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by coder543 4y ago
For me, there are basically two "categories" of new Windows laptops that I'm excited about: innovative form factors, and compact laptops with RTX 40-series GPUs. As much as Nvidia has been charging ridiculous prices for deskt
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by coder543 4y ago
No, this seems to have nothing to do with Apple's own monitors. Apple just didn't support the proper display connection standards previously. Now they support HDMI 2.1, based on this announcement, so they're finally catching
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by coder543 4y ago
> Intel hasn’t exactly been innovating in the last 2 years. What on earth are you talking about?! Alder Lake was a huge step up for Intel, and Raptor Lake has improved things more than I would have expected as well. Before Alder Lake,
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by coder543 4y ago
For $100, you can opt to have 10Gb ethernet as well, so it's not really slower LAN. Personally, I think choosing the higher end M2 Pro doesn't make the comparison more fair than the lower end M2 Pro, so you can get 10GbE and &
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That would at least help them justify the current RAM pricing!
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by coder543 4y ago
Modern external hard drives are more like 120MB/s, not "several hundred" MB/s, last I checked, but that's only for sequential access. Scanning and accessing a photo library is extremely random I/O and has nothi
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by coder543 4y ago
> and four Thunderbolt ports The Mac mini with M2 Pro includes four Thunderbolt ports too, just FYI.
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by coder543 4y ago
It was also available on the M1 Mac Mini, just not at launch: https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/20/apple-silently-updates-m1-mac...
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(not relevant anymore)
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by coder543 4y ago
True, but it is a rather lame excuse for soldering the SSD, considering Apple's SSDs have not really performed better than anyone else's SSDs for a long time. Moving the controller into the SoC is a cost saving measure for Apple,
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by coder543 4y ago
>>> Is the RAM and SSD upgradeable? >> Nope, soldered. > Nope, in the same package as the CPU and GPU. The SSD certainly isn't in the same package as the CPU and GPU, so your comment is simply wrong, given the questio
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by coder543 4y ago
At one time, the prices kind of almost made sense. Apple just hasn't really "remembered" to update their upgrade prices for the last 5 years or so, and now they really don't make sense. I expect Apple will adjust upg
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by coder543 4y ago
This also applies to the new MacBook Pros as well, to be clear.
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by coder543 4y ago
To truly be Apples to Apples, I would factor in the $100 option for 10Gb ethernet, which brings the price difference down to $200... and the extra $200 is getting you an M1 Max .
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by coder543 4y ago
Yes. You can buy an NVMe SSD and put it into an external thunderbolt enclosure. Here is one random $115 option for a thunderbolt external NVMe enclosure with seemingly good reviews: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB74BQVN
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by coder543 4y ago
Apple disagrees, and I would take Apple's advice over some random anecdote. There is no reason that an external photo library would be inherently worse than an internal one. If that person actually did use a hard drive (not an NVMe SSD
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by coder543 4y ago
Photos would work that way too, as shown in the help article I linked.
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by coder543 4y ago
If macOS is installed on it, Photos won’t even think of it as an external drive. However, yes, you can: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201517
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by coder543 4y ago
As I mentioned here[0], it is worth considering using an external, upgradeable SSD instead of paying Apple's exorbitant prices for more internal storage on a Mac mini. For a laptop, you would definitely want to upgrade the internal sto
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by coder543 4y ago
On the plus side, with a desktop like this that isn't going to be moving frequently, there's really no compelling need to upgrade the internal storage. You could attach an external 1TB (or bigger!) NVMe SSD and you should be abl
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by coder543 4y ago
This is the real problem. M2 is just using LPDDR5. The memory modules themselves don't appear to be anything special; it's just the memory interface bus that is different. Apple is charging multiple times the actual cost per GB, a
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by coder543 4y ago
> Making ram faster doesn't mean it can magically store more. For real. This myth that "Unified RAM" doesn't need as much capacity as "regular RAM" needs to stop being perpetuated. Intel-based Macs already h
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by coder543 4y ago
> edit: the ad says up to 24/32GB of ram, but seems like 8gb/16gb models are the only ones available for pre-order at the moment. I see both 24GB and 32GB configurations on the Apple Store configurator. Not sure what you'r
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by coder543 4y ago
If the only research you did is secondhand word of mouth, I think you need to do a little more research. Heat pumps are extremely excellent, and have been for years. We've even reached the point where heat pumps are able to work effect
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by coder543 4y ago
The one without the comma, absolutely.
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by coder543 4y ago
I ignored your point… about adding a random comma to preserve the original title’s word choice? I’m confused how that’s relevant. If the comma makes things less clear to the majority of readers, then it would not be an improvement. Based on
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by coder543 4y ago
That rule of thumb doesn’t really contradict anything I’ve said, and a rule of thumb is not to be relied upon anyways. If we want to consider the rule of thumb, just extend the sentence. If the pause would be there, then it would also be th
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by coder543 4y ago
> People calling 1080p "2K" is a pet peeve of mine. Can’t edit now, but clearly I meant to say 1440p in this sentence, not 1080p.
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I think clear communication is important, and I initially tried to avoid digging into grammar until they doubled down on a weird use of a comma. There are two verbs in your example, so it’s simply not a relevant example since the second ver
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> You absolutely will not notice the difference If you make absolutes like that, then everything I could respond with is automatically “wrong”, so that’s not a great conversation opener. My smartphone is not a gaming monitor either, but

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