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Gurman: Apple Event on March 8, At Least Four M2 Macs to Launch Later This Year
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Goodbye Touch Bar
It’s been nice
Hope you find your paradise
I kept “nice” because “pointless” doesn’t fit and “dumb” doesn’t rhyme.
It’s been nice
Hope you find your paradise
I kept “nice” because “pointless” doesn’t fit and “dumb” doesn’t rhyme.
It’s gonna be a while before I buy a new Mac anyway. I am waiting for the third gen large screen Apple silicon iMac.
march 8th event should be a press release, who wants to see a same phone style from like 8 years ago
I'm sure people were making money (aka being a "Pro") with iBooks so that not what this is about. The M1 "Pro" makes little sense now as it has the same specs as the Air and will go even closer once they remove the touchbar.
Spec it up a bit (if you need more than an Air you will most likely need more RAM and storage) and you get very close entry to the level 14" (which comes with that extra RAM and storage as default).
So no I don't see the need/place for a 13" Pro. If Apple wanted to have a MacBook priced between the 13" Air and 14" Pro I would suggest something with a bigger screen while retaining "Air" specs.
Nice theory.... blown to pieces by the 13" Retina Pro starting in 2012.
I could believe that if it wasn't for the fact Apple won't miss out on an opportunity to make more money from a quick upgrade.
I really hope they remove that touch-bar on the entry level Macbook Pros; it's preventing us from purchasing Air instead, but we would prefer the better battery life of the Pros. Not going to happen though, until the touch-bar is no more.
Please let this be the announcement for the 27" or larger M1-series iMacs. I am literally like Fry holding out my stack yelling "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY" here. If I can buy that in the first half of this year, and work issues me an M1 Macbook Pro like I suspect they will, my life will be complete.
Tim looks really old in that photo, probably due to ALL the Trust Busting stress !
Again, “virtual events” should be called what they are: video press releases with high-level production quality. It’s not an event.
What is the point of iPad Air? Very thin and super light? Very-very thin, super-duper light, and 15" screen would raise some eyebrows, instead of ?
Showing a new powerful Mac mini could also show new monitors
The climax, the new Apple Pencil
They would surprise everyone if the new AirPods Pro appeared at the spring event
Tim could wear a shirt made of $1,000 bills stitched together
Showing a new powerful Mac mini could also show new monitors
The climax, the new Apple Pencil
They would surprise everyone if the new AirPods Pro appeared at the spring event
Tim could wear a shirt made of $1,000 bills stitched together
intel mac mini is often used in servers. they might actually have a useful for some people.
Better yet, just call it a webcast/live stream, which is what it is.
I agree! Anything more just waters down the product line.
They've been trying to get the pope to convert simultaneously to Buddhism, Podiaology, Scientology, Global Warmism, believing in The Force, AND Atheism! That guy's really resistant!
Me, I'm all for the "silver black phantom bike"!
There's one other thing we know too. There's not going to be anything named "M1X". Instead, we have the M1 Pro and M1 Max.
Me, I'm still up for using Cars song titles for upcoming Apple silicon releases. As far as I know, "Candy-O, I Need You" is still available!
I could get on board if there were some glitter options available. I could get on board for black with gold glitter. Or red with gold glitter, to match the code-name Candy-O. Who's on board with me?
Me too, and my M1 Max MBP just got charged to my credit card, so I know it's probably going to ship in a week or less. There IS one thing that could cause me to upgrade that MBP sooner, rather than later: An M2 chip (or whatever the name ends up being) with unbiased ray-tracing/rendering GPU muscle built-in, or specialized CPUs that can do that work. Like Nvidia's CUDA standard.
As Yay said (I think it was she who did), Apple did say that it would take 2 years to complete the transition from Intel to Apple silicon.
And that's precisely why I bought the M1 Max with 64 GB Ram, and the 8TB drive. I don't play! At least people have stopped thinking there was gonna be an M1X chip...
...oops, I spoke too soon!
The chip shortage, outside of Apple M1's sphere, is going to ultimately kill demand for AMD and Nvidia GPU chips, and the GPU cards built on them.
LOL! We see what you did there...
Pro Tip to Tim and all other Apple presenters: Dispense with the "praying hands" gesture when you start to speak and introduce the product or concept. It's old & outdated, annoying and Apple is supposed to show new innovation rather than same old, same old. TIA
Just got my battery replaced on my late 2013 mbp since it works perfectly fine for day to day tasks and my folks can use it as a spare. My M1 mbp with touchbar is working fine and I like the battery life. I will wait for 14"/16" v2 iteration next year i hope and see what upgrades it will bring. The most excited i am is for the mac mini. It will replace my mac pro 5.1 which is on its last legs.
Mac releases have been approx six month interval's since nov 2020. So this is a additional short event just for couple of product updates. Look for macs later in April or as late as early May.
Better yet, ALL HUMANS should stop with the "praying hands" gesture! I've noticed it happens a lot when you catch somebody trying to screw you over or rip you off.
A couple summers ago, I had some construction work done. It was turning out to be lopsided because the workmen, none of whom spoke English very well, were going to mount my lighting electrical boxes off-center and not level with each other.
The dude was VERY resistant to correcting the error before completing the job. The difference was between removing 2 or 3 bricks NOW, remeasuring the space and redoing the wrong part, versus having to remove 2 dozen bricks LATER, after I would have refused to pay for that uneven mess. Believe me, it wasn't a language barrier preventing them from understanding me. It was their resistance to admitting they made a mistake and their hesitance toward doing the right thing.
All I had to do was bring out my phone and start dialing their foreman, who was at another site at the moment and who DID speak English, and then OUT CAME THE PRAYING HANDS. Eventually they fixed it, but not before I had to spend another 60 seconds watching the praying hands and putting up with the genuflecting, having to listen to "I'm sorry" repeated thrown at me in a language that wasn't mine.
All I wanted was for them to do the right thing without me having to force them to! Praying Hands; the sure sign of bad business being perpetrated by the guilty, for sure. If you EVER have to do "Praying Hands" in front of a customer, you might consider that not only did you really really REALLY mess up, but you compounded that by not taking the first opportunity to correct your mistake, which just further annoyed your customer!
The current 15.4 iOS, 15.4 iPadOS betas don’t even see beta 2 until about 2 weeks later (Feb 10th). Because this is paired with the new MacOS 12.3 with universal control, along with several observed bugs, there is not a chance it will be completed until sometime later in April. Certainly not a mere month from now.
