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There's some GBs showing up for the 8+4 Mini pro (base model) and oof, my M1 Ultra is crying.

@paul it seems like buying the new base model every few years is the way to go for me.

@kern not a bad approach, if someone had bought a base M1 Max when they came out, the base mini pro would be a pretty reasonable upgrade.

@paul
70% single core increase 😱
My Mac Studio M1 Pro still feels great but . . . an M4 Studio could feel even greater!

@paul I think Apple needs to get better at conveying how much each generation has gained in performance. Stop comparing to intel, start comparing to M1. My M1 Max Studio is crying.

@paul Wow, I did not realize that the M4 p cores ran at 4.51 GHz. That is a major increase in only 4 years.

@paul Oh man, I have an M1 Max Mac Studio, and it definitely puts mine to shame.

@paul I just left the Apple Store where a guy was running side by side benchmarks between the Studio and the Mini in Finale Cut Pro while yelling loudly into the phone "I can't believe this."

(I am note sure about the configurations of the demo Macs.)

@paul I find the difference between the 8+4 and the 10+4 configurations to be too low on multi-core. Not worth it even?

@asendra it seems like a reasonable value, the % performance increase seems close to the % price increase of the entire machine.

@paul @asendra Yeah, it looks like going to the 10+4 core gives about a 10-11% boost in multicore Geekbench score, and the upgrade cost is 13-15% depending on your country.

Also worth noting that the 10+4 core version has 4 (+25%) additional GPU cores

@paul I remember person after person saying “why would apple want to buy PA Semi? They’re never going to be able to compete with Intel”

@paul My M1 Ultra Studio isn't sad, but it knows its days are numbered. Same as my M2 Air.

@paul

The benchmarks are amazing.
I am interested though.

In what area of your daily computing would you benefit the most from faster hardware. And what is the bottleneck here?