https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pr…
Officeworks Strikes back! You've heard about the Clone Wars get ready for the Macbook Wars!
Probably part of the Black Friday not sure looks like 10.1% across the new MacBooks M1 to beat JB Hi-Fi. Only Silver was changed, looks like Space Gray can still be price matched.
They were pretty slow given we knew about TGG yesterday - probably cost them a bunch. I notified a friend and they phoned at about 10am and got 5% off the TGG/JB price
Yeah well I kinda meant they went into overdrive but took couldn't find Tom from IT to change it 🤣🤣
Given they rely on store management to report the pricematches most of the time, its very slow given there is no customer report/claim better price button like at other retailers.
People will be pricematching the Space Gray which is still $2297
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/macbook-pr…
I'd say they still haven't fixed the prices.
Thanks, did exactly that today. Most of the stores in Melbourne were out of stock.
are we gonna be posting every MacBook deal from now on? 😅
btw, cheaper at JB if using discounted gift cards (15% off at Coles tmr)
The cards are 5 per person maximum $100 each.
That's assuming you can find 5. I remember last time with the discounted catch gift cards, it was hard enough trying to find any stock.
Transaction limit of 5, and I am betting a lack of cards available is going to set a lot of people up to be disappointed.
Do coles servos have them?
Imma go camp outside my coles tonight…
A lot of reports in regards to incompatible software: https://isapplesiliconready.com/
Article:https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2020/11/21/apple-macbook-pro-13-m1-reviewwhy-you-might-want-to-pass/
Given there are only 5 incompatible apps:
OBS Studio
Google Drive File Stream (an enterprise tool)
Matlab
Autodesk Revit
Parallels
None of which I have ever used, plus all the Adobe products are being updated very soon to ARM, I'd say there is not much issue.
More than 5 that are incompatible!
In my own experience upgrading to Big Sur OS (which is out of the box on this machine) my Brother & Soonmark printers wouldn't work - drivers aren't compatible with this OS (nor do they have a fix, Brother even have a page on their site its not compatible at the moment). I use other external devices but didn't go as far as trying them all, as soon as I noticed this I downgraded back to Catalina which I had backed up in Time Capsule.
I think its trial and error with Big Sur on this machine.
My hp 8600 printer is good, had trouble after Catalina last year though.
You are conflating two issues - some things are incompatible because of the OS update (Catalina to Big Sur), other things are incompatible because the Rosetta2 translation of x86 to ARM doesn't work properly.
I suspect your issue with the printer drivers would also exist on an intel Big Sur install ie it has nothing to do with Apple silicon
OBS works with compatibility mode as far as I know.
That is definitely a useful website and I've upvoted your post because you provided that link, though as Levity points out, most common apps and programs run and run fantastically. For reference, apps/programs marked 'Rosetta 2 Only' in that website run and mostly run really well.
A website that has less of a negative spin and I think shows more apps/programs is: https://doesitarm.com/
Anecdotally, I use Office365 (or is it now MS365) and all apps work lightning fast. I'd initially read that MS Teams needs to be used via browser, but it loaded up for me. I actually haven't come across any apps in personal use that don't work, though I understand that Docker doesn't work yet.
There are also lots of unbiased reviews on Youtube (including Lisa Gade of MobileTechReview) if people are unsure whether the laptop is any good.
If only it had 16GB of RAM at that price point for FCPX & virtualisation
By all reports the memory integration of the M1 has 8GB acting like it's 16GB or more.
Unified memory means its much more efficient than traditional RAM, meaning they can sell these almost top specs machiens with 8gb.
I certainly haven’t noticed any downside of having 8GB in FCP X using HEVC 422 10-bit footage from my Canon R5 using the base Mac Mini I picked up for testing. Quite stunned at the performance tbh.
Comparative testing bears this out too, little difference in most tasks so far.
From what I was told it's better to have more RAM less use of virtual memory and less wear on SSD as those are integrated so you can't just swap out the SSD when it dies
If you can afford it it’s worth the upgrade just to future proof yourself. If you can only afford 8gb then you still have a crazy fast machine
Any deals on the MBP 13" with 16gb's ram and 2TB storage?
They're build to order. Might have to wait for the 16" ones since they have 16gb as standard.
Now 2069
Nope, the price match link is in the description, still $2297
^for sliver
Thanks for the OW tip guys, picked one up tonight.
Thanks OP just got one about 15 mins ago.
Officeworks went into overdrive this morning to change those prices.