ARMv8 will be 64-bit but we most likely won't see it until 2014.
Thats what I thought. Would be an incredible leap for ARM to be in mainstream units if it got the full OSX treatment even if they dont get more £s for licenses.
ARMv8 will be 64-bit but we most likely won't see it until 2014.
I'd like to ask everyone what they think the chances are of new MBPs having fusion drives (hybridized solid-state drives and HDDs) as one way of addressing the high price of large capacity storage on their flagship laptop.
Plus: lowers $/Gb for storage, contains most of the performance increases of SSDs
Minus: reintroduces a part apple have EOL'd, could be seen (illogically) as a step back.
Personally, the inability to replace the battery after a couple of years into what will be a ~4 year life cycle is a deal breaker.
More apps sold in the mac app store = more $$$$ for apple. Sad but true.
I don't want to pay $2k+ for a disposable laptop that is planned to be obsolete in 2 years time.
Apple gets profit from hardware, not software. Apple is no Amazon, where hardware is sold at a discount to keep content alive, it's the other way around: the software and content is used to sell the hardware.More apps sold in the mac app store = more $$$$ for apple. Sad but true.
Don't fret, this is a great $30, yes $30, external drive you'd love: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KQ0S8S/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1Please don't get rid of the disc drive in the MBP!
... the new MacBook Airs ... will feature a "new processor platform"
The new MacBook line will also use Intel's new Haswell chips which are expected between March and June 2013.
That's how I read it, too. Perhaps Apple is close to introducing its own processor. If that happens, I think it would silence those who criticize Tim Cook as not being an innovative CEO.
I'd like to ask everyone what they think the chances are of new MBPs having fusion drives
Personally, the inability to replace the battery after a couple of years into what will be a ~4 year life cycle is a deal breaker.
One out-of-the-box idea:
Apple ask Intel to produce their new A* CPU instead of Samsung and make in addition a hybrid X86 and Apple-designed A* Core. This way they can still use high performance to drive retina screens, FCP X and Photoshop. On the other side for many cases a new power safe mode with ARM support only for simple email and surfing could increase runtime of battery.
Could be easier to realize in two a chip-design though.
Or nothing really happen and they just use Haswell ...
That's a very interesting idea, if technologically feasible. That would be an Apple Fusion CPU.
hmm... my read of it was Haswell, but just to invoke a crazy theory -- "new processor platform" - something not intel?
I'd like to ask everyone what they think the chances are of new MBPs having fusion drives (hybridized solid-state drives and HDDs) as one way of addressing the high price of large capacity storage on their flagship laptop.
Plus: lowers $/Gb for storage, contains most of the performance increases of SSDs
Minus: reintroduces a part apple have EOL'd, could be seen (illogically) as a step back.
Personally, the inability to replace the battery after a couple of years into what will be a ~4 year life cycle is a deal breaker.
No intel = me no longer buying apple products.
Let's see $2200 for a computer. Sell it in two years for $1000
Cost of ownership $50 a month or about $2 per work day. Ouch!
Do you earn anything from the use of your computer?
The MBA was quite expensive when it was first released. I think this is common with new hardware revisions affecting actual sales arguments from Apple. MBA Retina's will present yet a new such opportunity for Apple. Prices fell as competition caught up though, or at least had the potential to, and I expect the same to happen with everything Retina from Apple.So will the Macbook Air become more expensive?
Oh, PLEASE don't make the whole line Retina displays. I don't want to be locked in to paying extra for a screen resolution I don't need...
I just hope Apple will *at the very least* in their great mercy, use standard mSata connectors in their next MBP rather than the current bastardised and copied mSata look-alike connector now shipping in the 1st gen rMBP.
+1
What makes you think it will even sell for $1000? What if that computer of yours died in 2 years and you didn't get Applecare?
Unlike the older Macbook Pros, these non salvageable units are scrap metal when they die.
Besides, with Obamacare and the upcoming fiscal cliff, can you honestly blame anyone for wanting to save a few dollars?
What do YOU do for a living anyway? Sit around in Starbucks with your latest Macbook Pro?
A lot of work these days do NOT require the latest and greatest anymore.