u/Dr_Superfluid

Hey all. I just wanted to ask if other people miss trading cards as well.

Currently, no one just trades cards. Sometimes people trade money in the form of cards, but they don't even look at the cards themselves.

In the old days if I had a Arbok I was then biggest fan of and you had a Wartorle I like more and you liked the Arbok we traded the cards.

Now this is eradicated. People are always like "oh but my Arbok is $27 on TGC because a random dude in Taiwan sold one for this money yesterday on eBay, and your Wartortle is $19 so you better give me my $8"

Ok I am not saying I would expect people to trade a shadowless base set Zard for a Dunsparce common, but come one. Lets look at each others binders and if we feel like our binders would improve by a certain trade lets do it. Don't ruin the fun of it by having to look up every single card and making everything a money transaction.

I would say ok keep your valuable cards separately, but please do trade your non-blue chip cards. I am the first one to say I don't care to lose a some dollars just for the experience.

It was part of the fun! I remember I traded as a kid a shining tyranitar of a base set unlimited Machamp. Why? BECAUSE I LIKED THE MACHAMP MORE hahahah. And I still have it and I am very happy with it. Would I had my nice memories with my card if I said "no friend, my card is worth more. Pay up or go home". We never even thought about card values back then.

So I am in the fortunate enough position to have these three in my daily workflow in the following specs:

MBP M3 Max 16” 16/40 64GB

MBP M4 Max 16” 14/32 36GB

Mac Studio M2 Ultra 24/76 192GB

Running analysis models in Python with the exact same conda environment (from the same .yml created in the M3 Max and then copied to the other 2) so all the settings are the same.

Current runs are CPU only, all cores at full constant load. Multiple cases run over 12+ hours without stops.

Average case example times:

M2 Ultra 47 minutes

M3 max 56 minutes

M4 max 68 minutes

I was expecting the higher clocks of the M4 Max to make more of a difference. In my case it seems that more cores make a bigger difference than clocks. Also, RAM is not a factor in this run. The code takes about 6-8GB to run so they all have plenty.

Considering cooling. All machines are in the same room and have been running for 12+ hours each (multiple cases).

M2 Ultra: dead silent but you don’t want to touch the top

M4 Max: very very silent. Fans sometimes go off even after 12+ hours of max CPU load

M3 Max: I can hear it from the next room. Fans rump up and stay on full speed.

Next week I’ll have some GPU loads to run so I’ll report back with those results. Unfortunately, these runs will be heavily VRAM dependent.

Again all of this is anecdotal, just wanted to share my experience with these machines as it’s kind of rare to have all three and be running the same big loads.