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Yeah in which case the current hardware product model still works (Intel/AMD)... I doubt Apple will invest any significant time reengineering Intel Macs with AMD. They will still have poor cooling systems etc.

As for AMD for Apple Silicon, I’m curious if Apple prefers that partnership or they prefer to do it themselves.

Then that brings the question to my mind. Does Apple care about ray tracing? Will we see hardware ray tracing in mobile Apple products? Will we see Apple hardware ray tracing in their desktops? With Apple so card behind Nvidia and AMD in the ray tracing game I wonder if they can even get into it.. What patents is Apple not able to license vs what do they already have patented in the ray tracing game.
Ray tracing was explicitly called out in some of the WWDC sessions, I think there was one explicitly about implementing it.

Edit: yup
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10012Check out Discover ray tracing with Metal from #wwdc20
 
Ray tracing was explicitly called out in some of the WWDC sessions, I think there was one explicitly about implementing it.

Edit: yup
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10012Check out Discover ray tracing with Metal from #wwdc20

Right software based ray tracing. So wonder if that is a hint for hardware based support in the future... It probably doesn’t make sense to have hardware based ray tracing in the mobile products (phones and computers) for at least 5-6 years. Hopefully desktops will get it though.

And I could be wrong about the need for hardware based ray tracing. Maybe their neural engine can do that job.
 
Apple Back To School discounts are valid until end of September therefore announcing any silicon MacBook model in the middle of the month is very unlikely.
 
Right software based ray tracing. So wonder if that is a hint for hardware based support in the future... It probably doesn’t make sense to have hardware based ray tracing in the mobile products (phones and computers) for at least 5-6 years. Hopefully desktops will get it though.

And I could be wrong about the need for hardware based ray tracing. Maybe their neural engine can do that job.
I’m pretty sure they’ve explicitly called out hardware support for ray tracing as well, that’s gonna take a bit more digging than I can do right now at work.

They’ve been talking it up at wwdc for a few years now, I can’t imagine it won’t be built into their upcoming GPUs.
 
Ray tracing was explicitly called out in some of the WWDC sessions, I think there was one explicitly about implementing it.

Edit: yup
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc20/10012Check out Discover ray tracing with Metal from #wwdc20

Well that sounds very good for Apple products, I am excited. But Apple bakes everything on one chip, the processor and the graphics GPU. So you have to have something until you can move over all products to your chip integrated hardware platform. You don't tell your customers that you have to wait a year or two before we can give you a new Mac product. If they did that they would lose a year or two of sales as people waited to upgrade. That is a lot of money lost.
 
I’m pretty sure they’ve explicitly called out hardware support for ray tracing as well, that’s gonna take a bit more digging than I can do right now at work.

They’ve been talking it up at wwdc for a few years now, I can’t imagine it won’t be built into their upcoming GPUs.

I know what they have right now- the Metal Performance Shaders- just code that uses the GPU to do ray tracing calculations. But it’s not ray tracing specific hardware which is what AMD and Nvidia have right now. No Apple ARM products have that yet.
 
Apple Back To School discounts are valid until end of September therefore announcing any silicon MacBook model in the middle of the month is very unlikely.

It would be a hey here is what’s coming in December. I doubt Apple will have another live streamed event just for Apple Silicon Macs... This event must be it. They also wouldn’t just update their website with hey here are Arm Macs. They need to tell people why they want Arm Macs over Intel in the event
 
not overly bright to not just use „series“ without the numbers.

I think it would have been a giveaway either way.. Just use Apple as a keyword... People search Apple Watch... Not Watch Series X or Series X. Apple keyword could have been enough. Or just add keywords after the event. Maybe this was intentional of Apple. I wonder if they did it before on their YouTube Live Stream links.
 
appleeventkeywordsmetadata-1.jpg

I did the calculation and without the new iPhone, this whole event will be only 30 mins long.
 
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The watch may be the only thing I but this year. Don't need an iPhone (or any phone this year) but even then, my series 4 still lasts me nearly two days and I bought it a year ago in April.
 
Frankly this looks more like a kitchen sink of apple keywords to work with googles SEO. But, also pretty sure we’ll get/see AW 6 next week.
 
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I don't get it why everyone is shocked by the metadata specially for Watch Series 6?

Each year Apples releases new updated products and it should not be a surprise.
 
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