New apple M1 chips - who's buying?

[Buttery Ken]

eyebeebe said:

stemll said:

The answer is in the post you quoted

"It runs Windows via Vmware almost as well as my actual HP EliteBook"

Is it? It reads to me like VMWare is running on the iPad, but when I google VMWare M1 iPad or similar it doesn‘t seem to be possible to do so.

From what I can see running any kind of VM isn‘t possible on an iPad without jailbraking. Would be happy to be proven wrong though. DOS emulators that temporarily sneaked past the censors don‘t count!

I’m assuming the VM is running elsewhere and he/she is using Horizon or something to connect to it.

[eyebeebe]

Buttery Ken said:

eyebeebe said:

stemll said:

The answer is in the post you quoted

"It runs Windows via Vmware almost as well as my actual HP EliteBook"

Is it? It reads to me like VMWare is running on the iPad, but when I google VMWare M1 iPad or similar it doesn‘t seem to be possible to do so.

From what I can see running any kind of VM isn‘t possible on an iPad without jailbraking. Would be happy to be proven wrong though. DOS emulators that temporarily sneaked past the censors don‘t count!

I’m assuming the VM is running elsewhere and he/she is using Horizon or something to connect to it.

Likewise, but wouldn't explain why everything loads quicker, unless comparing the VM running on a server somewhere to his laptop.

[MM]

eyebeebe said:

Buttery Ken said:

eyebeebe said:

stemll said:

The answer is in the post you quoted

"It runs Windows via Vmware almost as well as my actual HP EliteBook"

Is it? It reads to me like VMWare is running on the iPad, but when I google VMWare M1 iPad or similar it doesn‘t seem to be possible to do so.

From what I can see running any kind of VM isn‘t possible on an iPad without jailbraking. Would be happy to be proven wrong though. DOS emulators that temporarily sneaked past the censors don‘t count!

I’m assuming the VM is running elsewhere and he/she is using Horizon or something to connect to it.

Likewise, but wouldn't explain why everything loads quicker, unless comparing the VM running on a server somewhere to his laptop.

This is what I was wondering, I also googled it and came to the same conclusion. But then why would, what is effectively a Remote Desktop connection be more responsive, it’s hardly a resource hungry process.

[mikef]

As we've had a bit of discussion of internal SSD speeds on Mx Macs, I'd mention that with external USB4/Thunderbolt4 enclosures becoming available, there is the option for relatively low-cost and portable external NVMe4 storage that is comparable speed to the larger MacBook Air and Mac Mini internal SSDs, around 3 GB/s read and write (depending which benchmark tool you're looking at).

The enclosure I have is from Zike ( link ), which ships from China in about 10 days, with a WD SN850X NVMe4 SSD

[FarmyardPants]

I see the M3 chip has taken the top spot in the scalar performance stakes:

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

[BlueMR2]

For anyone who was thinking of a Mini Mac with the M2 pro processor at £1399, you can currently get an M1 Max 32GB studio for £1299 from costco.

Apple Mac Studio, Apple M1 Max Chip, 12-Core GPU, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, MJMV3B/A

[Buttery Ken]

BlueMR2 said:

For anyone who was thinking of a Mini Mac with the M2 pro processor at £1399, you can currently get an M1 Max 32GB studio for £1299 from costco.

Apple Mac Studio, Apple M1 Max Chip, 12-Core GPU, 32GB RAM, 512GB SSD, MJMV3B/A

Looks like a good deal, especially with so much RAM. Amazon has that unit at £1900 ish.