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I want magsafe. I will be doing heavy work now that MacBooks are capable of it.

Pretty sure magsafe has been rumoured to appear next year, starting in the redesigned MacBook Air, let‘s not get our hopes up for nothing. 🥺
 
Or they could take a leaf out of Sony's book and create a slot that can handle both. Like that in the Sony a7S III.

That isn't really both on the Sony. Sony use CF Express A while the industry use CF Express B. Canon and Nikon sell a lot more cameras than Sony, heck Canon can compare just one model to the entire Sony lineup. CF Express B in the standard used in pro cameras (replacing XQD, CF, and CFast) and a pro laptop if it has any slot it should be using the PCIe lanes on CF Express B.
 
Mine has crashed exactly one time on me in more than a year of everyday usage. What advantage does the MacBook Pro have over the air and over Windows laptops without the touch bar?
The M1X, more CPU cores, more GPU cores, more RAM and more storage. Better thermal design, better webcams.

Stuff that matters, not a silly touch strip.
 
99% percent of cameras still come with SD cards. SD cards are not going away. Apple probably did their research.

oh and I use SD. I bet a lot more people use SD than CFExpress.
I'd bet even more people daily use Micro SD rather than SD ... Drones, Action Cams, security cameras etc.
 
Honestly, what apple really needs to announce is a display for the mainstream. It’s crazy we hook our beautiful Mac laptops up to crappy plastic dells or Samsung. Amd the lg partnership was a bust.

(that, and a proper OS for the iPad.)

Yeah, spot on. I'm in the UK, and you can't even get the LG monitors here now.

But wasn't Jon Prosser hinting at 'Macbook Pro related' releases at WWDC in one of his recent videos? I took that to mean a display, but I'm probably tainted with wishful thinking.
 
14 or 16, hmm.

Id lean towards the portability of the 14 but a smaller screen from my current 15 may not be my preference. The 16 might be too much of a tank, as is the current model, but perhaps they can make it lighter and thinner due to M1.
 
14 or 16, hmm.

Id lean towards the portability of the 14 but a smaller screen from my current 15 may not be my preference. The 16 might be too much of a tank, as is the current model, but perhaps they can make it lighter and thinner due to M1.
The current 16" has the same footprint as my 2012 15", and is about half the weight. I don't think I'd ever describe it as a tank. Any thinner and I'd worry about its build quality.
 
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14 or 16, hmm.

Id lean towards the portability of the 14 but a smaller screen from my current 15 may not be my preference. The 16 might be too much of a tank, as is the current model, but perhaps they can make it lighter and thinner due to M1.

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 16 FOR SURE 💥💥💥💥💥💥​

 
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it is an WWDC for developers...
The conference is for developers, but keynote presentation that kicks it off goes out to a far wider audience, is one of maybe 3 big Apple press events in the year, and has frequently been used to launch new hardware. Especially when it includes new features that developers need to know about (which would inevitably leak).

Given that we’re halfway through a claimed 2-year transition period to Apple Silicon, the idea that the new MBP might appear now is hardly surprising. Apple doesn’t want to sell too many $1500 M1 machines to people who might otherwise buy $2500 MBPs.

Or, it might not. We all have fun speculating on rumours, but a few people here confuse speculation with facts.
 
There is really too many platforms to cover these days in WWDC. Covering iOS, iPad OS, Mac OS, Watch OS and TV OS, then having time to cover 2 completely new products that uses is new chip that has not been revealed. I just don’t see that happening.
 
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TL;DR become an Apple developer.

If you haven't considered becoming an iOS designer/developer, give it a chance. Swift is, without question, the most advanced language I have worked with in my 15 years of being a software developer. There is an intense learning curve for brand new developers, but you can start out with SwiftUI which is very intuitive. Apple has tutorials, but YouTube tutorials (like iOS Academy) can give you a more gentle introduction in certain topics. Apple's tutorials ramp up really fast.

If you like app design and find yourself kind of nitpicking over subtle design details, learning SwiftUI is definitely within your frontier. It's still code, but it's simple code. You just have to immerse yourself within it and stick with it for a few days straight. Once you accomplish something tangible and run it in the simulator and on a real device, something fundamental clicks, and you might find yourself hooked and far less intimidated if you have been before.
 
I guess we will have to wait until the end of the year for then High End iMac and Mac Pro.

Im very curious what Apple will do at the GPU level considering that is currently the main drawback of the M tech compared to Intel and AMD solutions.
 
My own take, based on nothing in particular: tease next week, release in the fall.

While I’m not in the market for these machines as my M1 MBA and Mini are fabulous machines, personally I could never ever go back to a macbook with a fan of any kind. The MBA has been an awesome experience. I’d rather be throttled than deal with that damn fan noise.
 
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I really hope that SD Card and HDMI won’t have a comeback to the MacBook Pro. Even as a photographer I am not using SD Cards anymore but CFExpress instead. And I‘d rather have an additional Thunderbolt 4 port instead of an HDMI connector. Not so sure about the Magsafe, but as long as I can still charge via Thunder I’d be fine with it.

I hope that SD card slot does come back. That would make a new Nifty Minidrive-like cheap and semi permanent storage expansion possible again.
 
Bring on the upgraded Mac mini. M1x OR?
I don't wanna spend $3500 Plus for another MacBook Pro. Arm or NOT.
really wander about the direction of macOS.
Microsoft comes out with a Brand New Windows 6/24.

So I only wanna invest lightly in the future of ARM.
 
There is really too many platforms to cover these days in WWDC. Covering iOS, iPad OS, Mac OS, Watch OS and TV OS, then having time to cover 2 completely new products that uses is new chip that has not been revealed. I just don’t see that happening.
iPadOS seems to see significant updates only on a two-year cycle, and tvOS rarely gets much mention at WWDC. So it's not that many.
 
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