You wouldnt upgrade to the 14" next year?I'm typing this on the 2020 13" model with the "new" keyboard and 10th gen. processor. It would take a LOT to make me part with this in the next few years.
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14-Inch MacBook Pro Now Rumored to Launch in 2021
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That’s probably not going to happen for a while. The MacBook line seems to have a pattern popping back up every five or so years
That's what I thought already when it was launched 2015. It's kind of obvious when you think about it. Ultraslim and fanless. Like an iPad...
I'm typing this on the 2020 13" model with the "new" keyboard and 10th gen. processor. It would take a LOT to make me part with this in the next few years.
Me too. Sold my 2017 MBP for the weight saving (and the end of the crap keyboard).
I think the only thing holding an update of the 12" MB (hopefully slightly slimmer bezels/bigger screen in the same form factor) back is to get macOS ready for the ARM architecture. Any iPad CPU kills the baseline Macbook airs already, but doesn't require a fan.
So you want keys that you actually never use? As opposed to software switchable, context sensitive keys? You do know you can change the settins to have the TouchBar set to the old school keys that you love so much
really so tired of this lame argument. None of the haterbois ever seem to make a coherent explanation of why they don’t want it. Maybe that would help. It just seems like yet another sponsored falsenarrative
That's 100% false but we will not start the debate against
It's a shame that people get's fooled by "benchmark"
It's been 5+ years I hear, "A-series is superior to Intel", if Apple was late to make the switch it's for a reason
Having worked on HPC, these so called benchmark are joke and you can't trust them
That's what two leakers are saying. There is no way around it, if ARM Macs are coming in 2021 they need to be announced at WWDC so that the Developers have enough time to adapt their applications. I suspect we'll even see some developers only ARM hardware. Either a MacBook or more likely a MacOS for ARM to install on the iPad Pro. If you look at the invite for WWDC2020 it has the same "hello" as the original Macintosh launch or the 2005 PowerPC to Intel transition, the Apple logo is cut in half with two colours. I am no Marketing guy but this looks pretty obvious nonetheless.
Does Apple do "subtle" - if so then it's a no-brainer. I am/was a Marketing guy and this seems an inspired idea.
It’s clear that the pandemic has disrupted parts of Apples manufacturing and supply chain leading to minor iterations of many of its products this years. Expect it to continue with exception to this falls iPhone which sounds like a all hands on deck development. Even that device might face delays. In regards to the iMac, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see the same design with internal spec bumps possibly switch to SSD on higher spec models while keeping cost down with Fusion drive on lower prices models.
“old fat laptop”
If you think a 13/16” is fat... You must be a child. I remember early 2000’s laptops very well... Hell, I’m pretty sure I could fit 2-3 16’s in the 17” pro I had in 2012.
Your fanless laptop shares a similar processor with a tinker toy, I’m not sure what the use of that is. My NAS has a higher passmark score. What a useless device short of for teenyboppers needing to check their Facebook.
I hope you are right. Macs are hindered by Intel's inability to improve their architecture rapidly.
As a company Apple wants to control all aspects of their products. Goes back to the 70s and 80s and Steve Job's Sand idea and his frustration with Intel and the other chip makers. Silica sand goes in one end of the factory, computers come out the other. Apple controls all of the production steps.
I'm in your shoes. To make the move to Catalina I need to run VMWare Fusion for my 32-bit apps like the Adobe Suite so I have no choice but to purchase a laptop with the extra power to run those apps inside a VM -- and that means the 2.3gHz 4-core with 16GB RAM.
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Not with a 15w quad-core 10th Gen CPU in a 15” laptop running at 1.3GHz and no Thunderbolt 3 versus 6-core standard with 8-core step up and 4 Thunderbolt 3 ports at very nearly the same cost in the 16” MacBook Pro. SurfaceBook 3 is just not competitive And pricing is not for what you get. Its overpriced and underpowered just like the Surface Studio. People can go bananas about them having NVIDIA GPUs, but the GPU is not the computer, no matter how much NVIDIA tries to convince people.
I used to be against Mac using ARM, but they’re obviously the future. I only want Apple to use them on Macbooks just so I can see how they fare against x86 hahaha
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Now remember that the "tinker toy" has 100x the power of those older laptops you refer and that those were used way before there was a facebook.
Even a 2015 base model MacBook can still be used for "pro" tasks (obviously not editing 4k movies) and the minimal size and weight makes it perfect for many uses.
O.k. Boomer
Now remember that the "tinker toy" has 100x the power of those older laptops you refer and that those were used way before there was a facebook.
Even a 2015 base model MacBook can still be used for "pro" tasks (obviously not editing 4k movies) and the minimal size and weight makes it perfect for many uses.
One does not use those words here. Yes, you know what words
Same boat here. I honestly care more about the 14" screen than the ARM transition from a practicality standpoint (though I won't complain about ARM at all). I can easily get another year out of my 2015 rMBP, and Sidecar is legit the only real game changer for me on a new machine at the moment...and even that's a situational need and currently a minimal convenience being stuck working at home.
I keep going back and forth on just ordering a 2020 10th gen as another 5 year machine ("if you always wait for the latest device, you'll always be waiting"), grabbing an i3 MBA to flip when the 14" drops, or just waiting it out.
Does it make sense considering the product updates they have just done? I don't see them coming out with an ARM Macbook Air months after they announce a significant refresh of the Intel Macbook Air. I don't see them doing another 12" or basic Macbook when they have the iPad Pro filling that niche now, and I also don't see OSX for iPad anytime soon. I just can't see any products that make sense for a WWDC release right now which means the ARM Macbook will probably be more like a late 2021 or WWDC 2021 reveal.
Now if they do come out with a 14" ARM Macbook capable of running the desktop OS I would be all over that.
I would gladly sacrifice CPU power to have a Nvidia Quadro RTX GPU, a detachable touch screen for drawing and two USB-A ports!
Can confirm ARM announcement at WWDC. Look at the invite.
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Pink haired girl.
Red hat guy.
Ginger guy.
Two alternative colour shades of the above?
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Marmalade
You are welcome. ;-)
I have a 2014 MBP and I say: thank you Apple. I can save money another year without gering tempted to replace it. If yours is still working fine, why upgrade, only to want the 14” in a year’s time?!
Yeah. Be more like Samsung where you release a product that breaks within a day, then look like idiots and start from scratch instead of taking your time to begin with.Take your time Apple. It's not like anyone's expecting you to innovate on your Mac line a little