I wouldn't be so sure about that. These M1 chips have some crazy benchmark performance.
What they don't have, is a standard x86 ISA, which means that a lot of applications run emulated (and still tend to beat many Intel specs, anyway). I keep reading people complaining that "It's faster, but not that much faster. What's the big deal?", when they are talking about an i86 application, running on Rosetta2.
Wouldn't surprise me, if Apple is thinking about doing something like this, maybe with a new API/SDK, focused on this. They would probably sell it as an ML machine.
Tell me about it.
We used to have a couple of their XServe rack servers, as well as that fat RAID rack.
Iirc, we had to get $pecial disks for that damn thing.
They refuse to build what a sizable number of people want, yet we're stuck with Apple because the alternatives are even worse. That's what pg got wrong with one of his predictions. He didn't realize that no one can do better than Apple's worst effort
But yes no ECC. Linux arm64 works on my M1 Pro in UTM using native virtualisation. And it’s fast as anything.
* 20 core cpu
* 64 core gpu
* 32 core neural engine
* 128GB of ram
* 1TB SSD
fully maxed out, 8TB SSD
Obviously depends on people's workload. For myself and to future proof, I can see a benefit for 2TB locally.
The rest I can offload to network storage.
The Studio starts at $2k. If you are going to use it for the next 4 years, that's less than $1.50 / day. No trust fund required.
That's not a 2000 dollar configuration. For reference, that memory capacity costs 120 euros with 3200 Mhz
https://www.howtogeek.com/701804/how-unified-memory-speeds-u...
Also it was mentioned, if I’m not mistaken, that the SSD has 7.5 Gb/s read, which is actually pretty good.
Yes and it is all fun and games as long as it works. If something breaks, it is either terribly expensive to repair or unrepairable completely. Then it may not be as cheap long-term as it may look now... but the situation is probably worse with macbooks and their custom LCDs and keyboards than with this Studio.
Is it even possible to boot from USB on these M1 macs after the internal SSD fails?
And it doesn’t need $1000 wheels.