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Gurman: New MacBook Pro Models to Launch in Early 2023, iMac With M3 Chip Possible Later in Year
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I'm going to be self appointed new Guru, as I believe Apple will in the future be working on the M4 chip
Also convinced Apple will work on a new MacBook Pro M4 chip, a new Apple Studio, a new iMac etc. etc.
What a wondrous self appointed Guru I am.
Basically Apple and every other company that wants to stay in the game develops their products
Also convinced Apple will work on a new MacBook Pro M4 chip, a new Apple Studio, a new iMac etc. etc.
What a wondrous self appointed Guru I am.
Basically Apple and every other company that wants to stay in the game develops their products
Because you couldn't feel the difference of an 11 to 18 % speed bump and those engineers, who would do the upgrade work on the 24" iMac are working on the 32" iMac, combining the screen of a Pro Display XDR with the power of a MacBook Pro.
It's really quite simple.
They are still very different, but the difference is not as meaningful, because performance was already very good.
Even better, people sell their one-year-old iMacs at steep discounts, despite they are still top notch and there is nothing better out there. People's habits run counter to smart decisions.
On the contrary, macOS will support the M1 for a very long time. It's the new baseline configuration against which all Apple Silicon software is being developed. You will not regret owning "only" an M1.
And sadly have absolutely terrible webcams. My Dell XPS 9510 is an overall nice laptop with nice, clean and thin bezels. It also has the absolute worst webcam I've ever used, by a wide margin. I'm not defending Apple's use of the notch; not really a fan of it on laptops, to be honest. Just saying that the grass is not always greener over here in Windows laptop land.
there’s definitely a big advantage to the transaction on the battery life front and on the base M devices (eg Macbook Air) ,basically every device for base tasks
I think once you scale up to the more pro devices, the difference with Intel decreases quickly. (Except for said battery life). On desktops like the Mac Studio, I think the difference with Intel becomes much smaller (only advantage is dedicated media engines which help push those chips for Youtubers / video editors.
That’s also the reason we haven’t seen a Mac Pro with apple silicon yet. Whatever they would make, it wouldn’t be enough performance.
You have a cherished and hopefully rare talent for grasping the obvious. I wish you well in monetizing that ability. I had to re-read your last sentence a few times before its profundity truly set in…and then I was just gobsmacked at the wisdom. Why weren’t you one of my lecturers during my MBA days? Good job!
Create a popular I.T. Website that tests and reviews products, and you may be able to get them for free, while having fun 😁.
And when you do, please remember me for giving you such a great idea! 😆
I’m in for a M3 MacBook pro next year. Good replacement for my 2011 MacBook pro. It has done the job well for long, next to my MacPro 2008.
I thought one of the reasons of Apple doing their own chips was to have better control over regular updates? Things are updating even slower now than when they used Intel processors. There's no reason they shouldn't have an update to every model, every 12 months or less. There's no excuse for anything over 12 months.
To be able to get about 10 years of usable life out of a computer is unthinkable for Windows PCs.
My 2007 MBP lasted me almost 10 years.
I use a 2018 MBP when working on the road and it still is very powerful. I don’t really need to take my M1 MBP with me, unless I need to do heavy video editing and rendering.
Switching to the Mac was one of the best decisions I made back in 2007.
I predict Apple to release x Mac much later than anyone anywhere predicted or hoped for. They are experts are delivering disappointment.
Says who? This was just an assumption by users that the delays were all Intel's fault. No one could possibly conceive that Apple was simply not interested in devoting resources to producing updates to the Mac lineup on any kind of regular schedule...then or now.
For my next forecast: Apple will deviate from the M series chips, the next generation will be MA1 but following quickly on the heels will be MAD1 which means it will no longer need other superlatives like Plus Max Extreme etc. etc.
NEWSFLASH: hard on the heels of the above information Apple will make the MAD1 series flexible just to snipe at Samsung boasting of a flexible phone.
NEWSFLASH: hard on the heels of the above information Apple will make the MAD1 series flexible just to snipe at Samsung boasting of a flexible phone.
1. This idea that Apple simply doesn't have resources to produce modest product updates is laughable at best. They just have no interest in it, especially when there is no cost benefit. A modest update to the iMac costs money to produce, and may not sell a single additional unit than would otherwise sell of the current version. This is Apple's entire focus.
2. There is no proof that Apple is actually making a large iMac. It has been vapor rumor for years now. And then the Mac Studio and Studio Display were released. With the existence of those products, there is no guarantee that any such thing is still coming. The idea of it is frankly silly. The iMac is a cumbersome all-in-one machine, and for anyone other than the basic consumer who is going to plop it on a desk and never touch it again, it is a hassle to not have the computer disconnected from the display. The 24" consumer iMac we have today is likely the only iMac we'll see again, at least for a long while.
That's one more reason to move to a 2-year cycle... I mean if it was a yearly cycle the "older" version would become obsolete faster
It's been this way for far too long, except now they cannot blame Intel.
Apple's product lineup seems like a total mess at this point.
Agree. When 5GHz started it was awesome. You could do a check, and there would be barely any 2.4. Now it's saturated. Don't need anything new now, but would definitely watch what had 6E if I did