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Apple's Online Store Down Ahead of WWDC Keynote Event

thadoggfather said:
seeing rumors the re-designed Air is going to still have M1

would that be a deal breaker for you guys? a re-packaged late 2020 Air in a new form?
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The first M1 Macbook Air had the new chip, but in the old case.

Now we're talking about a new case, but with the old chip. 🤣

That said... M1 is still great. Especially for the Macbook Air and where it fits in Apple's lineup. I still love my M1 Air.

thadoggfather said:
I would hope its an M1 extra at minimum or an M2 by now. Even with Apple Silicon being impressive
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Yeah I heard rumors of an M1 Plus or something.

If they aren't ready for M2 yet... surely Apple could have made some improvements to the M1 by now. Hopefully.

Only 2 hours and 13 minutes to go to see if we're right!

:)
 
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droman said:
I'm expecting the same, with the addition of hopefully seeing a new XDR display announced alongside the new Mac Pro. Maybe a M2 Mac Mini?

Doubtful of this: but it would be cool to see an Intel refreshed MP kick alongside an AS MP for a little longer. Still curious how Apple will scale an AS MP to a Xeon system but I guess we shall see.
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A final Intel Mac Pro with Ice Lake Xeon-W would be a great way to send of the old Mac Pro. I feel like Apple still doesn’t have good yields on the mini-LED display and are going to punt that until a formal ASi “Mac Pro” is launched in the Fall.

If an M2 mini and MacBook Air are actually launched, I’m all over them, but I really think we’ll be limited to just the MBA.

OR

The M2 is just a reworked M1 as has been speculated and Apple will introduce new MBA, iMac, Mini and iPad Pros all at the same time. I can’t see it, but maybe.
 
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Saladin12 said:
I work in the publishing industry and can actually say that this wasn't the fault of Amazon but the publishing company. Amazon gets information directly from a central system which publishers release information to. At my company we do this around 3 months before release but it can be done earlier or later. This can actually impact other retailers too that receive information from the centralised system.

Chances are someone in their marketing team (most likely as they handle the 'going to sale' elements) accidentally 'pushed' out the record - this has happened in my team - and there's literally no way to get it back.
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Thanks for the info. Yeah, I figured as much, but nonetheless it makes navigating Amazon quite annoying at times.
 
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Prepare to be disappointed. An iOS version that looks the same as every previous version, some warmed over m1 processor since the M2 isn’t ready, and an iPad OS version that doesn’t utilize 1/10th of the processing capability of the iPad Pro. Done. Save yourself 2+ hours.
 
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droman said:
Doubtful of this: but it would be cool to see an Intel refreshed MP kick alongside an AS MP for a little longer. Still curious how Apple will scale an AS MP to a Xeon system but I guess we shall see.
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They don’t need to scale to a current Xeon system, they just have to be faster than the current fastest Mac Pro, which shouldn’t be difficult. The only question in my mind is whether or not they consider 1.5 TB of RAM worth supporting going forward. If they only had 12 folks ever use that much memory, they may be fine just saying toodle-oo to that crew.
 
Michael Scrip said:
The first M1 Macbook Air had the new chip, but in the old case.

Now we're talking about a new case, but with the old chip. 🤣

That said... M1 is still great. Especially for the Macbook Air and where it fits in Apple's lineup. I still love my M1 Air.


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Good observations/points!

The M1 is so great... that I don't really feel compelled to buy it again :p
 
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Unregistered 4U said:
They don’t need to scale to a current Xeon system, they just have to be faster than the current fastest Mac Pro, which shouldn’t be difficult. The only question in my mind is whether or not they consider 1.5 TB of RAM worth supporting going forward. If they only had 12 folks ever use that much memory, they may be fine just saying toodle-oo to that crew.
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My guess is that the AS Mac Pro will have both the unified memory (up to 256 GB or more likely 512 GB), as well as expandable RAM via DIMM slots for those that need more.
 
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Justin L Franks said:
My guess is that the AS Mac Pro will have both the unified memory (up to 256 GB or more likely 512 GB), as well as expandable RAM via DIMM slots for those that need more.
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I agree... perhaps even some kind of "grand central" type macOS architecture to identify fast RAM (unified) vs. slow RAM (slotted chips) so that tasks that need fastest processing are held in unified and tasks that don't need fastest are processed in slotted. Maybe apps can request RAM type based on app need at the moment and the system then manages/decides what is processing in fastest RAM vs. what is processing in slotted.

Or maybe slotted functions like a very fast buffer that then shifts in and out of unified when the CPU cores are ready to address that data. Conceptually, that seems likely to be much faster than storing snapshots of RAM overload on the SSD and then loading that in when needed... a kind of "middle" speed vs. that approach.
 
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