Or maybe the missing Mac Pro chip that fizzled off to nothing? The M3 Extreme?
Or... maybe they've upgraded the car project to a self driving jet aircraft project?
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Apple Announces October Event for Macs: 'Scary Fast'
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Or... maybe they've upgraded the car project to a self driving jet aircraft project?
Considering most people really really can't afford to upgrade both their phones AND their laptops every single year, the psychological end result may end up breaking that yearly phone upgrade FOMO cycle that people have, and start to realise that older kit that does the actual job, is just fine.Aaaahh another event that makes you machines older
Love and hate relation with these events 😀
Likely, given that A17 Pro already has it.
Yeah, and it's a big deal. They'll want to move lots of products to M3 to make its gaming claims more practical.
Well, you can look at the bright side in that every day they don’t release improved machines are days that confirm your machine is the latest and greatest.Aaaahh another event that makes you machines older
Love and hate relation with these events 😀
Bringing back the backlit Apple logo to all Macbooks. That would be great.
I would hate that so much. It’s so gaudy and ‘look at me’ obnoxious. Especially for a portable product I would use in public.
They can’t compare new M series chips to their older Intel machines anymore; they now have to compare them to the previous versions of M series chips to impress us.
Interesting, Gurman now says it's ONLY M3 Max and Pro being released next week along with an M3 iMac. No M3 13 or 15 Airs or Mac Mini until Spring/Summer next year. Previously Apple released base M1 and M2 before the Pro/Max variants. Pretty sure Gurman is fed info by Apple directly, he is always pinpoint correct on the date of release, but only the exact week before.
Yeah, GPT sometimes isn't reliable. I asked it again, turns out it's actually grammatically correct but has a different meaning.
The way it was used in the article just sounds off to me too, though.
"Scary fast" suggests more than a moderate upgrade of M2 over M1. I think we are really going to get the first M3 products. That means iMac with M3(!) and not "throw 'em a bone M2."
- Is the iconic 13.3 M1 MacBook Air going to get some sort of upgrade, stay the same, be discontinued or actually be redesigned and just called MacBook? (The thing still sells and I don't expect this to happen next week, but more likely sometime in 2024)
- Is the old 13 MacBook Pro with Touchbar finally getting a redesign or just discontinued? (Candidly, the current MacBook Airs make the 13 Pro redundant and meaningless)
- I don't think the MacBook Pros will get a redesign until 2025, but a serious performance upgrade is coming soon. (And the damn things are beasts already)
- Mac Studio with M3 won't happen until later 2024, but a Mac Studio M3 Max is going to be insane!
- Mac Mini with M3 might happen next week, but I think Spring 2024 is more likely.
- Is the iconic 13.3 M1 MacBook Air going to get some sort of upgrade, stay the same, be discontinued or actually be redesigned and just called MacBook? (The thing still sells and I don't expect this to happen next week, but more likely sometime in 2024)
- Is the old 13 MacBook Pro with Touchbar finally getting a redesign or just discontinued? (Candidly, the current MacBook Airs make the 13 Pro redundant and meaningless)
- I don't think the MacBook Pros will get a redesign until 2025, but a serious performance upgrade is coming soon. (And the damn things are beasts already)
- Mac Studio with M3 won't happen until later 2024, but a Mac Studio M3 Max is going to be insane!
- Mac Mini with M3 might happen next week, but I think Spring 2024 is more likely.
Still running an M1 (Mac from my job) and it works great. For what I use the HW for, no use case for me an M3 would make things different.
I also have an iP14PM which I don't plan to upgrade till 16 or 17.
Nevertheless, I was pointing out that you always have tiny cringe - (quoting Morpheus): Like a splinter in your mind
We all know this is a never ending cycle.
I’ve been pretty chill about new macs and upgrades since I bought the first M1 Air. I could actually edit (short) 8K projects from my Red camera on that thing. I could view and check 8K footage (not in full res, but still) on location. I got a MBP after that for more ports and rendering power, and that’s a long while ago. I probably wont upgrade to M3, as for me my M1 is pretty decent still.
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Shame about the late start for us Europeans. I’ve always enjoyed watching them live. Wonder why the late start?
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Shame about the late start for us Europeans. I’ve always enjoyed watching them live. Wonder why the late start?
They have held both September and October events frequently over the past decade.
A car?
My 2017 iMac is still working great. I guess I’ll patch it with open legacy core to the macOS version of these new laptops, if, unexpectedly, they are worth it
"Scary Fast" is how quickly Tim Cook moves when Xi Jinping says, "Boo".
With Snapdragon being announced and its potential speed comparisons with M1, M2 it may be that Apple have had to bring forward M3.
Marketing wise it would be a clever thing to do, as then Apple capitalises on all the Snapdragon publicity with a scary fast M3 lineup
Marketing wise it would be a clever thing to do, as then Apple capitalises on all the Snapdragon publicity with a scary fast M3 lineup
Good point. I would actually prefer virtualized though, because I don't think Apple would ever offer a hybrid OS for iPad that provides all the freedom that a Mac does. However, I would take being able to run Mac App Store apps on iPad (assuming the full window and pointing device experience is included) over nothing at all any day.
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Enjoy it, as it was and remains a super little computer
That seems illogical as M3 Max and Pro would more than likely have to follow basic M3 as business wise it would be foolish to come out with anything other than a base M3 chip as a starter with the prospect of even faster devices keeping Apple's options open.