Apple Announces M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips Designed for New MacBook Pro

[fullauto]

Phenomenal stuff. A very exciting time for Apple and chip development! Bloody well done A! Can’t wait to see AR/VR development go full steam ahead on these machines.

 

[DinkThifferent]

What Intel's CEO will be staring at tonight. And dreaming about tonight. And wake up screaming from tonight.

 

[jessejarvi]

Intel rn

 

[Machspeed007]

Did they mention TDP?

In the intel vs m1 graphs there was a 30w mention if I remember correctly.

 

[MalagLagoon]

hmmm will wait for the m2

I'm still limping along on my original 2015 15" MBP - I don't think I can wait any longer. I think I see ports on this laptop too! That's mostly what I wanted for the past five years.

 

[Jay-Jacob]

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I knew it unlikely come today but I was hoping. Looooooooong wait for bigger iMac.

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Absolutely ludicrous.

My only complain is they didn’t stick them in a 30 inch iMac…
Oh well, next year for sure…

 

[Bandaman]

Wow. Might sell my M1.

 

[MalagLagoon]

Touch Bar? Dead.

The touch bar was too gimmicky for me - especially considering how awful the 2016, 2017, and 2018 (and maybe 2019) were.

 

[CWallace]

Does no one find it a little weird that we just heard all about the 16- and 32- core GPUs and there wasn’t one mention of an upcoming game that will take advantage?

I don't believe these are meant for playing games, but more for making games.

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

And when are the models available? In a week? Wow...

Revenge is best served cold... (To Intel, they beat the i9 and i7 with a club!)

 

[Analog Kid]

Good lord, this is an impressive feat. I cannot wait to get my hands on one.

 

[dogslobber]

These chips will run Windows 11 faster than an Intel machine can.

 

[CWallace]

And when are the models available? In a week? Wow...

Yup. My two 14" come on the 26th (only need one, though, so I will cancel or send back the other - ordered by mistake).

 

[PinkyMacGodess]

Someone more knowledgeable: Will these new chips open the door for true gaming on the Mac?

If it doesn't, I'd be completely surprised. As far as game company backing, these machines seem to be aimed at 'pro' users, and gaming would be a secondary use. I think they were possibly playing off of the Windows 11 launch which was all about gaming, and almost nothing about 'pro users', which I found odd. I wondered if I was watching the right intro video. Maybe I wasn't, but to market to business folk, advertising all of the X-Box tie-ins was a little tone deaf...

I had many clients direct me to remove ALL games from their windows machines, including the basic ones included with all systems. 'But now you can play X-Box games native on your Windows 11 system!' Business world: 'Yippee... KILL THAT FEATURE!!!'

 

[Icelus]

Really Apple? M1 „Pro“ And M1 „Max“? 😄

Better than M1X, M1S or M1Z.

 

[Icelus]

Intel be like: ;-(

Intel: Yes, but, uh, what about games?

 

[mariusignorello]

I was definitely looking forward to that new Mac Mini but very impressive stuff nonetheless.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Really Apple? M1 „Pro“ And M1 „Max“? 😄

What; did you prefer the "M1 Pro" and "M1 Pro Max" instead?

 

[svish]

Extremely powerful. Apple Silicon is unbeatable.

 

[GhostRaider]

I feel bad for Intel but at the same time they kinda deserve it. Not much Intel can do here but just stay quiet.

 

[siddavis]

Absolutely ludicrous.

My only complain is they didn’t stick them in a 30 inch iMac…
Oh well, next year for sure…

I'm wondering if they are having to slow walk the bigger iMacs due to the global supply chain situation.

 

[im_to_hyper]

Someone more knowledgeable: Will these new chips open the door for true gaming on the Mac?

I mean. The PS5 has 36 Compute Units (CUs... AKA Cores) at "10.3 Teraflops" -- the 32-core GPU option on the M1 Max should produce "10.4 Teraflops" --- both devices have a highly integrated system architecture; though honestly the MacBook Pro as a 120Hz 4K / 60Hz 8K $4500 gaming rig just seems overkill .

Perhaps the Mac mini will be a good game console subsitute? Vulkan titles ported to Metal should run well. Even Windows VMs using Vulkan with direct passthrough (GPIO?) should be lovely. That being said there is no "official Windows support" so that sucks.

However -- all old Mac titles should perform admirably. Probably better than the 5700 XT by far. I guess time will tell.

Also Terflops suck for measureing performance, but with this whole thing being a superawesome SOC who knows.

 

[im_to_hyper]

I'm still limping along on my original 2015 15" MBP - I don't think I can wait any longer. I think I see ports on this laptop too! That's mostly what I wanted for the past five years.

My 2008 13" white MacBook and 2010 13" MacBook Pro yearn for the company of their 15" breatheren.

 

[Boil]

Awaiting the newly designed Mac mini...

M1 Max SoC

• 10-core CPU (8P/2E)
• 32-core GPU
• 64GB LPDDR5 RAM
• 1TB NVMe SSD
• 10Gb Ethernet

$2999

And extra excited to see what the Mac Pro lineup (Mac Pro / Mac Pro Cube / possible 30"+ iMac Pro) will look like with multiples of the M1 Max SoC stuffed inside...! ;^p