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Here Are All the New M3 Apple Macs Expected This Year
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It’s pure speculation, but rumours of a significant price increase of iPad Prod have been floated. They have to do something to justify significant price jumps.
Come out with an M3 Mini with 16Gb Standard RAM and I would be forced to spend money I don't have and buy one
I never owned one (couldn't afford it back then). As you said the 14" is great, but it's just slightly too large and heavy for travel use, especially when travelling monkey class with the cheap european airlines 🙈
There are plenty of 4K displays out there that support 144Hz or even higher. Thunderbolt 5 doubles the bandwidth compared to Thunderbolt 4/3 (80 Gb/s vs. 40 Gb/s).
What’s to develop? How hard can it be to update the chip? I’d agree with you if they were different processors, but they aren’t. Even the ultra is two max chips stitched together.
It is obvious you don't really pay attention to the computer industry.
So, you want to add items that take up more physical space... and yet you want a device that takes up less physical space. Did I get that right?
Perhaps you can go into the integrated circuit and semiconductor business and help Apple out?
Perhaps the wealthiest company in the world can pull such a feat off without external help.
Certain affordances would be needed to fit an HDMI port, my MBA has one. SD Card slot fits easily.
Leave Microsoft out of this.
I must have misunderstood. I thought you meant that updated Mac Studio should have M4 chips
Agree, I strongly suspect that the OLED ipad with the high price point will be an Ultra. I'm in the market for one this year, and I'm going to be hard pressed to justify the OLED one if the price point is real. I don't need it for what I do. But I want it. The flip side is that if I do get one, then I'm on a 3 or 4 year refresh cycle for the iPad, so my net outlay is probably lower overall. You know, now that I think about it, they could do the same thing with the OLED MBP. Ironically, I need it even less there, because 90% of the time my MBP is hooked to external monitors.
I'm wondering if we'll see an M4 MBP 16" this fall, or if that'll be next year. I haven't seen any rumors either way, did I miss them?
Do you mean the fact that Apple lost the most ground among ALL computer makers in 2023? Yeah the M2 had no reason to exist and it was mostly to blame for people turning their nose up for it.
Source? Or are you pulling this out of thin air or just because you like to think that?
We already know much of what to expect, in terms of performance, from some of the upcoming products.
M3 in the MacBook Air 13 and 15 should be similar to what you can now get from the M3 iMac. The only real key difference is the iMac isn’t constrained by having to run on a battery and the iMac has active cooling (whereas the MacBook Airs are fanless). Price wise the price of the M3 Airs shouldn’t change given the price of the iMac didn’t change.
Same reasoning should apply to the M3 Mac Studio given what we’ve already seen from the MacBook Pro with M3 Max. The Studio will have better cooling and not be constrained by having to run on battery so the Studio could have an edge. Hopefully the Studio will stay the same price.
The M2 currently in the iPad Pro should give us a fair idea what M2 in an iPad Air could be like. M3 in the redesigned iPad Pros should be interesting.
I don’t think iPad 11 will have performance on par with the current M1 iPad 5 unless they put M1 in it, and I don’t see that happening yet.
Finally, if we get a rumoured new entry level MacBook replacing the current M1 MacBook Air it could well have similar or better performance yet at a reduced price. That could be killer in the mainstream laptop market.
M3 in the MacBook Air 13 and 15 should be similar to what you can now get from the M3 iMac. The only real key difference is the iMac isn’t constrained by having to run on a battery and the iMac has active cooling (whereas the MacBook Airs are fanless). Price wise the price of the M3 Airs shouldn’t change given the price of the iMac didn’t change.
Same reasoning should apply to the M3 Mac Studio given what we’ve already seen from the MacBook Pro with M3 Max. The Studio will have better cooling and not be constrained by having to run on battery so the Studio could have an edge. Hopefully the Studio will stay the same price.
The M2 currently in the iPad Pro should give us a fair idea what M2 in an iPad Air could be like. M3 in the redesigned iPad Pros should be interesting.
I don’t think iPad 11 will have performance on par with the current M1 iPad 5 unless they put M1 in it, and I don’t see that happening yet.
Finally, if we get a rumoured new entry level MacBook replacing the current M1 MacBook Air it could well have similar or better performance yet at a reduced price. That could be killer in the mainstream laptop market.
This is why every Developer I know that can dictate what they use has an Air. Ideally with as much ram as possible. Lots of companies just toss a 'Pro machine' at you though, in the worst scenario a 15/16" brick. The last place I work gave me a 14 MBP and I simply left it in a drawer until I worked at a client that required me to use the machine
The MBP brings GPU power and more cores -- that is of little use outside of specific needs or if you want run an abundance of machines locally for a Kubernetes cluster. I've ran production level setups on my M1 without problems, you could do this on the Intel Pro machines, but the machines would get so hot
Those "Pro Ports" are of no use. We can either work from home or go to an office that isn't stuck at the millennium -- you know wifi, wireless printing, USB-C monitors with a hub just in case, etc. Also happy to never have to hear a laptop "take off" when compiling
So the MBP is just extra dead weight. The screen is cool, but not really a factor in a terminal or VsCode!
Skipping M3 to jump to M4 also makes no sense, unless the range is refreshed with the iPhone. Isn't the Air the best selling laptop? It makes some sense for the desktop machines as that's a niche product (sadly!)
A lot of people will be waiting to pick up an M3 Air. They aren't going to buy a Pro, they will just wait -- or in the worst scenario for Apple a viable Windows/Linux option will appear
A lot of people will be waiting to pick up an M3 Air. They aren't going to buy a Pro, they will just wait -- or in the worst scenario for Apple a viable Windows/Linux option will appear
A while ago, I was still absolutely looking forward to getting an ARM Windows laptop once they became as good as Apple Silicon.
But with how awful Windows (11) has been getting in my opinion, I only hope for those ARM laptops so there’s some competition that would hopefully drive some price reductions.