You already have linux...check WWDC, and windows will come next year gladly license to you for 100-200$
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Future Apple Silicon Macs Rumored to Include Redesigned 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro, 24-Inch iMac, and Smaller Mac Pro
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The Pro will be able to sustain high performance longer since it has a fan. That would make a difference for video encoding for long projects, for example. I'm sure we'll start seeing comparisons next week.
Also, it's possible that Apple is "binning" chips, and allocating the higher performing chips to the MacBook Pros, and lower performing chips to the MacBook Air.
Possible
But then you have a redundant controller inside the SOC
Also, they don't share the same RAM so it's not as good as a bigger SOC
Compared to a quad core i7 machine. It’s in Apple’s website.
If you want to know what Apple is basing the performance metrics of the ASi Macs on, all you have to do go to the product pages of each device, scroll all the way down to the fine print and it will tell you what the performance of each machine is being compared to.
Either the 14" MacBook Pro will replace the 13" MacBook Pro or it will be a higher-end model overall (better M-series SoC, MiniLED, more ports and unified RAM capacity, more storage capacity). That way the 13" MBP would stay as the lower-price model like when Apple offered a 13" 2-port MBP without a Touch Bar and a 13" 4-port MBP with a Touch Bar.
Kind of defeats the purpose of a Mac Pro though...
See above - either a replacement for the 13" or a higher-end and higher-priced model in the lineup.
We will certainly see more powerful M series SoCs with more cores, more USB/TB controllers, and more unified memory next year for the iMac and MacBook Pro 14/16 and hopefully the Mac Mini.
In general it will be the same, but the MacBook Pro will be able to sustain higher workloads longer since it has active cooling (though one wonders how often an iPad Pro thermally throttles itself).
My guess => M2 will be for the 16" MBP and the remaining Intel-based 13" MBP and Mac mini. M3 for iMac
thats not how Apple's naming works, an M2 would be for the Air 2, a 16 mbp would have M2X or some ****
Well, I do at least want a 27" iMac to replace my 27" 2014 retina 5k.
And while we're at it, when they introduce the 16" MBP, I'm assuming we'll be able to get more than 16 GB of RAM, haha
I love my 2020 16", but the Intel does overheat far too frequently for someone that's working on it constantly.
BREAKING NEWS: In the future, Apple will update the other products they offer with Apple Silicon, just like they said they will do.
The core is not the same as 30 years ago.
Also if you are judging by instruction set; the ARM instruction set dates back to the 1990s. Remember the Apple Newton? It used an ARM processor.
Yep, same here. And if I can do a little inference about what the base model will offer specs- and price-wise based upon yesterday’s event, then I will be a very happy customer. It will be a great addition to our household.
patiently waiting...
Which indicates that LPDDR4/5 with multiple channels along with PCIe Gen3/4 on en external interface is still in development and we don't know the state.
Along with the LPDDR phy's you also need schedulers/controllers. Same with PCIe phy's.
I keep telling people this stuff is not a slam dunk.
I work designing chips for a living.
You miss the point, it's not enough to have Linux.
I run Linux in a VM and I need X86.
My company will not buy a Mac that does not run X86 Linux.
They will buy something other than Mac's.
Right now it's the preferred machine because it can run Office, has BSD underneath and can run xn X86 VM with native instructions.
Looking at Apple removing CD drives and audio jacks and power cord types (old MacBook MagSafe in particular) I wouldn’t count on how long Apple will support anything. Especially something using a direct competitors processor.
I had to pull the trigger on a new Apple laptop three months ago, so I went with a 13" MBP in the high-end stock configuration. Now that Amazon sells them as an authorized dealer, stock configurations can be a great deal if you hit the right sale, and I'm glad that Apple has moved towards stock configurations that are well-configured for all but real power users. I was really tempted to wait, but if a 14" micro-LED isn't coming out until mid-2021, and a 2nd gen 14" micro-LED isn't coming out until 2022, I'm fine waiting to 2022 or later before switching over to AS. Hopefully, by then, the machines will come stock with at least 16GB ram and 1TB HDs, as well as 4 TB ports. I'd mention 1080p cameras, too, but there will be riots if that's not in the next laptops Apple introduces!
Compared to the Intel versions of the same models Apple is currently ships. It pays to read/watch the product announcement if you'd like to understand the context. Just sayin'.
No way. Apple (hopefully) learned their lesson with the Mac Pro 2013. There's no way whatever they design will not allow internal and external expansion, though I do agree, the casing will be somewhat smaller.
You didnt said that but after i read your comment again i understood. If you need x86 legacy windows or linux then you are not for a mac. Maybe in 2-3 years after all your windows x86 apps will run native under windows/linux arm
small chip giant leap. Yeah right.
Lets see the lab results
in a world where people want compatibility how are these new Macs going to work in the corporate world on an Active Directory Microsoft Network?
They're NOT. cause they just lost the ability to run or boot windows
The 7 percent Mac share apple had to the 92 percent share of windows will dwindle.
Lets see the lab results
in a world where people want compatibility how are these new Macs going to work in the corporate world on an Active Directory Microsoft Network?
They're NOT. cause they just lost the ability to run or boot windows
The 7 percent Mac share apple had to the 92 percent share of windows will dwindle.