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

Everybody is totally missing it, it's the beginning of the rollout of the A10x iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini and Mac Book Pro, dropping all support of the x86 chipset and rolling out the new A10 designed by Intel. You notice they keep saying the A10 is "desktop class".
Each major Apple upgrade and design rollout includes a new chipset. Sierra will be the last MacOS for x86 just like Leopard was the last OS X for the PowerPC.
 
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JosephAW said:
Everybody is totally missing it, it's the beginning of the rollout of the A10x iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini and Mac Book Pro, dropping all support of the x86 chipset and rolling out the new A10 designed by Intel. You notice they keep saying the A10 is "desktop class".
Each major Apple upgrade and design rollout includes a new chipset. Sierra will be the last MacOS for x86 just like Leopard was the last OS X for the PowerPC.
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Waited years for a new mac? Now wait several months for arm versions of all the software you use!
 
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amirite said:
Waited years for a new mac? Now wait several months for arm versions of all the software you use!
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Yup. If they did that I would just move to Windows. I'm tired enough of new Mac OS versions breaking my friggin' audio units plugins. If I have to deal with processor architecture porting again that's it.
 
YES, it's finally happening!! :D I'm gonna retire my 2010 13" MBP and either get the new 2016 MBP or last year's MBP, which ever suits my needs and wants more...

six years is a long time in a computer's life. I'm seriously impressed by the life cycle of an Apple laptop. Kinda weird to finally move on after spending 2 191+ days with this little machine <3
 
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amirite said:
Waited years for a new mac? Now wait several months for arm versions of all the software you use!
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This is so they can close all the third party software so it's App Store only as well as force updates like the iPhone without the ability to revert back after they stop signing. Cook is really going to break apple when this rolls out.
 
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But I thought the Mac was dead?! ;)

Kidding aside, I'm glad Macs don't get released like clockwork every year (à la iOS). I know some models are overdue, but I'd much rather wait for a solid release vs. half-baked goods. Bring it, Apple!
 
ChrisG23 said:
I am very excited for this release but;
If it doesn't run on kaby lake processors, and enable 4g lte through sim card it will be a disappointment.
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maybe the 13" but there are no chips available for the 15". Cant expect something not even out
 
CE3 said:
But I thought the Mac was dead?! ;)

Kidding aside, I'm glad Macs don't get released like clockwork every year (à la iOS). I know some models are overdue, but I'd much rather wait for a solid release vs. half-baked goods. Bring it, Apple!
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The difference isn't about half-baked.

PC makers build a design looking ahead. It doesn't always require a new main board or chipset to release quarterly or semiannually updated machines.

If you think ahead, and design your machines to be compatible with CPU's scheduled to be released in the coming year, you can do spec bumps every few months without major redevelopment.

At least that way the machines you are selling in the last 3 to 6 months of the production of the given model, are somewhat current instead of a year to two years behind your competitors specs.
 
JosephAW said:
Everybody is totally missing it, it's the beginning of the rollout of the A10x iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini and Mac Book Pro, dropping all support of the x86 chipset and rolling out the new A10 designed by Intel. You notice they keep saying the A10 is "desktop class".
Each major Apple upgrade and design rollout includes a new chipset. Sierra will be the last MacOS for x86 just like Leopard was the last OS X for the PowerPC.
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I, for one, hope it's true. I would totally take a 16 or 24 core A10 class processor in my laptop.

(But: I may not represent the average... I write massively parallel code for a living ;-)
 
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lucansmiles said:
I'm saying it: They will ditch Intel ;)
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That would be just about the worst news imaginable.

This is the most excited I've been about a product launch since the Unibody MBPs were announced in 2008. I know there is no end to the whining about adapters and dongles, but a single port type has been a long time coming. Industry wide acceptance of everything external meaning awesomeness for the hybrid guys (power at the desk, battery life on the go).

Thunderbolt 1 and 2 never quite got there. Single cable docking stations. I'm so jazzed. (I hope Apple kills Lightning in favor of USB-C at the next iPhone announcement and unifies it all.)
 
ryanwarsaw said:
Okay can you elaborate on what you think might be coming?
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Complete chassis redesigns, some kind of unforeseen new control interface to combat touch screens on Windows laptops, thinner/lighter laptops with less ports. This is pure speculation but it would be BRILLIANT if Apple creates an ARM version of Mac OS X and includes both an ARM SoC and a full Intel platform to handle all the current apps to ease a transition. Or it'd be brilliant in my mind since I thought of it ;).
 
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Ghost31 said:
So basically "not now it would take a lot longer" and then you write...next year. You don't think Apple may be a year ahead in your thinking and can really change things this time and that maybe the entire reason it took this long to update macs is basically this is the most significant update we have seen in a long time?
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Well not quite. I didn't mean that it's not happening now because it would take longer. I meant it's probably not happening now because we would have heard some rumblings about it. Apple switching Macs to homegrown SoCs is a big deal and is something that many many partners would be aware of. I'm saying it would be virtually impossible to contain the rumor.

Consider, for example that companies such as Microsoft, Adobe, VMWare, and many others would likely need to be informed ahead of time, not to mention Intel and a variety of chip manufacturers that would produce the new SoC for the Mac (TSMC, Samsung Semi, etc.) We would also likely see some signs pointing to it in the Xcode betas and the macOS Sierra betas.

Just to prove my point, here is how strongly MacRumors suspected an Intel Mac was coming two days before Apple made that announcement back in 2005.

There's no doubt that it's a smart, savvy move (and there HAVE been some rumors suggesting it'll someday happen), but it seems unlikely that it's ready now.
 
TigerWoodsIV said:
It's the reason my 2008 pre-unibody MBP is still going strong. The SSD made a world of difference. I'm planning on getting a new 15" to replace this one now that it's been 8.5 years. It's going to be hard to retire the old one. Have had it 1/3 of my life lol, and it was my first and only laptop.
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I, too, have an early '08 MBP with upgraded SSD and RAM which, BTW, you can bump up to 6GB.
 
Just like to point out that the photos used in the invitation is from LGs marketing for their OLED displays.

To references it, google Philips OLED TV and you will see that exact frame :)
 
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kildraik said:
Lol.
I never understood why a company should compensate for a user's clumsiness. It just never made sense. Then I remember that a general population exists.
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Glad you remembered… it's usually not the user stumbling over it, but a kid, a co-worker or some other person from the general population.
 
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