from their stores on a whim. Doesn't need a store even. Has a more sensible filesystem and organisation than MacOS (which is pretty damning considering how bad NTFS is). Actively, technically superior on every front then it comes to kernel or APIs, more hardened than anything Apple has ever put out. MacOS is a toy.