All of the Apple silicon Mac’s are so efficient I wouldn’t worry about heat unless it’s the M3 max and you plan on fully loading the system at all times.
At work we have an army of M* machines and the 14 and 16” ones have no issues staying cool and performing well at all times.
With the Mac mini OP could just get the iPad and do almost everything there. And when you really need a real PC remote into the Mac mini.
The wedge shape is more ergonomic than you might think. My current thinkpad has a wedge shape and I love it. When Lenovo went away from the rounded corners on the palm rests my wrists started hurting right away. On a smaller laptop it matters less, but on thicker ones it’s a pretty big difference.
Also the wedge makes it feel so much smaller. The M2 could be half as thick as the M1 but feel so much bigger because of the wedge.
It’s a complete SOC. CPU, GPU, RAM all integrated into one unit on the motherboard. When people talk about the “M3” in the MacBook Pro they’re talking about all 3 things at once.
Your dongles probably have display link adapters in them. Display link works, but destroys your CPU since all the graphics are rendered there.
That’s awesome. Sadly it’s M3 exclusive, but I didn’t have any hope for it coming to the M1. We have 50+ of those machines at work and a few people want dual display without the display link compromise.
That’s literally the current situation unless Apple pushes out an update before Friday’s launch.
I did. Where does it say the pro gets the feature? I don’t care about the air.
Does anyone know if the M3 MacBook Pro (not M3 pro CPU, fucking Apple) will support the dual display with the laptop screen closed? It’s stupid that that wasn’t a feature in the older models.
The M2 was basically just an overclocked M1 with a few extra cores and it ran fine with it’s reduced cooling capacity. The M3, especially tuned down for the Air should perform great for what it is.
Something like that, but with a magnet in the bottom to pull the screws off my screwdriver would be amazing.
I just swapped 24 hard drives from server trays and getting the screw off the screwdriver without having to use my other hand was the worst part of it.
First figure out the exact model machine you have. 10.5.8 is the last version that will run on a PPC machine, and you need an OS that came out after your machine came out (minor version at least) or else it won’t boot.
https://macintoshgarden.org/ has all you’ll need to download. Check everymac for supported OS versions.
The 13" pro is the old touchbar chassis that’s been used since 2016. The 14" is the new bodystyle that came out in 2021 with the M1 pro Macbook pros. If you have the money I’d highly suggest going for the new 14" pro over the old 13" pro. If you wait a bit there should be some heavy discounts. The touchbar is atrocious, the bigger screen is much nicer, and you get a much bigger battery.
But you’re paying a lot more money for not that much more computer. The M3 should be a substantial upgrade over the M2, but not the price apple wants for it, and not the price they’d go for after discounts from stores. Unless you plan on doing long running continuous workloads I’d go with the M3 air (whenever it comes out) or even the M2 air with it’s heavy discounts over the base M3 MBP and it’s not really any discounts.
How accurate is it at the end of those 10 days?
Yes.
Just give me the option to turn it off permanently. I want control over my system.
It’s good for the idiots who just click things randomly. But I don’t want it for myself.
Asking for permission to access downloads OS fine by me.
But what pisses me off to no end is system integrity protection. Want a new system sound? Have to boot into recovery, turn it off, copy the file, sign your new modified system, then turn it on and reboot.
And every single update will undo your changes.
Yes. They’re no longer selling any (maybe refurbished?) and apples last transition went a lot quicker than this.
There are tons of devices with built in lightning ports. The most common thing is a dock where you’d be able to stick the phone on top of a speaker or something and charge and do audio all in one go. This cable makes it a whole lot less elegant, but it would let you use it.
Some cars also have hard connected lightning cables. Although that mostly died with the 30 pin.
GPUs have gotten massive. My 4090 is about 75mm thicc, and you’d need at least 10 more mm of space between the fans and whatever vents youd want. vs my old monitor which is 60mm(?) thick. Length and width are about half my monitors size. That’s a lot of empty space to build into the monitor, or a massive box to dangle off the vesa mounts.
And if things continue to get ridiculous a box that fits my 4090 now probably won’t even fit a 5080 or 5070 since all GPUs come with massive heatsinks these days.
Ironically I’m one of the only people at work with a PC. But most of the people who have an M* pro/max are our developers. They mostly live in windows land through a VM and their workload isn’t too intensive. It their machines barely get warm to the touch vs the 2019 MBPs they had before.