Apple Announces New 13-inch MacBook Pro With M1 Chip, Starting at $1,299

[rptoro77]

It's really crazy how there's not even a minimal aesthetic change not even to celebrate the "back to Apple chips". I wonder if the hardware design team at Apple even work?, there's no more poetry in there.. they just repeat the same design from 5 years ago. Disappointing!

 

[flibberti-gibbeti]

There you have it ... and it was all going so well .... the new chips can only handle up

iPhone can perform much better than Android flagships with half the RAM.

Maybe Apple silicon doesn’t need as much RAM as an Intel chip since this is the first Mac with optimised software with dedicated hardware.

 

[PaladinGuy]

I wonder if the active cooling on the new MacBook Pro will make its clock speed way faster than the new Air? Otherwise, it seems like a bigger processor boost for the Air, and a big battery boost for the Pro.

 

[tritian]

Welcome back to a 16GB limit for your RAM....

 

[coredev]

yes, because now it gives me the impression that the 13" pro is just a $300 more expensive macbook air with the same internals.

But it isn‘t. There‘s a fan in there, suggesting that it’s clocked higher, which means more speed.

 

[lie2me]

At least they put in a fan into this laptop.
Too bad they forgot it in the MBA.

 

[cashboxz02]

Ram upgrade from 8 gb to 16 gb is 200 USD.

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Yea, I find it pretty ridiculous that they say they're all about environmental consciousness, why would they sell laptops designed to last only a year or 2? Better yet, why not allow user upgradeable storage/ram on the Pro lineup? Apple is just being plain greedy with the pricing of these laptops.

 

[Tozovac]

Am I alone feeling more than disappointed about no body redesign?
And, they are comparing performance to Windows laptops, which again brings forth my favorite topic: is some sort of official 'Boot Camp' support for M1 Macs expected? No word on this so far.

Like our parents taught us, it’s what’s inside that counts.

 

[jon9091]

Bring on the new 16 inch! And no...I don’t really care about a new case design.

 

[coredev]

Welcome back to a 16GB limit for your RAM....

That’s an odd thing, especially for the Pro.

 

[OriginalClone]

I think the 16gb is there in base Air but they’re locking it off with software.

I think you’re underestimating just how optimized this thing is going to be. You won’t need 32gb ram.

We shall see. I doubt that will be the case for photo/video editing software though.

 

[sn1p3r845]

I think I'm going to wait and get the next release, hopefully a 16" mbp

 

[Shadowbech]

Thank goodness it's the lower end tier of the MacBook Pro! Whew.

 

[MacAddict1978]

Purchased the new Macbook Pro and returning the one I just bought to Costco. Not getting burned again like I did in the Power PC transition.

Petty I know.... but couldn't we have upped the camera from 720P to 1080P? It's 2020 Apple... not 2006

 

[thejagaroth]

I think you’re underestimating just how optimized this thing is going to be. You won’t need 32gb ram.

I think you're seriously underestimating how un-optimized Adobe CC is and that'll be running under rosetta! I would be very surprised if Adobe actually released AS versions of the ENTIRE suite before the end of 2021.

 

[Mimiron]

Sucks there's no 16".

 

[tritian]

16GB RAM Max on all the new M1 laptops and Mini?

This is a ridiculous limitation

 

[rptoro77]

You must be new to Apple or you'd have remembered the Intel transition back in 2006, when no new designs were promptly introduced.

I absolutely agree with you iAFC.. I'm so disappointed as well with the hardware design team.. I don't even know if the work?.. rafark we shouldn't defend mediocrity!

 

[viachicago22]

Why just the 13 inch? Why not the 16?

 

[nquinn]

Wait... the new MBP 13" only has 2 USB-C/thuderbolt ports ?!?

 

[Pimmp]

The M1 on top of what AMD and R5000 series have really crushed Intel now

Well wait for the real tests. Apple talked a lot but did not say anything

 

[Phil A.]

I think you’re underestimating just how optimized this thing is going to be. You won’t need 32gb ram.

It doesn’t matter how optimised it is - if you’re working with massive assets then you need memory, and lots of it. 16GB (or even 8) will be fine for most people, but it will be limiting for a lot

 

[Rychiar]

no Face ID? this is getting stupid. touch on the laptops was dumb from the start

 

[manu chao]

Am I alone feeling more than disappointed about no body redesign?
And, they are comparing performance to Windows laptops, which again brings forth my favorite topic: is some sort of official 'Boot Camp' support for M1 Macs expected? No word on this so far.

Unless there is a version of Windows running on ARM, no. Ok, such a version of Windows exists (for the Surface Pro X), but that’s only half of what one would need. Few people would want Boot Camp for the joy of running Windows, they want it to run Windows-only applications. And very few of those of probably have been ported to run on ARM.

Put it like this, unless the Windows app you are interested in runs natively on the Surface Pro X, there is little utility in something like Boot Camp.

 

[nfl46]

Nice. I’ll be waiting on the next one with a 1080p webcam.