M4 Macs Now Arriving to Customers in Australia and New Zealand

[iHorseHead]

Fair enough.

That’s the opposite experience I have to my work laptop (windows) and my personal computer (MacOS).

Then you should ask from your company for a new laptop once the leasing time ends with better hardware.
Windows is so much more easy to handle. It supports Ncentral and Kaseya pretty much out of the box. Not even SAP apps work properly on a Mac.

 

[throAU]

Cheeky: My 7 day free applecare+ started yesterday, expires on the 15th and the device isn't due to get to me until the 14th

 

[throAU]

Windows is not a terrible OS + there are many other Linux distros out there as well.
Most games run on Windows and Windows 10 is pretty stable nowadays. I have had no issues whatsoever. I've had more issues with my MacBook Air M1, such as randomly shutting down etc.

As someone who has been multiplatform for 30 years...

Windows is a terrible OS to use, administer and maintain.

 

[iHorseHead]

As someone who has been multiplatform for 30 years...

Windows is a terrible OS to use, administer and maintain.

Windows is a lot easier due to Ncentral and Kaseya etc.
All the Mac tools such as Addigy are pretty awful. I have no idea why my experiences are so different… Windows is a lot. easier to administer and maintain, especially remotely.

 

[Seoras]

Just set up the new base M4 Pro Mac mini with 24GB Ram and 512GB SSD. This is replacing an M1 Max Mac Studio (base model 32GB). I am primarily using Xcode and Android Studio as the "heavy" apps that I use. I don't do much video editing, etc. I can tell you now that this base M4 Pro is faster in every way than the M1Max it is replacing. Xcode builds on the M1 Max were taking up to 2-3 minutes, sometimes longer. They are taking less than 1minute on the M4 Pro. I was skeptical of going from 32GB ram to 24GB but when I saw some Geekbench 6 results, I was impressed. In person, I also ran Geekbench 6 and the M4 Pro scored higher in all areas of the CPU test and slightly lower in the GPU test, but was practically negligible lower score compared to M1 Max. Again, in real world, the M4 Pro is significantly quicker. Have not heard the fan yet, but I can say that whilst the Mac Studio was cool as a cucumber almost all the time, no matter what I was doing, you could cook a burger on the Mac mini, super hot to touch the top. Sitting on a desk, so that doesn't matter to me, but just thought I would share about the heat. Does not seem to affect performance.

You had me worried with that "cook a burger" comment as I awaited my own to be delivered, which it was yesterday.
Had it long enough now to really push it and it's cool as a cucumber even though it was hot in the home office today ( high 20s).
Yet to hear any fan or even the faintest noise.
Mine is the 14core Pro with 64G of memory.
What were you doing with it that you got it so hot?
I'm struggling to find anything that makes this machine break into a sweat.
Where previously I had a 2.5 minute wait for a compile after clean I'm now seeing something that is almost instantaneous. Less than 20s.
Geekbench 6 just gave me 3887 single core, 22363 multi core, 69639 OpenCL, 108519 Metal.

 

[0134168]

Just set up the new base M4 Pro Mac mini with 24GB Ram and 512GB SSD. This is replacing an M1 Max Mac Studio (base model 32GB). I am primarily using Xcode and Android Studio as the "heavy" apps that I use. I don't do much video editing, etc. I can tell you now that this base M4 Pro is faster in every way than the M1Max it is replacing. Xcode builds on the M1 Max were taking up to 2-3 minutes, sometimes longer. They are taking less than 1minute on the M4 Pro. I was skeptical of going from 32GB ram to 24GB but when I saw some Geekbench 6 results, I was impressed. In person, I also ran Geekbench 6 and the M4 Pro scored higher in all areas of the CPU test and slightly lower in the GPU test, but was practically negligible lower score compared to M1 Max. Again, in real world, the M4 Pro is significantly quicker. Have not heard the fan yet, but I can say that whilst the Mac Studio was cool as a cucumber almost all the time, no matter what I was doing, you could cook a burger on the Mac mini, super hot to touch the top. Sitting on a desk, so that doesn't matter to me, but just thought I would share about the heat. Does not seem to affect performance.

Great to hear. Personally, I can say the same Swift project is compiled in my new MBP 16 M4 Pro in much less that the half of time taken in my MBP 16 M1 Pro. I´m so happy wit this mac.

 

[KIWIRobl]

26gb memory and 512gb SSD