Cellular MacBooks have been manufactured already... as prototypes, but never came to retail.
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I never saw cellular as a primary feature of Mac laptops though. There wasn't as big of a call for it, since so many people just tethered off their iPhones or else used USB dongles.
Why the off topic rant? I asked
@Warped9 if there was any evidence of a Mac Studio release this year, because I have seen zero indication that it will happen. And your post also did not provide any evidence that will happen either.
In contrast, some of the info that
@Jamie I based his prediction off of was known since March actually. ie. There was actually info out there that supported Jamie's contention. It's just that people initially didn't believe it would be M4. The same is not true for a 2024 Mac Studio. AFAIK, there isn't any info at all out there suggesting such a Mac Studio release.
Cheese grater Mac Pros had internal Blu-ray
support. They just never had OEM Blu-ray drives. You could install your own though, and they would work fine. However, for my more recent Macs, I had a USB Blu-ray drive, and that also was supported fine. To play DRM'd Blu-ray video though, you need third party software. I had just been using
Leawo Blu-ray Player for Mac on my Intel Macs, but lately I haven't bothered with my M1 (although Apple Silicon is also supported).
Apple's best selling Mac is the MacBook Air.
The bigger drivers for the switch to Apple Silicon were cost, performance, and customizability, not strict yearly release schedules.
A reason not to upgrade say the Mac Studio every year is because the amount of additional profit generated wouldn't be worth going through all that extra work.
I assume you mean halve export times?
While I see where you're coming from, I don't expect this to happen. The main advantage of the M2 Pro Mac mini is not really the added performance, but the additional I/O ports and the better display support.