I wold have preferred the Mac Mini have triple the power, RAM and GPU power than it does, at 10% of the price.
Lol some people are just never happy
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Lol some people are just never happy
sorry
They are actually matching Costco, which also has the base Mac Studio for $1699.
I am super tempted, but want to see what the Samsung Viewfinity S9 is priced at. Thinking…
I am super tempted, but want to see what the Samsung Viewfinity S9 is priced at. Thinking…
I bring this up as the first base model Mac or Macbook Air with 8GB memory came out in 2016.I wold have preferred the Mac Mini have triple the power, RAM and GPU power than it does, at 10% of the price.
Lol some people are just never happy
While first Macbook Pro base model with 256GB SSD was a 2012 model.
We're in 2023 and it is kinda weird that the needle has not moved on base model RAM & SSD.
The Apple chips are just fine and properly priced but the base model RAM & SSD are just so archaic.
I know Apple wants to get a better margin by inducing uprgrades but it's not Steve's Apple.
When the first M1 Mac came out in Nov 2020 I was really expecting 16GB RAM & 512GB SSD for the base model MBP 13", MBA, Mac mini and iMac 24" at the base models MSRP.
It would make it volume sellers.
I noticed you have a Mac Studio. Wouldn't you want double the RAM, SSD & SSD speed for what you paid for? If we are to look at PC parts price for RAM & SSD you will see the disparity.
Get an LG C2 OLED TV. With the latest M2 MacBook Pro or mini, should run 4K 120Hz just fine. And when on sale they’re like $900 or so. Yes it’s a TV so you do lose certain conveniences like waking the Mac doesn’t wake the TV (no CEC HDMI), but there’s ways around it.
Yeah it bugs me the height-adjustable only goes HIGHER than the standard tilt display. I like putting my monitors on a stand so I can put my keyboard/mouse and even laptop underneath it as possible but afraid the Studio Display is going to sit too high. I raised my current display to the height the Studio Display would be on my stand and found it is in a bad spot when wearing my progressive glasses. Another reason I wanted to see what the S9 was going to be.
No. One Thunderbolt 4 input (for video, audio, camera and power if connected to a MacBook) and three USB-C ports.
No, not to be a broken record but yet another reason I wanted to see what the Samsung Viewfinity S9 brings.
VESA mount option. Put it on an arm for infinite flexibility.
And by the way, the Studio Display enables and supports rotation sensing. macOS will automatically rotate the image if you rotate the display 90º.
I picked up a couple of used LG ultrafine 5ks for <$400 each on Craigslist. If you’re prairie by you can find a great deal.
It's unlikely but ask. Do a return and rebuy if they don't, if that's possible for you. You should be able to return the new monitors as the old order if that's easiest (and no, that's not dishonest).
Unless a person is making adult videos, I don't see the point in having a 4K webcam. I've seen tons of people in my life, and I'd prefer to see most of them in the lowest resolution possible on cam 🤣
I'd be very interested in the Tilt & Height adjustable version for $1599.
OR I'd happily pay the current price if it got ProMotion, bonus points for mini-LED.
OR I'd happily pay the current price if it got ProMotion, bonus points for mini-LED.
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In my opinion, the Studio Display should be free with the purchase of any Mini.
...See, I can make up totally unmoored demands of product pricing as well. But me wanting more for less doesn't follow that it's reasonable.
Considering it's 27-inch, 5K, has awesome speakers, has a built-in, an OK webcam with tracking technology, is great looking, and is really well built, it's not "overpriced" and when it was released there was simply no other monitor on the market that could compare to it.
Since then, Huawei blatantly copied it, and Samsung is also releasing a copy in a few weeks.
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A 27-inch mini-LED monitor with ProMotion was supposedly going to launch in Q1 of this year, according to Ross Young. https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-27-inch-mini-led-display-in-q1-2023.2364171/ I'm guessing that would've been a direct upgrade to the Studio Display, since I doubt they'd make the Pro Display XDR smaller.
Different sized zones. It's easy to see, but difficult to photograph. Bottom image is inverted to show it a little clearer.
I'm curious, but outside of benchmark tests, do people regularly read/write more than 20gb of data off of their drives? By regularly, I mean at least several times per day. Because if your files are only 500mb or smaller, how will you ever notice read/write speed having an impact? If you are copying, saving or opening smaller files, then won't the read/write basically be done before you've moved the cursor on the Mac to the next spot of the screen for your next action?
Good point. That's why I was wondering what were users with 8/256 Macs doing that requires more than 1GB/s read/writes. I can't imagine 4K video editing... 256GB is tooooooo tiny.