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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by dbspin on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:13AM (#45592892)
And also virtually every film editor, colourist and videographer. Oh and also every illustrator and graphic designer. And a host of other professions where having a clean UI, colour accuracy, on a reliable machine that rarely if ever crashes is essential rather than a preference.

As a film maker and editor I'm enormously more productive on my dual screen (used) M1 Max Studio machine than I was on a variety of PC setups with high end GPUs. Even just the missing overhead of not having to keep graphic drives and constant Windows updates is great. Reliable renders were never a thing on Windows. The time lost doing things again because window had some strange colour issue, render crash, font issue and on and on was ludicrous.

The idea of having to use Windows for daily productivity sends a shiver down my spine.

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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by browningstreet on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:32AM (#45593215)
I don't agree with the OP, but you gotta admit.. it used to feel like Apple was more dedicated to this market when they could keep interesting Pro desktop kit evolving on an acceptable pace.
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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by dbspin on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:35AM (#45593269)
I don't know... I agree that they're no longer innovative in terms of UI and original categories of devices. But the M1 chips have been enormously innovative in terms of performance per watt. One reason essentially every 'creative' (bar 3d designers) uses Macs is that unplugged they run as fast as plugged in. There's literally no PC laptop you can build or buy with integrated graphics powerful enough to compete - while on the move and away from power. Perhaps the new AMD Strix Halo devices will change this, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Re:Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip by stetrain on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @10:40AM (#45593342)
Their Pro desktop/laptop hardware is the best it's ever been as long as it fits your use case (ie not adding a bunch of PCI-E cards or third party GPUs).

Software is definitely more debatable.

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