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DigiTimes: MacBooks With Mini-LED Displays May Be Delayed Until 2022
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I'd far rather Apple took the time to get things right than deal with flawed designs like the 2016 MBP all over gain for another 4 years...
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I'll survive if the 14 starts at 1699. Hoping to be able to keep it around 2k after upgrades.
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Folks, Apple did say the transition to AS was going to take two years.
Slow your roll.
Apple got out a fully-redesigned iMac, two (near) completely new iPad Pros, and re-gutted the Mini, MBA and 13-inch MBP.
This is a sad rumor, but let's wait until after WWDC to accept that we may have to wait a bit more for some of the remaining items.
Slow your roll.
Apple got out a fully-redesigned iMac, two (near) completely new iPad Pros, and re-gutted the Mini, MBA and 13-inch MBP.
This is a sad rumor, but let's wait until after WWDC to accept that we may have to wait a bit more for some of the remaining items.
Covid-19 was a success story in Taiwan & was one of the few countries where it hadn't taken hold. Unfortantly its taken off in Taiwan recently & as the M chips are manufactured at TSMC in Taiwan, delays could become inevitable.
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Taiwan was a Covid success story. Now it's fighting its biggest outbreak | CNN
Taiwan has imposed new restrictions including limits on gatherings in its capital as it battles its biggest coronavirus outbreak since the start of the pandemic last year.
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I am waiting for a new Pro model (14 or 16) but I really want it with that new miniLED display because I have waited 7 years to buy a new laptop and if I buy one I really want something that is fresh.
I am so glad this is a Digitimes rumour. Otherwise I would have believed it.
Apple is widely rumored to be planning redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models with mini-LED displays, but the notebooks may be released later than expected.
While multiple sources have indicated that Apple planned to release the new MacBook Pro models in the second half of 2021, including analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Taiwanese supply chain news website DigiTimes today claimed that the launch of MacBooks with mini-LED displays may be postponed until some point in 2022.
The full report has yet to be released, but a paywalled preview reads as follows:No further details are available at this time, but the full report should be published by tomorrow, and we'll update this post accordingly.
In early March, Japanese publication Nikkei Asia reported that Apple had delayed mass production of two new MacBook models from May or June until the second half of the year, which might be a factor behind the potential launch delay.
The new MacBook Pro models are expected to be powered by an improved iteration of Apple's custom M1 chip. In the event that Apple is facing manufacturing challenges with notebook-sized mini-LED displays, Apple could certainly update the existing MacBook Pro with Apple silicon this year as a stopgap, but it's unclear if the company would do so.
Article Link: DigiTimes: MacBooks With Mini-LED Displays May Be Delayed Until 2022
CPU-wise, yes. The GPUs on the higher-end 16" MBPs are significantly more powerful than the M1's, however.
This is the biggest question mark for me. I wonder if simply doubling GPU cores will exceed (or even match) an AMD 5600M.
I am in the same boat as you. Getting close to 10 years old. Works fine if I keep it plugged in. Do not want to wait much longer,
That, and the current memory limits. 16 GB in a Macbook Air or a 13" MBP, when the Intel versions it was replacing were also limited to 16 GB max, is not a huge deal. But 16" MBPs can be ordered with 64 GB, with (I am assuming) a large number of them bought with 32 GB.
16 GB is simply not enough for many pro workflows. And even though the unified memory architecture is faster, that 16 GB in the M1 Macs is shared across the CPU and GPU. The 16" MBPs all have dedicated graphics with their own pool of memory, making the limited amount in the M1 even more of an issue.
Oh yea the Magic Macs with the windows that don't move.
Meanwhile PCs have perfectly well functioning screens. Guess their Windows keep on moving randomly or they are all to be thrown away 'after a few weeks'
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Per the article
- Can’t do more than 60Hz
- More $
- Color reproduction is inferior (despite using the same Samsung panels, they got differing measurements per laptop maker)
- Screens only come in 4K resolution - and since laptops can’t push pixels at that res you’ll be gaming at lower resolutions (non-native resolutions looking lower-quality than native)
Great points all around.
I don't think they can move on from the 2019 16" meekly so they must have an answer for both memory & GPU coming.
COVID + Drought
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Taiwan, gripped by heatwave, hit by power cuts for second time in a week
Phased blackouts first hit the island, which major chip makers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing call home, on Thursday. Those cuts followed an outage at a plant in the southern city of Kaohsiung, worrying investors amid a global chip shortage
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If there's a right/proper calibratable HDR screen in either 16" M1 MBP or 32" iMac (versus non-calibratable iPad Pro screen), cash is ready I'm in...how ever long it takes to deliver. I'm so done with SDR video editing. 