Mass production of the chip itself is just one step in the supply chain. The A14 began production around this time last year for phones that went on sale in October/November.
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Apple's 'M2' Next-Gen Mac Chip Enters Mass Production, Expected to Debut in Redesigned MacBooks Later This Year
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Their loss.
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I'm looking forward to seeing the M-chips that go with discrete GPUs. Will they still have integrated graphics and switch between iGPU and dGPU based on workload and power a la the current MacBook Pros?
Or are we about to seeing some GPU-less M-chips that go all in on CPU performance? Exciting times!
Or are we about to seeing some GPU-less M-chips that go all in on CPU performance? Exciting times!
It is so interesting to read the various posts about the "low end M1" and the "beast M2" - that low end processor already beats the Core-i9 in the top end MacBook Pro 16 in many tests. How does that EVER count as low end? They can safely leave the "low end" of their existing lines there until Summer/Fall 2022.
The transition to M2 on the MBP 14/16 this Summer/Fall is going to be mind blowing (especially for Intel) and my bet is they cap it off in Spring 2022 with an M2X for the new Mac Pro to conclude their transition to Apple Silicon. These have to be dismal times for Intel and AMD. Sure explains the relentless and basically dishonest Intel/Microsoft ads trying to support Wintel machines (one of which I am writing this post on). Hopefully future posts will come from my MBP 14 in a few months...
The transition to M2 on the MBP 14/16 this Summer/Fall is going to be mind blowing (especially for Intel) and my bet is they cap it off in Spring 2022 with an M2X for the new Mac Pro to conclude their transition to Apple Silicon. These have to be dismal times for Intel and AMD. Sure explains the relentless and basically dishonest Intel/Microsoft ads trying to support Wintel machines (one of which I am writing this post on). Hopefully future posts will come from my MBP 14 in a few months...
Meh. Writing this on on my M1 MacBookAir. Hadn't been in the market for an air for years. But the fact that this blows away the Dell XPS I had been using for three years sold it to me.
The wife's Lenovo just up and died. (As they do these days, *sigh*.) And the only question I have for myself is should we buy another M1 now, or give her my M1 and in (3? 4?) months, get a new MBPro for myself with graphics power for... a ($500?) upgrade? (Optimistic?)
Or if it's twice as much money as an Air, maybe I'd be better off using the same money to get another Air and a better desktop.
There is a math in waiting for the next upgrade. But it depends on your need.
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Not to beat this horse again, but I saw a Photoshop of the new iMac with a black bezel and the thing looked so, so much nicer. I really dislike the pastels on the front, but even they looked pretty good with the black bezel. Everything just popped. I really think now that the problem most people have is this exact issue: the pastels + the white bezel don’t offer enough contrast. I do think they will look much, much better to people when seen in person, though.
Why do you want discrete GPU? Because of performance? If yes, consider new xbox chip, it is basically same as apple silicone M1, system on chip, just more GPU cores, more memory controllers. I would expect that apple will go this route. Maybe, chiplets in future.
Yes, it is a beaten horse.
But the question is whether that is enough of a dealbreaker that would prevent you from buying one...even if it had a wicked fast M2 chip?
So MacBook Air only comes in one size traditionally and it’s always the smallest version?
I think the M2 will be 8 high-performance CPU cores, 4 high-efficiency CPU cores, the 16-core Neural Engine and 16 GPU cores, all linked to 16, 32 or possibly 64 GB of system RAM. That type of power would make you wonder if you need a separate GPU unless you have extremely specialized apps.
Yes, the new one is not capable. The intel ones are configurable with 32 gb (or 64?) ram.
I am not comparing it to the original. Just like everyone did complain about minimal Air-Pro separation when they came out with m1. It's very simple.
They can get macos with better internals for less though if they don't board the pixel hype train.
Using a card reader doesn't require the camera to use any battery power. Ingestion can be done while the camera has another card in it and is taking more pictures. Different cameras have different USB interfaces: does it present the card like an external storage device so you can just access the files, or does it use the PTP protocol meaning you have to use software that supports PTP to import.
Intel's innovation department just read this story and then put in a call to Justin Long's agent to see if he's available to do another commercial about dongles, ports and touchscreens.
At one point Apple also offered an 11" MBA as well as the 13.3" MBA.
There's never been one larger than 13.3" that I'm aware of.
Or another Microsoft commercial with Gen Z kids saying that their underpowered Surface is better than a Mac because:
I CAN HAZ FINGER ON SCREEENZ
The rumor has no idea what chip architecture it is. It says tentatively known as M2, in other words, just making it up because they don't know what else to call it.
Clearly it is an M1 variant meant for the Pro machines.
Well, I doubt that. M1 = A14 variant which was released 2 months after iPhone
M2 = A15 variant so will most likely be released around the same time.
Apple will want to have it around similar schedule as iPhones as there would be no logic to have iPhone get A15 and then Mac would have to wait a long time. Nah, I don't see it like that.
In fact, if anything, as mac is more demanding I could see that Mac will get it first around summer (wwdc or so) and iPhone just 2 or so months later.
M2 = A15 variant so will most likely be released around the same time.
Apple will want to have it around similar schedule as iPhones as there would be no logic to have iPhone get A15 and then Mac would have to wait a long time. Nah, I don't see it like that.
In fact, if anything, as mac is more demanding I could see that Mac will get it first around summer (wwdc or so) and iPhone just 2 or so months later.
This thing is NOT going to be called M2. It’s NOT a successor to the M1. It’s a higher end model of the M1 generation.
People have been saying M1X and that’s just wild guess, but at least it makes sense compared to M2. Stop calling it that, it just confuses M1 owners as if their Mac will suddenly be obsolete even though this chip is not going to go into their M1 computers ever, much less in the near future.
People have been saying M1X and that’s just wild guess, but at least it makes sense compared to M2. Stop calling it that, it just confuses M1 owners as if their Mac will suddenly be obsolete even though this chip is not going to go into their M1 computers ever, much less in the near future.
No. It’s just a random name they made up. It makes zero sense than a new generation of CPU and GPU would come out so soon and debut on the Mac instead of the iPhone in September/October. Not gonna happen.