Sounds like it's to find excitement, optimism, and happiness with another tech company. There are loads of them out there. Go for it! Stat!
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Don't waste another minute with your hackneyed "Am I the only one"s.
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Gurman: Apple Silicon Mac Pro Testing Ramping Up, New MacBook Pro and Mac Mini to Launch Within Months
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Sounds like it's to find excitement, optimism, and happiness with another tech company. There are loads of them out there. Go for it! Stat!
Time's a wasting!
Don't waste another minute with your hackneyed "Am I the only one"s.
Will you do it?
My mom said there’d be rain today. But she’s in a different state and I’m not counting on it.
Agree...Mac lineup press release can NOT be worse than iPad line press release up?
Guys, is this your first couple years in the Mac world?
So many of you seemed to expect many new features instead of a refresh. Why? Don’t you have any idea of how Apple has always done things with Macs?
So many of you seemed to expect many new features instead of a refresh. Why? Don’t you have any idea of how Apple has always done things with Macs?
Hopefully this means the price will come down. Would love to upgrade my M1 mini with a device that’ll stick with me for a decade.
I agree. Also, I never buy the freshly redesigned Apple stuff. That’s how you get the butterfly keyboard that breaks with breadcrumbs, the LCD flex that breaks with regular usage and stuff like that.
I always get excited for the next laptop then by the time I am ready to buy something else is coming out “within months” and I end up waiting for reviews, then another year passes and the cycle repeats😂
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It’s the cheapest Mac, and very consumer oriented, don’t hold your breath for more ports. If you need more, they clearly want you to buy the Studio.
And frankly, knowing Apple, I’m surprised there’s still ethernet, USB A and audio jack.
First the iMac killed the floppy…now it becomes the floppy!
Funny.. no one mentions that he said coming in '' WEEKS '' .... the untouchable BS Artist Gurman.
It's just the latest in a long string of disappointments that I don't think is going to change until customers actually speak with their wallets. Tim Cook is doing his absolute best to milk everything for what its worth, and customers are still rewarding him for these decisions.
The problem is the lack of any real competition. As pissed as I am about how things are going, its not like Android or anything else is a serious option. I still need tools. I'm still going to buy the best available. But I wish I didn't have to.
I challenge anyone to find a single claim made by Gurman since he went to Bloomberg that could not be written by any other human being who is simply paid to read headlines everyday.
Truth. When I bought the last MBP sold without a Touch Bar, I thought "this is the last Mac I will ever buy". Luckily, Apple reversed course on gimmicks and thinness and I was able to come back.
The answer for this was pretty nonsurprising, even if disappointing. Apple never updates more than one item in any particular lineup per year (they consider the MBP 14 and 16 to be the same). After updating the iPad Pros in 2018 followed by the iPad Air and then the iPad mini, it was finally time for the iPad base model to be updated to the latest design language. This is why the base iPad went USB-C and got square, and why the iPad Pros got spec bumps.
Apple sometimes experiments with items that get left out of more advanced models, creating an inconsistency in their lineup. I’ll use Center Stage as an example. The base iPad got Center Stage before the iPad Air because the Air had been the most recently released before Apple made a decision to put Center Stage on all. That left the Air as a distorted product missing features the base iPad had. It was a no-brainer that the next iPad Air would have Center Stage and it did, correcting the inconsistency.
This time around, Apple finally made a decision to move the camera, but the next one up was the base iPad, so that distorts the rest of the lineup temporarily. It’s a no-brainer the next iPad Pro will get the landscape camera. But also keep in mind you can’t just move that camera without consequences. The camera eats up all the space where the charger for the Apple Pencil 2 would be. This meant the base iPad could not use the Apple Pencil 2 without moving it elsewhere (can’t think of a good place to go without blocking ports or speakers) or redesigning the charger and pencil. As a stopgap measure, Apple created the dongle. As a side effect, it made it cheaper for older iPad owners with Pencil 1’s to upgrade. The camera move makes it inevitable that the next iPad Pro will have a new Apple Pencil 3 with magnets in different positions to allow it to attach to an iPad with different magnet positions as well, probably straddling the camera. They are not going to introduce a brand new Apple Pencil with the base model and will save that for the Pros. Shorter Apple Pencil rumors, anyone? That’s been out there for a while now. My prediction is an Apple Pencil 3 on the top (or left side if landscape) that is short enough to not block slightly widened speaker grills.
The iPad Pro rumors had no set target, so it was unsurprising none of them panned out because it’s not the iPad Pro’s turn yet to be redesigned. With the cycle now complete, it is the Pros up next for a new design language. I’m going to guess those features like camera movement, new PIN layout, reverse wireless charging with MagSafe, and double stacked OLED screens will appear in the next iPad. With a date for the OLED screens rumored for 2024, that tells me that there will be no iPad Pros in 2023 and that it will still be on an 18-month schedule putting the release of the redesigned iPad Pros in March of 2024.
If you look at it from the viewpoint that Apple only redesigns one product at a time, every rumor and inconsistency falls into place.
It's hard to imagine battery life not being significantly impacted here, compared to M2 Pro or just M2.
Especially when you consider, in those years of the last decade where Apple was getting *everything* wrong about the Mac, it seemed like the iMac was the only one they were actually paying any attention to.
Was looking at the new 13” mbp until I heard it has a touchbar. No thanks.
All of this is logical and I don’t think really much of a surprise. Except for one thing. The gpu cores on a AS Mac Pro with 76 and 152 cores. What? No one has core count like this in a GPU or even a CPU for that matter. What is up with this? I really can’t wait for the system to come out now!!!!