Might bite the bullet and get an M2 Air (if released) to replace my late 2008 MacBook Pro.
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Just give me the Mac Studio please - with a handle. MacbookproM1Max still not quick enough for large CAD stuff / rendering.
In which case, I'll have the Studio in a small box, maxed out.
I'm excited...
The 8th I see what I can't afford and the 9th my new watch bands arrive. Awesome month!!!
The 8th I see what I can't afford and the 9th my new watch bands arrive. Awesome month!!!
Once they pay off the credit cards, the headaches tend to go away. Worked for me...
EDIT: But on a serious note, I have heard of people not playing well with flat screens. I get it. The first generation was really bad, and some brands used such cheap screens they made my eyes cross. I think the screens have gotten so much better, I hear less people complaining about them, but I'm sure some still have issues with them. I don't know what they do. Use an external tube monitor? Even tube monitors have gotten so much better than the early days. (Who remembers the yellow screens, and irritating green screens?) I remember a $60,000 IBM 'monitor' that was over 3 feet square, but looking at it for more than a few minutes was tear producing. When big is just 'big'.
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Maybe a 18" MacBook Pro (Studio...?) that can handle dual M1 Max SoCs...?
16" M2 OLED iPad Studio & Apple Pencil 3...?!?
Mac Studio (aka Cube 2.0):
- Dual M1 Max SoCs
- 20-core CPU (16P/4E)
- 64-core GPU
- 32-core Neural Engine
- 128GB LPDDR5 RAM
- 800GB/s UMA
- 8TB NVMe SSD
- Dual 10Gb Ethernet (RJ45) ports
- (6) Thunderbolt 4 / USB 4 (USB-C) ports
- (4) USB 3.1 Gen 2 (USB-A) ports
- HDMI 2.0 port
- 3.5mm headphone jack (same DAC from 2021 MBP w/auto-switching high/low impedance)
- Space Gray
- US$6999
The Mini LED panels, just like the 2021 MBP laptops...?
So WWDC on the 27" iMac & who knows with a ASi Mac Pro...?
"We're projecting some serious working horsepower for our professional users in the high-end of our all-new Mac Silicon line-up...! But for our long-time Mac Pro users with a continuing software need for Xeon CPUs and discrete graphics, we are going to keep the Xeon Mac Pro around awhile longer...! So here's (insert AppleDrone here) to go over the refreshed Ice Lake Mac Pro, for 2022 and beyond...!"
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Oh, you have no idea how wildly unreasonable my expectations can be.
Which are something not even remotely needed or wanted in a consumer product.
Larger OLED M2 iPad Pro with Apple Pencil 3 and Magic Keyboard 2...?!?
A new monitor plus more powerful Mini seem like they'd go together well. What would be pretty exciting for me because that's likely my next setup.
I find the entire idea of a 13" MBP to continue to exist with the M2 to be a really, really weird thing. Hoping for a bit of a shocker there. The Air seems to make way more sense.
I find the entire idea of a 13" MBP to continue to exist with the M2 to be a really, really weird thing. Hoping for a bit of a shocker there. The Air seems to make way more sense.
Cook has never struck me as the kind of guy who wants to put his own design stamp on anything. One of the things that seems to fuel his success is leaving design and product up to other people.
I think Apple as a whole really fell a bit too hard into form over function and it was spearheaded by Ive. Craig Federighi made an interested comment when they talked about the redo of the Mac Pro and kinda said, "We were just wrong about where this was going."
I also think that era gets more hate than it deserves. The keyboard was a disaster. The thermals were a disaster. The TouchBar was... interesting (I prefer it, but not enough to shed any tears over it leaving). I did and still love kicking the industry into the USB-C era. USB-C charging from all ports, all Thunderbolt, etc.
My laptop is a 2020 and the updated keyboard really made a huge difference. (The thermals still suck though and that's pure design arrogance.)
I'm cautiously optimistic at this point. It's one of those rare times where the rumors have become so contradictory and sporadic that it's anyone's guess. I was hoping for a new high-end iMac, then lowered expectation to just an iPhone SE, iPad Air, and Mac mini with an M1 Pro/Max. Now I'm getting hyped for a new display, iMac, "Mac Studio," etc.
This will either be my favorite event in a long time or a bitter disappointment. I'm just looking for an upgrade to my 2017 iMac in whatever form that takes.
This will either be my favorite event in a long time or a bitter disappointment. I'm just looking for an upgrade to my 2017 iMac in whatever form that takes.
I think this in-between MacBook Pro is going to exist until Apple is able to bring the 14" MacBook Pro down to $1,399 or so. They seem to really want a product to sit in-between the $999 MacBook Air and $1,999 MacBook Pro. I wish that product could simply be a specced-up MacBook Air rather than splitting/deprecating the MacBook Pro brand.
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The desktop is much more interesting. My 2017 iMac was my first Mac desktop and I've really liked the all-in-one and have been eagerly waiting for it's replacement, but I'm finally now faced with that wasteful feeling of having a perfectly great 5K display that becomes useless and tossed out. This is only really making me think now because I'll soon need a laptop for work and don't want to have to buy a separate display for it. The fact that I can't use an iMac as a dumb display makes it so much less flexible.
An Apple display + Mac mini for personal + MacBook for work seems like a much more rational combo.
I feel like the iPad Pro has a pretty established 12+ month cycle:
- March 2016 - 9.7" iPad Pro (completes lineup)
- June 2017 - A10X update - 15 months
- Fall 2018 - A12X update - 18-ish months
- March 2020 - A12Z update - 18-ish months
- March 2021 - M1 update - about 12 months
M2 iPad Pro in the Fall alongside M2 14" MacBook, (new smaller design) M2 Mac mini, and M2 24" iMac makes sense...?
Yes, Apple's performance has been truly shockingly bad.... a trifling $2.66 Trillion market cap...pffftt... /s
That is the trick. Almost no one except strangers buy M1 MBP 13 as of now when we have Air. With M2 MBP 13 for $1300 might draw attention of the people that settled for M1 Air. I am looking to update my M1 8GB Air to 16GB Air but it makes no sense. It could make sense to jump on M2 MBP 13 with upgraded 16GB of Ram.
Perhaps - except for the 14" MacBook. If you're referring to a MacBook Pro, I don't see Apple having a 13" MacBook Pro with an M2, 14" MacBook Pro with an M2, and then a 14" and 16" MacBook Pros with Pro/Max series.
While Apple may drop the "Air" branding, I picture their laptop storying being: (1) 13" MacBook Air and MacBook Pro, (2) 14" MacBook Pro, (3) 16" MacBook Pro.
The 24" iMac update is a given to swap out the chip. The question is when since they could do it whenever the supply chain allows.
A true miracle of financial engineering stemming from fed liquidity and ZIRP. They are well run but definitely not worth that much.
Conservative Buffet would disagree. He "believed" in Apple in 2016, and now Jan 2022 news are telling that his portfolio is up by 9.8 billion increase.
I have also trusted Apple as a stock around 2015, when they finally have proven themselves with iphone 5, 6, 6s. Interestingly, I was 100% android guy, but with Iphone 5 i have updated my mother and bought myself Iphone 6 at release dates.
Though the stock might be overheated as of now, so it might be late to jump on a ship.
Apple's P/E might be a bit high at the moment. That said, last time I checked it was around 30. That's not bad for a technology stock. The thing that bothers me a bit is that Apple did not take a hit along with almost every other stock on the markets.