The reason why I made the move to the new m-1 max chip with 64 gb of Ram is for my machine learning projects. Until now I had to rely heavily on my uni's supercomputer distributed spaces, which by themselves don't have much ram to provide, which limits the capacity of my model training. To look at it with an ML perspective, some of the highest end NVIDIA graphics cards such as the gtx 3090 have 40 GB of RAM. this is, on top, with a bus separating both CPU and GPU. On the other hand, the M1-max is unified RAM, and considering a CPU that may require 16 GB, I still have 48 GB theoretical available for my model training, which is literally a dream come true, as I can prototype my AI stuff much faster with higher resolution, and don't have to rely on an external GPU box that guzzles more energy than a washing machine, and is not unified with the CPU.
For this alone, the upgrade is worth it, but the second major reason for my switch is the return to the mechanical function keys. With the touch bar, everything was slowed considerably. All of my function key mappings to useful and performance enhancing shortcuts were limited by the weird touch tapping methods on the touch bar, and the sheer idiotic latency experienced when trying to wake the damn thing up while I' in the thick of coding or something similarly focus driven. My two cents Yuma > On 25 Oct 2021, at 1:41 pm, Muhammad Fayed <m10fa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > A direct thing that you can notice the speed of performing image recognition > using VO+shift+l since it is an ML feature. That should be significantly > faster on M1 according to my experience with the same feature on iPhone 10s > compared to 2016 MBP. It is much faster on iPhone. > > As Rebecca and Brad mentioned, the other key difference in purchasing > decision is how many years of software updates to get. If Apple decided to > cut it earlier than the number of years Brad mentioned because of the small > number of Intel Mac users, Intel Mac users will be annoyed by that decision. > > Some of the other new features are specific to Apple silicon Mac like life > text, as I remember in Mac OS 12. If it exists in both platform, it should be > significantly faster on Apple silicon devices compared to Intel ones. > > HTH, > > Mohamed E. Fayed > > >> On 25 Oct 2021, at 12:27 AM, 'Sabahattin Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries >> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> >> I don’t think there’s any meaningful difference, personally, certainly no >> more than would normally be expected for machines of similar benchmarks on >> either platform. So, for instance, my 2019 iMac is more powerful than my >> 2020 M1 Mac Mini, and it feels just the same. JMO. >> >> I can’t wait to see Linux running on the M1 Mini. At last, a super-powered >> small-form-factor Linux server! >> >> Cheers, >> Sabahattin >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the Mac >> Visionaries list. >> >> If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if >> you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or >> moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. >> >> Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: >> mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at >> caraqu...@caraquinn.com >> >> The archives for this list can be searched at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/2532CB84-4F48-4337-A3DE-16C8F250A20B%40me.com. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/AEB287CA-2A00-435C-BFB8-B7ACF81569D7%40gmail.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/DD88E306-7F1E-4835-81AC-B048C347367B%40gmail.com.
