Great price for the 2021 M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro. Seems to be the lowest so far. Limit 2 per customer.
"But OP how is this a bargain when I can build a desktop with a RTX 7090 Ti for that price and still have change left?"
Edit: Mwave also has it for the same price - ends 12/03/2023 or while promotional stock lasts
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You can salary sacrifice this. Plus this is a laptop.
Can your desktop have a 220+ PPI screen at $3799?
Please double check you math - there is no decimal separator in RTX 7090 Ti price. :)
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Pickup up one price guarantee at Officeworks last week for $3620. Very nice "laptop", no regrets so far. Should add this is permanently on a desk being 2kg. I have an X1 Carbon running Linux for my portable laptop.
what's the weight of the X1 carbon?
According to notebookcheck, 1.2kg. It's lighter than Air! (hah)
Not just the weight, it has a 5g modem built in.
Noice.
What distro you're using? Have you got any issue with the driver compatibility with the 5g modem, gpu, fingerprint, IR sensor camera (if any)?
And would you be able to share the power consumption/efficiency?
@juns: Started with Fedora (my fav), but not very stable. I'm now on Ubuntu 22.04 with vanilla-gnome-desktop installed (I hate Unity). Everything is stable, fingerprint works, camera works in Cheese, I have not tried Howdy. I even get Lenovo BIOS updates! You need to reconnect to 5G after sleep, but no big deal (Fedora needed a reboot). 5G driver (snap) is lenovo-wwan-dpr.
@juns: Tested power today, I'm getting 2-6 watts in general use. I mainly use it plugged in, but Gnome reports 18 hours remaining on a full battery if I unplug.
OW has no limit per person even if such a sign is accidentally placed.
Any Wesfarmers outlet knows that limits would be part of illegal bait advertising.
Thanks for the idea. Price matched and picked one up from Officeworks.
I do think this is a rip-off even if it is Apple. Performance wise and portability wise this is not outstanding. Considering it will be used as a desktop, a user would be better with a strong PC.
Performance wise and portability wise this is not outstanding.
This is pretty good considering. What's better?
Please post a cheaper laptop with comparable build, battery life, noise, screen, performance(on battery.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about
It's definitely a cult, I'm just salty cause I can't afford 4grand for a laptop.
No, not really. You can buy a windows laptop for the same price or more targeted towards the same market segment.
The bigger question is do you have workflows/workloads that would benefit from such a system.
Test b4 u buy.
My M1 supposed to b fast,
useless for 2 ext monitors!
Research b4 u buy
M1 (non-pro, non-max) only supports 1 external monitor.
M1 Pro, 2 external.
M1 Max, 4 external.
Remember it's an Apple and not one of those $699 Windows based laptops that can support two monitors. If you want dual monitor support you are going to have to upgrade to a higher tier.
My $100 i5 is very happy to drive 2 monitors!
phenomenal system especially for me since I use FCPX exclusively for video editing. However I would say a 14 inch would be a better choice since the 16 inch weights a lot and would likely become a desktop laptop.
the issue with macbook (including this 2021 pro max M1) with multiple external monitors is they keep swapping with each other + opened windows get shifted at each sleep-awake. and apple has not addressed this for so long now. super frustrating. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OifE32e8Tq8
Got my Macbook Pro M2 from Apple "Australian Education Union Store" (partner is teacher) and they didn't check anything. Might be worth a try for someone.
This is the way.
Good tip. But Looking at AOC pricing the comparable M2 Max 16-inch is $4913.70 though.
That's $1114.7 more than this deal, while there are improvements I'd still go for the M1 Max at this price point.
Good thinking. I got the AOC deal on top of the 10-15% off from Apple gift cards.
15” before, 16” now (same body size actually) is perfect to be a portable workhorse.
Some weak people are saying 2kg is too much. :))
For me 2.1 kg is acceptable as I am getting great screen so I don’t have to use an external monitor, I am getting better battery life and I am getting better thermals compared to smaller models.
For a reference, 14” is 0.5 kg less.
I am Ok with 16”
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Great laptop, has absolutely no peer in the windows world.
I was looking at and X1 Extreme which is pretty close. The problem is that it's more expensive than this with a descent panel option.
The actual usability of the Lenovo as a laptop will be pretty crap compared to this. I have an equivalent top of the range HP Zbook Studio i9 with an quadro 5000 graphics card and it is a buggy, hot piece of crap compared to my M1 Max 16". It is somehow both laggy and blasting fans at the same time with not much CPU usage. Battery life is maybe 2 hours max with simple web browsing. The CPU can draw up to 80W yet is still slower than the Mc which uses 25-30W when all cores are maxed out. I can't believe they charge $8k for this thing. The mac is better in everything except support for niche software that is sadly only availble in Windows.
I have one niche software that I need to use Windows for, but really want to upgrade to an M1 or M2 max. Currently running said software through a 2020 13" MBPro on bootcamp, but am curious how it might run through parallels on the M1/M2 Max.
I'm very tempted as I know it'll make my life so much easier on the Mac side, but that one damn software package is killing me and nudging me to going full windows…
@Luklaus: I’ve managed to most programs well through parallels on my M1 Max (solidworks with GPU support, Ansys, etc). There is one i have had trouble with which requires GPU pass through and uses some intel only x86 cpu instructions which it does not recognise in a virtual environment. For general use windows is very responsive on my machine. Even more so than on my actual windows laptop. However i did allocate 32GB RAM and 6 CPU cores to parallels. What program do you need to use?
@qvinto: Thanks!
I'm hoping to use AutoCAD (Civil 3D particularly which isn't available on Mac). It's kind of a dealbreaker.
The tempting thing to do is utilise Apple's 14 day change of mind return policy and try it out - returning it if it's no good/doesn't work(or returning it regardless and waiting for a good deal to pop-up here like a true OzBargainer!)
@Luklaus: That should work. I got solidworks to work even with GPU acceleration. However not sure if the same tricks can be used in autocad to enable the GPU. If there is no GPU support it would still work but performance may be low.
Definitely go with the return option, it really is a no questions asked return as long as there is no damage to the device
@Luklaus: Definitely agree with using the 14 day return policy. Reasons like that are why it exists!
But OP how is this a bargain when I can build a desktop with a RTX 7090 Ti for that price and still have change left?"