I don't know exactly when the iPad Pro will ship or exactly with what hardware, but both time and technology march on. It's going to ship eventually with something, and the KISS principle tells us it will likely be M2, whatever that is. And by eventually, I mean likely within the next 6-12 months. Remember, the last iPad Pro was almost a year ago already, back in April 2021.
The logic is flawed as your 2010 Mac which you claim macOS is slow is not an ARM processor like an A series chip which includes the 2017 iPad Pro models. AS Mac’s run most iOS apps that includes iPad apps in full screen minus screen touch capabilities.
Apple created MagSafe and implemented with Qi, there is nothing stopping Apple to reassign some of those magnets for data or even charging and remove the Qi component. This would basically take the SmartConnector and make it MagSafe equivalent.
That's why I want a new M1 Pro Mac mini this summer. Failing that, maybe an M2 Mac mini I guess.
You should realize that a laptop is not the same thing as an iPad with keyboard. Each has its advantages or disadvantages.
My whole story for the last few months has been how and why I easily replaced my MBP with my M1 iPP 11, which you can read at the link in my signature. And a previous post I made in this thread said,
Not a mistake— Apple will want to show progress and iteration in the chip lineup— this is a huge part of why they switched from Intel. If they can iterate every year or two with new releases and make significant advances every few years on a regular schedule, it’s huge for them.
Yea but they just did a bunch of "iterations"... M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra... and whatever the Mac Pro will have. Think about it, the Mac Pro will have an M1 but the iPad Pro will have an M2? I know technically it's not better, but it does give that impression that it's already obsolete....
It appears that for technical reasons, Mac Pro cannot use an M1 series chip. Apparently, two M1 Ultras cannot be used in the same machine.
I don't know about that... there was a leaked schematic of 2 M1 Ultras (i.e. 4 M1 Max) stacked on top of each other.
I don't know Apple would fix that other than delaying any M2 product until after the Mac Pro is announced or released. There is a M1 scale graph that ramps up from M1 to M1 Ultra and whatever is in the Mac Pro. Then there is a similar M2 ramp that could start before the Mac Pro is released but it starts a bit higher than where the M1 originally started. Y axis being performance and X axis time. I suppose the question is how much time overlap Apple wants.
Where? All I've seen are guesses.
Yeah, it’s just guesses. Those that were in the know about how CPU’s work saw those blocks and guessed it could have been an interface and they ended up being right. Those folks are today thinking that stacking them wouldn’t be feasible.
Well the Mac Pro currently can address 1.5 TB of RAM so Apple Silicon does need to demonstrate that it can do more than 128 GB if it's going to beat Intel... and there is going to be an Apple Silicon Mac Pro and it needs to have something more than the Mac Studio... and it can't be just expansion cards because everything's already built into SOC.
It looks like someone is making stuff up to generate traffic to his twitter account. However, it appears nobody is biting.
Nah. Mac Pro isn’t going to be M1 Ultra with extra I/O. It’s likely something quite different, and significantly faster too.
However, IMO, M1 Ultra with extra I/O doesn’t make much sense.That’s the thing, people are thinking “IT HAS TO BEAT INTEL!” The next Mac Pro mainly has to be, in some ways, better than the prior Mac Pro. Apple likely has a good idea of how many people ever installed over 128 GB in their systems. If that’s something like seven people, then it remains to be seen if Apple wants to maintain those folks as future customers.
I agree with you but by that logic, then the Mac Studio should be the end of it because it's already faster than a $20,000 Intel based Mac Pro. There's gotta be something majorly different about the Apple Silicon Mac Pro for them to even consider making one.That’s the thing, people are thinking “IT HAS TO BEAT INTEL!” The next Mac Pro mainly has to be, in some ways, better than the prior Mac Pro. Apple likely has a good idea of how many people ever installed over 128 GB in their systems. If that’s something like seven people, then it remains to be seen if Apple wants to maintain those folks as future customers.
Yeah, it’s all guessing and we’ll know in a couple months. The Apple Studio Display doesn’t make much sense to folks, either, but there it isNah. Mac Pro isn’t going to be M1 Ultra with extra I/O. It’s likely something quite different, and significantly faster too.
Yes, I’m now guessing too.
Whoever leaked that was assuming it was M1 Ultras. For all we know it may be 4 M2 Max SoC's fused together.
Right, and the Mac Studio IS the end for a much wider selection of folks that need that level of performance.