Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of Apple Event Today, Apple Silicon Macs Expected to Debut

[ScreenSavers]

He he, just for fun: I found a photo of 2001 PowerBook G4 and Late-2019 16" MacBook Pro. G4 had been a super-king with those bezels in 2001!!!
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I have both of those

 

[darthbane2k]

I'm interested exactly because we've seen absolutely no leaks or rumours about these products. I hope finally, ***** finally there will be some industrial design updates too, that don't just involve bezel trimming.

If there were any design updates then we WOULD have seen leaks / rumours

 

[Deinocheirus]

Windows is a terrible joke in it's current form.

Lol I don't understand why people are so concerned about this. I've had every combination of boot camp and parallels for over 10 years and you know what? Meh. I just buy cheap windows PCs to keep my windows needs for development testing isolated, and gaming PCs for any real gaming. There is no reason to sully my Mac with that crap. I've never found it to be "the way" of doing it.

 

[darthbane2k]

Brave. I will wait for various reviews before I spend £2k on a new MacBook. I might sit out the first wave anyway and wait for the 14" redesign next year rather than make do with the current 13" chassis.

There'll always be a better next version on the horizon.

 

[James_C]

Windows for ARM is a thing. Microsoft wants to move away from Intel, just like everyone else.

That is not going to help as a BootCamp Alternative, as running current Native Windows apps written for PC Architecture as Apps have to be re-written for Windows Arm to work Natively, 32-Bit Intel Apps will work in emulation though.

 

[naturalstar]

Very strange that there are no leaks.

And I love that.

 

[Zdigital2015]

Goddammit. Still no design updates? They've gone from pushing the envelope to pulling it back to 10 years ago. -_-

The current 13” MacBook Pro was introduced in 2016, not 2010. What are you expecting from them design-wise? The current industrial design has distilled things down to the barest essence, there is little left to do with these shapes beyond the changing the amount of curve of the rectangle or a chamfer here or there, different vents, a different speaker grille look. Literally, there is little that can change that much.

 

[naturalstar]

In an unlucky bit of timing, I purchased an album on the iTunes Store just as Apple took everything down. So the downloads are still sitting there unfinished. Hopefully they'll complete when the store goes back up. I didn't think that Apple's entire purchasing ecosystem was tied together.

Think of how all the 12 Pro Max and Mini people feel right now.

 

[Alan Wynn]

Considering Blackmagic have just released their new Davinci Resolve 17, I’m hoping they didn’t mention compatibility with Apple Silicon because Apple will show it running at the event. If not then I may just buy a new MacBook Pro 16” as DR17 looks amazing and no way I’m waiting potentially months/a year for them to make it AS friendly. If Apple showcase DR running then I’m ready to buy today.

Willing to bet a lot of money that Blackmagic will have Apple Silicon support very quickly. I would expect it within a month after ASi Mac systems ship, if not at launch.

 

[DakotaGuy]

I'm surprised at the number of people who immediately want to order an ARM based Mac.

Unless people absolutely need it, I would wait for awhile to see if there are any major bugs with this major hardware redesign.

I think there are many people who have been holding out and don't want to buy an Intel Mac right now because if history teaches us anything this transition will happen quickly. Major software releases for PowerPC Macs was pretty much done after a couple years when the first Intel Mac was introduced. A lot of people don't want to spend money on something that will be obsolete in 24 months.

 

[2013.1]

I did not expect being able to order Apple Silicon Macs today.

 

[compwiz1202]

Again, this is nuts...IF they do not have something to order or pre-order....like they did with the first and second events..
Why shut down the store when you just add new pages for the new products that will be available to pre-order a week from now for example and then again, stores down

Agree why block iPhone orders if that is not the new item????

 

[compwiz1202]

No, thats the thing.......nothing to preorder...but the stores goes down for nothing

Even if there are, just block those items, not iPhones

 

[compwiz1202]

Not everything is about efficiency, not even at Apple. Sometimes companies keep some of their traditions. In this case I think it's a mix to prevent orders of other items, hype, and tradition.

I understand blocking orders older items, but there aren't anymore iPhones, so don't block those

 

[Attirex]

I'm all in for an ARM Mac Mini to replace my aging 2014 model.

So that's pretty exciting for....me.

And no one else. Yay.

 

[compwiz1202]

Great I can't buy a Hermes watchstrap now.

Yes so stupid to block products that will not be debuted

 

[ericwn]

First, let me ask you if you think the tv has room for improvement.

I sure has but most of my thinking goes in the direction of the interface which is only partially in hardware (remote for example).

 

[KenaiAndrews]

Hoping for updated A14Z iPad Pros.

 

[iapplelove]

lol I didn’t even know there was an event today

 

[compwiz1202]

The store's down for ~6 hours. Not the end of the world. You can still order from carriers. It's not like the Max/Mini just went up for initial sale last night.

But why not just block the items that are being upgraded. No reason to block iPhone/Watch items

 

[JetLaw]

No, thats the thing.......nothing to preorder...but the stores goes down for nothing

I didn't realize that they always took the store down regardless of whether there would be pre-orders that day.

 

[MrKennedy]

Don’t know why people say this. It’s not about that. It’s about devaluing your product.

Sure. But new products come out all the time, and it's not like Apple gear significantly decreases in value. 2020 pros still go for a pretty penny (used/refurb/3rd party retailer).

 

[DocMultimedia]

13in Air and I’m ordering.

 

[BeatCrazy]

But why not just block the items that are being upgraded. No reason to block iPhone/Watch items

Taking down the entire store probably serves two purposes.

1) They can do general maintenance if they need to
2) Helps with "anticipation" because we don't know what "other" things they made decide to update. Obviously it won't be iPhones, but maybe they're updating their accessories to include AirTags. It's a clunky experience if you're taking down 30% of the store. Just take the whole thing down, make it work right, then everyone has fun poking around when it comes back.

They've been doing it this way for years. I doubt they've lost any significant amount of sales with this approach.

If it ain't broke.....

 

[CrazyForCashews]

Looking forward to the 12” MacBook revival!