I wonder if they’ll surprise us by adding a touch screen and allowing it to fold all the way around into tablet mode. Would make sense, with it being able to run iPad apps. I know Apple keep saying touch screen on laptops is a bad experience but I think they’re full of crap.
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Bloomberg: First Mac With Apple Silicon Will Be Announced in November
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I was hoping for 14 inch MacBook Pro, but makes sense to start with low end MacBook 12 inch
Apple didn't become successful by taking unnecessary risks. Not to mention money doesn't necessarily buy the best engineering.
Even with all the money in the world, Apple still relies on Broadcom for Wi-Fi, Qualcomm for modems, and Samsung for displays.
We've already seen the battery for the upcoming MacBook Air. It's exactly the same shape as the current model. I wouldn't bet on a new design for this year's MacBooks.
I'm in the market to replace my mbp15. It was either going to be a 16 or an MBA i3 with 16gb of ram, since I have a big box for docker etc now. The apple box may be perfect, if it's cheaper then the mba. It's almost but not quite a remote terminal.
They can't even deliver the pro phones till mid November. So this is expected. Guessing December ships on these.
Except they weren't, that was almost a decade earlier.
Not going to happen.
If it comes to the 16" gonna have to buy up a bunch of the intel versions for the company until theres a solution for virtualizing windows.
Ironically, I’m going dual boot for the first time in the near future because I finally need software that is Windows-only.
Timing is not really surprising.
I would expect the first AS Mac to be more of a “consumption” device vs “creator”. They’re gonna have to sort a lot of things out and this is different than the Intel transition, Intel was a known entity back then, AS is new for computers (I don’t consider iPads as computers in this context)
I would expect the first AS Mac to be more of a “consumption” device vs “creator”. They’re gonna have to sort a lot of things out and this is different than the Intel transition, Intel was a known entity back then, AS is new for computers (I don’t consider iPads as computers in this context)
I am interested. I have gone full iPad Pro for my workflow and really have no reason to change, but I am interested in the performance/form factor with an Apple chip and hopefully (I haven't tried) a better macOS. The last I used was High Sierra and it was a terrible experience.
Wouldn't bother responding to Theyayarealivin, their main goal is to be the very first low effort reply and then move on to the next post.
Watch and wait for the Mac(s).
For my personal use, I can wait.
For work, may have to pick up a PC after all (If BB has a really good sale on the Asus Zephyrus G14 this Tuesday I might finally cave).
For my personal use, I can wait.
For work, may have to pick up a PC after all (If BB has a really good sale on the Asus Zephyrus G14 this Tuesday I might finally cave).
You are right here, but I am thinking when it comes to their own chips (huge deal), they'll want to come out with a futuristic vision/design and show that off.
The core internal ISA of the Nvidia GPU shader cores has changed several times over the last couple decades.
How many of those were severely limited, untested hardware?
Or did most games just run faster after a few bug fix releases?
Would be really nice if Apple comes out with a space gray 5k Display to go with the new ASi MacBooks.
I'm expecting new names, just as with the transition to Intel (bye bye PowerBook/Power Mac/eMac, hello MacBook/Mac Pro/iMac). Maybe it'll be as simple as "MacBook AS" or "AS MacBook," but it could be something entirely different. The question is to what degree Apple wants to say, "This is different." The greater the distinction they want to make, the more likely it'll be a series of all-new names.
Will the first AS portable be similar in configuration to the 12" MacBook? Very likely, but I suspect it'll have an all-new name. They probably don't want it to be associated with the under-powered CPU the first generation of MacBooks were known for, and hopefully it'll have more than one USB-C port - both good reasons to disassociate with the MacBook name.
That’s Mac Nano to you sir