Also to nitpick I get why you said it but the Studio has nothing to do with the Mac Pro. The Mac Pro is for people who want PCI cards and Windows.
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Five Apple Products You Should Avoid Buying Right Now
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Anything is possible. Lots of people wonder if will ever see a HDMI 2.1 port on the next ATV4K.
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Avoid buying "new" perhaps. I just picked up two Apple TV 4K's for 85eur which was a bargain...
So all you need to make the Mac mini worthwhile, is to already have owned a Mac Pro and two 4K/5K monitors. How much is that? Some $10.000 in sunk cost. In 2018 when the Mac mini gained the ability to run a 4K monitor at more than 30Hz the entry price jumped from $500 to $800. Since then a mini plus monitor puts you well over $1000. And you still don't have keyboard and mouse nor webcam and speakers. All in all you don't come cheaper than an iMac. If anything you wasted money by buying parts of the package too early.
waiting for that M2 Mac Mini 😋
my iPad Pro from last year is starting to have charging issues. It's still under AppleCare though...but if these new iPads had OLED i'd have jumped at them. No point upgrading just for the same design but with an M2.
my iPad Pro from last year is starting to have charging issues. It's still under AppleCare though...but if these new iPads had OLED i'd have jumped at them. No point upgrading just for the same design but with an M2.
Depends. If Apple ever moves into the post-VHS epoch they might finally get around to adding bitstream digital audio passthrough. Thus properly supporting third party media therein. Although it’s probably possible for them to do this in software anyway. All they need to do is give users the option to disable Siri voiceovers. No matter - a new ATV with this ability would be an instant buy for me. Until it happens I’ll never buy another one, so I guess we’ll just have to wait and see who blinks first…
After my iPhones and MacBook, my most used Apple product, and I've got a lot of 'm.
The Apple TV is great. Apps are always up to date and perform much better than SmartTV apps. The UI is also very clean and snappy.
Wouldn't trade it for any other tv box.
I'm sure you'll boost your productivity no end by upgrading your iPad to an M2.....
When processor power doesn't justify an upgrade but the colour of the laptop does... Apple has got this 'lifestyle' thing nailed.
IIRC it's not current-gen ATV performance that's holding Zwift back - it's that Zwift have deliberately kept the performance requirements low for it to run across a range of ATVs and not just newer models (e.g. 4K). You could argue that they could adjust graphics settings (beyond just resolution and some basic stuff) depending on ATV model, but the reality is that Zwift isn't meant to be about photo-realistic graphics - it's more Minecraft than Crysis. 4K ATVs already offer far more power than Zwift uses.
The Bluetooth connection limit of ATV is frustrating, but it's getting to the stage where I think if Apple were going to change that, they would already have done so. I don't think this limit affects many people outside Zwift users, and we're pretty much a niche group.
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"Five products you should absolutely buy right now because they'll never be cheaper, and their next gens won't be so much better that it matters."
"Five products you should absolutely buy right now because they'll never be cheaper, and their next gens won't be so much better that it matters."
Still don’t get it? There will be no mor Mac Pro. The Studio is the new Pro
If that were the case, they wouldn’t have made a point of saying, on stage, “that just leaves one more Mac, the Mac Pro - watch this space” (or words to that effect, don’t recall the exact quote - the point is, you don’t bring it up and say it’s coming if your plan is to quietly never produce it). If they intended to not produce the Mac Pro, what they did was a great way to get a whole bunch of the Pro’s target market to not buy the Studio, while they wait for the Pro they just heard get promised.
Fact: Just because a device has a pending upgrade does not mean you should avoid buying the current version.
The point of "sunk costs" is that they're sunk - you're not getting them back - so you don't figure them into future decisions, one way or another. What you do is look at what assets you have today: and if that includes a half-decent 4k/5k display (and, probably, a mouse and keyboard), then yes, you can "save" money by getting a $700 Mac Mini c.f. $1500 for the equivalent 24" iMac (8 core GPU, extra USB ports, Ethernet).
...and the Mac Pro thing is a total red herring: Some people bought second displays for their laptops or iMacs. Other people have perfectly good displays from old PCs etc. and if space is short you might want to use your TV as a display.
The other thing is, not everybody wants a single 24" 4.5k display (or a 27" 5k display when the 27" iMac was a thing) - personally I much prefer a pair of matching 4k displays, other people want a single, huge 4k display or an ultrawide 5k2k, or a 1440p display which still makes sense in some cases. Or you might try an OLED screen if you really want true HDR and accept the risk that it will suffer burn-in during the lifetime of the computer (no way in hell should you get an iMac with an OLED welded-in just yet) The Mac Mini and Studio give you those options.
Then, it's not just the displays that get re-used: down the road, when you get a shiny new Mac. the Mini can be re-purposed as a file server or second computer, when you can split it from the screen. IMacs, forever bound with the screen, can't really be tucked under the desk or shoved in a cupboard for that sort of thing.
Lots of people do. Only thing I needed extra was a webcam - which wasn't expensive and probably better than what you get in an iMac.
The point of the Mac Mini was always partly "bring your own peripherals" - either because you already had them or because you wanted to make your own choices. What happened for a while, though, is that the low-end 5k iMacs in the $1800-$2000 range offered end-of-argument value for money (when the only stand-alone 5k thunderbolt display was $1200) - I suspect that Apple was always making less money than they'd like out of those after 5k failed to take off in the PC world, which would have brought the panel costs down). That option has gone now (probably squeezed out by the cost of 5k panels, the "small" iMac being bigger and better and the Studio being more attractive to higher-end users).
(Disclaimer: I've actually got a Mac Studio, not a Mini, but frankly a M1 Mini would have been the rational choice for my needs - the overkill is my decision).
Apple has really doubled down on the secrecy of the next larger display iMac, even going so far as to release misinformation about it. Secrecy so tight that even rumors can't escape. Can't wait for the reveal!
Nope. I refuse to buy any iPad unless they add multiple user/account support available for all customers (not only for students).
I'm anxious to see the specs on the Apple Silicon Mac Pro. The Intel Mac Pro can have up to 1.5 TB of system RAM, plus an additional 64 GB RAM for its GPU. For comparison, the Mac Studio (the current top of the one Apple Silicon Mac) comes with only 128 GB unified RAM. Even if the Mac Pro quadrupled that to 512 GB, that's a severe drop.
Not to mention what expandability will be like. How many PCIe slots will we have?
Not to mention what expandability will be like. How many PCIe slots will we have?