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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by omnimus on Thursday November 02, 2023 @03:44AM (#38110151)
What are you even doing? I have refurbished workstation from 2016 (xeon with 32gig ram for 200usd) and the cheapest M1 air. And i am sitting here thinking we went past of what people need for personal/work computer because i can easily do my work on it and would get nothing from faster machines. Yes i dont compile big codebases (where i assume it done outside of my system anyway) but i just wonder what are the HW companies going to do to keep people upgrading their machines.
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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by axelthegerman on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:31AM (#38110516)
> but i just wonder what are the HW companies going to do to keep people upgrading their machines

Easy, just drop software support for it and force you to buy a new one... Or switch to Linux

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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by omnimus on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:41AM (#38126026)
Tihis seems to be the way. Like even Windows is dropping older HW.

At the same time it looks like great thing for Linux

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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by broeng on Thursday November 02, 2023 @04:51AM (#38110652)
We'll find a way to use up what they can provide :-)

With 64GB ram and our infrastructure defined with NixOS, I find myself building and spinning it up locally (in test mode) as part of working on it. Having ~10 VMs running locally with 2-3 GB of ram each quickly adds up.

It feels a little dirty, but it's really nice to have the possibility. :-)

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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by mixermachine on Thursday November 02, 2023 @05:32AM (#38110988)
I switched from an i7 1065g7, 32GB RAM to an M2 Pro (10 CPU cores), 32GB RAM. It makes a huge difference to me. Android Studio and Gradle builds are running a lot faster now. Before about 2-3 minutes, now less than a minute. My company builds an Android SDK for payments.

For me the end is not reached and I'm looking forward to an upgrade in 3-5 years.

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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by omnimus on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:42AM (#38126032)
Fair. This is super helpful then.
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Re:M3 Max Chip Around as Fast as M2 Ultra in Early Benchmark... by AtlasBarfed on Thursday November 02, 2023 @07:47AM (#38112113)
Javascript.

Mooooaaarrrrr javascript.

I'll probably get downvoted... by people using a wrapped Chrome engine. That, friends, is true irony.

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