At my first college apartment, the wifi name was “Flowers By Irene”.
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There are at least five different wifi networks in my neighborhood with some “FBI” moniker. I call mine “HappyHour”.
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“It Burns When IP”
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Seriously.
I siri what you did there.
Siri: playing music from your playlist and telling your client to go fuck himself.
Siri insists that I’m talking to it when I call the dog named Daisy.
You’re a Daisy if you do
The Apple fanboi community has been waiting for years for the Mac Pro to join the line up offerings equipped with an Apple chip. This week’s WWDC delivered that, and there was much rejoicing consternation.
The thing that has made the Mac Pro different from all other Apple desktops is that it is user-upgradeable. Especially these days, with Mx range of chips that have integrated CPU, GPU and RAM, once you’ve spec’d out your Mac, it’s set for life; if you want to boost the specs, you have to buy a new one.
So there was a big “wait…what!?” reaction to the new Mac Pro, because essentially they took the old “cheese grater” chassis and stuck a Mac Studio in it with some PCIe connections. For an additional $3000 over the price of the equivalent Mac Studio. WTF? You can’t upgrade the CPU, GPU or RAM post-purchase, so what’s the point?
I expect the volume of sales for the new Mac Pro to equal the amount of time, thought and effort Apple put into it…zero.
In theory, the PCIe slots add quite a bit of value, although probably not $3000. In practice, though, the Thunderbolt ecosystem has evolved beyond PCIe slots, at least for the vast majority of use cases an M2 Mac Pro might see.
As for the CPU/GPU/RAM, were people actually expecting that to be upgradeable with Apple Silicon? Seems to me that developing a socketed M2 with slotted RAM just for the Mac Pro would erode Apple’s economies of scale, and in the case of slotted RAM would probably degrade performance. They might still do it in the future, but that certainly isn’t their MO right now.
Yeah, I don’t know what people were expecting, but a Studio in a $3,000 box wasn’t it. To your point about Thunderbolt ports, that connectivity renders the Mac Pro all-but obsolete.
Mac Studio vs. Mac Pro
I was so impressed with myself for the clean-up job I did on the wires around my TV that I’m going to re-do the wiring around my desk. As my home office has evolved, the wiring has got more and more disheveled, so it does truly need a do-over. This will include mounting my Mac under the desk and out of sight.
Of course, as I’m going to be tearing it all down and starting again, this is also an opportune time to replace my Mac, so I have a new M2 Mac mini on the way.
To be honest, the M1 is still absolutely perfect for my needs. I’d added a port expander (that matches the size and look of the Mini) which includes a SATA port for an SSD, so I have plenty of storage and connections. But the deal is that I can trade in the M1 for a $300 credit, and get the M2 interest free on 12 installments.
With no sign of the M3 Macs any time soon, it seemed like the right time to pull the trigger on the upgrade. Cue announcement of M3 Mac minis in 3…2…
I think for a new project, you should build a gaming PC. It’s got lots of intricate pieces to build with and you’ll get it wrong and have to tear it down and start all over. But after a while it finally works and you’ve got this fucking beast of a gaming rig, so powerful that you can run Diablo IV on medium settings.
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You seem to have an unhealthy obsession with Diablo IV.
Trust me, I am experienced with unhealthy obsessions.
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There is nothing more frustrating than building your own PC, and there is no greater feeling in the world than the first time it powers up and functions properly.
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Man, no kidding. I usually rebuild every five years or so, and swap out pieces in between. Something will always go wrong, but once it posts and then goes to the operating system, it’s like hitting a home run. Well, in theory … I never hit a homer.
The funniest thing that ever has happened to me while building a PC:
I got everything installed, no post.
I pulled out piece by piece and found a few minor things wrong, turned it on. No post.
I started following up again reseating everything, checking connections, verifying plugs, no post.
I get frustrated and decide to check the one thing I hadn’t done, which was reseating the heat sink and processor, no post.
I get more frustrated, reach in to doublecheck the reseating of the heat sink, slice my finger open on the edge of it and patter a few drops of blood in to the heat sink. I curse, pull my hand out, and in anger just hit the power button again.
PC boots up without issue to post, and works fine from then on.
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A small sacrifice to the relevant gods never hurts.
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That PC had a window on the side of the case so you could look in at the pieces, and the blood spots were visible for the entirety of that PC’s life cycle.
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