Everything Apple Didn't Announce at Today's Event

[dwaite]

Maybe it's just me, but I get the feeling that Apple has all but abandoned AirPower.

They are not talking about it because they hate setting expectations and not being able to deliver. The rumors are that they had a heat issue and had to do significant redesign. If and when it's done, we'll know because it will be shipping/in stores.

Of course, the flip side of that is going years without a Mac mini update without a peep.
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I think all of the people who like the SE should just try out XR for 14 days before you do your rant again! I move from a SE to the XR Max and looking back, the SE craving was so silly now! Totally ridiculous idea still want a 4” iPhone dating back to 2011. I guess there are still a lot stubborn people with narrow, set in your ways ideas that will not move from 4” to how smartphones are being used. I know I will get a lot pushback from this post but that the way the technology trend is. Get with it! At least try it before going back on to ranting that you want a 4” iPhone. Open up your eyes and just see how many people are carrying small size smartphones. I would guess 5%!

If they were to come out with an SE 2, I'd hope they would shoot for something in the 5.3" range, which should be about halfway between the size of the iPhone SE and the iPhone 6/7/8. The TrueDepth camera system has to get smaller if it is to have a notch and not a forehead, though.

 

[Kiorr]

Due 2019, and Apple will call it "iPhone Nano"

And it will come in a iphone8 body

 

[producer26]

Not even Macrumors talk about Mac Pro any more. Just 3 lines saying we didn't get anything.Apple abandoned the Mac even if those numbers speak different

 

[macfan90]

My uneducated guesses at these products are:

iMac - speed bump only, Apple will just refresh the product line in another week or two.
iPad Mini - selling through stock this holiday season. It will either be discontinued or hang out like the iPod Touch.
MacBook - sit steady until Spring when they'll be a broader notebook refresh going into back to school promos.
AirPower - who the heck knows
AirPods - refresh in the Spring with slightly smaller form factor (less length on the Q-Tip).
MacPro - March (?)

I hope so. I’d take a speed bump 6 core iMac i9, larger SSD so I can stop doing fusion which lags, and better graphics.

 

[ErikMacBangrong]

Are smart covers dead? That'd be a shame.

I couldn’t agree more. And I believe there are a lot of people who like to see a performing iPad mini to follow up on work while on the road. Let’s hope this happens soon.
[doublepost=1541033310][/doublepost]I couldn’t agree more. And I believe there are a lot of people who like to see a performing iPad mini to follow up on work while on the road. Let’s hope this happens soon.

 

[mac_in_tosh]

They have a different process and goals than the rest of the industry, which also includes custom parts like the T2 chips and aligning support for new processors and video cards with the OS-level support they are also writing. It's not quite "throw parts in a beige case and ship it".

Just wondering how much influence Ive is having on the process since most pros are not concerned with how pretty the thing will look. They want a fast, reliable, expandable machine to run Mac OS. The more it is delayed, the more they will be moving over to Windows.

 

[TechGuy327]

I wonder if Apple will release new iMacs before the end of the year.

 

[NMSUballa]

Whew, I just bought a new iMac last week.

It would have been perfect timing if they did announce an iMac. You could return it and buy the new one.

 

[Manzanito]

Just wondering how much influence Ive is having on the process since most pros are not concerned with how pretty the thing will look. They want a fast, reliable, expandable machine to run Mac OS. The more it is delayed, the more they will be moving over to Windows.

Ive shouldn’t be allowed even to talk with the team developing the new mac pro. Let him stick to phones and watches, he has done enough damage already.

 

[Peperino]

I find it sad that $1200 is considered 'budget' for a notebook, especially one thats made from scrap and low-end components.

$1200.. pretty expensice for a low end, enty level disposable computer....

 

[ipedro]

People are disappointed that we didn’t get a sneak peek at the Mac Pro at this week’s event. I believe that we did. With its pro level I/O, the Mac Mini can be a truly modular Mac. A collection of Mac Mini like blocks could be stacked to add components and power to the main unit. An eGPU block housed in a Mac Mini-like enclosure is the first obvious addition. A block for storage is another. Multiple Mac Minis could be linked to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple performance. Add what power you need. Truly custom. Pros can have a stack of these on their desks or in a rack. An added benefit to individual units is that they’re thermally isolated. The GPU isn’t heating the CPU. It’s easier to control temperature when each major component is in its own case. Another is that the Mac continues to work if a block fails. Swapping out the defective block for a new one means little or no downtown for professionals.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

The Mac continues to work with its remaining blocks while your replace the defective block.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

 

[Detnator]

People are disappointed that we didn’t get a sneak peek at the Mac Pro at this week’s event. I believe that we did. With its pro level I/O, the Mac Mini can be a truly modular Mac. A collection of Mac Mini like blocks could be stacked to add components and power to the main unit. An eGPU block housed in a Mac Mini-like enclosure is the first obvious addition. A block for storage is another. Multiple Mac Minis could be linked to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple performance. Add what power you need. Truly custom. Pros can have a stack of these on their desks or in a rack. An added benefit to individual units is that they’re thermally isolated. The GPU isn’t heating the CPU. It’s easier to control temperature when each major component is in its own case. Another is that the Mac continues to work if a block fails. Swapping out the defective block for a new one means little or no downtown for professionals.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

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The Mac continues to work with its remaining blocks while your replace the defective block.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

I think this is an awesome idea in principle but I suspect it’s not reality. RAM and processor upgrades this way in particular don’t work particularly well because of the I/O required between them. Not just the speed of said I/O but literally the physical distance between them (both between ram and cpu and between multiple cpus etc).

So in practice I suspect this actually isn’t the future for the Mac Pdo.

Still, just about everything else probably could with thunderbolt 3 and who knows, maybe Apple has some real solution to the above.

Again, awesome idea and concept if it could work that way. I look forward to finding out.

 

[Manzanito]

People are disappointed that we didn’t get a sneak peek at the Mac Pro at this week’s event. I believe that we did. With its pro level I/O, the Mac Mini can be a truly modular Mac. A collection of Mac Mini like blocks could be stacked to add components and power to the main unit. An eGPU block housed in a Mac Mini-like enclosure is the first obvious addition. A block for storage is another. Multiple Mac Minis could be linked to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple performance. Add what power you need. Truly custom. Pros can have a stack of these on their desks or in a rack. An added benefit to individual units is that they’re thermally isolated. The GPU isn’t heating the CPU. It’s easier to control temperature when each major component is in its own case. Another is that the Mac continues to work if a block fails. Swapping out the defective block for a new one means little or no downtown for professionals.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

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The Mac continues to work with its remaining blocks while your replace the defective block.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

Maybe that was the original idea, but then they changed course and decided to design a real mac pro.
Reasons? If this was the new mac pro they would have said so, and they wouldn’t have made so much efforts to keep the cMP compatible with Mojave (firmware upgrades etc.) It would also explain why it takes so long for apple to design a friggin tower.

 

[DinkThifferent]

Will there be a price drop for the iPad Mini 4? Would be nice if they'd drop it to 329 as well... Maybe on November 7th?

 

[Jacoblee23]

I don't really mind that the 12" MacBook wasn't refreshed. My 2017 base model runs fantastic and I use it more than any other apple device I own with the exception of my iPhone XS Max.

 

[Bacillus]

Agreed. The Mac Mini was conceived as an entry-level Mac for almost everybody, with a starting price of USD 499 back in the day. Now that a maxed-out Mini costs almost 5000 Euros, it just demonstrates how much Apple has lost contact with the normal world.

This whole "event" was completely grotesque -- people around their sixties were presenting products for teenagers and were being celebrated and applauded like rock stars. If this had been a scene from a movie, nobody would have bought or even watched it. It's just surreal.

What you describe exactly is how Apple despised the corporate world (IBM, HP) in its 1984 movie.
Loaded guys celebrated by truckloads of clueless herds that lost their own will or identity.

 

[freezelighter]

I think all of the people who like the SE should just try out XR for 14 days before you do your rant again! I move from a SE to the XR Max and looking back, the SE craving was so silly now! Totally ridiculous idea still want a 4” iPhone dating back to 2011. I guess there are still a lot stubborn people with narrow, set in your ways ideas that will not move from 4” to how smartphones are being used. I know I will get a lot pushback from this post but that the way the technology trend is. Get with it! At least try it before going back on to ranting that you want a 4” iPhone. Open up your eyes and just see how many people are carrying small size smartphones. I would guess 5%!

If the XR is great for you, it doesn't mean its great for other people.
I can say the same about the huge, oversized, ridiculous XR.
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We don't stare at our phones ten hours a day so we're fine with a smaller screen.

I think its the main point of the smartphone development during last years.
I see people staring at their phones all the time - at home, at work, in restaurants, on the street etc.
Their screen time is like >20h a day.
Sick, addicted people with no real life - that's why a mobile device is growing to a size of a notebook screen now.

 

[RandomDSdevel]

Put me in with those still pining for 17" MacBook Pros to come back. (Not that it helps anything, but a man can dream…sigh. Confound it all, I might rather go to FreeBSD or something and use Wine than get stuck dealing with Windows's few current glaring issues or the maintenance costs of a Hackintosh, appealing as that last option might sound to me; I just don't think I'd have the time, which sounds like it'd be a lot more involved than the typical Unix-alike experience or my still-outstanding package-management problems even within the Apple ecosystem…)

 

[Wedlock]

My guess is that Apple will make the iMac update a silent one with updates in CPU, GPU, SSD and RAM.
They may even upgrade to 4 usb-c ports and have a space grey option next to the already available silver.

Time line may be towards the end of November when the new discrete graphics option for Macbook Pro becomes available.
We’ll see what happens but I hope a new iMac still comes this year.

 

[9081094]

People are disappointed that we didn’t get a sneak peek at the Mac Pro at this week’s event. I believe that we did. With its pro level I/O, the Mac Mini can be a truly modular Mac. A collection of Mac Mini like blocks could be stacked to add components and power to the main unit. An eGPU block housed in a Mac Mini-like enclosure is the first obvious addition. A block for storage is another. Multiple Mac Minis could be linked to double, triple, quadruple, quintuple performance. Add what power you need. Truly custom. Pros can have a stack of these on their desks or in a rack. An added benefit to individual units is that they’re thermally isolated. The GPU isn’t heating the CPU. It’s easier to control temperature when each major component is in its own case. Another is that the Mac continues to work if a block fails. Swapping out the defective block for a new one means little or no downtown for professionals.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

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The Mac continues to work with its remaining blocks while your replace the defective block.

I think that we saw the beginning of the introduction to the new Mac Pro.

While the idea is nice... but isn't this a very costly way to get more power? I mean.... not even one MacMini comes cheap...

 

[Detnator]

My guess is that Apple will make the iMac update a silent one with updates in CPU, GPU, SSD and RAM.
They may even upgrade to 4 usb-c ports and have a space grey option next to the already available silver.

Time line may be towards the end of November when the new discrete graphics option for Macbook Pro becomes available.
We’ll see what happens but I hope a new iMac still comes this year.

The non pro iMac won’t go space grey - not with the iMac Pro partly distinguishing itself that way. But here’s hoping the rest of what you said is true including the 4 TB3 ports.

 

[Wedlock]

I doubt it will stop Apple from doing a space grey option for the regular iMac.
Every other Mac (except Mac Pro ofcourse) has the option or is only available in space grey.

 

[ipedro]

While the idea is nice... but isn't this a very costly way to get more power? I mean.... not even one MacMini comes cheap...

To revise my prediction a bit, the Mac Pro could be a specialized block based on the Mac Mini footprint but taller for more powerful components and more room for cooling with modular blocks for a GPU, storage, PCI cards, etc.