Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Rosetta 1 was good enough for the most part iirc but I wasn't doing too intense workflows

i have no flow, haha

i basically just use video editing software, photoshop/aftereffects, audio software (logic, etc), and most intensively, 3D 4D stuff like C4D

but i rarely use those all at once. so if rosetta 2 will work an ancient copy of photoshop, cool with me

that's all intensive stuff I would be worried about working on the new chips, honestly

esp Logic

yeah, i think so too. :( do you think there will be a price drop on the intel-based models anytime soon? it's a bummer because the intel-models now seem even more expensive, but they also might be left in the dust in the next few years as they transition?

Yeah but those are Apple/Adobe apps, which will be ported for sure. I worry about Ableton, but I'm guessing they'll bite the bullet.

Looking forward to seeing some actual benchmarks on M1 and M1+Rosetta 2.

Feeling that Apple customer foolishness from buying a MBP16 last year.

rosetta worked shockingly well iirc

I got a MBP16 early this year (I think?) and I’m fine with it

Intel ain’t going anywhere for a while

I don’t think most Ableton components have a lot of hand-optimized assembly code or anything. There will be some fiddling around with code to get it recompiled, I’m sure, but it’s not the effort it could be

They’ll figure out the gpu stuff. It just wasn’t the easy low hanging fruit to start with. Pro line next year.

I think I’m finally going to upgrade my 2013 MacBook Air for the new air. Waiting for a couple of reviews but it looks fine for my purposes.

my partner just bought her first ipad: a 64 gig air.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/10/21559228/apple-new-macbook-air-pro-difference-arm-m1-fan-thermal-performance

knew it

so the Air will probably be an underclocked version of the same chip, and the MBP will have better performance

This weeks ATP goes very deep on the architectural constraints and silicon roadmap

And when I said these integrated gpus can just about drive two monitors but can’t do heavy graphics work I was wrong. They can’t drive two monitors haha (although that seems to be an IO constraint. The gpu units could probably manage it.)

Hmm, in a quandary here. I have a fairly basic Mac mini with a 128 GB internal, in that that's all I need -- my music/video/etc files are on a separate hard drive, and my writing is backed up separately via iCloud and Google Drive. But as a result, in trying to install Big Sur, I apparently don't have enough space to actually put it ON my Mac mini as it stands (I had around 20 GB free, downloading Big Sur install files took me to 11 GB, and now it says I need 24 GB more). Any best options here?

Don’t install Big Sur? 😀

*badumtish*

this ought to get you there, Ned?

https://www.macworld.com/article/3566910/how-to-create-a-bootable-macos-big-sur-installer-drive.html

Don’t install Big Sur? 😀

No Sur!

xpost -- Thanks! I'll give that a whirl.

Be careful. I got an email from UAD saying my audio interface isn’t compatible with Big Sur yet.

I'm still waiting to be sure everything works fine w/ catalina. There were so many issues I'm hoping to skip it altogether and hope Big Sur is better and everybody gets on board. Yesterday's roll out brought my entire company to a standstill so that's not promising.

As it stands, I'm noticing a work-related email asking to hold off on installation due to security software compatibility. Which, fair! If nothing else I'll have the technical side on my end settled and can just wait on work to give the all-clear.

The IT dept at my company also told us to wait on Big Sur...wish I had a separate machine for personal use I guess

I'm still on Mojave. Is there any reason for me to upgrade?

Never went to Catalina either because of a few 32-bit apps. Maybe it's time to bite the bullet... or not

i would not install the x.0.0 or x.0.1 of any macOS. give it a few months imo.

install it day 1 u cowards

no I'm asking if I should install Catalina

None that I can see except it’s purty

Installed Big Sur earlier today. Seems to be running smoothly on a 2019 iMac. Relieved not to have the Music app bug of early Catalina where it would be fetching artwork for hours. The only issue I've noticed so far is that Maps seems to take an incredibly long time to open.

The overall look seems not that different - unless i'm completely unobservant. There is a fairly useless control centre icon in the top right. I'm sure I'll have forgotten in a couple of days that the OS has changed.

pro max just arrived...it's huuuuuge

Same here. It really is enormous. Amazing to read things on though, and camera is turning out to be miles better than the XS.

(I have seen a recurrence of an old bug from the first days of Live Photos where it makes the blur as you put the phone down into the key frame, though)

High Sierra chugging along fine over here

Still on regular old Sierra on a 2014 mbp! Anything later fucks with the Nvidia card mine's got, supposedly.

I hate Apple's harassing upgrade now notifications so much.

Sorry, half the software I says not to upgrade, you're gonna have to chill the fuck out Mr. Cook.

Went all in on Day One. I reformatted my Time Machine drives to APFS. Full backups really really fast now finally.

Are you backing up to SSD or a spinning disc

APFS is good yes

lmao ok wow this OS is incredibly fugly

why is there so much ... empty space everywhere?

also they weirdly seem to have made half the stuff more skeumorphic and half the stuff less skeumorphic ... make up your damn mind!!

Snappin mad pix wit dis new cam

Are you backing up to SSD or a spinning disc

Spinning disk.

New UI is both good and bad. Dark mode looks great on a big monitor, empty and crowded simultaneously on something like Mail.

i don't know if i like it or not, but it's nice that the UX feels like it's getting some attention. reminds me a little of when os x first came out and jobs kept talking about how it was all 'lickable'. everything feels very candy-like.

re: skeumorphism i feel like they're trying to split the difference and it mainly works? i was never a fan of the entirely flat effect - like some schmindie casual mobile game graphics. the subtle shading makes the icons pop a little. it's more approachable and friendly imo.

very small font on mail subject lines in my inbox now! and i would love to get rid of 'favourite' mailboxes. i have it set up the way i like already, thanks - don't need you deciding what my favourites are.

Tomorrow’s forecast of rain portends an imminent installation of this candy azz sh1t

would like a little less space overall but hey