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First Macs With Apple Silicon Could Be 13-Inch MacBook Air and 13-Inch MacBook Pro
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6 months is a long time in tech time, and your system won't be suddenly outdated just because something new is out
Then for environmental protection they won’t include a charger and a power cord.
You just changed the subject but anyway, no one relying on their macs for mission critical tasks should be using emulation to get their work done
Then you haven’t been paying attention for the last couple of years and certainly not the last 6 months. That’s on you.
Don't be so ignorant. Every non-Apple software I use for work could be run on a Raspberry Pi with the exception of the already announced Office products.
Welcome to the world of how iPad (3rd-generation) owners felt.
If you didn't know about Apple silicon macs coming when you made your purchase 6 months ago, you clearly weren't paying that much attention to "what's new." Just ignore the new products and keep using your 2020 Mac like you always have until it is time to upgrade again.
Based on the history of the PPC-Intel switch, you will be covered for several years, and probably wouldn't even notice unless you run Windows via bootcamp and try to do THAT on the Apple silicon system in 6-7 years.
That’s an inane statement to say the least. People relied on Rosetta back in the PowerPC to Intel transition for mission critical tasks before x86 native apps rolled out fully.
You mean the one port monstrosity without a fan that would overheat? It had a terrible keyboard.
No mate, we are now going from industry standard to a non-industry standard. No, iOS fisherprice apps don’t count
6 months is ages ago & everyone knew Apple were going to launch their own chips in Macs at least 12 months ago - didn't need to wait for an official announcement to understand what was happening.
Microsoft will have Office 365 ready for Apple Silicon. They were demoing it back in June.
A computer that's has far better performance/watt ?
A computer that has a translator for old applications that makes them run as fast as they would have on an intel based machine ?
Plenty of people!
But they won't be trolling these forums like you are.
None of this newfangled PPC nonsense - 68k or GTFO.
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Interesting that we could see a new Air and new MBP, both at 13".
MBA with the A14X for maximum battery life and MBP with A14T for more performance at the expense of maximum battery life?
As for the 14" MBP, I think that is being held-up by MiniLED. Those displays are said to be coming in 2021, so it might launch then.
And this forum was for so long filled with complaints that Apple took too long to update Macs with new parts compared to Windows OEMs. Now that Apple is pumping out new Intel (and now ASi) Macs on an accelerated basis, people are complaining they are updating too fast. *shakes head*
MBA with the A14X for maximum battery life and MBP with A14T for more performance at the expense of maximum battery life?
As for the 14" MBP, I think that is being held-up by MiniLED. Those displays are said to be coming in 2021, so it might launch then.
And this forum was for so long filled with complaints that Apple took too long to update Macs with new parts compared to Windows OEMs. Now that Apple is pumping out new Intel (and now ASi) Macs on an accelerated basis, people are complaining they are updating too fast. *shakes head*
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Moreover all it requires is a recompile to make it universal. Plus the obvious testing cycle before releasing it, but that's standard software business.
The 13” MacBook Air/Pro line makes sense as a starting point. I wonder if they will keep a single Intel version around for a few years, like they did the 2012 13” MacBook Pro with SuperDrive (maybe the Ice Lake version re-priced to $1499, or the Coffee Lake at $1299)?
We likely won’t get radical redesigns until 2021 or 2022. They first want to pull off the transition. That said, I would like the 12“ to return, though the Mac’s ability to run iPadOS apps would mean a lot of overlap between the iPad Pro and such a small MacBook.
We likely won’t get radical redesigns until 2021 or 2022. They first want to pull off the transition. That said, I would like the 12“ to return, though the Mac’s ability to run iPadOS apps would mean a lot of overlap between the iPad Pro and such a small MacBook.
I really hope the four-port 13" MBP is included. Even better, they should drop the two-port model because it overlaps the MacBook Air so much. The overlap will increase further on ASi when the Air can actually perform well with its ridiculous cooling.
I have yet to see anything about it running VMware Win10 efficiently - especially with real professional SW like Empire XPU, Altium Designer, Solidworks etc - I don't want to maintain two computers (Intel MacBook + Win10 laptop) and I don't want to go over to Win10 for my administration and documentation work...