Comments on: The Apple M1 Ultra Shows the Future of Chip Design https://www.servethehome.com/the-apple-m1-ultra-shows-the-future-of-chip-design/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.3 By: Nils https://www.servethehome.com/the-apple-m1-ultra-shows-the-future-of-chip-design/#comment-481443 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:45:07 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=59711#comment-481443 I don’t particularly like the trend towards systems where everything is soldered together, that seems like a step backwards to me. It may be necessary for the CPU and at least partly the accelerators but I’m worried this is more about the bottom line of the seller instead of the technology itself. If the RAM or SSD in my Dell Precision fails I can replace it myself, which is a lot less of a loss in productivity as opposed to having to take it somewhere to be repaired or worse replaced entirely.

]]> By: RQ https://www.servethehome.com/the-apple-m1-ultra-shows-the-future-of-chip-design/#comment-481435 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 18:16:23 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=59711#comment-481435 The 16GB shared RAM vs 32GB shared RAM is a good point. I’ve been getting by with 16GB RAM with the Intel iGPU, but it sounds like the Apple iGPU could be greedier.

Are there ways to see the RAM allocation break down?

It’s too bad Apple didn’t revisit the trashcan design :), and disappointing there aren’t a couple NVMe slots for extra storage. The Mac Mini Studio looks like a good upgrade to the Mac Mini, and I’ll probably pickup a refurbished model later simply because the Mac Mini only supports 2x displays.

]]> By: hoohoo https://www.servethehome.com/the-apple-m1-ultra-shows-the-future-of-chip-design/#comment-481424 Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:05:00 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=59711#comment-481424 @Carl… MTU… have an upvote.

]]> By: Carl https://www.servethehome.com/the-apple-m1-ultra-shows-the-future-of-chip-design/#comment-481418 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 20:21:44 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=59711#comment-481418 “I can feel a shrink-ray hitting my bank account…” My wife teaches remotely, has 30K YouTube followers and has 3 Mac laptops collected over 10 years (all of which still work)…I can see a medium-end M1 Ultra (64-GB RAM, 48 GPU cores, 4-TB SSD) in her future.

I always buy her Macs knowing that A) I can’t upgrade them, B) they will last 5+ years, so I tend to go big on the configs…Mentally I think I need to set my NIC’s MTU to 9000, when ordering something off of Apple’s site (just to carry all those digits at checkout)…Ah tending to 1000’s of Xeon/EPYC-based servers with DIMM, PCI slots was and hot-swap drives was so much feeling less boxed in Day One.

“I can feel a shrink-ray hitting my bank account…”

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