M1 Max is overkill, nobody needs this much power!!

[Appletoni]

He criticized Apple bacause:

- He cannot run windows anymore

Install Parallels and Windows 11.

 

[Appletoni]

1. I am just speaking facts. You guys claim all the time that only a small group of “professionals” use this much power, while it is complete non-sense.

2. Macrumors always seems to be spreading misinformation. An other famous one is the “8GB RAM is all you need”.

1. True
2. True. But if you are 100 years old, then probably 8 GB RAM is all you need.

 

[Appletoni]

To which statement are you referring? The one you made yourself in the title of this thread? Or is there a link somewhere to some sort of definitive 'end all' statement that is warranting your ridiculous obsession?

The Mac studio ultra is a very powerful machine, very few non professional tasks need this type of power, and can be easily done on the also very powerful but slightly lower spec M1's. This is a clear fact.
Even plenty of professional workflows don't even need this type of power. I want it as a professional photographer - but I certainly dont need it. It would be massive overkill.

Gamers do use a lot of power, and most are non professional. But they wouldn't even buy this machine - even if it was 10 x more powerful than an xbox. It's not for them - you can't buy any games for it. Video editors (for example) wouldn't buy an Xbox to edit their videos on even if it was 10 times as powerful as a top end Mac. Because their software wouldn't run on it. And if it did, it would be wildly unoptimised.

So your point is valid to an extent - but you comparison is absurd.

Parallels and Windows 11.

 

[Appletoni]

Maybe I don't need all the power of an M1 Max, but I regularly need more power than an M1 Pro, so... the Max is the next level up that I need to have. And I'm very happy with it.

You should buy the MacBook Pro 16/18/20-inch with M2 Ultra.

 

[Appletoni]

That is not True, I am in the business of Monitoring the Dark Web which is many times bigger than the surface web you know sites such as cnn.com and Amazon and Facebook. I go threw billions of pages each day and index them and use artificial intelligence and I need all that power. I don’t offload the processing power needed to services like AWS because I don’t trust that the data is encrypted to begin with and the info is all proprietary and I am competing with Billion dollar companies in Market cap and I am single handily beating the competition being a 1 man show. I can’t wait for the Mac Pro to come out with 40 CPUs cause I need the processing power. So when you say nobody needs that much power, you might be thinking of those that use it for MS word and browsing the web.
There are thousands of others like me who model many things with billions and even trillions of data points.

But professional chess is harder?

 

[Bodhitree]

With the M1 the time has changed and many people buy the Macs with gaming in mind. A lot people use it for games only. 4K and max settings.
OLED and HDMI 2.1 are still missed.

What source do you base this on?

If you look at the Steam hardware survey, only 2% of users are using Macs while the market share of the Mac is about 15%. So far fewer Mac users play games on their machines than the proportion of PC users who are gamers.

 

[Feek]

When I bought my i7 iMac in 2017, I didn't need the power of the CPU, nor did I need to add an extra 32Gb RAM to take it up to 40Gb.

I definitely don't need the power of an M1 Max.

That hasn't stopped me buying an M1 Ultra though - I expect it to last me at least six or seven years, probably longer.

What's the point of this thread again?

 

[hopkins802]

Yet a $499 Xbox Series X is 20% more powerful than a M1 Max.

Yeah, Xbox runs Davinci Resolve Studio so well.

 

[maxoakland]

Nonono, I understand what OP means. He is a hardcore gamer and he purchased Intel Macs, using bootcamp to game before, and was quite satisfied with the results. Now, with Apple silicon, what he was used to do is no longer possible, and running windows games using compatibility layers we can find is clearly less than optimal.

He criticized Apple bacause:

- He cannot run windows anymore
- M1 series is not fast enough to run games in compatibility layers

Thus, he concluded that the transition to Apple silicon cost too much. And then, he compares a computer with a game console, because it makes little difference for a gaming people.

I wish OP had communicated that better because I get where they’re coming from if that’s what they think but their OP just seemed like needless trolling

I totally get why people are upset about that. And Apple has to do work to make sure gamers can play their games on a Mac. It’s not impossible, it’s just not something they’ve focused on

 

[thenewperson]

I wish OP had communicated that better because I get where they’re coming from if that’s what they think but their OP just seemed like needless trolling

It is just needless trolling. That's all they do here.