SpyderTracks
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This is something I need to test on this, apparently they put in a half decent DAC into the output jack, I really need to compare that to my external sound card, see just how good it is.
MacBook for gaming?
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TonyCarter
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No optical out on the latest Macs though 😖
…but Thunderbolt 4 should have a nice, low latency anyway…as long as you don’t mind the TB4 premium on everything…because if you can afford a Mac, you must be rich 🤣
SpyderTracks
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The thunderbolt premium is just mental, you’re looking at entry level of about £200 for a really basic sound card, I fully refuse that.
I primarily use Native Instruments kit and plugins, because they just do the job so damn well and there’s so many options. Think the sound card was £60 or something, beats any internal sound card I used to have back in the day, and it’s brilliant for midi
TonyCarter
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Don't forget, 'Scary Fast' is on tonight...however it's at 5PM Pacific Time, which is midnight for us in the UK.
TonyCarter
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I'm all for faster, more efficient chips, with more cores, etc...especially GPU cores with HA ray-tracing and dynamic caching...but using MYST to tell us how powerful they are seems a bit of a missed opportunity.
Couldn't they have demoed Starfield or AW2 running through 2 translation layers to show 60FPS on a 4k screen...or something...to show how powerful their eleventy-seven GPU cores were?
Pity so many of their 'benchmarks' were compared to the 'average M1' and the last Intel machines. Of course, 15% generation on generation is still better than Intel has ever offered, but 600% performance increase on a 10-core CPU vs a 4 year old 4-core Intel chip is a bit misleading.
Couldn't they have demoed Starfield or AW2 running through 2 translation layers to show 60FPS on a 4k screen...or something...to show how powerful their eleventy-seven GPU cores were?
Pity so many of their 'benchmarks' were compared to the 'average M1' and the last Intel machines. Of course, 15% generation on generation is still better than Intel has ever offered, but 600% performance increase on a 10-core CPU vs a 4 year old 4-core Intel chip is a bit misleading.
SpyderTracks
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Yeah, the comparisons to M1 was rather telling, and then constantly saying how Intel MacBook users would see a huge increase, never M2 users being referenced.
I am still hopeful about the gaming performance, I do think we'll see far more energy put into that segment from Apple, but it's going to take time