I thought they would be discontinued.
I’m actually rocking a 2018 i7 mini.
Was hoping to upgrade to a M1 Pro based Mini.
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I’m actually rocking a 2018 i7 mini.
Was hoping to upgrade to a M1 Pro based Mini.
It’s a $1400 premium for the Ultra chip over the Max chip.
Everyone who said AS chips would be cheaper needs to explain this…
Everyone who said AS chips would be cheaper needs to explain this…
I'm not sure what they will do, they've backed themselves into a corner because they've made a chip that is so good that it's going to take Intel and AMD a couple years to catch up. Like at the end of the year who will be wanting an M2 Max? Nothing is competing with the M1 Max now.
What I think will happen though is when the time is right, they'll release a Macbook SE with that M1 chip in it. It'll be their first mainstream laptop to compete with all the $500 Windows Laptops that everyone buys, but obviously priced a little higher.
I wouldn't be surprised if we do not see the M2 this year, it would not suprise me if we don't see a new Pro until this show next year.
Maybe this year we hear what is happening to the 13 inches.... probably updated with a new screen and the M1 Pro chip.
Maybe we get a new Mac Mini with the M1 Max in the exact same shell.
I mean, LIDAR, camera, and faceID aren’t exactly selling points, but the other features might be.
The new black-on-silver Magic Keyboard (with Touch ID) is now... £199.
Bwahahahahaha!
Bwahahahahaha!
I wouldn't buy that monitor either and hate the €500 add-on for a decent stand, but...the Max Studio is not a bad offer at all for the power it offers. I'm running a 16 inch M1 Max and it has not disappointed me yet (and I'm hard to please, including work on high resolution photos and videos). There's always the M1 Mac Mini but I wouldn't recommend it with less than 16 GB of RAM and by the time you upgrade the SSD you are in M1 Max Studio territory. The Max Studio is even better value. For those not doing photo or video, grab a minimally configured (still get the 16GB of RAM) M1 Mini.
All the M1 Macs offer the same single core performance so far.
The weird thing that’s missing from the lineup is the M1 Pro.
My guess it there will be a silent update to the Mini line with this, or maybe the Studio range will get it in a few months.
Just seems odd to have that chip only appear in the MacBook Pro line when it seems like the obvious drop in replacement for the high end Intel Mini.
My guess it there will be a silent update to the Mini line with this, or maybe the Studio range will get it in a few months.
Just seems odd to have that chip only appear in the MacBook Pro line when it seems like the obvious drop in replacement for the high end Intel Mini.
AS EXPECTED - ZERO INNOVATION/ALL UPGRADES!!!!!! THIS IS SO DISAPPOINTING!!!!!!!!!!
Don't you think Apple is trying to please PRO users more and more completely forgetting about average consumer? I would like to see a monitor for someone who has MacBook Air and Safari, Notes etc are the only apps this person uses. Basic iPad with new design but not necessarily with such powerful chip as M1 cause tablet for many consumers seems to be "couch device" nothing more. Maybe bigger, 15" MacBook Air, because who would buy 15" MacBook Pro for note taking? Looks like you have to break the bank or the only devices u will get are old-fashioned iPhone SE or 9,7" iPad.
2) Upselling is offering options, more expensive options. It is not necessarily bad, and it may be quite good, as it allows people to choose better products for a higher price. The point is that Tim Cook likes doing it (and the bad thing is, perhaps at the expense of releasing new products).
3) Yes. The Pro is almost a year old now. But there are still no signs of a refresh, so they will co-exist for some time.
4) Value is subjective. Overcharging is objective. A 1 TB PCIe 4.0 SSD costs about $100, and that is with all the packaging. Apple sells the same additional 1 TB for $400. You may agree to pay the price, or perhaps you do not care. But Apple is definitely overcharging here.
5) Apple did not. One analyst once claimed Apple would launch a $2,500 display aimed at consumers. It is more a companion to the Mac Studio.
6) Apple's website currently lists the iMac as the iMac 24", which may suggest another version is in the works.
7) Perhaps some XDR Display Pro customers may feel ripped off.
Forum users: Jeez, when is Apple
Going to finally fully transition to Apple Silicon.
Same forum users upon seeing the 27” Intel iMac has been discontinued.
Going to finally fully transition to Apple Silicon.
Same forum users upon seeing the 27” Intel iMac has been discontinued.
ALL NEW MAC STUDIO - Just an upgraded 27" 5K iMac
MAC STUDIO - Just an upgraded Mac Mini
IPHONE 13 PRO - Just an upgraded iPhone 13
IPHONE SE - Just an upgraded iPhone SE
I don't understand how every Apple Fan out there isn't upset at the lack of INNOVATION from Apple. This is a complete JOKE.
MAC STUDIO - Just an upgraded Mac Mini
IPHONE 13 PRO - Just an upgraded iPhone 13
IPHONE SE - Just an upgraded iPhone SE
I don't understand how every Apple Fan out there isn't upset at the lack of INNOVATION from Apple. This is a complete JOKE.
Considering it only has the one input you’ll have to use some sort of 3rd-party KVM/dock - I don’t like your chances of getting full functionality. now I’m sure the dock makers will get right on that, but is it really that much better than alternatives that natively have more inputs?
Yes. I would like to see a larger colorful iMac, and one of the reasons for that is the lack of wires. I am not buying separate devices which are even more expensive. Instead, I will keep my current PC setup which serves me well.
I love my LG 32UN880-B Display. I'm definitely getting a second one to replace my 27' iMac from 2017 with the Mac Studio + Pair of LG 32UN880-B Displays.
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I've worked on an 8GB M1 Mac Mini (awful, just getting my feet wet, totally frustrating but showed the potential), a 16GB M1 Pro (ran out of memory often, tied up in paging, general lagginess) and a 32GB M1 Max. This latter has been exceptionally impressive working in Davinci Resolve and editing RAW photos. It plays back and can edit almost any video file without transcoding.
I'm coming from a 96GB Mac Pro and have felt very comfortable with the 32GB M1 Max (the only one available without an 8 week wait in my neck of the woods), even though I thought I'd want/need 64GB. Sooner or later 32GB won't be enough but it will do for most current workflows.
Note: I too am frustrated by the lack of upgradeability and the very expensive Apple upgrades – €460 for 1TB of SSD upgrade? Have they lost their minds – I'm running just 1TB in my M1 Max and supplementing it with external m2 Thunderbolt drives in dark aluminum Sabrent tool less cases.
I wish Apple had released a new 27-inch iMac instead of the Mac Studio...
-Mac Studio. This double height Mac Mini looks good. Nice features. 512GB RAM on base model is horrible penny pinching, though.
-No more 27" iMac. This is sad. I used this computer at work and liked it. Replacing it with the Mac Studio (£2,000) equipped with a sensible SSD (+£200) and Studio Display (£1,500), plus £200 keyboard and £150 trackpad, costs £4,050 in the UK, which is >$5,300 USD. That's almost 2 1/2 times the base 27" iMac's price!! Errr, if I was in charge of buying new IT stuff I'd struggle to justify anything other than buying low-end Mac Minis plus whatever cheap 27-32" monitor/keyboard/mouse is readily available, unless the gear is partly there for posing purposes, then I'd get the ugly white iMac's that look like kindergarten PCs, (in their upgraded form so they actually have ethernet), and make everyone tolerate the smaller screens.
-The only remaining Intel Macs are now the Mac Pros and the high end Mac Mini, until they release the inevitable M1 Pro/M2 Pro version, whichever it may be.
-The stupidly expensive new keyboard looks good, but it is obscenely expensive (even more expensive than the white version?!?), and STILL DOESN'T HAVE BACKLIT KEYS!
-M1 ULTRA Studio looks like a brilliant Mac Pro replacement, though the doubling of price from the MAX version seems hard to justify.
-No more 27" iMac. This is sad. I used this computer at work and liked it. Replacing it with the Mac Studio (£2,000) equipped with a sensible SSD (+£200) and Studio Display (£1,500), plus £200 keyboard and £150 trackpad, costs £4,050 in the UK, which is >$5,300 USD. That's almost 2 1/2 times the base 27" iMac's price!! Errr, if I was in charge of buying new IT stuff I'd struggle to justify anything other than buying low-end Mac Minis plus whatever cheap 27-32" monitor/keyboard/mouse is readily available, unless the gear is partly there for posing purposes, then I'd get the ugly white iMac's that look like kindergarten PCs, (in their upgraded form so they actually have ethernet), and make everyone tolerate the smaller screens.
-The only remaining Intel Macs are now the Mac Pros and the high end Mac Mini, until they release the inevitable M1 Pro/M2 Pro version, whichever it may be.
-The stupidly expensive new keyboard looks good, but it is obscenely expensive (even more expensive than the white version?!?), and STILL DOESN'T HAVE BACKLIT KEYS!
-M1 ULTRA Studio looks like a brilliant Mac Pro replacement, though the doubling of price from the MAX version seems hard to justify.
The Mac Studio is definitely the upgraded Mac Mini we wanted, they just left off the M1 Pro option, and that is why it seems like something different/more expensive. But if you look at the price increases for the the M1 Max and RAM on the MacBook pro, they are the same prices as the M1 Mac mini upgraded to the M1 Max with more RAM. If they had a M1 Pro Mac Studio for $1499-1699, that would help a lot.
They have so many Ipads I don't know which is which. And they did talk about the Air today.
Hmm.
Maybe there will be a 27"-32" future display in the next year or two that will have mini-LED and 120Hz ProMotion...in fact, I'm sure of it.
It's a lot easier to do a high-mini-LED on a 14" or a 16" panel than it is a 27" one. Or a 32". An Apple monitor with those specs will likely be in the $2,500 range.
Not that anyone will read this far down. I just purchased a Max with 128GB RAM. I can't wait to run some simulations. I wrote them in Rust. I will probably put Rust on the box first, then translate them to Swift. Swift handles math much the same, but the threading will be more than a bit different.