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Forget iPhone 13: Potential October Apple Event Could Reveal Five Things We've Been Waiting For
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The current M1 machines are 8-core. Or do you mean the 4 performance cores?
The predicted next M1X chips would be 10-core, with 8 performance cores. They may also double and/or quadruple the GPU cores, increasing from 8 to 16/32 cores.
Maybe after M2 they launch M1S for lower end, or M1 SE 😂
Looking forward to updated Macs. Not looking forward to updated prices.
Why are Apple rumoured to be removing the MBP Touchbar?
I’ve just bought the 13” M1 MBP and love the Touchbar! Is it perfect? No. But it certainly gives more functionality than the standard function keys. I hope they don’t remove it. Would be a step backwards imo
I’ve just bought the 13” M1 MBP and love the Touchbar! Is it perfect? No. But it certainly gives more functionality than the standard function keys. I hope they don’t remove it. Would be a step backwards imo
I really don't think so. Apple has released 1 computer all year, which uses a chip from last year. We've heard about the new Mac mini using the same chip as the new MacBook Pro several times now. Those rumors have a certain momentum to them.
I don't see any reason why they wouldn't release the Pro Mac mini now.
The black thing is an actual button or a touch-bar type sensor? If the latter, it might be an improvement. I love my AirPods, but tapping has always been a little erratic.
I'd guess about 70% hate the touch bar, 20% are indifferent, and 10% love it. Even if I'm being too negative, and it's really more like 40%/40%/20%, the result is the same. Most developers don't really develop for it, so for most applications it doesn't serve much purpose.
It reminds me a lot of 3D Touch. Basically nobody except Apple paid much attention to it, and thus it went largely unused. I personally hated 3D Touch.
The Touch bar is a failed concept. Did some people like it? Sure. There are some people who like everything.
Most people hated the Touch Bar as it only served to make things like Escape and volume and many others harder to use than they were. None of the lofty promises about what it could do on a per-app level with app-context controls ever materialized into anything useful, and the entire muscle memory concept of the keyboard itself was hampered by the Touch Bar's existence. Oh, and despite Apple's excellent track record with haptic feedback and retina displays...the Touch Bar had neither. Imagine, trying to replace physical buttons with a display, and doesn't even have haptic feedback.
They already had to shorten it once to bring the escape key back because it was just intolerable with out it. And with the complete redesign happening, that's it for the Touch Bar menace. It was a nice gimmick, but did not earn a spot as a permanent replacement for anything.
Very similar fate as 3D touch actually. Despite the tens of people who claim they love it on social media, it was awkward and unused mostly, and was preventing the product line from having a unified experience. And a better one, frankly. Long Press with haptics is infinitely better suited for these devices than 3D touch.
The touchbar came off as a little gimmicky, especially for a 'Pro' machine. Speaking for myself using the MBP for work, the function keys are something I cannot do without.
I also have a hunch that the touchbar may have been a toe-dipping experiment to see how users responded to a screen on/near their typing surface within a MacBook form-factor.
I mean hitting a six, thwacking that fella right over the boundary! Dickie Bird’s arms in the air!
Let’s hope it’s a corker eh?
I hope you're right. I just see Apple prioritizing the laptops if there are supply constraints.
I thought I understood English, but I seem to be mistaken. So I looked up the phrase.
"To hit the ball hard enough to go out of the boundary of the field, thereby scoring the maximum of six runs."
"To be hit (or knocked) for six is to be dealt a severe blow, emotional or physical, or to have one's arguments or schemes swept aside."
I still don't understand!
EDIT:
Ah, here we go:
To hit something for six means to do very well in an effort. It can apply to any endeavour. A debater who makes very good arguments and wins his debate might be told, “You hit that one for six”, meaning only that he did very well in it. No hitting need be involved.
We don't play much cricket here in North America...
I would love to hear any rumors on an iPod classic 20th anniversary launch but apple doesn’t like nostalgia I guess
The 2021 iPad Mini has an underclocked A15, so the performance isn't much better than A14. It's not as if the Air 4 is lagging far behind the brand-spanking-new Mini 6.
They'll likely let this Mini have its moment, then next spring they can refresh the Air with even better performance than the latest Mini.
It's similar to the dance they did with the 2020 iPad Pro and 2020 iPad Air. They gave the Air a newer chip than the Pro (albeit only faster at single-core tasks), but then the following spring (2021), the Pro moved to M1 and the Pro now reigns supreme in every way once again (unless you count the TouchID in the power button as a superiority over the Pro, and some do).