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Apple Teases M4 Mac Announcements Next Week
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I can't even do it anymore -- I just follow updates on blogs/forums/socials
I give the MBA a checkmark over the MBP for not having a fan. I had been wanting a completely fanless computer since the 90s, and now that I have one, I'll never own a computer with a fan ever again, no matter how quiet...except when I have to, like my work laptop.
Unlikely but would love an updated Studio Display with promotion/120hz
Also curious about the USB-C accessories
Also curious about the USB-C accessories
Actually, I consider that the MacBook Air is solely passively cooled to be a major advantage. My daughter burned out a MacBook by taking it from her desk to work on her bed with the MacBook on top of the comforter. It was already running all out (editing videos) and suddenly blocking the air vents caused to to overheat before it could throttle down. The current silicon macbook air's solved that problem, no more air vents.
Knowing Apple if they did do this it would only be for MacBooks, iMacs, and Apple displays. I’m not saying it going to happen but I do notice the Mac guy is winking so maybe you’d have to wink to unlock or pay. Haha who knows
Actually, taking away the HDMI port on the Mac Mini is a big deal, because no HDMI port means a Thunderbolt port instead needs to be used for the display. Each less available Thunderbolt port on the Mac Mini is a big deal.
indeed
I've got till the 4th to return so I'm hoping we see how all the pricing shakes out before then
Wrong. If someone is dumb enough to block heat removal it does not matter whether it is active or passive heat removal being blocked. E.g. if your daughter put her comforter on top of a fanless device.
What did she do?
also,
is that a certainty?
is it not also possible that the m4 could just cost more?
I haven't bought a new Mac since 2012 and have been going the hackintosh route so haven't been following Mac pricing ups and downs very closely for years
I'm not sure what "full support" you need. (#1) You can run a full ARM-chip Linux setup on your M2 using virtualization (VirtualBuddy and Liviable are free, Parallels and VMWare Fusion cost money but add bells and whistles). There's a whole lot of ARM-based open source software available, and that virtual environment can even run many Intel-chip Linux programs because Apple makes Rosetta 2 available to Linux virtual machines. (#2) For full-speed native booting, the Asahi Linux project lets you boot Fedora, Ubuntu, and other ARM-based Linux and BSD operating systems, using tools that Apple specifically made for that purpose. No Rosetta 2 but there are workarounds even for that.
That makes no sense. MBP fans do not kick in unless a heavy load is applied, the kind of load that would make an MBA throttle. MBA-type usage of an MBP would have no fans kicking in.
The MBP speakers are amazing for a laptop. Well worth it if one ever watches movies or listens to music on the MBP. Even podcasts sound better. That said, I would love having a number pad on the MBP and would take a slight degradation of speaker quality to get it.
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It makes no sense to you, and that’s fine. I’m not going to buy a computer with a fan anymore.
A completely fanless computer was my dream machine for 30 years, and now that I have one I’m not giving it up. I’ll take the throttling.
Incorrect. It all comes down to the time required to throttling down the processor to impact the rising temperature. With a device with a fan, vital time is wasted trying to increase fan speed before actually throttle the processing throughput so the you enter a case of thermal run away. With a passive cooling, the only way to react is to throttle. So a passive device is less like to suffer catastrophic thermal failure. The disadvantage is passive devices will throttle performance more often and once slow down will take much longer to cooldown enough to return to full functionality. The point is to prevent permanent damage, not to operate over a wide set of conditions.
Apple Computer changed their name to Apple in 2007.
Not for me unfortunately. The iMac form factor is so much better.
I fully support your right to choose fanless. ;~) My point is simply that for most purposes M2 and above MBPs behave as if they were fanless; fans literally never kick in on my M2 MBP unless I hit it with a very heavy workload.
My prediction is:
- faster processors (M4)
- 16 gb ram
- 512 gb ssd
- faster WiFi (not the latest of course)
- faster Bluetooth (not the latest)
All will have the same form factor, same price!
As for the Mac mini: different dimensions but volume stays the same.
And of course a price increase for the Mac mini because they “changed” the form factor and it took them years and years and lots of R&D to do so 🫢
This is our best Mac line up yet and we’re thrilled to get this in the hands of our customers as soon as possible (read: we’re thrilled that we can fool our technically unaware customers to spend the maximum of money in our products we’ve put the minimum of effort in)
- faster processors (M4)
- 16 gb ram
- 512 gb ssd
- faster WiFi (not the latest of course)
- faster Bluetooth (not the latest)
All will have the same form factor, same price!
As for the Mac mini: different dimensions but volume stays the same.
And of course a price increase for the Mac mini because they “changed” the form factor and it took them years and years and lots of R&D to do so 🫢
This is our best Mac line up yet and we’re thrilled to get this in the hands of our customers as soon as possible (read: we’re thrilled that we can fool our technically unaware customers to spend the maximum of money in our products we’ve put the minimum of effort in)
"mac your calendars"
...for what time? "monday morning" is a wide window....particularly for a company in a different time zone from its east coast customers....
...for what time? "monday morning" is a wide window....particularly for a company in a different time zone from its east coast customers....
Im the fool who still watches them knowing to get underwhelmed.
After watching them I get angry at myself for wasting the time spent. And seeing the proof that even my low expectations were too high.
What a clown company this has become 😡
Why is Apple going to re-unveil the laptops that were already unveiled by the Russians?