[HN Gopher] Mac Studio gets its first hardware update with M2 Ma...
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       Mac Studio gets its first hardware update with M2 Max and the new
       M2 Ultra chip
        
       Author : mikece
       Score  : 59 points
       Date   : 2023-06-05 17:12 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (9to5mac.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (9to5mac.com)
        
       | benatkin wrote:
       | I miss the trash can. :(
        
         | i_have_an_idea wrote:
         | Plenty of options at Home Depot
        
         | johnnyone wrote:
         | You can get a full spec one on eBay for ~$800 these days. Some
         | cheese graters going for good prices as well.
        
           | jmkni wrote:
           | I got a full spec one for PS400 off ebay! (the trash can)
        
             | benatkin wrote:
             | A broken one of these would be a _trash cannot_.
        
               | jmkni wrote:
               | It works great!
        
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         | grouchomarx wrote:
         | first mention of trash can nostalgia I've ever seen online.
         | Everyone hated that computer
        
         | Hamuko wrote:
         | Why? It lived up to its nickname.
        
       | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
       | How are they able to claim such lofty performance gains? What is
       | the catch?
        
         | eric-hu wrote:
         | What performance gains are you referring to? No mention of that
         | in the featured article
        
           | 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
           | The livestream said that the M2 Ultra is as fast as 7x
           | afterburner cards or something wild.
           | 
           | Edit: Wrong product, whoops
        
             | brucethemoose2 wrote:
             | That is just from the newer encoding blocks, which are a
             | small part of the die... And probably a cherry picked
             | result.
        
       | radicalriddler wrote:
       | I half regret going for a fully specced Macbook Pro M1 instead of
       | a Studio. Today I could get an m2 double the ram and ssd spec
       | studio, and just trade off the portability (which really only
       | applies to the screen). I don't use the keyboard, trackpad,
       | webcam, anything really. I pretty much paid a premium for a
       | screen.
       | 
       | Dumb dumb me, but that's ok.
        
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