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iPhone 17 Pro to Feature Apple-Designed Wi-Fi 7 Chip, Analyst Predicts
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40Gbps? Nice. But, this is more of a marketing thing, right? I mean you have to have all your equipment support these speeds, right? At least at home, I think it's rare to even have a 10Gbps backbone.
I guess Mac/iphone to Mac/iPhone would be fast. Make upgrading to new Mac machines faster. Good for Apple.
I guess Mac/iphone to Mac/iPhone would be fast. Make upgrading to new Mac machines faster. Good for Apple.
My 2021 14" M1 Pro MBP can connect to my WiFi 6 router at its full 1200 Mbps potential only when I'm at my home office desk which is directly next to the router. In my living room where I use the laptop most often I average 200-500 Mbps, at best because of all the walls between me and the router.
So you're 100% spot on. Still if I could triple or more my speeds from the living room it would make things like running network Time Machine backups to my NAS while casually browsing the web much less painful, even if it falls short of the 40 Gbps potential.
Love it, should be easier to make Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips themselves. Although I wonder why, these chips are cheap. I guess they can do it better somehow with their devices.
I wish they would bring back airport
I wish they would bring back airport
Since Apple got rid of all of their WiFi engineers when they dropped their Wireless Access Point products, Apple has struggled to get anything related to bluetooth or WiFi at the top of its class. I think the knowledgable engineers all left so they could have a future. Then again, Apple is not paying me to keep my opinions to myself like a lot of others here.
Would not buy that for at least 3 years after introduction and the first delivery. Apple marketing does not mean beens when you can't connect to anything to use your device.
It was a horrible decision to stop making their routers...
I'm currently exploring the possibility to use an M1 iMac with a wired Ethernet connection as a Wi-Fi access point for all mobile devices in my household. It supports Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and should theoretically support all older standards to their maximum capabilities. The large Apple logo on the back of iMacs always provided good signal strength in my experience. System Settings is still an unintuitive mess and there's not much trouble shooting you can do, if it doesn't just work out of the box. But if I don't need an extra router, I'm a happy customer. 😌
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WiFi7 is going to be the next "5G": a money grab that greatly under-delivers the industry's promises.
Consumers, please never take these "industry speeds" at face value. These "peak speeds" are a theoretical speed that ignores all radio noise, ignores protocol overhead, ignores all competing stations and clients, and assumes a zero meter distance and operation in a vacuum. Literally.
All the marketing materials and spec sheets that you see by the industry is total BS from the consumer's perspective.
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How can it be a money grab, if it's becoming a standard feature of every Apple Silicon chip? You used to only get an empty AirPort card slot and had to pay extra for the card. And people bought it, because wireless internet is what makes a notebook a mobile computer.
If anything it might be more expensive for Apple, but thats not really the point here. It would be about making it custom made for Apple and its needs. Make it small enough and with great energy efficiency and you can see this pop up in future Airpods, it would give you lossless etc. Better range than Bluetooth etc. This is more of a big picture type of move. You know how Apple products work easier almost magically with one another vs non apple products.
Think of this as an example, you get home you put the iPhone to charge, pop your future AirPods pros and you can hang out, outside the house in the back yard listening to music via wifi, playing with your garden or getting some sun, answer the call etc. Again this is more about integration and trying to get that magical feel vs saving a few cents here and there.
Bluetooth was conceived by Nokia and Ericsson as a short-range low-power technology for wireless headsets and other mobile peripherals. So I highly doubt that Wi-Fi will suddenly become smaller and more power-efficient. But if this technology can be integrated into an SoC which every iDevice needs anyway, then an entire chip and all the steps to produce, assemble and test it can be eliminated from the logic board.
Apple's vision is to become self-sufficient throughout their product line, and they're becoming so incrementally.
They gave up on the modem though. You can count on one hand the amount of people that truly understand Qualcomm's patents and how to design a modem from scratch.
Bluetooth needs to die at some point. The average person is somehow supposed to know that they need Bluetooth 5.3 Low Energy Audio to get the best quality? Still can't do simultaneous voice in stereo audio though. Custom 2.4 GHz protocols have lapped Bluetooth for last decade.
Early adopters of WiFi 7 get to pay a premium price. The routers will get cheaper as it becomes widely adopted.