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Apple Shares 17-Minute Video Announcement and Ad for the New MacBook Pros and M4 Chip
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Goodbye 2018 Intel MacBook Pro… hello M4! Definitely glad I held out.
Quick question for any Python developers out there: I currently work in Python (mainly with Django) and am planning to dive into the world of LLMs. For those of you in similar fields, would you spring for the M4 Max or stick with the Pro? I’m leaning toward the Pro but would love to hear from others who work with large datasets and resource-intensive applications. Appreciate any thoughts!
Quick question for any Python developers out there: I currently work in Python (mainly with Django) and am planning to dive into the world of LLMs. For those of you in similar fields, would you spring for the M4 Max or stick with the Pro? I’m leaning toward the Pro but would love to hear from others who work with large datasets and resource-intensive applications. Appreciate any thoughts!
That scene made my day. I was literally laughing out loud in my office. Thank you Apple.
If it comes out on Steam odds are, you don’t need to buy again but Apple might have negotiated an exclusive for the App Store.
Did they really need to go with Ubisoft for the hero shot? AC Shadows is already a pretty universally panned game and Ubisoft is not really helping the situation with their comments.
When they mentioned MacBook Air, almost thought it would have M4. Oh Well.
Ok, but let’s just remember Apple is using an integrated GPU for PC in the comparison, a laptop RTX 4090 is about 3 x faster than the M4 in gaming.
No, you're doing it wrong. You show your love for Apple by finding something … anything! … to complain about. They could give these computers away for free and people would still complain.
Well my insidious M4 Ultra delay theory is coming true.
I mean they're showing LM Studio in their video.
Reason they delayed M4 Ultra for another 6 months is because right now no other company other than Apple gives you this much VRAM to run large LLMs. Yes inference is slower than strapping 3 x 4090s together but you get the ability to run large LLMs and that's what matters. The M4 Ultra with 256GB of RAM would allow you to run quantized 300B parameter models. Apple is going to sell every last M2 Ultra SKU before they release M4 Ultra. Or they'll use the M4 Ultra for their own in house servers before passing it off to OpenAI.
And did my eyes deceive me? Did they really demo Cyberpunk in their video? Since when does it run on a Mac natively without Crossover or the porting toolkit?
I mean they're showing LM Studio in their video.
Reason they delayed M4 Ultra for another 6 months is because right now no other company other than Apple gives you this much VRAM to run large LLMs. Yes inference is slower than strapping 3 x 4090s together but you get the ability to run large LLMs and that's what matters. The M4 Ultra with 256GB of RAM would allow you to run quantized 300B parameter models. Apple is going to sell every last M2 Ultra SKU before they release M4 Ultra. Or they'll use the M4 Ultra for their own in house servers before passing it off to OpenAI.
And did my eyes deceive me? Did they really demo Cyberpunk in their video? Since when does it run on a Mac natively without Crossover or the porting toolkit?
Definitely an interesting bunch. The Mac Mini Product Manager was definitely the most attractive to me. Allegra is okay, but I'm not a fan of her wardrobe at all.
These MacBook's are so tempting to buy. Coming from a M1 MacBook Pro 12 CPU, 16 GPU, 16GB ram and 1TB storage. Really looking forward in upgrading. Just wonder, is it compatible with the grey square shaped rounded edge piece of magic, the apple cleaning cloth ? Can I clean a nano texture glass with it ?
That final video at the end, so hilarious. It says don’t try this at home. With that amount of weights, no one earth can even try.
How was that racism? It is no secrete that everyone is coming up with bizarre names for their kids the last 10 years or so. It goes across al races. Common ethnic/regional names are normal names too.
The dude's comment is oddly placed on MacRumors about a MBPs event... but still no need to try to inject race into it too, taking things further off track.
Where do you see that it's small? M4 shows a significant performance boost per core from M3. Definitely comparable if not better than in previous generations.
Also, there is a reason they compare it with M1 Max so many times in their promo video. Those are the people they are targeting. Not M3 Max users. If you're one, you are not the target audience.
I like the 1000 nit SDR brightness (compared to previous 500 nits), definitely will come in handy when working outdoors.
New AI engine is also a big welcome, IMO. About 2x performance of M3 Max.
546GB/s of memory bandwidth vs 400GB/s in M3 Max is a 36.5% increase. For the first time since M1 Max.
Only WiFi 6e? They put a Wifi 7 chipset in their iphone, which doesn't need to throw big files around at all but stick with the old outdated standard on the "pro" laptop. Apple is so lazy with these cash grab spec bumps - I doubt it would have taken much to upgrade the logic board and now we're stuck with an old standard until 2026 until tandem OLED is released on m5 pros.