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Bloomberg: First Mac With Apple Silicon Will Be Announced in November
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I don't want to date it, I just want to compute on it.
(JK)haha well good luck computing it probably won't work as you expect. Just like a first date really????
Good points, and now you've got me thinking that it won't be just a single product, but at least 2. At least one low end MB/MBA, and at least one high end MBP.
I agree ~ and since they don’t have to organize press into a room, they can have these virtual events as often as they want.Makes total sense. Why mixing iPhones with Macs when they both need good spotlight. Spread it out and you have more media coverage overall
I think the first aMac deserves a separate, special event. This is a big deal for the Mac line, and it should gain them market share over time.
Why couldn’t they just put together ONE great event and announce all their new crop of products? Most of the last event was bloat, and not all of the products released shortly. Their hype machine has gotten beyond tiresome.
Good thing it is the 14th generation then.
Looks like I need to decide if I want a MacBook Air or MacBook Pro to replace my current laptop over the next month... I will wait a few years before switching to Apple Silicon
Would you really consider it first generation silicon? How different will it be compared to whatever A14X is? Enough to be considered first generation?
I'm sadly typing this from a first gen 2015 Macbook that has been sluggish since the day it was bought. Anything has to be better performing...
I still don’t believe the end goal is increased macOS marketshare. I think it’s more that they know the near future sees more and more folks comfortable with and choosing iOS/iPadOS. This is more so that, as the last few folks that like macOS stop buying systems, they can make more of a profit on each one as the sales decline.
Typing on a 2009 MacBook white............does everything I need it to do.
Started at 35nm and where are we now? Always astonishes me the technological advances. However, yes I consider this first gen silicon, unproven, going to have some issues if not with the silicon itself then in the application.
This is why I think it will increase their market share. We know iOS devices are clearly their largest market. But there are a lot of people that own these devices and still use a non-Mac (it would be interesting to see the actual stat).
What if the move to AS nudges these users to take the leap to a Mac? I see every iOS device user even more as a potential Mac user. And with the capability of iOS apps being able to automatically work on the Mac — the Mac instantly now has thousands of new apps available to use.
It will be neat to see how the Mac evolves over the next few years.
Only considering models from 2006, both new families and new designs:
- First generation of most Intel Macs (early 2006): 32-bit processors (late 2006 models were 64-bit apart form the Mac Mini which got there in mid 2007). This limited software updates as Mac OS X Lion required 64-bit in 2011. The support timeframe didn't improve much for later models until 2007 (iMac and MacBook Pro), Late 2008 (MacBook Air, Aluminium MacBook) or 2009 (MacBook, Mac Mini).
- First and second Mac Pro (2006, 2007) also had limited support in later Mac OS X versions. Third generation (2008) is where it opened up.
- First MacBook Air (early 2008) had limited software updates compared to its successor and was saddled with an obscure Micro-DVI connector for display output (later models had Mini DisplayPort, then Thunderbolt). Early models also had iPod hard drives as SSDs were still too expensive.
- 2013 Mac Pro redesign ("trash can") turned out to be a mistake and it languished without ever getting updated, until it was eventually replaced with the iMac Pro or 2019 Mac Pro.
- First Apple TV (2007) was a completely different design to all later models (based on a Mac rather than iOS devices) and had limited support. Apple TV 2 was somewhat limited in software updates; Apple TV 3 was a lot better.
- First iPhone (2007) was only supported for three iOS versions. Its successor (iPhone 3G) wasn't much better (and sucked badly when running iOS 4). The third generation (iPhone 3GS) had reasonable support and performance.
- First iPad (2010) was only supported for 2.5 years by iOS and was heavy. Its successor (iPad 2) was a much better design, and was supported for a lot longer.
- First retina iPad ("iPad 3" or "the new iPad" in early 2012) was superseded within six months and its successor had much better software support.
- First iPad Mini (late 2012) also had limited software support compared to later models.
- First Apple Watch (2015) only had 3.5 years of watchOS support and performs badly compared to the Series 1 (or especially Series 2 and later). Later models got at least five years of support.
I'm still enjoying my first gen 12.9-inch iPad Pro (2015), so first generations aren't always bad, and on average have been improving in the last few years.
I'll probably get an early Apple Silicon Mac to familiarise myself with the platform, but it won't be my primary Mac.
The problem with this line of thinking is that in the video from WWDC the hardware designers are saying that this would not be the case (not an iPhone in a desktop package) and that they needed to rethink ARM silicon for the desktop to adopt it to the more powerful needs of the desktop.
That's what I'm thinking. I kind of still want the 16" to be the first MacBook, so that it's the first to get a second-generation of Apple Silicone. I'd be overdue by then, but I could wait.
(But perhaps the last MacBook upgraded would be enough).
This is 10th generation chip from Apple since A4.
It's already pretty for many years.
Hope they could fix Big Sur first as it's not running very well right now and getting slower after each updates.
Maybe new Apple Silicon will run Big Sur better. Who knows.
Maybe they should release Big Sur first so people have time to get use to the system instead of getting a new Mac with a totally different UI and blaming changes on the apple silicon.
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I haven't jumped on that train - I suffered from massive problems with catalina and SMB shares up until a couple months ago, so I skipped the betas this time around.
None of the “like” buttons expresses properly “that’s your opinion, but I think you’re totally wrong”. A new processor is no reason to change the case.