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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by phyalow on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:25PM (#30744573)
I am quite happy with my Macbook Pro M1 Max, which remains virtually ice cold even running heavy compute (I am still yet to hear the fans spin up) and having a battery life that can accomodate easily 12+ hours of real work. Any Windows laptop with a 3090 inside it, will be a hot and loud brick in comparison. Granted I dont play video games, and my ML compute is run in the cloud it fits my needs nicely. I would argue in terms of sheer generalised productivity nothing else comes close.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by aenis on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:59PM (#30744959)
Same here. Great computer. The only thing I am missing is a bit more reliable support for waking up external monitors. Between my now two m1/m1 max macs and 6 screens I use, one (an Asus 2k display which is slow to wake up from sleep) often requires unplugging to wake up. That is not a m1 issue - its been like that with macos since... forever, but it's irritating.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by flatiron on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:29PM (#30745787)
One big thing holding me back from jumping on one is macOS. I’m sure it’s ok but I’ve been using Linux for ~25 years that’s a lot of muscle memory to lose. I really wish apple supported Linux better.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by brettdong on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:36PM (#30745848)
Hope Asahi Linux will get mature and be daily driver usable in the near future.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by Osiris on Sunday March 20, 2022 @02:14PM (#30745098)
I use a 4 monitor setup for my workstation. I switched to a desktop computer in part to not have to deal with this exact issue with a MacBook.
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by srcreigh on Sunday March 20, 2022 @03:03PM (#30745546)
What is your monitor layout?
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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by aenis on Sunday March 20, 2022 @04:36PM (#30746371)
I have those 6 screens plugged to two different macs, so just 3 on each. Big screen in the center, and two in portrait mode on the sides. One uses 43" 4k for the center screen, the other uses a 34" ultrawide.

The m1 max drives its displays directly, the m1 via a starlink tripple 4k displaylink hub.

The problems, in my case, are specific to monitors that take a good few seconds to come back from standby. Macos seems to be impatient and considers them dead. I am down to just 1 screen with this problem, and will replace it at some point.

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Re:M1 Ultra About 3x Bigger Than AMD's Ryzen CPUs by grishka on Sunday March 20, 2022 @06:55PM (#30747615)
The only way I was able to get mine to spin the fans (at seemingly full speed!) was to build the Telegram Android app in "afat" variant. The NDK (which is still x86-only, shame on you Google) fully loads all cores for an extended period of time. The fans start several minutes in.
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