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Apple Invites Developers to Get One-on-One Guidance From Engineers Ahead of Apple Silicon Mac Launch

nikaru said:
The only way Apple could justify switching to its own silicon is if their chip blows out of the water the best chips from Intel and AMD. Apple should play the best hand they have with this annoucnment and present a true beast. Anthing less than 50-75% performance and battery life increase compared to an equivalent Intel chip would be a dissapointment. If Apple cant beat i9 by a wide margin, the whole switching would make very little sense. Apple already has a more advanced production node at 5nm so how fast and efficient is their own architecture is the true mistery.
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I’m sure in the labs they already tested great chips. That doesn’t mean we’ll see them right away. They’ll release them as the market moves on.
So, realistically, I think we’ll see low-end Macs getting slightly more powerful, and a lot more battery life, and high-end Macs to still be slightly better at performance. But I don’t get my hope up for a much more powerful Mac as of 2020 and 2021
 
Tafkaeken said:
We can all agree that the event won’t take place November 3th but I can’t really see no reason for why it can’t be November 10th or am I missing son magic rule why they need to announce that are going to send their prerecorded stream one week before? Is this the the English upper class during the 19th century?

Tell us today, Monday 2th or any other day that the event is on the 10th or the 17th of November.
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It’s already been confirmed that the event will take place on the 17th
 
Lucifer666 said:
Most excitingng thing since the Intel switch. Those were crazy days. Then I remember the rush to get a Windows emulator running, and the reward offered for it :D So funny. The point was to get Windows ‘semi‘ native. This time it would need to be total emulation i’m guessing. But this may work for low less cpu intensive stuff. Then again I haven’t a clue. But MS does have Windows running on ARM. I don’t know the details.
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I think Craig gave us a clue during the last event...

He said, "and our FRIENDS at Microsoft..."

So.. probably something is in the works...
 
waquzy said:
It’s already been confirmed that the event will take place on the 17th
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Confirmed is a strong word without official word from Apple, but Jon Prosser has been absolutely nailing the dates lately (regardless of what any of you think of him you can't dispute with facts - he has provided us with a lot of concrete dates for announcements and announcements of announcements) and stated that it would be on the 17th. I trust him on this, and it's logical.
 
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AceFernalld said:
Confirmed is a strong word without official word from Apple, but Jon Prosser has been absolutely nailing the dates lately (regardless of what any of you think of him you can't dispute with facts - he has provided us with a lot of concrete dates for announcements and announcements of announcements) and stated that it would be on the 17th. I trust him on this, and it's logical.
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Sorry, my bad, it’s 99% confirmed
 
cupcakes2000 said:
Not sure you understand what confirmed means.
It’s rumoured by someone. He may have a good track record, and it may well be correct, but it isn’t confirmed at all Apple!
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Not by someone, the dates have been leaked to Prosser by a reliable source. Invites will be sent out on the 10th and the event will take place on the 17th. Wanna bet?
 
waquzy said:
Not by someone, the dates have been leaked to Prosser by a reliable source. Invites will be sent out on the 10th and the event will take place on the 17th. Wanna bet?
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No I don’t want to bet. But there is nobody that can confirm the date other than Apple themselves via a press release. Everything else is a rumour. Could be accurate, but it’s not confirmation.
 
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AceFernalld said:
Logically the highest '% probable' you could evaluate his statement with is the % of time he gets things right. Right now that would be ~85%. It's 85% probable, not confirmed until it's from the Apple's mouth.
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It depends, when it comes to features he is about 85% correct. But when it comes to dates he is as close to 100% as you can get. He got all the 2 previous events held this year correct
 
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waquzy said:
It depends, when it comes to features he is about 85% correct. But when it comes to dates he is as close to 100% as you can get. He got all the 2 previous events held this year correct
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That's true. At the end of the day it's all semantics and we should just be hyped about the impending November event! :)
 
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You could call it semantics, but when I read the op’s original statement on the ‘confirmation’ I got excited and spent ten minutes searching for the announcement. Hence my insistence on the subject.
 
AceFernalld said:
Confirmed is a strong word without official word from Apple, but Jon Prosser has been absolutely nailing the dates lately (regardless of what any of you think of him you can't dispute with facts - he has provided us with a lot of concrete dates for announcements and announcements of announcements) and stated that it would be on the 17th. I trust him on this, and it's logical.
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Well, Apply promised releasing a Mac with Apple Silicon by the end of the year. The end of the year is in two months. There are US elections weeks, thanksgiving and christmas. Put in the mix the dates of Apple events that have taken place during November and Dicemeber in the last ten years. Rest weekends and other unusual days of the week. Give 4-6 days of pre-announcment period. Voila! The result is two specific dates at most that make sense. So, Prosser is guessing, and has always been guessing based on other sources such as MR, AppleInsider, 9to5mac, etc. Please name a single very low probability announcment that nobody expected and Prosser was the only to be 100% accurate in its prediction. His videos are clickbaits and no Apple employee will jeperdize his/her carear in order to share higly confidential intel with such a person. He states that his source works for Apple marketing team, but in other ocasions he stated seeing fotos of early prototypes of devices. When marketing has access to early prototypes? It does not make sense. Jesus, nobody knew this guys a year ago and suddently his is the one having top spy within one of the most secretive tech companies of the world? No chance!
 
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nikaru said:
Well, Apply promised releasing a Mac with Apple Silicon by the end of the year. The end of the year is in two months. There are US elections weeks, thanksgiving and christmas. Put in the mix the dates of Apple events that have taken place during November and Dicemeber in the last ten years. Rest weekends and other unusual days of the week. Give 4-6 days of pre-announcment period. Voila! The result is two specific dates at most that make sense. So, Prosser is guessing, and has always been guessing based on other sources such as MR, AppleInsider, 9to5mac, etc. Please name a single very low probability announcment that nobody expected and Prosser was the only to be 100% accurate in its prediction. His videos are clickbaits and no Apple employee will jeperdize his/her carear in order to share higly confidential intel with such a person. He states that his source works for Apple marketing team, but in other ocasions he stated seeing fotos of early prototypes of devices. When marketing has access to early prototypes? It does not make sense.
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Regarding the dates: I understand, but it's all conjecture and evaluation of likelihoods, not confirmation.

Regarding Prosser: Okay. Attempt to discredit him as much as you want. He pulled the iPhone SE launch dates out of nowhere, the AirPods Studio name, etc. He's got an 85% track record and often provides specifics. I don't really feel like continuing to defend some random guy on the internet to another random guy on the internet, so just scroll through here for specific rumors he has provided and often been right: https://appletrack.org/jon-prosser/ I've listened to some of his interviews, seems like a genuine and sincere guy even if you think he's annoying (which I can understand). Of course you want people to click on your videos while trying to gain popularity.... Every YouTuber does that. And he clearly has multiple sources... some of which have provided him with bogus info and some haven't.
 
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AceFernalld said:
13" or 15"? I've got a late 2016 15" MBP that I really want to upgrade, but I'll (likely) only bite if I can get an MBP that's 14" or larger, since I already have a 12.9" iPad + Magic Keyboard that fits my ultraportable slot.
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13”

Yeah I wish Apple would release the 14” but I can’t see it happening this year. I’m just gonna get the new 13” if that’s the case or I might even settle for the new 12” ARM MacBook
 
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waquzy said:
13”

Yeah I wish Apple would release the 14” but I can’t see it happening this year. I’m just gonna get the new 13” if that’s the case or I might even settle for the new 12” ARM MacBook
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I am going to want to try out the 12" sooooooo badly but really would personally be better off waiting for the 16" since I have a 15" to replace
 
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AceFernalld said:
I am going to want to try out the 12" sooooooo badly but really would personally be better off waiting for the 16" since I have a 15" to replace
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I had the 2015 base model and I absolutely loved the design and the fact it was fanless. However it was unbelievable slow, it couldn’t even handle a 4K YouTube video in Chrome. So I sold it...
 
We're finally getting an event worth watching, worth waiting for! None of this incremental malarkey going on in this next event.

There is no doubt though that we're only getting new processors this year. Next year is body change along with new screens. I'm hoping for FaceID this year, but that won't happen. TouchID it is.
 
AppleTO said:
What? It supports Boot Camp on Intel machines. It won’t on AS.
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iStorm said:
Replace Big Sur with Apple Silicon and then you’ve got a correct statement. Big Sur (and likely future OS releases) still support Bootcamp on Intel-based Macs.
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Actually, your both kinda wrong, you can install Windows without Big Sur or Bootcamp or even any OSX/macOS, I know, I did.
 
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