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  1. arkmannj

    Mac Mini longevity

    Hello, I’m trying to decide if I should get a mac mini or another SFF Computer. I love the MM (or I wouldn’t be asking this question) I love the MM form factor, power and efficiency, ports, etc. But my two concerns are. 1) with soldered storage, what do we think the lifespan of that...
  2. LeoI07

    A19 and M5 chips confirmed by Apple's servers?

    If you follow aaronp613's X/Twitter, as I'm sure MacRumors editors do, you may have seen this post from him that quotes a post from Orangera1n. Said post contains a screenshot of a list of numbers that supposedly confirms Apple is working on A-series chips up to the A19 and M-series chips up to...
  3. davebot 0.9

    External drives continually sleeping and spinning up in M2 Pro Mac mini

    I have a mystery that is driving me nuts, and Apple Support wasn't much help. I have two HDDs in an external drive enclosure that continually sleep and then spin up -- over and over, every 1 - 3 minutes. They may also disconnect themselves while I'm away, but that is a fairly rare event. The...
  4. M

    Why do Apple Silicon Macs use swap even when there's plenty of RAM available?

    Have a look at this video: He's building an Xcode project which is using almost 16GB of RAM. Despite having 64GB total available, there's still 6.5MB of swap being utilized. I don't experience this at all on my 2019 16" with 64GB RAM (I do, however, experience heat and fan noise ;) )...
  5. A

    Perfomance on M1 and M2 Macbook Pros (14 inch models) on AI, such as Stable Diffusion, Tensorflow, LLama and other AI models

    I am currently looking at the base models of both of these computers and I would like to know how they perform on certain AI tasks, like the ones mentioned in the title. How do the base models hold up? Will I notice any difference between M1 and M2 on these task (just for clarity, I don't mean...
    • ARacoony
    • Thread
    • apple silicon m1 and m2 macbook 14 macbook 14" ram capacity enough
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  6. S

    OS X Sims 4 now Apple Silicon native

    For those, like me, who may have missed this news: On April 18 EA released update version 1.97.42.1230 for The Sims 4 on Mac, bringing native support for Apple Silicon (M1/M2) processors. Seems a rather smart (if belated) move given the large base of casual gamers that The Sims 4 has. Here is...
  7. AlixSPQR

    Old mice working with Si?

    Does the black Apple Pro Mouse M5769 and/or the white Apple Mouse M5769 work with Apple Silicon Macs? I need to know since these are the computer mice I would like to continue to use, if possible. Thank you! :)
  8. eightace

    Recommend me a monitor for M2 Mac mini

    As per title - in UK and wanting best I can get for maximum £350. Any to go for or avoid?
  9. rraynor1980

    Pixel Perfect: Increase the text size of iPhone and iPad apps on Mac

    Say goodbye to small and blurry text! Pixel Perfect lets you run iPhone and iPad apps at native resolution with pixel-perfect graphics and razor sharp text. Download here: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/PixelPerfect
    • rraynor1980
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    • apple silicon ipad app iphone app macos ventura
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  10. haralds

    VMware Heads Up

    I have been using Parallels Desktop on Apple Silicon and Intel. But I ran into a chip-related USB serial port issue on Apple Silicon. Other USB-C devices work well on it. In the past, I have used VMware Fusion and it is now out in Universal format as v 13.0.1. Updates appear to arrive slowly. I...
  11. K

    Debian running as VM on Mac M1

    Hi, I'm doing some development on linux VMs. They are currently hosted on PC machine running ProxMox and that has worked for me quite good. Now I'm starting another project that requires some more CPU and I/O power. I have plenty of that on my Mac Studio and would like to make use of it. I've...
  12. prime17569

    What process node will the M3 chip use?

    So far, Apple's chips have used the following process nodes: A14/M1 - N5 A15/M2 - N5P A16 - N4, because TSMC's N3B node was not ready in time TSMC's N3 nodes are now ready, and there are two nodes at play, N3B and N3E. Nothing I've read has been clear on which node will be used for the M3...
  13. ThankYouRob

    Buying 16" M2 Macbook Pro - Do I upgrade GPU/RAM?

    I do a lot of video editing - music videos mostly. All in 1080p, I might make the transition to 4k but that's not quite in demand by my clients just yet. Just to be clear, I'm getting the 1TB HD so that's not what is in question here. I'm curious if the base 19-core GPU/16GB RAM will suffice...
    • ThankYouRob
    • Thread
    • apple silicon cpu gpu m2 macbook pro macbook pro macbook pro max ram
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  14. S

    Would you like a 13" MacBook with active cooling and a Pro Processor?

    As the announcement of the 15" MacBook is nearing and knowing it will probably also have the option for a Pro class Processor along with active cooling, would you like to see a similar 13" model with the same specs? I assume the design is probably going to be different to the new MBA one so a...
    • Scarrus
    • Thread
    • 13" 15" active air apple m3 apple silicon cooling m3 pro macbook pro
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: MacBook
  15. O

    Synology NAS compatible with M1 chip/Apple Silicon?

    I'm thinking of buying a NAS for centralized backup (with access from different devices), simple cloud backup and to offload a small internal storage in the Mac mini M1. Is Synology compatible with Apple Silicon now in 2023? As it is a costly investment, I want it to go smoothly.
  16. T

    VLC for Apple Silicon?

    There are 2 versions on VLC website compatible with Apple Silicon Macs: - VLC for Macs with Apple Silicon chips - VLC for Mac (Universal Binary) Which one should i download for my M2 Pro MacBook - which one will offer better performance or basically what’s the difference?
  17. S

    M1 MAX or M2 MAX? Need an advice.

    Hi guys! I don't know what to do. I found a really great bargain on a lightly used Macbook M1 MAX 64 GB 10 CPU 32 GPU - 5 battery cycles, used a couple of times. I use the laptop mainly for editing 4K videos. Today the M2 MAX came out. Let me recalculate for you how the prices look like in...
  18. S

    Macbook M1 MAX or wait for M2 MAX?

    Hi guys! I currently own a Macbook Pro M1 Pro 10 CPU 16 GPU and 16 GB RAM. I'm a filmmaker/video editor and as until a while this 16 GB ram was okay now I'm experiencing a slowdown, if I give a lot of effects it just lags and slows down my work, it just pisses me off because I don't have smooth...
  19. noeXzTi_

    Are MacBooks with Apple Silicon affected by "flexgate"?

    In Internet there are mixed opinions about whether MacBooks with Apple Silicon chips that have the 2016 MacBook Pro exterior design (MacBook Air M1 and MacBook Pro 13" M1/M2) are affected by the fatigue present on the display flex cable due to opening and closing the lid, so I would like to ask...
  20. 257Loner

    MP All Models How will the apple silicon Mac Pro work with discrete graphics if M chips don't support eGPUs?

    Could Apple design a chip without an integrated GPU that could work with discrete GPUs inside of the next Mac Pro?
    • 257Loner
    • Thread
    • apple silicon mac pro
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Mac Pro
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