Only the two USB-C ports towards the back of the laptops will be Thunderbolt-enabled, the front two are USB only.
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If I understand correctly, most apps are sent to the App Stores with bitcode. The whole Mac App Store could be instantly available for an ARM-based Mac. Personally I'm not ruling it out.
A bit of a strange thing to say so close to an overhaul of the most popular Mac used for App development.
Nothing is dying. They use Macs internally. Don't you think the guys at Apple making macOS, iOS, tvOS, iTunes, Final Cut Pro X etc. don't provide feedback. They use the same machines you have access to. There's no way a company who like to own own the whole stack from components to OS allows the computers they themselves use to build their consumer products to "die" any time soon.
Mia culpa! I thought they were one and the same animal; that is all the ports are to be TB 3 but any USB-C device can use the same port as they share common cables. I'm sure we'll find out more, Thursday.
get ready for more and more dongles and hubs to attach because the machine for the pros has nothing but USB-C
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That example is a bit overwrought. USB-C-to-lightning cables are available, thus this would eliminate two cables in the picture. Then there's a thumbdrive, of which there are a lot with USB-C too.
The only good example is the SD card. That'll require a reader.
Sorry, posted this without qualification. It's been a long morning...
"Mia culpa! I thought they were one and the same animal; that is all the ports are to be TB 3 but any USB-C device can use the same port as they share common cables. I'm sure we'll find out more, Thursday.".
Several times? Several usually means three or more times. You're saying you keep placing the laptop such that the dogs keep tripping over it?
I'm just using that word as a joke hence the apostrophe marks. I am simply playing on the fact that people keep mocking Apple with that word but I'm not really meaning it. What you've said is correct though.
And yet it has been a ridiculously long time since any of the Mac machines have received a substantial update (going on 3 years for the Mac Pro), every single machine with the exception of the 12" MacBook is listed on the buyers guide as "Don't Buy" because of how long it's been since they've been updated, Tim Cook is publicly saying stuff like "Why do you even need a computer anymore? iPad Pro does it all!", and it's extremely likely that the only machine to get a bump this week is the MacBook Pro leaving everything else (including the ACTUAL most popular Mac for development - the Mini) to continue stagnating into obscurity. Meanwhile Apple is pouring cash into iOS and the Apple Watch, playing with cars, buying headphones, toying with the idea of making a television and prying into the media creation space (interested in buying Time Warner, expanding Apple Music), and putting their focus on absolutely everything OTHER than building computers.
Don't piss on my leg and tell me it's raining. The Mac is slowly being phased out of Apple's strategy. It's patently obvious. They'll keep it around just long enough to figure out how to do development directly on iOS (probably with some sort of iCloud-based compiler OR wider platform support for XCode - or both), and then they'll do away with it completely.
The other possibility is another architecture shift, and the delays are because they've been working out the kinks.
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How in the WORLD would you know that? That seems rather specific.
get ready for more and more dongles and hubs to attach because the machine for the pros has nothing but USB-C
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That actually seems pretty cool. Does no one else see the utility of being able to plug all these into a single hub, then be able to disconnect all of them simultaneously at one go, rather than having to unplug each of them individually from your MacBook?
You probably intended to illustrate the opposite, but you just sold me on the value and the utility of going all in with USB C here.
get ready for more and more dongles and hubs to attach because the machine for the pros has nothing but USB-C
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Who are all these people that connect so many dangly, external peripherals to their laptops 24/7? Do you want a laptop or a desktop? Because it sounds like you want a desktop.
I have a MacBook Pro and there's nothing connected to the ports. Everything is inside the machine already; WiFi, bluetooth, storage, keyboard, trackpad, display, speakers, it's all internal. And if I briefly need to connect an SD card, well guess what? That's a 10 minute operation and then the cable is out of there again.
And if you truly want to hook up loads of things and work with it as if it was a desktop computer, then guess what? You're going to be using it on a desk anyway because you'll have so much **** hanging off the ports that you are going to need a desk to store it all on (otherwise it'd all fall off your lap). So plug in a single cable, which goes to a desktop USB hub, which connects all your desktop devices.
The few people who need to connect lots of devices already use USB hubs and a whole pile of peripherals on their desk. So this is literally a non-issue to 99% of people. Most people don't need the laptop's ports (or at most need 1 thing at a time), and have at most, connected an iPhone to their laptop to sync it. But now even that can be done wirelessly.
The only thing I hope is that they don't have the courage to remove the headphone port on the MacBook Pro. No need to make a laptop waterproof.
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It's not always successful to perform MagSafe Interuptus, takes a certain angle and timing
While bitcode can be used to enable Apple to recompile and send a program/app out with a a different processor it is really about 32/64 bit processsor compilation.
Recently Apple suggested to all developers for iOS to make sure their apps were updated for 64 bit processors, the most current ARM processors used by iPhones and iPads.
It appears that in the future bitcode could be used to allow Apple to choose which processor an OS X program will run on. However, currently there is no requirement that any program or app be compiled by the developer with bitcode enabled. Additionally OS X developers have not been pushed to update from 32 to 64 bit compiles.
It seems it may be a requirement in the near future for iOS and is currently mandatory for Watch OS and TV OS.
Apple's developer description: https://developer.apple.com/library...istributionGuide/AppThinning/AppThinning.html
And a more technical discussion in the subject:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30722606/what-does-enable-bitcode-do-in-xcode-7
So sorry again ARM hopes are dashed for many in the new MBPS.
Recently Apple suggested to all developers for iOS to make sure their apps were updated for 64 bit processors, the most current ARM processors used by iPhones and iPads.
It appears that in the future bitcode could be used to allow Apple to choose which processor an OS X program will run on. However, currently there is no requirement that any program or app be compiled by the developer with bitcode enabled. Additionally OS X developers have not been pushed to update from 32 to 64 bit compiles.
It seems it may be a requirement in the near future for iOS and is currently mandatory for Watch OS and TV OS.
Apple's developer description: https://developer.apple.com/library...istributionGuide/AppThinning/AppThinning.html
And a more technical discussion in the subject:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30722606/what-does-enable-bitcode-do-in-xcode-7
So sorry again ARM hopes are dashed for many in the new MBPS.
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That's what I've done a month ago. Still prefer Osx to Windwos 10 but as far as price and performance go... even if apple releases a new mac pro they will never compete. Let's say the release a up to date mac pro. Do I have to wait another 3 years for a top of the line machine? I can't afford that. With the PC I can upgrade almost anything whenever I see the need to get more cuda cores etc.
"Someone" told me - should be interesting if they just ****ed with me or if it's the real deal. We'll know in 2d3h
The 13" was spec bumped last March. The 15" last May. It's hardly been forever. The internet would have you think it's been 4 years since the last update. Throw into the mix the issues Intel have had with Skylake (case in point the Surface Book). And here we are. Hopefully all Macs can get updated by year end.
He's never said such things. And even what he said doesn't mean what you've turned it into.
Macs and iOS devices meet different needs. Nobody expects app developers to use iPads and nobody should be suggesting my parents get a Mac. Use the right tool for your needs.
For a large slice, the majority, of Apple's users I completely agree they could get by with an iPad Pro. But there will be those which cannot. For them there's the Mac. As I said - Apple themselves create their software on Macs, they won't be killing them off any time soon.
Source? I'm not doubting you, but I'm not just going to believe the mini is the most popular development machine.
Also do you think Apple are not aware of declining sales due to lack of updates? The Mac is still over 12% of Apple's revenue. I'm sure the other machines will see updates when they're ready.
Good, Apple have historically poured cash into lots of things - some of which never get released. Investigating cars doesn't mean the team that works on Macs disintegrates.
And I get value out of them other things, just as I do the Mac. In fact I get more value when Apple does them as they integrate them nicely into their product portfolio. For example, I used Spotify for a long time, but Apple Music is much nicer for me as it's on all my devices (Apple TV, Apple Watch Mac, iPad and iPhone).
All possible. Ultimately users, developers, businesses... whoever, they migrate to what works best (easy, reliable, cost effective etc.). If Apple break the reputation they've built over years by releasing an inferior experience then they'll suffer. As much as people like to think Apple users are sheep and will buy anything. It's not true. There are enough Apple failures over the years that show that.
Whatever they release will not change anyone's life. That's just the state of Mac computing. Small refinement over revolution.
Your idea of Pro and Post production must be filming pictures of your cat at 4k to upload to YouTube and Facebook. Hollywood productions houses are using off the shelf components and Linux with in house developed video editing software. Apple was good at one point. What I think scared a lot of them to go Linux and their own LOB apps was Apple's aggressive acquisition in the 2000's. At one point they owned Shake then killed. That probably was a nightmare for a lot of production houses.
According to this graph change seems insignificant to me:
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Mac sales on the other side keep dropping, but I think Thursday's event is going to change that.
Mac sales on the other side keep dropping, but I think Thursday's event is going to change that.
On the surface your post may make sense, but digging deeper it really doesn't.
3D rendering does not require the latest machine or CPU and if it did the movie houses would go broke on constantly updating their devices. Also I doubt their primary machines are store-bought MBPs
Additionally if you update every year to the latest top-end Windows based PC you are essentially spending the equal of buying a new MBP. Dell XPS 15 16 gig memory, 512 gig drive $1699.99 i7-6700HQ Quad Core (6M Cache, up to 3.5 GHz) (Skylake for you Kaby drummers).
I would agree the current Micosoft Surface Book is a better machine than the current MBP, but will Microsoft update it every year? One problem, it doesn't run OSX and I wonder if anyone has run OSX well in a VM on the Surface.
Now if you are talking a desktop compared to a Mac Pro, well of course you can easily replace components, add memory and swap CPU (if they have same socket and are compatible with the board chip set) at a cost far less than a Mac Pro, but we all know that.
Oh I also see you are "newbie" here on Mac Rumors. Welcome, but if you are here just for the sport of Apple Bashing, well get in line many have led the way before you.
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