I have to say I loved an old Macbook I had that I could easily access the internals. I upgraded the RAM, upgraded the HD. I think I could have added another HD via an OWC hack that replaced the DVD player.
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Apple Event to Include 13-Inch MacBook Pro, 16-Inch MacBook Pro, and 13-Inch MacBook Air With Apple Silicon Chips [Updated]
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You are clearly biased against ThinkPad and want to run away from argument. But fine with me, bye.
Having a decent keyboard is no small thing in a mac forum..
I own a 2012 and a mid 2015 MBP, an imac, mac mini, and owned 4 previous MBPs and other intel machines going back to the core duos, I would have much rather seen a move to AMD Ryzen chips and Radeon 6000 GPUs, than see Apple start from scratch with new, unproven "low-power" chips. Unless these have 24-48 hr battery life, I'm not sure i'm interested. So many apps are going to be running under emulation or are just straight up not going to get re-coded.
I don't think the 12" will ever return to the Mac lineup. The Mac’s role is not to compete with the iPad Pro in portability, but to handle more complex workflows - a task which goes hand in hand with a larger canvas. That's why I think 13" will remain the smallest screen size in the Mac laptop lineup.
There will not be Bootcamp support on Apple Silicon Macs. If you want to run other operating systems it will have to be via virtualization.
Make no mistake, these new laptops will impress. Big time.
You don’t launch a bold new platform with crap performance.
All eyes are on Apple to justify the switch over. They know it, and so do their investors and shareholders.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see 3-5x better than current hardware.
My only concern however, is pricing.
You don’t launch a bold new platform with crap performance.
All eyes are on Apple to justify the switch over. They know it, and so do their investors and shareholders.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see 3-5x better than current hardware.
My only concern however, is pricing.
Hi everyone, I'm new here, but read macrumors for many years.
I'm looking forward to new CPU designs. That's my usual upgrade cycle.
Who else is still using a 2008 Macbook Aluminium Unibody?
Mine is 12 years old and still running without ANY issues. No scratches. Original charger. Battery via AliExpress
However, during the years I have replaced the HDD with a Samsung SSD and upgraded 2 GB Ram to 4 GB and a year ago to 8 GB. Currently it runs High Sierra unofficially.
Before that I owned a PowerBook 15" which I sold once Apple moved to Intel.
My iPad Pro feels a bit faster these days
I'm looking forward to new CPU designs. That's my usual upgrade cycle.
Who else is still using a 2008 Macbook Aluminium Unibody?
Mine is 12 years old and still running without ANY issues. No scratches. Original charger. Battery via AliExpress
However, during the years I have replaced the HDD with a Samsung SSD and upgraded 2 GB Ram to 4 GB and a year ago to 8 GB. Currently it runs High Sierra unofficially.
Before that I owned a PowerBook 15" which I sold once Apple moved to Intel.
My iPad Pro feels a bit faster these days
More complex workflows need first of all a decent desktop OS, then extended external display support. These are vastly more important than an extra inch.
macOS is already a decent desktop OS that provides for complex workflows. It has been for well over a decade. What's your point?
That ipads don't run macos. Having similar display sizes would make ipad pro and 12" macbooks competing products as much as an ipad and a cutting board.
This feels like the intel transition where the first intel iMac looked exactly the same as the G5 iMac.
We may be looking at the 13 inch MBP looking more like the 16 inch MBP though.
It was curious that Apple didn’t do this earlier in the year. We may soon find out why.
Curious, what are folk around here finding the main issue(s) to be with the current design?
Form: Too much bezel to the point of distraction? Just wanting something new to look at just because?
Function: Height adjustment? A desire for increased access to components for expandability? A desire to separate the monitor from the guts, for flexibility of use later? (I.e., re-doing the past)
Once something reaches a point of refinement after many years of development (and as Apple increasingly decreases the thickness & exterior features/interface ports to the point that there’s not much more to physically change or take away), really how much is left to redesign outside of returning to form factors of the past?
A fanless, slightly lighter, faster Air with 16-18 hours battery life might not be too shabby though
I'm not as excited as everyone else either. I was just getting excited that there are finally a couple Macs that are decent for gaming (the 2020 iMac with Radeon 5700 or 5700 XT and the MacBook Pro 16" with 5600M), but now Apple's going to go ruin it by making Macs that can't run Windows natively.
Yep. Apple’s silicon may be able to sprint for short bursts, how how fast can it run a marathon?
Right now I am presented with the choice between a touchbar keyboard and the Air with cooling/performance issues. To add insult to injury, both have +20-30% weight compared to other flagship ultrabooks.
I think you might be confusing Apple and Intel here. Apple CPUs don’t need ridiculous turbo boost to reach acceptable performance. A14 running at 3 ghz is more or less equivalent to an Intel Tiger Lake core running at 4.8 ghz. While consuming 75% less power. Which design do you think would win the battle of attrition in a thermally constrained environment? Just a hint: you could “fit” three Apple cores at full frequency in a 15W envelope where Intel would have to throttle a single core.