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I bought an iPad Pro in October 2019 and a 16” MacBook Pro (i9-9980, 32 GB RAM, 5500m 8GB, 2TB SSD, etc.) in January of this year. Still want a desktop ultimately but perhaps I can hold off a few more years until I see what will happen with the ARM based chipsets now.
It was an expensive stopgap (upwards of $4K) but my old MBP is a 2009 with a lot of customized upgrades.
I think it’s possible. In a pinch my iPad Pro makes an excellent extended display to my 16” MBP. I believe that once the Mac and iOS app stores are unified on some deeper level, we will see a deeper level of integration and maturation of what’s possible. Imagine a time when developers don’t have to make scaled down versions of desktop class apps. Imagine what that would do for the photographer and/or content creator when your phone can literally handle editing 4k video and instantly upload to websites like YouTube or social media sites without the need for a $2k+ computer. I mean if I’m being honest I can do this on a iPad Pro now without any issues at all. What will be different is that with external storage there really won’t be any real limitations to the process. Essentially ARM chipsets will democratize matures production through desktop class apps that can be used for both mobile and traditional desktop machines. I’d be interested to see if Apple incorporates AMD GPU’s with their new ARM chipsets but I imagine they’ll look to scale power by means of running multiple ARM cores on a single board to scale processing power accordingly.
GeForce RTX 2080ti is about $1200 whereas a comparable Quadra RTX card is about $4500. Crazy thing is, the performance numbers on both are nearly the same—take a look on Geekbench or any other system tester. So that's why I went with the 2080ti. Although Quadra cards can be daisy chained together (which means you can add up their combined RAM) where I don't think you can with the GeForce cards.
Couldn't put that better myself.A Mac mini 2019 six core fully stuffed is more than fast and future-proof enough for me. My Mac mini 2012 is still going strong but a tad slow now, the new one is running rings around it.
Lessee: I paid $1200 for that mini 2012 and it is eight years old, still going. I paid $1800 for the new one, it'll probably last the same. The 2012 machine required virtually no maintenance at all, I expect the same for the new one.
Why should I invest oodles of time and money learning how to build a custom computer and run an OS I have zero knowledge of when what I have does everything I need, will cost me less than $150/year on average, and lets me put all of my time, energy, and money into what I want to do rather than dealing with the equipment to do it?
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My M1 16" MacBook & 13" M4 iPad Pro (as a second monitor) is my main / only photo processing solution. Sometimes it's my permanent on desk setup, and other times I throw it all in a messenger bag for on location work. And even better I put it all in a drawer and do something fun.
