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Apple Event Live Coverage: Apple Silicon Macs Announced! [Full Transcript of Event]
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You're right, they don't look into these things, they just see "some of your current apps might not work on day one" and will opt for the older, more reliable thing right out of the gate.
On my order the additional GPU core was part of the $1,199 model. No extra $47 that I was aware of.
EDIT: Oh, I see what you're saying now. But the equivalent of +$50, right?
Hard to believe that will be able to do workstation class CPU's in two years. They have had their own Arm soc's for many years now. And still it more or less the same. 4+4 cpus is very far from 128 that they will need to compete with AMD, and they we compare it with AMD today, not AMD in two years.
specially since they feature phostoshop and 3d pipelines in their sillicon transition reveal.
Yeah, about that....
See my sig - I dumped my 4,1 for a Ryzen based system. I no longer have to rummage though the forums looking for work arounds for, literally everything. I am no longer telling myself that I can get by with hardware that is four and five generations back.
You truly have no idea how far behind you are.
Yup, $50 difference when you upgrade the base model to the same 512 GB SSD that the $1249 model has. So $1199 for 7-core GPU + 512 GB SSD, and $1249 for 8-core GPU + 512 GB SSD.
I am now a typical apple user.
I have an iPhone and an iPad.
I dumped my 4,1 (see sig) because I needed more horsepower (3d art is CPU, GPU, and memory intensive). Apple doesn't do horsepower anymore. And no, the 7,1 isn't horsepower - it is 1,500 worth of parts in a 4,500 case (not including the wheels).
How many low-end Windows machines are capable of more than 16GB (not gb)? All three machines compete at the low end.
My old mac book pro (2009) can have two nvme modules with a 2.5 adapter.
So it can be updated to 16 Tb SSD internal storage. (using SATA though)
Or 2x2Tb for a reasonable budget. Not exactly what Moore's law predict...
So it can be updated to 16 Tb SSD internal storage. (using SATA though)
Or 2x2Tb for a reasonable budget. Not exactly what Moore's law predict...
But they aren't priced as low end laptops, now are they?
yep, an M1 Air would likely be OK for my sister (she hates when I say stuff like that
).these first out of the gates boxes will also be developer testbeds (not development machines). it's early days.
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After the two year transition period, Apple won't have any more Intel hardware. This is but the start.
Disagree. If I was an iOS app developer, macOS developer or a non-Intel, cloud developer why aren't the new machines developer machines? For those tasks these are supposed to be better than their current Intel counterparts, significantly better.
Seeing YouTube posts from “creators” as they call themselves like Deitry (rhymes with peachy as she says) or some dark haired guy that normally reviews Windows machines and macs make specific statements that creatives are leaving Apple just prior to Apple launching the 16”MBP and furthering that at MacPro launch.
the ones I’ve mentioned don’t create major content with Logic Pro (like Jonathan has), or FCP X like MKHD has ~ they’ve not demonstrated that like the others.
far from me to state I use these software I’ve mentioned, yet there are several in the industry that sue it as I come or for their creative work they love to do haven’t left Apple or their software workflows on the Mac for Windows alternatives as heavily as these creators have proclaimed.
Was a bit disappointed with this event. Apple Silicon was mentioned in previous Apple events. That was a flat ‘one more thing’ news. Was expecting more announcement on new Apple original shows and the Apple fitness+ release.
They aren't testing the waters. You don't invest this much into an architecture to "test the waters". The more powerful laptops and desktops need more powerful chips. The M1 will scale up in cores, clock frequency, etc and become the M2, the M3, etc. These SOCs will also likely work with outboard silicon for those needing industry standard GPUs and more memory. This is a two year ramp after all, and some of the 16", 64GB and Mac Pro use cases need to be worked on.
Yeah, this one was expected to be the Apple Silicon event. Apple TV+ and Fitness (and Apple One) were already given airtime in the previous event. Updates will likely come as press releases.Was a bit disappointed with this event. Apple Silicon was mentioned in previous Apple events. That was a flat ‘one more thing’ news. Was expecting more announcement on new Apple original shows and the Apple fitness+ release.
Was a bit disappointed with this event. Apple Silicon was mentioned in previous Apple events. That was a flat ‘one more thing’ news. Was expecting more announcement on new Apple original shows and the Apple fitness+ release.
Why would they discount the message of their new machines by adding anything else?
Why has certain Adobe software had security releases weekly? Why do Adobe add features and leave bugs?
and buddy opening the screen very intimately - lol! that was classic!
I you have applications that need all the power they can get, the four power savings cores _will_ be running at full speed. They just don't have that much power, but they can and will be used.