Cellular MacBooks have been manufactured already... as prototypes, but never came to retail.Maybe?
Where are Cellular MacBooks?
For all we know, Apple may never deem OLED fit for Mac usage
(They'd be wrong .. but they are wrong a lot --- looking at macOS on my OLED TV as I type this)
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.He also repeatedly stated that the iPad Pro would get an M3 processor until he obviously found out that @Jamie I , through inciteful investigation, discovered it will have an M4 chip, well before anyone else.
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).I don’t think Mac ever had internal blu-ray support. Heck the Apple external super drive (that is still available) doesn’t support blu-ray. Although there are a several 3rd party external blu-ray drives that work just fine with a Mac.
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Apple's best selling Mac is the MacBook Air.Apple's main computer has always been te macbook pro, it's normal for Apple to give it priority.
Anyway I'm glad Apple is finally moving a little towards Ray Tracing.
Up until now if you wanted to leverage the technology, you pretty much had to use Windows with a good RTX GPU.
The bigger drivers for the switch to Apple Silicon were cost, performance, and customizability, not strict yearly release schedules.Makes absolutely no sense, one of the reasons they dropped intel was the difficulty to update their computers more often. Now they control the chips but refuse to update the computers because they just feel like it?
I assume you mean halve export times?That’s cool, for me I run a production company and an Ultra will double export times. Working with an M1 Max studio now and if there’s no M4 Ultra next month then I will get an M2 Ultra. It’s a business expense. Next year I’ll get the M4 ultra then.
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.Along the same vein, I could envision a near term M4 Mini as a replacement for both m2 mini and the M2Pro mini.
The desktop market is too small and some consolidation of the Apple desktop product line makes sense.
I think the M3 was only ever envisioned as 3 chips. With it being a different node it was kinda a one of and Apple didn’t bother with the Max or Ultra as they knew they’d be jumping to M4 in just over 6 months.Makes me think Apple must be having issues with 3nm Ultras. Some cooling/heat issue or some such.
What puzzles me is why they’d want to kill sales of M3 and M2 devices. Only an ignorant fool or someone without any choice will buy them now.
Yes. Double the export times or halve the export speed. Depending on how you want to look at it. And with the M4 havifng a completely new video encoder that’s twice as fast as the previous ones the M4 Ultra should be half the export speed again. When you have 14hrs of footage to export. That counts for a lot.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.
Unless M2 Ultra Mac Studio buyers are really comparison shopping with Mac mini... who cares? Why would they?So the Mac Mini will get M4 Pro while the Studio is on M2 Max?
Yeah friends who have worked with sales in tech tell me the same thing. There's not that much of a slump in sales just because the tech-o-sphere expects new shiny things, usually. People buy when they need new stuff.I think there's a tendency for tech enthusiasts to overestimate the number of folks that give much thought to this sort of thing. I'd bet the percentage of folks that can name the SoC in any of their Apple devices is much smaller than we think.
I was scrolling through the replies to see if someone else said this. I saw a couple posts predicting an M3 Mini release and it simply makes no sense. Who's going to buy an M3 based desktop now that the M4 chip has been released in an iPad? Apple has shown that the M3 is not the future.
It does bear a resemblance to the bad old days of John Sculley and the Performa lineup.
Everyone always blamed Intel for Mac not getting updated, but it is even more likely that Apple doesn't care if it updates products annually.Makes absolutely no sense, one of the reasons they dropped intel was the difficulty to update their computers more often. Now they control the chips but refuse to update the computers because they just feel like it?
Yes, this roughly aligned with TSMC's node release schedule between N3B and N3E.I think the M3 was only ever envisioned as 3 chips. With it being a different node it was kinda a one of and Apple didn’t bother with the Max or Ultra as they knew they’d be jumping to M4 in just over 6 months.
Halve the export times, or double the export speed.Yes. Double the export times or halve the export speed. Depending on how you want to look at it. And with the M4 havifng a completely new video encoder that’s twice as fast as the previous ones the M4 Ultra should be half the export speed again. When you have 14hrs of footage to export. That counts for a lot.
Many times Apple had drop-in Intel chips that would have required no hardware changes to the motherboard or enclosure, etc., and they still did not bother updating those Macs. Cuz it just wasn't worth the hassle and cost.Just because everyone always blamed Intel for Mac not getting updated, it is even more likely that Apple doesn't care if it updates products annually.
Name some tech that started on iPad and never or took years to move to MacBook Pro lineup 💻No - I don't mean that at all
You have it backwards
iPhone/iPad are constantly on the leading edge of hardware and features in Apple land (relative to Macs)
It’s not like there’s zero cost to upgrading the processor in a product line.Makes absolutely no sense, one of the reasons they dropped intel was the difficulty to update their computers more often. Now they control the chips but refuse to update the computers because they just feel like it?
So what? The same is true for every model they sell.It’s not like there’s zero cost to upgrading the processor in a product line.
Each product line generates different revenues.So what? The same is true for every model they sell.
The core problem with Windows for ARM is whether anybody is going to recompile their applications for it. It's a chicken-egg problem: if the big players sit on their hands to see what volume Snapdragon X gets before selling products for it then it will quickly be DOA. To a large extent the reason x86 has the near-monopoly it has is Windows and the inertia of its application vendors.If a person is interested in Windows, there’s no Mac that will run Windows as well as a Windows PC. Similarly, if there interested in macOS or iPadOS, there’s nothing coming from Dell or Samsung.
Apple’s ignoring them because it’s not worth it to try to “out-windows” them.
This is the smartest reply. Pin this.Did I miss something? The linked newsletter just says this:
The company is speeding up its hardware upgrades, though. Earlier this month, Apple rolled out a new iPad Pro with an M4 chip that promises to vastly enhance AI processing. And the M4 is headed to every Mac in an end-to-end overhaul of the lineup by 2025.
I wouldn't like it, but I could see it. First, because Apple has proven it's ok with stringing along business buyers for many years, and second because the Studio is widely perceived to be one of Apple's best values. Apple hates offering best value.Not only that, by mid-2025, they’ll be at the M5 processor. I can’t think they’ll let the Studio be three generations behind before updating it.
It's a chicken-egg problem: if the big players sit on their hands to see what volume Snapdragon X gets before selling products for it then it will quickly be DOA.
Reading the newsletter today, I call BS on the article. Apple will likely update the Mac Pro and Mac Studio this year. It would be a dumb decision not to update it this year with super powerful M4 lineup chip, considering M2 Max and M2 Ultra is already very dated.
Name some tech that started on iPad and never or took years to move to MacBook Pro lineup 💻
I use After Effects and other Adobe apps on a daily basis and have been exclusively running them from a MacBook Pro since March 2020. Right now I'm using a 16" M1 Max MBP with 32GB of ram and have no issues getting my work done.Curious to hear how CAD/3D professionals who prefer (or used to prefer) Mac think about this. Does it matter that the RT-accelerated desktop Macs are getting this kind of huge release delay from the laptops?