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Apple Tested a MacBook With the A15 Chip
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So much energy put into the consumer side - which I fully understand the math. Still, as what now feels like a dinosaur of a creative pro that cut his teeth on PowerMacs, it’s kind of sad watching Apple’s pro ambitions wither. Was an epic run - and why Apple is where it is today: the creative pros. So wild to think of 1990s Apple vs today’s Apple. Almost unrecognizable. Not actually complaining - just feeling sentimental on this Wednesday. Apparently. 😁
I think this may have been a very low-cost MacBook running a stripped-down version of MacOS 18. But that was dropped in favor of a somewhat more expensive MacBook running the A18 Pro SoC with 16 GB of RAM instead.
The Mac Studio Max and Ultra, the M4 Pro/Max Mac Book Pro, soon to be M5, and the M4 Pro mini is withering? 2013-2019 was withering…this is revitalization. if you’re still missing the 2006-2012 Mac Pro it’s time to say a final eulogy and move on. I have a 2008 sitting in a box in my closet and I have zero practical use for it at this point. It was big, heavy, consumed a ton of power and heated up a room to boot. I get how there are still edge cases for the Mac Pro now, but that giant box is done and it’s not ever going to have the same glory it did in 2010.
Why would Apple create another fork of macOS to maintain an update on an annual basis? Everyone here in this thread really needs to take a breath and just wait until it’s released. You’re all giving your anxiety for no good reason.
This would be great for my BH, since she mostly uses browser based apps. Looking forward to it.
This also bodes well for devices (iPhones and iPads) using the likes of A18 chips in terms of longevity.
This also bodes well for devices (iPhones and iPads) using the likes of A18 chips in terms of longevity.
It may be a step down from M-series, but I could see them slightly clocking up the A-series in a MacBook chassis such that the single core speed of the A19 matches single core of the M5 (afaik their core architectures are the same). You'd basically just have half the cores, graphics, and memory specs, but most basic web or otherwise single/dual core workloads could potentially be just as fast as on the M5... which is to say, world-beating levels of snappy. If they can work in even just 12GB of RAM, at the right price, it could end up being hugely popular.
I don't think you need to worry about that. I haven't seen that posted anywhere as something Apple was testing. It seems to come up on every thread about the low cost macbook, but it seems like it's something that users are speculating might be the case, but without any evidence. It seems like a bad idea with no real upside for Apple, and I doubt they would cripple it like that.
I appreciate your personal opinion and lifestyle advice, but my original question was: Is there a credible source for this part of the rumor?
To be honest, when I first heard that an A-series chip would be in there, I thought of some kind of iPad Hybrid: Macbook chassis, but iPadOS.
Or, just take a MacBook Air & put the same amount/types or ports the MacBook Pro has on it & slash the price. That would seem the most cost effective option for Apple.
If they wanted to do that, they could still use M-series chips. The iPad Pro uses M-series and it's still locked down. The Developer Transition Kit used A-series and it wasn't locked down.
Not saying that they wouldn't produce a cheap locked-down Mac (in which case, time to switch to Linux because the rest of the Macs would soon follow), just that it has nothing to do with the choice of chip.
"App store only" is already an option in MacOS - If Apple were inclined to, they just need to remove one checkbox in system settings to enforce it. No new hardware needed.
This has been common knowledge since the launch of Apple Silicon. Developer units were Mac minis running on an A12 chip.
Yes. I want a nice, bright yellow. Oh, and make it 11-12” max. Please and thank you.
Did the $329 iPad run a cut down version of iOS?
This Mac is called Mac17,1, was found in macOS code. No reason to believe otherwise.
To delay something there needs to have been an announcement, was there an announcement for an Apple TV?
Lol me when I initially got a Macbook Pro with an M2 Pro and traded in for an Air and am doing just fine.
What exactly is the difference between the A-series and M-series of chips? It'd be a lot easier for Apple if they just had a single line of chips, right? I'm under the impression they have the same op-codes so... is it just a differing core-count? or do they run at different frequencies? Different amounts of cache/registers?