What kind of blather is that? You can certainly control whether applications can display notices or not. Apple is not forbidding you from doing it. ?
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Three Months After Launch, Apple Still Struggling to Meet Demand for Redesigned 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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I work at an audio software company.
We've bought for our company 3 MBPs (CTO).
We've ordered them mid-november.
Still no signs of arrival.
It's ironic that we as developers cannot do proper QA for upcoming Universal Builds until we have those machines.
(they behave differently than the M1 machines for some thread scheduling GPU requiring more testing).
We've bought for our company 3 MBPs (CTO).
We've ordered them mid-november.
Still no signs of arrival.
It's ironic that we as developers cannot do proper QA for upcoming Universal Builds until we have those machines.
(they behave differently than the M1 machines for some thread scheduling GPU requiring more testing).
Yes, but I can't turn notifications off, and Apple doesn't let you turn off their "really important" system notifications and garbage like "try the new Safari". The workaround is to schedule Do Not Disturb to turn off all notifications at 3:01am, and turn them back on again at 3:00am (or some other time you are not awake), because Apple won't let you turn them off permanently and entirely. You also can't turn off the trash notification center with widgets for things you don't need. You can remove all the widgets and such but notification center is still there. Clearly notifications are really important to some users, they just can't use a computer without being nagged constantly. If their attention isn't split 10 ways and stimulation isn't aggressively pumped into them, they just don't feel like they're living. A stable, reliable OS that they could install their own optional notification crap on would be so boring.
While I *totally* agree with the "pandering to niches and the optics of 'here are your ports back!'" being totally useless, you would be *amazed* at how slow aviation is to adopt anything (sometimes for good reason, in life safety applications, certification of things as simple as an SD card functionality can take years of additional testing, and not just "it works" kind of testing, but what are all the other implications of the change that aren't obvious). I'd argue that updating avionics with an SD card is actually incredibly modern for the aviation world. Now, they should just keep a SanDisk USB-C dongle in the aircraft next to the QRH or something rather than a useless, slow port on the MBP, agreed, but the analogy to the DVD is not at all accurate because aviation has requirements (that are quite valid) that require locking down to a VERY specific SKU/part number and design for *years* (even decades) because of life safety and flight safety engineering and the attendant certification cycles.
Apple have removed a "shared outlet" not a port.
Old MBP - 2 TB3 ports with 4 connectors. You could NOT use 4 lanes for 4 devices (so you could NOT do 4 x 40gbps) - you had a max of 2 x 40gbps "time shared")
New MBP 3 TB4 ports - which you can chose to run as 3 FULL TB3 ports using all 4 lanes for each.
Or you can connect a TB4 hub to ONE - and have extra "10gbps" outlets for your screens / slow card readers etc - and STILL have 2 x 4 lane TB3/TB4 ports. (TB4 is fully backwards compatible with 4 lane TB3 as long as you do not run them through TB4 dock)
My setup
1 TB Port -> CalDigit TS3+ -> Sonnet 10GBe adaptor - (that did NOT work well on MBP Retina if anything else was connected on same side) + external 49" screen + RME Fireface Audio via USB + keyboards/mouse and 3D Connexion Space Mouse + Resolve and Steinberg dongles.
1 TB Port -> high speed CFExpress/XQD Card reader
1 TB Port "free" for what ever.
Power comes from TS3+ unless I do big renders - then I attach the MBP 140w power brick.
I never have issues with network speed (950mbps+) when copying from CFExpress -> my NAS. And I can actually work unhindered on the machine while it is doing so. I can do 8K editing direct on my NAS without problems through the 10GBe Sonnet on the TS3+. But as it is a notebook - I often just dump the files on the SSD - and go and sit somewhere nice for the raw first edit.
The ONLY issue(s) I have is sometimes the Sonnet 10GBe does not like to come out of sleep mode. But a quick whack with a hammer usually wakes it up. (Actually just plug and unplug) - the other issue is the TS3+ itself - I have to run the RME Fireface - the built in sound from TS3+ is terrible and it has very low "charge power" for external devices (max 1.5A/5v)
So in short - the TB4 ports in the MBP M1's gives you much more than the TB3 ports did on the MBP Retina. And it actually work really well.
On the MBP Retina it was hit and miss - and always battle to figure out what ports was occupied by high speed 4 lane devices. Plug in an e-GBP - and BOTH connectors on one side was FULLY saturated during a render. So you could not have the fast external drive on the same side as the e-GPU if your source files was on it.
I've looked, but never seen the standard M1 Max configuration (10-Core CPU
, 32-Core GPU,
32GB Unified Memory,
1TB SSD Storage) available for pickup from an Apple Store, and I suppose they do, but do the Apple Stores actually ever have this one available for in-store pickup or is it just for delivery?
the issue is that the m1 max is a huge chip and the ram is unified
as chips get physically bigger the chance of a chip coming out of manufacturing broken is extremely high and increases exponentially adding to that when you make chips you make a big wafer and cut that up to make each chip so apple have to balance making enough m1 maxes but also making enough m1’s and m1 pro chips they might get 4x the standard m1 chips from a wafer then they will with m1 max
this is all further exacerbated by the global chip shortage and supply chain issues
anddddd on top that m1 maxes are highly in demand so it’s overall not a great time for that spec
My personal experience is I've never seen those M1 Max 16" ready to be delivered, at least in Spain if you try to order online and pickup from Apple Store, those configurations never seem to be present, maybe there's physical stock but not listed online? IDK, but I really doubt it.
My 2 cents, order ASAP and if you find something at the store that suits for you, cancel the order, you will have plenty of time given these delivery ranges. Unfortunately, I'm in the waiting game again, tried my M1 Pro 16GPU 32GB for 2 months and decided to start its return process, I'd like to have the headroom for GPU tasks within the next future I'll have to face ... so swapped the SoC for M1 Max 24GPU.
Both configurations are custom so:
* M1 Pro 16GPU 32GB 1TB was ordered on 16th Nov 2021, delivered 2nd Dec 2021 (original window was 10 Dec - 17 Dec)
* M1 Max 24GPU 32GB 1TB ordered on 29th Jan, estimated delivery date 22 Mar - 5 Apr
So yes, it seems new MBP's are suffering for 2-3 more weeks than previous year, given the fact that China New Year celebrations start within two days, I can totally understand the situation, and trust me, the wait will be totally worth, these are amazing machines.
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The supply issue for PCs is with legacy chips. There are only a few manufacturers who make these now (TI is one) and they do not want to add more capacity. Essentially they are making plenty of money and have low competition. Building more capacity will cost money and drive the price down. Catch22 situation.
There’s a minimum Apple should do: show respect to it’s customers and apply “first come, first served” policy. It’s unacceptable orders from US and AppleStore are given priority.
If it can stand by it’s advertised 4-8 week estimate, than list the product has “unavailable” as others companies are doing, otherwise we start to get the feeling of being “scammed”.
My trust in Apple is deeply affected by the way it has been handling this delays.
Go to apple support community forum and you’ll understand…lot of us are long past the announced 4-8 week delivery deadline. Specially if you order 16” M1Max BTO through resellers (even premium).
Same from end-November. Did you order directly from Apple? It seems if you do, you get luckier…and get it within the announced 4/8 week period.
On Jan 17, I placed an order for a MacBookPro with M1Max Chip, 64GB ram and a 4 TB ssd on Apple.com. I was quoted a 2 month delay. Two days ago, I see the exact same machine in stock at a 3rd party seller. The 3rd party site offered me less than Apple for my current setup. It doesn't seem right to me that I have to wait 2 months while 3rd party stores have them in stock.
It is likely that the third-party store ordered their stock before you did. Now they have stock to sell. What is the problem? When demand is high and supply is limited, the distribution process will have friction and sometimes you will be a little frustrated. Before too long you will have that new hotness and you will be having so much fun with it, you will forget about this short term frustration.
Aren’t you a lucky one! On EU it’s been the other way around, 3rd party orders from end Oct still to arrive!? Let alone find stock…
Why not just buy from the 3rd party seller, and sell your current machine privately. You'll get a new one earlier, and make more money on the old one. Win-Win!
Very clearly Apple are still struggling to meet demand. I’ve had a MacBook Pro Max on order since early January. I was expecting it to arrive in the next two weeks or so but just this morning received notice that it’ll be at least another MONTH!
Apple… Instead of announcing new product that you likely can’t supply, please get your CURRENT backlog out of the way first? Thanks awfully!
Apple… Instead of announcing new product that you likely can’t supply, please get your CURRENT backlog out of the way first? Thanks awfully!
No one uses SD… You might lIke to row that one back a bit as quite a lot of professionals use SD’s… v90’s anyone?