Still no wi-fi 6e and no av1 hardware decode support (they only listed h.264, hevc, prores, etc)
I bought a 16" M1 Max though so at this point don't care that much. Will upgrade in 5yrs or so when there is wi-fi 7 support
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Apple Announces Updated 13-inch MacBook Pro With New M2 Chip
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Still no wi-fi 6e and no av1 hardware decode support (they only listed h.264, hevc, prores, etc)
I bought a 16" M1 Max though so at this point don't care that much. Will upgrade in 5yrs or so when there is wi-fi 7 support
I would gladly pay that $100 to get the TouchBar.
Same. I have a 2018 MBP that I've been holding onto for dear life, hoping the keyboard doesn't give up the ghost again.
But a new Touch Bar M2 MBP may compel me to upgrade, especially since I'll be able to get AC+ again and not worry about potential keyboard issues down the road.
What is the difference between Retina and Liquid Retina? On paper the M2 Air seems to have the better screen.
Just who in hell will buy this over the new Air? Its only distinction is retaining the touchbar which most people don’t like.
A truly stupid move.
A truly stupid move.
I absolutely love mine, and while originally torn on the decision over the Air, I ultimately went with it for better screen, better battery, and better sustained performance. It also came out several months before the 14" and is way more portable.
Going with the Air this time though for the bigger/better screen and new design. I can deal with the performance hit, as it's probably still at least on par with the one I've been using, but if portability and performance were my main concerns, I'd personally go with the M2 13" Pro.
What an odd release! Clearly just an update of the M1 version internals, so now technically worse than the cheaper MBA, which has a better and larger screen due to the reduced bezels. Why not just wait and upgrade this model later, so it matches the rest of the range? I've got the M1 version and it'd be a pointless upgrade
The low-end 13" MacBook not-very-Pro (first as the '13" MBP without touch bar', then the '2 port 13" MBP' after it got the touchbar) hasn't made sense to me since it appeared in 2016 - occupying a very narrow price/performance niche between the Air and the touchbar/4-port/14" MBP. The M1 version carried on that tradition...
...but I guess Apple wouldn't make it if it didn't sell. All I can imagine is that it somehow hits the sweet-spot for some significant market.
the screen appears to be just upgraded to be on par with the 13" Pro in terms of brightness and color gamut.
not as good as screens on the 14" and 16"
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Well your dreams have come true. Buy as many TouchBars as you'd like. Apparently, Apple has plenty...but curiously only decided to keep it on this device. (Maybe they're trying to gauge customer demand before re-introducing on other models.)
I have the 13" Pro with touch bar and i just stopped using it because it's abandoned. There's no way people will buy the older design for touchbar over the new Air with magsafe
It's like they are trying to get rid of components that they have a stockpile of that customers no longer want. They have to get rid of them somehow.
It's gonna depend on how well your particular workload scales to multi-core (both CPU and GPU). Some tasks scale almost proportionally to the number of cores, for others adding more cores gives rapidly diminishing returns, and the faster single core performance will dominate.
...but it was still only marginally faster than the Air, and then the 14" came out, with a better screen and better CPU.
8GB RAM + 256GB SSD + high prices
As a person weirdly excited by this, vs the M2 MBA:
— no notch is a win
— offers 10% more battery life
— fan for sustained performance or working in hot ambient conditions
— the touchbar can be customized and it has its fans
But. It has a worse camera, fewer speakers, a smaller screen, and no MagSafe.
— no notch is a win
— offers 10% more battery life
— fan for sustained performance or working in hot ambient conditions
— the touchbar can be customized and it has its fans
But. It has a worse camera, fewer speakers, a smaller screen, and no MagSafe.
but it still had better screen, battery and better sustained performance (unless you modded the M1 Air which then became unbearably hot to the touch).
Well yeah obviously when 14" came out 13" didn't make any sense whatsoever. But i've used my M1 13" for a year and it paid for itself long before 14" came out.
And despite everything, when running large documents in affinity or in logic for extended periods, fans hover at 1200RPM - especially now in summer. this is the point where M1 Air throttles >> logic overload.
edit:
attachment my fan load for the past 30 days
For audio particularly, the biggest advantage of M1 was insane single-core performance because multicore distribution is really poor across the board for audio.
Also i suspect good memory bandwidth because it allows for smaller buffers with large loads that i never could achieve on intels
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so let me get this right, no WIFI 6E for the new Apple M2 Computers?
Apple today unveiled an updated 13-inch MacBook Pro featuring Apple's next-generation custom M2 chip.
The new 13-inch MacBook Pro is essentially a processor bump, with the design and other hardware features identical to the previous model.
Built using second-generation 5-nanometer technology, Apple's M2 chip improves upon the M1 in every respect, with a 18 percent faster CPU, a 35 percent more powerful GPU, and a 40 percent faster Neural Engine. It also delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth compared to M1, and up to 24GB of fast unified memory.
The 13-inch MacBook Pro will be available to order from next month, with prices starting from $1,299.
More to follow...
Article Link: Apple Announces Updated 13-inch MacBook Pro With New M2 Chip
This is the only spec I was interested in:
- One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz
This needs to be replaced with a proper MacBook.
Air = fanless, thinnest, lightest (consumer)
MacBook = Add fan, a bit more I/O (prosumer)
Pro = we already have these (pro)
Also, i doubt this form factor sees another generation. It could even die off throughout the M2 cycle and be replaced with a MacBook.
Air = fanless, thinnest, lightest (consumer)
MacBook = Add fan, a bit more I/O (prosumer)
Pro = we already have these (pro)
Also, i doubt this form factor sees another generation. It could even die off throughout the M2 cycle and be replaced with a MacBook.
? the M1 Pro and M1 Max are still better than this chip. If you knew anything about the pro machines you’d know that