APPLE M1 Feedback? PING!
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Posted on 10/20/2021 7:24:36 AM PDT by dennisw
2021 Apple iMac (24-inch, Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU and 8‑core GPU, 8GB RAM, 512GB) - Blue At Amazon $1700 -- https://tinyurl.com/rvmmzrbb This one gets some negative reviews that are worth reading. That make interesting reading, such as incompatibly with favorite Apple programs. Dead machines too (lol)
Dell FHD 15.6" --- $323 yesterday ---today $342 https://tinyurl.com/3tv2xww5 with 11th Gen i3 and 8gb ram
What deals do you see? A few days ago for $179 at ebay I bought a used 32" LG 4k monitor --VA panel not IPS. 60 day seller warranty plus he pays return shipping if defective
For extremely high-demand high-volume high-price brands, buy ONLY from the manufacturer’s store or (if you can’t) an absolutely respectable retailer.
Too many are trying to sell old/obsolete/damaged/rebuilt models on Amazon, and doing everything they can to look respectable when they’re not.
If you want a discount on Apple gear, go to https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished - you know Apple has correctly fixed anything wrong with a used device, the discounts are meaningful, and result is arguably a _better_ device, as each has individually been examined and fixed, getting the device past the “out of the box” malfunction risk stage. I’ve bought Apple refurbished several times, worked perfectly for many years.
I’ve bought two M1 MacBook Airs, they work perfectly. Just plug it in at night, and should run all day unplugged. Planning to buy 2 more for personal use, want to upgrade 2 work machines to M1 MB Pros (alas, just got previous models), hoping to get a 27” M1 iMac as well. Good stuff.
Intel must be terrified.
A MacBook screen may not be 4K, but the video source may be 4K and rendering it live to a MacBook’s massive pixel count still requires computing power many notebooks don’t have.
I just bought a similar 4K LG with a VA panel but am waiting for delivery. I am most interested in getting sharper, more defined text on this monster (for me). I figured with all those more pixels, I should get this result. My current desktop monitor is 27" IPS at 1920x1028. From HP.
My 32" 4K LG monitor that is arriving next week is this model >>>>> https://www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32UK50T-W-4k-uhd-led-monitor?gclsrc=3p.ds
Favorite line from a radio ad: "sure you could buy a hamburger for a dollar ... but then you'd have to eat it."
Get a M1 MacBook Air for $849.
Last time I bought two refurbished MBAs from Apple, they lasted 8 years with no complaints. At 30¢ & 48¢ per day, totally worth the "high" price.
“Intel must be terrified.”
Intel should be developing an M1 competitor. There should be enough brain power to pull this off when Intel collaborates with Microsoft, LG, Samsung, HP, Dell, Acer. Microsoft might have to develop a new Windows that will work with such a processor.
Intel is building two new chip foundries in Arizona. They better be 5NM capable for this projected M1 competitor, or Intel will die a slow death. TSMC is also building a foundry in Arizona, TSMC manufactures the 5NM M1 chips for Apple. And soon enough the M2 chips, that will be an amazing 4NM, for Apple
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It also produces the 5nm M1 ARM-based Apple Silicon chip that contains a massive 16 billion transistors and will push out the M2 sequel that could be built using TSMC’s 4nm process node. TSMC builds the powerful M1 chip for Apple containing 16 billion transistors So Apple as TSMC’s top customer is a pretty easy pick.
Can you name TSMC’s top three chip-hungry customers ...
https://tinyurl.com/5xkb6r9h
If I needed a laptop I would buy that Dell 15.6” FHD immediately. I would install a storage HD or SSD. Being so Apple oriented you don’t know what the most annoying bugaboo is with Windows Intel/AMD machines. That 33% of the ones I see do not shut down properly all the time. Do not wake up properly all the time.....> Do you ever see this with Apple products?
2560-by-1600 is not “massive”.
Not Apple dumping - it the employees screwing with them, plus Amazon sends out ‘new’ items that have been returned or were damaged somewhere along the line. Apple gives a 14 day no hassle return policy on new items. Not to mention they offer Apple Care policy - which is always a good idea to purchase ; also available at Amazon.
You can be sure Amazon repackaged those returned machines and sent them out again as new to other people. Buy book and that sort of stuff there, not Macs.
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If that’s not the same one I have, it’s pretty close. Doesn’t have the latest and greatest USB-C ports, but for the cost savings, I am fine with that.
MacBook Pro M1, 13in, 2020. Best laptop yet from Apple.
iPad Pro 11in with magnetic Apple Pencil. Use it mainly as a drawing pad. Works very well.
iPhone 13 Pro Max. Got this a few weeks ago and so far love it.
Rest of the family have Apple iPhones and iPads or laptops.
I’ve bought iPads, new and used, through Amazon and Apple laptops from Other World Computing for friends who can’t quite afford Apple refurbs.
Crammed into the space of a notebook, there’s a reason it’s called “retina”: pixels are essentially indistinguishable.
Mac shutdown/startup is rarely an issue. I get a Mac, it works. Period.
Oddly, it’s the cross-platform development software for other operating systems that most often cause problems shutting down (this isn’t a problem for most users; I write apps).
HD is passé.
Buy notebook with a properly matched SSD installed, no time/effort spent installing nor fixing it. By the time it gets “too small” you’ll want to replace the whole machine for good reason (lots of other feature improvements).
Apple ecosystem is increasingly cloud-leveraging, so local storage size isn’t that big a deal. Plug in an external drive if needed, USB is plenty fast (keep high-speed data onboard).
I’ve been a PC devotee since the original IBM PC ... until about 8 years ago, when I jumped ship to iOS programming, went all-in for Apple, and never looked back.
25-50¢/day is not too expensive. Get a cheaper alternative, and you’ll spend more in lost time.
I bought a new MacAir last January and it works great, went Apple on everything in the last couple of years, IPad, Nano IPod, Apple Watch and I have had a Phone for several years. Everything is integrated on all systems and works great.
The best part, I don’t have to use Microsoft and Windows anything and have those updates cause so many problems. Say what you want Apple’s things, and OS are pretty seamless.
“Intel should be developing an M1 competitor.”
They can’t.
Windows’ strength of a wide hardware manufacturer base is precisely the weakness preventing that hardware from being fundamentally overhauled. Attempting to rework Windows to a new platform will break innumerable legacy applications, and drive out the vast number of minor computer manufacturers who provide those dirt-cheap options. Doing so would produce an unviable ecosystem which too few would build computers for and too few would write software for. Witness Microsoft’s repeated spectacular failures in the mobile phone market, pushing a phone nobody wanted to write software for; same idea here.
Only hope for the theory is to enact a _very_ long-term strategy to evolve Windows and x86 toward a processor that slowly sheds its x86-isms in favor of a tight new CPU core. This is an expensive proposition, vs a competitor who tightly controls its ecosystem and has a history of successful abrupt hardware pivoting.
The theory seems necessary on the surface, but won’t happen in practice. I’ve seen too many big companies fail such a pivot, and trying to make an entire _industry_ pivot won’t happen.
FYI.
(Hope you are getting along okay. God be with you.)
When will the new M2 chip be out?
No, it has not been implemented. The public backlash was far too overwhelming.
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