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Apple Rumored to Have Product Announcement Tomorrow

Kiteskip said:
The Apple Store for Enterprise website is showing "Be right back." I notice that the main Apple Store is not showing this currently.

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Here is a wild theory: The new MacBook Pros are to be sold only to enterprise customers, not consumers. Hence why the B2B portal is down, and not the consumer Apple Store website !
 
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iPad mini with ProMotion ?
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So I had my money to go on a spec'd up M1 Mac mini (16GB, 1TB SSD). I held out for an M1 Pro thinking I can just about stretch to the extra that would cost based upon my estimates. My guess is that an M2 mini, should it come, is going to be above or the same as what I was prepared to go to on the M1 Pro, and that the M2 mini Pro be close to what an M1 Max Studio would cost. I bet it will STILL came with 256GB base storage, have reduced speed SSDs like the M2 MBP did and be hobbled in other ways to separate it from the Studio. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking to replace their mid to top tier iMacs with something more affordable than a reasonably up-spec'd Studio at £2,500 or so. I don't know how much longer I can wait.
 
dazzer21-2 said:
So I had my money to go on a spec'd up M1 Mac mini (16GB, 1TB SSD). I held out for an M1 Pro thinking I can just about stretch to the extra that would cost based upon my estimates. My guess is that an M2 mini, should it come, is going to be above or the same as what I was prepared to go to on the M1 Pro, and that the M2 mini Pro be close to what an M1 Max Studio would cost. I bet it will STILL came with 256GB base storage, have reduced speed SSDs like the M2 MBP did and be hobbled in other ways to separate it from the Studio. I'm sure I'm not the only one looking to replace their mid to top tier iMacs with something more affordable than a reasonably up-spec'd Studio at £2,500 or so. I don't know how much longer I can wait.
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If you have a device with M1 processor already, the only reason to upgrade to something with M2 is if you want more than the 16gb limit and you want to do multiple 8k video streams. When I was at the Apple store, the M1 processor was struggling a little bit with 8k video - but the M1 Pro/Max did a lot better.

The M2 Air and Pro now goes up to 24gb memory which gives you a bit more headroom if you are doing VM's. I have the MacBook Air with 16gb memory and 1TB SSD but after using it since 2021, I am finding that I need more memory for having more than 2 VM's open at a time - and because i want the extra ports, I am going with MacBook Pro M2 Max with 64gb memory and 2TB SSD.
 
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chucker23n1 said:
You’d have bought a machine with an M1 Pro but just 16 Gigs of RAM?
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At $1300? Or $1700 with 32GB? (which were always plausible price points - and now we know). Quite possibly.
And the 12 CPU/19 GPU M2 Pro Mini with 32GB at $2000 is sure going to cannibalise the $2000 Studio!
 
theluggage said:
At $1300? Or $1700 with 32GB? (which were always plausible price points - and now we know). Quite possibly.
And the 12 CPU/19 GPU M2 Pro Mini with 32GB at $2000 is sure going to cannibalise the $2000 Studio!
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I guess needs differ. One of the reasons the M1 wasn’t good enough for my needs was the RAM limit, so I waited for the Pro.
 
theluggage said:
At $1300? Or $1700 with 32GB? (which were always plausible price points - and now we know). Quite possibly.
And the 12 CPU/19 GPU M2 Pro Mini with 32GB at $2000 is sure going to cannibalise the $2000 Studio!
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Which, of course is fine with Apple. Every Apple hardware product Apple sells opens a user up to additional software and services sales, regardless of price. Plus, desktops are low sellers for Apple (even thought they’re selling “better than ever”), so churn from one desktop product to another is likely a rounding error on the balance sheet :)
 
ApplesAreSweet&Sour said:
Agree 100% because of how Apple always avoids cannibalizing sales of older products (unless they are no longer sold on apple.com when the new one launches):

Sales of both M1 MBA, M2 MBA and 14" MBP would suffer dramatically if Apple cannibalized these Mac by launching sub $1999 M2 Pro mini.

Who'd buy an M1 MBP or M1 Max Mac Studio at $1999+ if you could get an M2 Pro equipped Mac mini at for something between $699-$1999?

In this economy??!?! (sorry, I had to🤣)

To avoid interferring with Mac Studio, M1 MBA, M2 MBA and M1 Pro 14" MBP sales, a M2 Pro mini would have to start a good bit above $1999 for the base configuration. That doesn't make sense when consider the usual array of ports, cooling, RAM configurations, etc., of previous minis.

The $1999 step on the Mac price/value ladder belongs to Mac Studio and MBPs, not Mac mini. Mac mini is sub MBA M2 pricing and will be spec'ed accordingly.

Yes, we consumers would benefit tremendously from a sub $1999 M2 Pro equipped mini. I'd pre-order it this instant.

But what are the odds that Apple is going to disrupt and make a healthy portion of its best-selling Macs semi-obsolete?

The next mini is at best going to be an M2 MBA "in a box, with more ports and better cooling", just like the M1 mini was to the M1 MBA.
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It's always the people with the worst takes that are full of confidence. 🤣

The M2 Pro Mac Mini existing at some point was obvious (because of the Intel Mini still sitting in the lineup), they just hadn't gotten around to it yet. Apple isn't the least bit concerned about it interfering with other products. Someone who wants a laptop isn't going to buy a Mac Mini. 🤣
 
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If they squeeze this in now I am confident that we see the 3nm MBP before the winter and before university starts.

P.S. having just read Kuo's prediction they might need more time...
 
Mega ST said:
If they squeeze this in now I am confident that we see the 3nm MBP before the winter and before university starts.

P.S. having just read Kuo's prediction they might need more time...
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Apple doesn’t have to rush with anything anymore. Whatever they put out whenever they put it out will be the fastest Mac in that form factor. It’s not like anyone’s going to beat them to the punch and ship a faster Mac (like back during the clone days).
 
djphat2000 said:
Can't say I'm believing him on this. If it was anything major (M2 pro/max/ultra) in any device. I would expect something more than a press announcement. So, I'm going with a M2 Mac Mini. And maybe an M2 MacBook Pro.
An actual event in March to me sounds more likely for a Pro/Max/Ultra on 3nm. WWDC for any VR/AR headsets and a Mac Pro Ultra/Xtreme type SOC.
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Yeah! More than a press release. :) But, they did release Pro and Max.
And by press release I literally meant a nicely worded PDF. They did a presentation!!
 
Realityck said:
While I see a revision to the rushed 13" M2 MBP model (only 720P FaceTime camera/old speakers) it seems this could just be an update to the original group of M1 Nov 2020 products with little fanfare. The M2 MBA should be the only product soon as the M1 MBA runs out of stock. (its only available in one model with 8-Core CPU/7-Core GPU)
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this comment did not age well 😂 (no hate my guy)
 
If they update the Max, I would be overjoyed if the only change were a (USB-C) charging port instead of the stupid case.
 
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