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In which month do you expect M5 Pro/Max MacBook Pro to launch?
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MacWorld is also guessing January 28, for the same reason.
Personally, I think it's just clickbait. If the launch were that near, I would expect to see more chatter from the rest of the Apple rumor-sphere.
I guess will know by next week....for sure would hear rumors by then
If they’re really launching the M6 variants with a redesign late this year, I expect the M5 Pro/Max variants to ship almost immediately. There’s probably something more to this though. Like Apple has held products for six months delaying their launch and I think it makes sense that it’s probably due to too much current model stock in stores.
If I’m in the market for an M5 Pro and waiting, is it worth me waiting until the end of the year for the M6?
Only you can say if it's worth waiting. IMO (and I'm planning to update to an M5 Pro MBP when they're announced), the big question to ask is whether your current machine still meets all of your needs well enough for you to wait 9-10 more months.
Assuming you can wait, Are the rumored M6 MBP features important to you? Aside from the usual 15%-ish performance bump, there's been talk about an OLED screen, a touch screen, and a hole punch/dynamic island replacing the current notch.
Based on the rumors, the M6 MBP will be a major redesign, but as such might also be accompanied by a price bump.
Finally, there are the less quantifiable questions: Do you want to upgrade now? That's always exciting and fun, and the current MBP design is mature and very powerful. Are you likely to feel serious regrets and buyer's remorse when something newer and shinier comes along in 9 months?
Just my $0.02. 🙂
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Seems weird to release M5 in March, then 7 months later release M6 OLED models. But I guess that's not entirely unprecedented.
Apple may pull a M2 to M3 playbook. M2 got released in January and the October came the M3 models.
With the latest posts indicating Apple will be announcing M4 Pro/M4 Max Next Tuesday. “Supposedly to coincide with creator studio on the 28th.
For me, the main attraction of the redesign is possible reduction in weight of the 16" model. Of course, removing the notch is a welcome move. I guess there won't be 17" or 18" version? I am happy with the current screen except for the notch. Any body knows who is in charge of the redesign? I hope that he/she won't be like that Ive guy giving up functions for thinness. I think he gained weight recently.
There is no way the M6 redesign will come this year. They pissed off so many people the last time they updated the MacBook Pro twice in a year, they won't do it again.
When you say "They pissed off so many people", do you mean customers? Or do you mean shareholders? Because, of those two groups, there's only one that Apple (or any large company) really tries to keep happy. The other one is simply a means to that end.
I don't mean to sound snarky, but Apple has done this before. 30 years before the M2/M3 transition mentioned earlier in this thread, there was the Mac IIvx. My father had one of those.
well today i learned something new. I thought Macs always ran on on RISC processors until the switch in mid-2000s. did they continue supporting your Quadra for OS and apps? i imagine it would be horrific writing apps to run on both CISC and PowerPC
Actually, just like the PPC-Intel and Intel-Apple Silicon transitions, the 68K-PPC transition went very smoothly. The Mac operating system had a built-in emulator to translate 68K code to PowerPC in real time, and new applications were distributed as "fat binaries" containing both 68K and PPC code. I doubt there were many mainstream applications still written in assembly language by then, so the choice to produce 68K code, PPC code, or both, was simply a compiler setting.
About a year after I got the Quadra 650, I installed a PowerPC 601 card in the "PDS" (processor direct slot), a proprietary Apple expansion slot. Once I did that, it disabled the motherboard's 68040 processor, and my machine was, for all practical purposes, a PowerMac. Apple continued to support the 68000 Macs for a few years, I think until sometime after the release of Mac OS 8, and even the Mac OS migration was phased in over time, so portions were still running as emulated 68K code for a few years.
i'd say depends on your current machine. if its modern then you can stretch it another year, if it is an oldy 10 months is a long time to wait. Not to mention M6 could be pushed further back to a January release, so far its just a rumor.
ah , as a none programmer i always thought you had to rewrite the whole application for a different CPU structure not just an "Export" option.
ah the good old days where you can switch apple processors. I forgot those. Switching from one one cpu design to another is even more impressive on the same machine.
Still nothing. No news about possible release the last week of January. Upgrading the machine only takes Apple two weeks to deliver. It was longer last week so I was happy but now it doesn't look good. I will go for Windows PC if Apple continues to play this waiting game.
With all these MBP models slipping now and from what I am hearing, next week could be it (or very close to it). There is no way Apple is going to let sales slip through its hands too long. People will only wait so long to get a new laptop. The refresh must be imminent.
We’ll know as soon as the Russians post a review of the M5 Pro model.
Did those people swear never ever to buy Apple again? If not, why would Apple care about it? Apple will do what they want.
I'm as ready as anyone to pull the trigger on a new M5 Pro MBP. But I'm also confident that Tim Cook didn't meet with his team one morning and ask, "How can we piss off the customers who are waiting to buy some of our most expensive products?".
I'm sure there is a good business or technical reason why the M5 Pro/Max MBPs haven't been announced yet. Eventually, they'll come.
they didnt promise to release Pro and MAX version of every cpu, so they might never come out either