Apple Event Live Coverage: Apple Silicon Macs Announced! [Full Transcript of Event]

[Q-Dog]

Max 16G RAM. My 8 year old mini has 16G of RAM. I wish someone could explain that

 

[Metrosey]

I’m expecting a silent 16 inch refresh, and hopefully a new Intel Tigerlake 16 inch next year.

 

[fel10]

Yeah.....you're right.....you are very confused.

Sounds like someone got mad at my comments. lol

 

[iPrabhu]

Is this the shortest event in the recent years? just 45 minutes.

 

[Buck987]

Same crap camera.....that’s a downer

 

[Black Belt]

And they broke the Apple store, I can’t check my previous orders

 

[MallardDuck]

An application requiring 64GB isn’t suddenly going to work with 16GB, the same applies for other values.

Yup. These are definitely replacements for the low end part of the lineup, for people who live 100% in the apple sandbox. Basically they're macs for iphone users. Impressive yes, and a nice start. But there's a lot more work needed to build a true 'power user' machine (edit to change from pro, to avoid starting the who's a pro conversation all over again).

 

[triangletechie]

They showed nothing.

I saw an Air, Pro, and Mini with a new M1 processor. You didn't see those?

 

[echodriver]

It will be funny if a MBA ends up being faster than the MBP 16". But let's for real world benchmarks.

Doubt they will. They purposefully compared the M1 to old Intel chips (like the Mac mini against the 4 core/4thread i5 from years ago) and old Intel iGPUs

They clearly aren't competing against dGPU equipped machines that's for sure

 

[simonmet]

Tim Cook simply will never have a "One More Thing" in him. That's for sure.

Wording... 🤣

 

[davidgtz]

Aghhh when are they updating the damn iMacs?

 

[gnasher729]

So it’s a 4+4 core design (BIGsmall), can those 8 total cores work together?

The 2+4 on an iPhone XR work together. No reason why these wouldn't. However, the four power saving cores _are_ power saving.

 

[mcdawg]

So it's over. no Air Tags

And all I really wanted was the 'Tags, too.

 

[Justin L Franks]

Good: You can do anything on a MacBook Air now. For the same price. Battery life is amazing on these. Your RAM isn't really going to matter with these chips, I don't think some of you get it who are complaining about 16gb of RAM.

Bad: No re-designs. No iMac.

RAM absolutely matters. I'm a developer, and need more than 16 GB RAM to run multiple VM's. I'm also a musician who works with large sample libraries. 32 GB is the absolute minimum needed for these use cases, with 64 GB a much better choice. The old Mini's could do that. The new ones only go to 1/4 of what the old ones could support?!?

 

[Mdracer]

You must be very young then. This was a riff off of the "iconic" (and very effective) Mac Vs. PC commercials. For a nerd like you they may not be effective, but to the average idiot they are.

Hmmm, missed the mark there pacha, better reapply at the academy as your investigative skills are about as good as a soft banana.

 

[echodriver]

Yup. These are definitely replacements for the low end part of the lineup, for people who live 100% in the apple sandbox. Basically they're macs for iphone users. Impressive yes, and a nice start. But there's a lot more work needed to build a true 'pro' machine.

Agreed. They purposefully avoided comparing the GPU to dGPUs - they aren't ready for the higher-end Pro machines yet

 

[Ulfric]

I have always said my Mac was too slow at Machine Learning to make me productive to my employers.

Even with all these performance gain, it still wouldn't gain any foothold. Nvidia would still be the market leader in this segment.

 

[ssgbryan]

Pretty underwhelming. I am waiting for a comparison against Ryzen 4800U.

Never going to happen. They are moving to ARM so it will be much more difficult to compare.

 

[Modernboy]

Big sur is coming out Nov 12 yet Final Cut Pro and logic pro X didn't receive an update to be be fully compatible with Big Sur, How is this possible?
I saw Final Cut and Logic with new icons on their website just now on the Macbook Pro 13 inch page but wheres the actual update?

They'll likely update after Big Sur is released.

 

[andg]

I am pretty sure the 8-core Ryzen 4800u will still smack around the 4-core M1 MacBook Pro. At the same price or less. More-so when Ryzen gets on 5nm.

Some ML tasks might go faster on the M1, but it is not difficult to compare performance. You just have to do it on an individual app/task-basis.

 

[TGM85]

New (base range) MBP supports only one external display, limited to 16 GB RAM

I'm really hoping the 4 port MBPs will support multiple displays

 

[yegon]

Unless you’re a frequent upgrader, buying first gen of these seems silly. One would hope cellular & touchscreen* are amongst the features in a redesign.

*Yeah yeah, I’ve never been fussed about touchscreen Macs, but if crossover apps becoming legitimate and worthwhile, touchscreen is surely a no brainer

 

[Johnny907]

Well if this was such a bad experience for you Dell's new innovation crap is just a web surf away.

No I'm good, my 2020 MBP with its four USB-C ports and VM-supporting processor are just fine, thanks.
Feel free to block me if my on-point criticisms offend your tender sensibilities. I don't mind.

 

[KPOM]

Only the 2-port Pro is M1 for now. I’m going to go for the Air.

 

[alien3dx]

most question soldered ram ?