As usual, you upgrade by selling your old device on eBay, and using that money towards a new one. The other method is handing it down to someone else. No fan, low power, low heat, SSD, that should all help with longevity.
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Apple's M1 Chip Brings Massive Battery Life Improvements for MacBook Air and MacBook Pro
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Well I am not happy, because only the Air has normal keyboard. You sound like my old manager, who still can't get over that developer work no longer needs top-level cpu performance in the age of build serves and cloud, however memory is more paramount than ever. It's already too bad, that for some reason they make two models with different storage, but for more ram you have to wait a month til they ship it from China.
Why would you call a three times faster CPU/GPU compared to intel i7 not impressive at all? I think there is a massive difference. Or is it just me?
For a fair comparison, you shouldn't compare portable devices and non-portable ones.
They won't go backwards, cause this is the low-end offering. But no, the RAM requirements are going to be the same.
3X faster CPU, yeah, that blows even my own expectations (criticized as optimistic or just idiotic by other members here) out of the water if true. I was thinking 50-100%. GPU, nah, that's too specialized for there to be a fair comparison.
The extreme is all those ASIC research projects that "are 100X faster than competitors" that aren't even built for the use case.
That is true when using the computer for average tasks. But it's not true when dealing with big files and/or 3D modelling. Sometimes 16 of ram just isn't enough, regardless the OS optimisation.
I heard the lady said one 6k monitor. But are we sure we can't connect more monitors with lower resolution?
It's fine to disagree. Maybe not 16-->32, but perhaps 20 GB? 24? I don't think that's unreasonable.
One 6k display in tech details page, it used to say for intels something like one 5k or 2 4k. For m1 it's just 1 6k.
edit:they must do something with this, at least allow two displays when the lid is closed. That's what I need anyway. I use one display vertically and one horizontally.
I think this is done for two reasons. 1) To meet a price point. 2) To allow to be fanless so heat is not generated much.
Apple doesn't control the 3P software you run on the Mac and especially not the RAM-wasting websites you visit.
Yeah, I read that, but it doesn't really say whether you can plug in more low res monitors. The intel version allows for 2 4K monitors to be plugged in, so I find it hard to believe that the new Macs can't. But I guess we'll just have to see once they're out in the wild
MacBook Pro - Tech Specs
See all the technical specifications for the 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips.
www.apple.com
“Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display at millions of colors and:
One external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz”
I am not sure where you get that from, but in a lot of use cases the RAM requirements don’t actually change that much - one of the reasons that you can find so many computers with 8 or 16GB around the last 10-15 years.
And iPads have even less RAM and that works out well for plenty people too. Not that these would be iPads of course, but nicely played.
That’s probably true. But those are the oldest intel and Apple arm devices I have. In fact, I think the A4 was the first Apple-designed chip.
Because it's made by Apple, of course
I was explaining the news of the keynote to my non "techie" friends and all they could came up was trashing Apple: they couldn't care less about perf improvements, battery or anything else. Funny thing is most of them own iPhones.
just buy intel version and connect as many monitors you wishYeah, I read that, but it doesn't really say whether you can plug in more low res monitors. The intel version allows for 2 4K monitors to be plugged in, so I find it hard to believe that the new Macs can't. But I guess we'll just have to see once they're out in the wild
It will be interesting to see side by side performance with the Air and the Pro. Supposedly the exact same CPU & GPU but I suspect the air will be thermally throttled because it has no fan?So, the only things that make the Pro a Pro are the touchbar and more weight? I can't imagine someone saying, yeah I really want a touchbar and I'm willing to pay $300 for it... and I really prefer a heavier laptop.
Unlikely with a screen that is more than 20% larger than the 13 inch.
But it’s going to be impressive nevertheless.
