Didn’t Apple say that the M1 Ultra was the last chip in the M1 family? I could have sworn they mentioned it in the Mac Studio presentation but I could be remembering wrong
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Gurman: Apple Planning M2 Pro Mac Mini, New Apple TV With A14 Chip, Revamped HomePod With S8 Chip, and More
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Didn’t Apple say that the M1 Ultra was the last chip in the M1 family? I could have sworn they mentioned it in the Mac Studio presentation but I could be remembering wrong
Yes, but the post you quoted was talking about the M2 family.
Just enough power to be able to play the Xbox/PlayStation cloud platforms is enough for me! Oh wait... doubt that'll happen
I think my HomePod and my original 4K aTV have the same chips inside of them, so I guess it's possible? I prefer the freedom of being able to place my HomePod(s) wherever I want in the room, though. Not sure I would be a fan of having to have a HDMI cable running out of my speakers.
I agree. The MacPro should debut a ‘new’ processor named a different letter X, Y, Z- something.
I keep wondering why keeps Apple pitching older ARM based ATV's?
A12 to A14 sounds like they are finally running out of A12 and now forced to issue a A14 model as a sub.
Granted, I think part of the reasoning to put those chips in was due to old stock. But I also think it's not necessarily required for consumers of the aTV. I can play my h265 videos (except for some exceptions that are +100mb/s 4K) without any real problems.
I would like Dolby Vision support, though.
Because the Apple TV is already overpowered for what it needs to do anyway.
What aspect for Dolby Vision? For third party files?
Cuz I have Dolby Vision support for my streaming services on my 2017 A10X model.
I briefly mentioned this in my previous post, but it struggles to play certain 4K files that are over the bandwidth/spec limit. So it can be a bit annoying at times. But yes, generally it does the job.
Ah yes - I should explain - this is for Plex compatibility. Do you refer to playing DV via Apple TV subscription/etc? (So perhaps it's a software limitation).
Yes for my paid streaming services, Dolby Vision is supported and works fine. 2017 Apple TV, with 2018 LG C8 OLED, and 2015 Marantz SR5010 receiver.
The ATV team and the Apple Maps team are relatives. Probably spend most of the day out the back smoking weed.
Me too. Since the M2 supports up to 24GB or RAM I'm stoked about this little machine. We'll see how the pricing is but presumably a M2 24 GB / 512 GB model will be significantly less expensive than a Mac Studio. I just have no need for all that GPU power or the media encoding engines. It'd be nice to see a high-end mini with a M2 Pro, too. Just in case there's a need for 32GB of RAM.
12” will cost more than 13”: miniaturization is paid for.
In addition, 12” will be smaller, thinner, lighter, while 13” will be more suitable for less mobile use.
This has already been the case, why not do it again? I know that many Americans have a problem with size, for them small means economic, but it doesn't work that way everywhere, more in the United States than elsewhere.
One thing to note is that, if the M2's performance is in line with the A15, then the efficiency cores actually get a significantly bigger performance boost than the performance cores, so day to day operations that don't utilize the performance cores will get more of a boost. Depending on workflows the Neural Engine in the A15 is significantly faster than the A14 (up to 44% faster according to Aandtech). More and more apps are starting to use CoreML and in turn Neural Engine acceleration, like Adobe Photoshop and DxO Photolab so certain workflows may get an even bigger performance boost even with just a modest boost in raw CPU performance.
To be fair Intel and AMD's naming schemes are even worse. A consumer not familiar with the naming intricacies might not know that a 12 generation Core i7 U-series chip isn't going to be as fast as a 12th generation Core i5 H-series chip in a slightly larger laptop. Intel alone has i3, i5, i7, and for some lines i9 variants of its Y series (ultra low power) U series (low power), H series (performance laptop) and K series (desktop). That doesn't even cover their Celeron, Pentium, and Xeon lines. Apple's M-series product lines are incredibly simple by comparison. All of the various cores are the same speed across the various chips, you pick your chip based on the number of CPU and GPU cores you want which Apple clearly advertises.
Possibly the only way to make the Studio Display somewhat reasonable would be to pair it with a Mac Mini, but that strikes me as overkill to pair something like that to a Mac Mini.
Gaming. Tried Apple Arcade? Other interactive Virtual worlds on the big screen.
I’m guessing $1499. Start at $899 for the M2 mini ($200 more, like with the Air), then $400 for the RAM and $200 for the SSD.
Still a fair bit less than the Studio, but that would still have better specs: 32 instead of 24, beefier CPU, far more ports, 10 GigE.
If you want the M2 Pro in the mini (assuming that’ll happen), the gap would be even narrower.
As someone reminded me earlier in another thread, the difference with the MacBook Air is that the M2 model comes with all sorts of other upgrades over the M1 model, for that $200.
There is a potential downgrade in the entry level M2 Air model though, which is a slower SSD. (The M2 13" Pro has a much slower SSD than the M1 13" Pro.)