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Apple |OT| TV/Arcade/iPad/mac/iPhone

RoboFu

RoboFu

One of the green rats
near said:
I haven't owned a MacBook in like 10 years, I decided that I needed one. So far I'm loving it, I got the 14' M3 Pro, 12-core, 1TB. £2499 right out my asshole + £99.99/yr AppleCare. I don't think I'll ever be able to justify the price tag, but I'm still glad I got it.

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I've got the same one but with 512 ssd
 
NomenNescio

NomenNescio

Gold Member
No love for the Air? It's thinner, lighter. I use it on my bed instead of an iPad because of the integrated keyboard and MacOS. I'm tented to try the Pro next year because of the better screen, but it's quite thicker and I don't really know if it's going to be as comfortable to use.
 
near

near

Member
angrod14 said:
No love for the Air? It's thinner, lighter. I use it on my bed instead of an iPad because of the integrated keyboard and MacOS. I'm tented to try the Pro next year because of the better screen, but it's quite thicker and I don't really know if it's going to be as comfortable to use.
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I was considering the Air as well but opted for the Pro. I feel like the Pro has just about the right thickness to my liking, I wouldn’t even describe it as thick, yet it also has the some weight and durability to it. It’s been really comfortable to use.
 
NomenNescio

NomenNescio

Gold Member
Question regarding resolution in Macs. Does the resolution set in system settings affects only the UI or affects everything that's outputted through that screen? Because the default resolution is always lower than the res the screens are capable of outputting.
 
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Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
angrod14 said:
Question regarding resolution in Macs. Does the resolution set in system settings affects only the UI or affects everything that's outputted through that screen? Because the default resolution is always lower than the res the screens are capable of outputting.
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It affects everything. Same as windows. Which is really annoying to look at when Mac wants me to default to 1080 on a 4k monitor.
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RoboFu

RoboFu

One of the green rats
angrod14 said:
No love for the Air? It's thinner, lighter. I use it on my bed instead of an iPad because of the integrated keyboard and MacOS. I'm tented to try the Pro next year because of the better screen, but it's quite thicker and I don't really know if it's going to be as comfortable to use.
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The problem with the air for myself is to get an air with 16 gigs of ram and a 522 ssd is a few hundred less than the pro i got with a better screen, speakers, and cpu. 🤷‍♂️
 
Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker

Member
angrod14 said:
No love for the Air? It's thinner, lighter. I use it on my bed instead of an iPad because of the integrated keyboard and MacOS. I'm tented to try the Pro next year because of the better screen, but it's quite thicker and I don't really know if it's going to be as comfortable to use.
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I have an M3 air and my wife has a M2 Pro. The pro weights a fuck ton more and is not nearly as comfortable.
 
near

near

Member
Is there a way to Airdrop files to Mac to a specified folder other than just Downloads and Photos?
 
Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
near said:
What do you mean? Like from an iPad to a connected external hdd on the Mac? Or do you mean after I airdrop it lol. Sorry I’m stupid please explain to this Apple noob.
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Airdrop -> downloads folder/photos -> manually move to intended folder
 
Sleepwalker

Sleepwalker

Member
Has anyone set up retroarch on their Apple tv yet? I'm going to attempt to do it soon.

With this and moonlight + apple arcade it can become a little solid game machine.
 
Bitmap Frogs

Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
near said:
I saw that earlier and just said nope. It should already be baked into Airdrop's functionality on Mac, it's not a huge deal but a minor inconvenience.
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It's not that complicated and uses functionality backed into macos (seriously the script and automator system is incredibly powerful!) but I do agree that they should have a menu somewhere to let you select your own folder.
 
Jesb

Jesb

Member
Thinking of getting into some video editing, I don’t really wanna drop 3k on the new MacBooks. Not until the video editing gets more serious. Do you guys think I can get away with an older MacBook that came out around 4 years ago? M1 chip 8GB of ram.
 
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Maiden Voyage

Maiden Voyage

Gold™ Member
Jesb said:
Thinking of getting into some video editing, I don’t really wanna drop 3k on the new MacBooks. Not until the video editing gets more serious. Do you guys think I can get away with an older MacBook that came out around 4 years ago? M1 chip 8GB of ram.
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M1 works well for Final Cut Pro. I've not tried other editors on that hardware
 
Bitmap Frogs

Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
Btw the m4 pro is back to 8 performance cores after the downgrade during the m3 era when it had only 6.

So the m4 pro mini is a juicy workhorse.
 
Venuspower

Venuspower

Member
Pre-ordered a Mac Mini M4 with 1 TB SSD right after the product page went live. The price for the 1 TB is of course absolutely outlandish, but I swallowed it.... until I saw that the power button is on the underside. Then not even on the front bottom, but on the back bottom. That was the time for me to cancel the pre-order.
 
Radical_3d

Radical_3d

Member
I was thinking to ditch my plans to upgrade my GPU and simply buy a M4 Pro Mini. But damn, that’s 1.000€ ($1.200?) more than an M4. Hard to justify. Maybe I’ll still do it but an M4 is less appealing.
 
Topher

Topher

Identifies as young
RoboFu said:
No but you can get the same or better now actually performance.

What I did for my studio was added a thunderbolt 4 m.2 external drive then mapped my desktop to it.
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Yeah, I'm just a bit OCD when it comes to my PC drives. I like them internal except for stuff I move around a lot.
 
Ovek

Ovek

7Member7
Got me a new Mac mini ordered for my day to day /work computer. Looks great, was going to opt the base model up to 26GB? of ram but I’m sure 16 will be fine and it saves me £200 which is a fucking lot for a desktop that only costs £600.
 
AnOldBrownie_67

AnOldBrownie_67

Neo Member
If the new Mac Mini could seriously run heavily modded Skyrim AND Star Citizen...and it came with a much larger SSD, I'd replace my built PC for it. My Star Citizen install takes up 80 GBs and my Skyrim install takes up over 300GBs. It's nice saying you can game on it for $600...but games aren't getting smaller. That 256GB hard drive is a non starter...so realistically you're looking at $800 minimum if you're using it for gaming.

The hardware is bad ass... but Apple's storage philosophy can eat rocks.
 
Miyazaki’s Slave

Miyazaki’s Slave

Gold Member
Ovek said:
Got me a new Mac mini ordered for my day to day /work computer. Looks great, was going to opt the base model up to 26GB? of ram but I’m sure 16 will be fine and it saves me £200 which is a fucking lot for a desktop that only costs £600.
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yeah I am stuck on that choice as well. They make it enticing to upgrade NOW...but I keep thinking "you are going to upgrade in another year anyway...just go for the lower amount or ram". The storage is the real kick in the balls....there are enough ports for external storage, sure, but the damn case looks SO clean with just itself.
 
Celcius

Celcius

°Temp. member
Just got my new work laptop in the mail -16" Macbook Pro with the M3 Pro in Space Black.
I'm coming from a 2019 16" Macbook Pro with an Intel processor (silver). I didn't realize how dated it looked until I got this thing.
I'm excited to fire it up tomorrow and start getting all my stuff transferred over.
 
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StereoVsn

StereoVsn

Gold Member
AnOldBrownie_67 said:
If the new Mac Mini could seriously run heavily modded Skyrim AND Star Citizen...and it came with a much larger SSD, I'd replace my built PC for it. My Star Citizen install takes up 80 GBs and my Skyrim install takes up over 300GBs. It's nice saying you can game on it for $600...but games aren't getting smaller. That 256GB hard drive is a non starter...so realistically you're looking at $800 minimum if you're using it for gaming.

The hardware is bad ass... but Apple's storage philosophy can eat rocks.
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If you get the M4 Pro, it has Thunderbolt 5. External storage would be fine running any game pretty much.
 
Soodanim

Soodanim

Member
My current Gen1 AirPods are dying. One barely lasts an hour at best, and god forbid I answer a call or initiate Siri through it.

How’s the Spatial Audio and other features on the newer models? Would anyone recommend any other wireless earphones over them?

Going to get the official 3.5mm to USB-C adapter this weekend as the cheap ones on Amazon aren’t much cheaper (if at all) and have questionable quality according to reviews. Unless someone can recommend a decent one, of course.
 
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near

near

Member
Anyone have sync issues with Safari bookmarks between devices? I can't seem to get Safari to update on iPad/iPhone with new bookmarks created on MacBook.
 
Miyazaki’s Slave

Miyazaki’s Slave

Gold Member
Soodanim said:
My current Gen1 AirPods are dying. One barely lasts an hour at best, and god forbid I answer a call or initiate Siri through it.

How’s the Spatial Audio and other features on the newer models? Would anyone recommend any other wireless earphones over them?

Going to get the official 3.5mm to USB-C adapter this weekend as the cheap ones on Amazon aren’t much cheaper (if at all) and have questionable quality according to reviews. Unless someone can recommend a decent one, of course.
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TLDR - If you are in the apple eco system I have not found any in-ear canal headphones that can out perform the air pods pro in ALL categories. Some will argue that the B&W's are the best you can find but their battery sucks, their mic quality (on calls) REALLY sucks, and they don't stay in my hill-giant ears very well.

I have a large head and large ears but even then the latest apple air pods feel great and don't fall out (while walking/traveling/etc). If you are not married to in ear canal earbuds I have a pair of shokz (Open Fit) and the Nothing Ear (Opens) both of these sit outside of your ear canal but both models are surprisingly clingy even during workouts (weights/core/running) and perform much better than the Air Pods in terms of staying on my ears.

I also have a pair of the Bose Ultra Open earbuds...I am conflicted about these. While they have the best sound quality of any open ear buds the price is a full on dagger to the chest. At $300 (normally...$229 for holiday pricing) they just don't perform THAT much better than the other two open ear models I mention above. They do feel mostly invisible when I have them on, I can wear them all day an not notice their weight. At $200 they would be stellar...at $300 they are a hard pass.
 
Soodanim

Soodanim

Member
Miyazaki’s Slave said:
TLDR - If you are in the apple eco system I have not found any in-ear canal headphones that can out perform the air pods pro in ALL categories. Some will argue that the B&W's are the best you can find but their battery sucks, their mic quality (on calls) REALLY sucks, and they don't stay in my hill-giant ears very well.

I have a large head and large ears but even then the latest apple air pods feel great and don't fall out (while walking/traveling/etc). If you are not married to in ear canal earbuds I have a pair of shokz (Open Fit) and the Nothing Ear (Opens) both of these sit outside of your ear canal but both models are surprisingly clingy even during workouts (weights/core/running) and perform much better than the Air Pods in terms of staying on my ears.

I also have a pair of the Bose Ultra Open earbuds...I am conflicted about these. While they have the best sound quality of any open ear buds the price is a full on dagger to the chest. At $300 (normally...$229 for holiday pricing) they just don't perform THAT much better than the other two open ear models I mention above. They do feel mostly invisible when I have them on, I can wear them all day a not notice their weight. At $200 they would be stellar...at $300 they are a hard pass.
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That’s more than I expected anyone to give, thank you. I really appreciate it.

I think open buds have passed me by entirely, I need to look into those when I get a chance. Although by the sound of it the AirPod Pro might be a quick win solution.

Truth be told I’ve grown quite fond of the non-IEM bud design so it might be a bit of an adjustment going back to IEM. I’ll have to fish out some older ones of mine and see how I find the comfort. I hear the ANC isn’t as good on the non-Pro model, which makes sense with it not being IEM.
 
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