yeah they promised me too that its in the pipeline.
yeah they promised me too that its in the pipeline.
I bought it from Wex and I don't think they will do returns like amazon do
Its a good monitor and while I could buy benq or dell I rather not change if I can help it.
I'll send another email and see what they say.
yes software calibration works just fine.
www.costco.co.uk
Nice one. My 16inch just arrived Saturday from Costco. Pretty fast turnaround. Great machine.Finally made a decision on a replacement for my 2012 21.5inch 8GB RAM iMac after years of deliberating (what Mac version ie mini, MacBook, iMac or even going back to windows). Thanks to this thread I’ve gone with a 14 inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro 10-Core CPU, 16-Core GPU, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD for £2079 from Costco online. Nice £320 saving as apple sell the same spec model at £2399. the 16 inch model would be nice but it’s £220 more just for the screen and longer battery life. The added portability is likely a better option for my needs/use.
Spec wise it’s probably better than I was thinking for the processor but only 16GB RAM instead of 32GB. I’d have like to have gone with 32GB RAM knowing I can’t upgrade it in the future (I know from experience with my 2012 iMac how annoying that can be) but don't feel apples £400 option price to upgrade to 32GB RAM is really a fair price. At least this time I’ve gone for a better spec than the base model I had with the 2012 iMac). I pushed to the 1TB SSD so I can have the most recent RAWS on the internal SSD and keep the processed RAWS on the external storage I already have. That will save faffing around with an external SSD on a laptop whilst out and about.
Now I’m just hoping the hype about processor speed is all true and I notice an improvement (which it should over a 2012 base intel 8GB RAM iMac model).
Link in case anyone else is thinking of one:
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doesn't support 64GB ram though
You don't need 64gb of ram either. It's been widely tested that 32 is enough for pretty much anything on the M1 Mac's. It'll still use swap drive even with 64gb bit it won't max out the 64 before it does so.
While 32GB is enough for now (tbh 16GB works fine too) I'd want to future proof as much as possible especially for RAM which I can't replace on Macs. Same goes for CPU also.
If I hadn’t seen your earlier post I wouldn’t have know about the offer at Costco. I was just about to buy the 16 inch version when I saw the same spec 14 inch version was on offer too (offer started that day) so timing was good for me. 16 inch would have been nice but probably a bit too big/heavy to be portable for me. Bet the 16 inch screen is nice though.
Enjoy it mate.
do you think the M1 max will come to the mini? I have my doubts. I can see the M1 pro chip replacing the i5 they are still selling but can’t see a M1 max version appearing considering theyve touted the MacBook M1 Pro and M1 Max versions for ‘professionals’. I doubt many professionals use the mini.
I don't see why not.
I was thinking more that it cannibalises their range rather than if they physically fit. I have doubts they will release the M1 max chip in any of the lower range products as they need to move people up the range. M1 pro chips may appear in the lower range but if you're a business you want to move people into the higher end stuff like the MacBooks and iMacs which you can sell for more than the mini or airs. They said from the beginning it would be a 2 year to roll out. Looking at the price of the MacBook options they seem to be similar to intel spec versions so the macbook range is likely complete along with the MacBook airs. Just need to see what the bigger imac brings and faster chips in the 24 inch iMacs.
the way I see it mini is just a MacBook without the screen. So they don't really cannibalise as they are for different audience, though I see where you are coming from.
If it fits they will almost inevitably call it the new Mac Pro. What else would the pro be? Maybe double that for high end version.
For the price difference now you may as well keep that £1k in the pocket and upgrade a little sooner. What if M2 or M3 is so much better still?
I am sure every new iteration will be better but I can't imagine it being so much better for editing when it's already so good. Realistically how much better can it really get?
Well we don't know that for sure but there could be big leaps. For example intel 11th to 12th gen. All we probably know is this M2 will be on 3nm and probably have even more of everything.
That's also a valid choice. You just have to consider your requirements to get the job done Vs resale value, which I suspect doesn't need to be a heavily contested topic.
Mine arrived yesterday - just figuring out whether it's possible to calibrate the display with my Datacolor Spyder X - so far I haven't been able to get it to work however it will work for my benq monitor as usual. Any ideas? Looks like I'll be confined to editing on my external display until I have the XDR Display colour calibrated.
Congratulations. Calibration is a Black Art to me. Trying to get my head around it. What I’ve done is had a print profile made. When the profile is used on the screen it’s getting the same info as the printer. Works well enough for me.
I don't have a printer so can't test that out - plus I would imagine not all printers print the same colours - do they need to be calibrated too!! I've never been 100% happy I have a correctly calibrated display and just hope that my Spyder did that for me - but now I'm doubting myself / Spyder / Apple and don't know what's correct!!
Worth a visit
www.colourphil.co.uk
This one ?
m.dpreview.com
Actually for editing the Pro seems to be the better CPU to go for. The max doesn't really give many benefits.
It may well be the size of my catalogue as well.
I think you’re doing the right thing. If you have a recent intel you’re better staying with that and running it until it can’t work for you any more. The intel second hand prices will go down with the newer apple silicon but if it’s still working why change and lose money on it now?So I thought I would post another update to this thread, after using the 14" M1 Pro macBook I've decided to return it to Apple.
It's a fantastic machine, but they are so good they've effectively killed off the re-sale value of the Intel equivalents.
In 2019 I paid £3k for a top of the range 16" MacBook Pro, 8-core i9, 64GB RAM, 8GB GPU and 1TB SSD. It's an amazing machine and I bought it because I worked away 3 days a week in Milton Keynes and my 9 year old MacBook was showing its age, so I bought the new one so I could spend my evenings in the hotel editing images in Lightroom etc.
But not long after I bought it the pandemic started so I didn't really get much use out of it, now I'm a permanent homeworker I was still using my 27" iMac and the 16" was sat in its protective cover.
I decided to get the M1 version and sell the 16, but I'm sure if anyone has looked at the resale market but they're not selling.
So I had to sit down and think to myself "what am I getting from the 14 M1 that I'm not getting from the Intel 16"' and the answer was not a lot. I'm selling my iMac so I'd bought a 32" LG screen so whichever MacBook I keep will be my daily driver that I can just disconnect 1 USBC cable and take with me.
So I decided the common sense approach would be to keep the 16.
For people who are thinking about the M1, it's an amazing machine, I love the new design but I would caution people about RAM.
After watching countless reviews I thought 16GB would be enough for me, and initially it was, however once I started using Lightroom masking tools or sending pictures to Affinity Photo for editing I was starting to see some slowdown. Checking Activity Monitor it was clear why, Lightroom was using 16GB Ram and there was around 8-9GB swapping taking place.
Now don't get me wrong this wasn't a dramatic slowdown but I was getting the spinning wheel, this was the other factor that helped in my decision, swapping back to my 16" with 64GB and doing similar edits, it flies, no slowdown and less than 40GB Ram was in use so no swapping and no slowdown.
So I will be starting a return with Apple this weekend and taking advantage of the extended Christmas return period.
At least I know in a few years when I will be ready to upgrade that I won't be disappointed with Apple silicone.
Sorry for the long post.
I do plenty of panos and also lot of stacking too.
Thanks it is 2013 the issue is that the hard drive is too small 256 gb so can’t install the update