And if the products are too expensive for what they offer, fewer people will buy them, and the market will work itself out.
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16-Inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and iMac Pro With Mini-LED Displays Again Rumored to Launch in 2021
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And if the products are too expensive for what they offer, fewer people will buy them, and the market will work itself out.
Well, I've seen 12-core AMD laptops, so there's always hope. Wasn't the rumored Apple CPU for Macs supposed to be 12 cores or something?
Apple plans to release several higher-end devices with Mini-LED displays in 2021, including a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro in the first quarter, a new 16-inch MacBook Pro in the second quarter, and a new 27-inch iMac in the second half of the year, according to Jeff Pu, an analyst at Chinese research firm GF Securities.
This timeframe lines up with one shared by analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who recently said that Apple suppliers are slated to begin mass production of related components between the fourth quarter of 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, suggesting that the majority if not all of the Mini-LED devices will be released next year.
A few months ago, Kuo said that Apple plans to release six Mini-LED products by the end of 2021, including 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, a 27-inch iMac Pro, a 12.9-inch iPad Pro, a 10.2-inch iPad, and a 7.9-inch ?iPad? mini. The analyst said these displays will allow for thinner and lighter product designs, while offering many of the same benefits of OLED displays used on the latest iPhones, including improved contrast and dynamic range.
Switching to Mini-LED displays will also allow Apple to distance itself from the Samsung-dominated OLED display market, according to research firm TrendForce, which also expects a new 12.9-inch iPad Pro with a Mini-LED display to launch in 2021.
Apple is reportedly investing over $300 million in new Taiwanese factory that is expected to produce Mini-LED and Micro-LED displays for future devices.
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What? The title said iMac Pro and yet the content mentioned iMac. Are you talking about iMac or iMac Pro?
ooooofffffffff course I finally upgrade my late 2013 MBP... going dang near all out on specs and this happens....-____- see yall in 2027 lol
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Of that I have no doubt, but have a work-issued PC and it can fill whatever gaps I may encounter.
I'd be selling my Macs to offset the cost of the iPad(s), and to be honest I don't need my personal Macs anymore. They're just overkill from a bygone era for me. I no longer need a pickup truck.
As I get older, my path to simplification becomes more important than ever. The iPad/iPhone combo integrates better with each other.
If this is accurate, are they going to come with the non x86 or still with Intel? I wish they stay x86, but...
Regardless, this means, if accurate, we will probably see updates of all of the computers mentioned, this year, to get rid of stock parts.
Time will tell.
No money to spend either way.
Regardless, this means, if accurate, we will probably see updates of all of the computers mentioned, this year, to get rid of stock parts.
Time will tell.
No money to spend either way.
AMD Ryzen Mobile 4000 "Renoir" only goes up to 8 cores.
Tiger Lake-H or Rocket Lake-H (it's possible only one of the two ends up shipping) might go to ten cores, up from eight, but twelve is unlikely. Either way, at a certain point, core count isn't a great measure of added performance. It's not like going from eight to twelve cores gives you a 50% performance boost; it may give you something close to 40% in specialized applications, and in most general-purpose stuff, it really doesn't help at all (instead, Turbo Boost / Thermal Velocity Boost does).
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I saw it on Linus Tech Tips a while back. Might have just been a desktop CPU in a bigger laptop though since AMD's thermals are so much lower on 7nm. The main reason I like more cores is because I do a lot of work with local server VMs, as well as exporting a lot of photos and videos that I have edited (although GPUs help a lot more with that now). Currently I don't hit the limit much on my i9-9900K in my 2019 5K iMac, but it would be nice by 2021 to get a laptop that is closer in performance to what I'm using now. I'm just not sure if I can wait that long. I've had a few different MBPs from 2008 until a few months ago and I have found that not having a laptop really sucks. I switched jobs which is why I no longer have the MBP. I had given my old 2012 Retina MBP to my grandpa a couple years ago since I had one from work with full admin privileges and no restrictions. The 2019 16" MBP seems like a decent machine but I feel like things are going to be changing dramatically in the next year. Normally in a situation like this I would buy a used older model to bridge the gap but they have so many keyboard issues that it doesn't seem like a good thing to do. Trying to be a little bit more reserved with my money given the situation in the world.
