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Apple Invites Media to 'Hello Again' October 27th Mac-Centric Event

JackANSI said:
I'd only put money on one of those options. 15".
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Well, I know that Apple always includes mid-range GPUs, so I'm pretty sure we'll see something along the lines of the GTX 1050 or the RX 460M, although I wish they'd go with something beefier. Also, Apple usually puts great CPUs in the Pro line, so I'm not worried about that.

Regarding the rest (16GB RAM and 1TB SSD), the current rMBPs already have that. No chance they'd reduce RAM or storage and I'm pretty confident we'll even get the possibility to order the MBP with 32GB of RAM.

I'm pretty sure the only thing that has a chance of being a disappointment is the GPU. Whether that'll be enough to push me over to the PC side is still up in the air (I really need a pretty good GPU).
 
SMIDG3T said:
FINALLY, everyone can shut up about new Mac's.

I'm looking forward to the AirPods mostly.
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I think they screwed up with the software side of the airpods. For years I've been used to double click for next song, single to stop, triple click to go back. Now I have to double click and talk to Siri to do anything?! Super lame. Maybe paired with the watch it won't be terrible...we'll have to see. I try sometimes to use Siri with headphones when I'm on my bike and even going slowly she's nearly useless. Typically I end up so frustrated I want to drive myself off an embankment.
 
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It would be for those who boot camp into windows on a regular basis...
MICHAELSD said:
That's not the worst idea. That would be very courageous. I'd be very curious to see what kind of performance they can get out of ARM chips in a laptop/desktop. But I think Apple would've told large developers and it would've leaked if that was the case.
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bighype said:
Will this be the last generation of Macs?

Mac mini = DEAD
Mac Pro = DEAD
(non-retina)MBP = DEAD
Macbook Air = DEAD

Only iMac, MacBook and (retina) MacBook Pro will be updated.

And Apple's making commercials about how iPad Pro is the new computer. So, is Apple planning on killing the Mac?

I just wish Tim Cook would retire and end this nightmare. The man has destroyed Apple :(
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Seems like the new MBP won't be much different than the MacBook - USB-C only & flat keyboard. Hopefully it will be more powerful.
 
Stella said:
It would be for those who boot camp into windows on a regular basis...
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If they're moving to ARM, they'd have thought of that. They'll have been working with MS about this.

Alternatively, they'll just drop native Windows support entirely. Bugger me, that'd be truly courageous. And I'm not using that term sarcastically.
 
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My totally uneducated guess is that the MacBook Pro's and Macbook Air's will be eliminated; and Macbooks will be the consumer line - with the same colors as the phones and with 12", 14" and 16" (hopefully though the max storage will be more than 500gb - and hopefully the headphone jack intact on all sizes).

And PowerBooks, with the same sizes, will be introduced as workplace machines.
 
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keysofanxiety said:
If they're moving to ARM, they'd have thought of that. They'll have been working with MS about this.

Alternatively, they'll just drop native Windows support entirely. Bugger me, that'd be truly courageous. And I'm not using that term sarcastically.
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This makes me truly nervous. Of course, if everything is super thin, then I can have the MacBook Pro that can't boot to Windows glued to the back of the infamous xps that can lol... and it will weigh as much as my current old PowerBook.
 
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Another word I would call it is stupid.

I'd highly doubt a Fusion Arm in the real world could outperform a skylake CPU based Macbook pro 15".

Benchmarks are not real world.

keysofanxiety said:
If they're moving to ARM, they'd have thought of that. They'll have been working with MS about this.

Alternatively, they'll just drop native Windows support entirely. Bugger me, that'd be truly courageous. And I'm not using that term sarcastically.
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RobinInOR said:
This makes me truly nervous. Of course, if everything is super thin, then I can have the MacBook Pro that can't boot to Windows glued to the back of the infamous xps that can lol... and it will weigh as much as my current old PowerBook.
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Why not just buy two DELL XPSs for the same price as a Mac? There's no way you could be happier with that decision. :D
 
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;) We already have one, except its Ubuntu. It wasn't all that much cheaper, still over $2K.
 
Stella said:
Benchmarks are not real world.
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You're absolutely, 100% right on this. I will not begin to dispute this for a second.

Though let's take a step back and analyse the case based on what we know. The geniuses behind Geekbench 4 made a lot of effort for different platforms and instruction sets to be as comparable as possible when running a benchmark. According to that benchmark, the CPU in the iPhone 7 has better per-core performance than my 2012 15" MacBook Pro. And my CPU performance isn't far off current gens, or even the newest Intel quad-core mobile CPUs.

Yes, there's going to be some controversy with how much resources the OS alone uses, which will skew the benchmark. And yes, benchmarks aren't everything. But that is remarkably impressive for a CPU in a phone, that has absolutely no cooling whatsoever; not even air. Now, let's continue to entertain that. Throw that into a much larger surface area to play with. Throw in some cooling – even a fan. Surely, surely, surely; we're getting pretty close to similar performance here, if Apple properly put their mind to it.
 
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Radoo said:
"It takes courage to remove all the ports all over the Mac line, and solder everything together (even in the Mac Pro now), a maximum of 256GB of SSD at an ultra priemium price (to use our iCloud drive), and no more than 8GiB of RAM for all non-Pro devices, to party like it's 1999 (or 5 years ago for that matter). And everything at 100 dollars more than before, because <insert any currency exchange rate/inflation/taxes excuse possible>, and even 50 more for Europeans, because we care for them so much. Can't innovate anymore, my ass!"
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"The best Port/Feature is one that has been removed" - Apple post Steve Jobs
 
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