You are right, no one would be shocked to see a M2 mini with unusably little RAM / storage at a fictive pricepoint.
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You are right, no one would be shocked to see a M2 mini with unusably little RAM / storage at a fictive pricepoint.
Except it won’t be that… at all.
It’ll be an M2pro in the body of a product only meant to support an M2.
It also will have less ports than the Mac Studio, and none of the benefits of a MacBook Pro, like a built in 120hz mini LED display, keyboard, trackpad, battery, WebCam…
If you think there’s no point to this product, because the Mac Studio is better, you’re giving apple a reason to create it. To try to get more people to buy the Mac Studio.
Also, because of its lack of screen, keyboard, trackpad, speakers, camera, battery, I don’t think there’s going to be that many people choosing between this and a MacBook.
You are literally arguing that Apple won’t do what Apple‘s CEO is known for doing.
I said it before and I’ll say it again: I’d be super tempted by an iPad Air Product Red.
Nope, just MacBook Pros - the 14-inch + 16-inch variants with the M2 chips.
Apple, the company currently selling five different iPads, eight different iPhones, six different Apple Watches, two different TV boxes, four different AirPods, four different laptops…
Also, May I point out that the same argument was used right before the Mac Studio launched?
“ Apple would never introduce a computer between the Mac mini and the Mac Pro, it would cannibalize both.”
“Apple would never introduce a cheaper Apple Watch, it would cannibalize older Watch sales.”
“Apple would never give the iPad Air the M1, it would kill iPad Pro sales.”
The list can go on and on and on and on.
Every time Apple restructures a line-up people talk about what they will and won’t do, and usually they surprise.
The iPad Air 5 was rumored to get the A15, it actually got the M1.
So no, a M2pro Mac Mini is not impossible.
Things are weird right now, the industry is on a decline, but Apple’s Mac shipments have just gone up and up and up.
And it appears the way that they are going about this to continue the shipments increase is by trying to hit every single product price point possible.
M2pro Mac Mini? Sure.
15 inch MacBook Air? Why not.
Likely would be replaced by either an M2 with 24GB RAM or an M2 Pro with up to 32GB RAM.
Unless they want to keep an Intel box around for a while longer for people who really need to run Intel software (like Windows)
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If they don’t need color, just get a B/W Brother laser. They are trouble-free, low cost, a cartridge last forever. We found that we rarely printed in color and the ink jets were expensive crap.
TL;DR:
- Apple following in the footsteps of Windows OEMs, like Lenovo and Dell.
I do appreciate your sacrifice. I have a similar role with Garmin, they hold of new watch releases until a week after I've purchased the older model.
We had thoughts about retaining the intel Mac Pro even after a AS Mac Pro gets announced, the same would apply for an intel Mac mini. Businesses have a lot of IT managed/licensed software and their platform retentions hinge on that.
Yes I of course could see Apple dropping intel Macs, but then that flies against their comments that they would continue to support them for years back when they started the transition discussion.
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So first the MBP was going to be October, then it was going to be March, then it was delayed into second quarter, and now it’s tomorrow?
I think the most recent delay report was from Digitimes, so it was extremely unreliable.
Back when some were asking about that, it was compared to earlier requests for a M1 Pro iMac. In that comparison the M2 only buys you slightly faster CPU/GPU performance and a 8GB RAM more. where as M1 Pro was double the unified memory bandwidth (100 GB/s versus 200 GB/s), supporting 32 GB RAM along with 10/16 vs 8/8 CPU/GPU cores. If Apple is going to update the M1 iMac they should go beyond a base M2 otherwise is just like the M1 vs M2 iPad Pro comparison.
I think it will be wind screen wipers on the new Apple Studio Display.Yea the auto polishing cloth
Also, even though it has only been out a year, the Studio ultra will be upgraded to be the new Mac Pro.
Whatever it is, I am hoping the announcement isnt a dud and there's an actual surprise in store.
