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Is it just me or is there more hype for the Mac October event than the iPhone event??

loby said:
Just recently I was doing a presentation with my MacBook Air 2013 laptop. A worker not paying attention walked by and knocked the power cord and it ripped out of the laptop. If I did not have a MagSafe power adapter, but a now usb-c power adapter like the current MacBook Air, the laptop would have flown to the floor and probably broke.

But..all the worker did was pick up the MagSafe power cord off the floor and plug it back into the laptop and say, “Oh, I am sorry..”. The laptop did not move when the cord was yanked off. Again, the force of the yank would have sent the laptop flying…

so plus one for MagSafe, but it can be designed to be used with a usb-c port and just attach off. I have seen third party MagSafe adapters for usb-c (don’t have one), so it should be easily done.
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My wife was careless on a lightening cable hooked up to my iPad mini 5 and it wound up breaking off a piece of the connector inside the iPad. She was able to get the piece out. The iPad mini is in a very sturdy cases so it did not suffer any damage but a laptop would have.

I am surprised that there aren't really good MagSafe-like solutions with USB-C charging these days. Apple really seem to have gotten it right with MagSafe I and MagSafe II. It's saved my 2014 and 2015 MacBook Pros a few times.

Other good reasons (besides people tripping or being careless) are pets and kids.
 
Kung gu said:
More people are excited for the M1X macs than the iPhones and I am one of them. I fully get the the M1X Mac is just way more interesting than an iPhone.

I won't be buying them anytime soon but I am VERY interested in the M1X as a tech nerd.
Anyone else feel the same??

Can't wait for next week!!
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It depends on forums you see Hype from nerds and we are exited for the long awaited M1X. For sure most people are more exited by new iPhones.
 
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Kung gu said:
More people are excited for the M1X macs than the iPhones and I am one of them. I fully get the the M1X Mac is just way more interesting than an iPhone.

I won't be buying them anytime soon but I am VERY interested in the M1X as a tech nerd.
Anyone else feel the same??

Can't wait for next week!!
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I feel like I’m in the minority. I couldn’t care less about Macs nor this upcoming event. Maybe it’s because I went all-in on Apple around 2004 or so with the iPod and then took it from there. I’ve owned two MacBook Pro’s in the past 8 years and I never feel like I need to upgrade.
 
pshufd said:
Last time I bought a new MacBook Pro was 2014. I don't recall when I bought my iPhone 7+ but I'll assume five years ago. The performance upgrade on the phone is great but I spend a lot more time on Macs than on my phone.
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I bought a MacBookPro16,1 last year(?), and it's been a rather disappointing thing in my life. Lagging, stalling, and downright seizures. Typing along, and the system is still on the word I typed over a minute ago. I haven't opened a case because others inflicted with the same diseases say all Apple does is want to swap it, and/or then deny there is a problem. It was an unexpected purchase due to me waiting until my butterfly keyboard got 'bad enough', and was outside their generous repair/replacement time. It generally works well, but goes through fits of obstinate behavior and sullen mood... Not impressed, disappointed actually, but at least the keyboard works. Small victory there... It does *seem* better with the new update, but I haven't been using it as much either.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
I bought a MacBookPro16,1 last year(?), and it's been a rather disappointing thing in my life. Lagging, stalling, and downright seizures. Typing along, and the system is still on the word I typed over a minute ago. I haven't opened a case because others inflicted with the same diseases say all Apple does is want to swap it, and/or then deny there is a problem. It was an unexpected purchase due to me waiting until my butterfly keyboard got 'bad enough', and was outside their generous repair/replacement time. It generally works well, but goes through fits of obstinate behavior and sullen mood... Not impressed, disappointed actually, but at least the keyboard works. Small victory there... It does *seem* better with the new update, but I haven't been using it as much either.
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I've had the 2007 MacBook Pro 17, the 2014 MacBook Pro 15 and the 2015 MacBook Pro 15. These were all great systems for me. I got ten years out of the 2007 (it became my backup). I've no doubt that the 2014 will last ten years. The plan is to sell the 2015 and keep the 2014 as a backup for the M1X. 2016-2019 were years I deliberately skipped because of the known problems. So overall, I've been pretty lucky. The 2015 was a used purchase that was cheap because the body was so banged up.
 
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vertical smile said:
A side note, I am really looking forward to MagSafe for one main reason. My wife uses a Mid 2012 MBA for you business, and MagSafe has saved it many times.
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I think many overlook the other really cool “feature” about MagSafe, which is the ease of being able to connect the cable to the MacBook with one hand. No need to hold the MacBook in order to insert the usb-c cable. If the new MacBooks offer the ability to attach the MagSafe charger or usb-c cable as desired, while still offering ample usb-c ports, that would be an out of the park home run to many.

Now, if the new MagSafe is implemented more like the iphone, where it’s not a direct MagSafe cable connection like before but instead something more like a wireless charging solution that requires you to pick up the macbook to orient the wireless connection properly (which would be more cumbersome than plugging in usb-c), my first thought is that this would not be nearly as elegant as the original MagSafe solution. But I guess we’ll see all around. Apple is famous for coming up with a fancy new way of doing things that has aspects of being more inconvenient than before, so now I’m kind of nervous.
 
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Yep. There's been loads of iPhone events and iPad events over recent years with incremental changes, there's been one very exciting Apple Silicon event, but only for lower end devices. This was followed by the more exciting redesigned iMacs, but only with those same lower-end chips in. There's never been a high-end Apple Silicon device released ever, and it's somewhat of a redesign too.

So it's definitely the most exciting event since the M1, which was the most exciting in a good while, and personally more exciting for me as I want the larger higher end devices.
 
With all the leaks, we basically knew what the iPhone 13 was going to be.

Apple has been better at keeping the details of the MacBook Pros a secret.
 
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Kung gu said:
More people are excited for the M1X macs than the iPhones and I am one of them. I fully get the the M1X Mac is just way more interesting than an iPhone.
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Well - as other people have pointed out - the iPhone 13 is a rather boring incremental upgrade whereas the M1X MacBook Pros (and maybe Minis or 27" iMac replacements - but I'm not holding my breath) are a major development, and only the second "totally re-designed for Apple Silicon" products after the 24" iMac.

Apart from that, though, the pandemic and increased working-from-home and remote learning - has created a resurgence of interest in full-sized laptops and desktops (e.g. https://fortune.com/2021/01/11/covid-computer-sales-lenovo-hp-dell-apple/ or google "laptop sales boom") after years during which phones and tablets were the new shiny thing, and laptops were old hat.

Obviously this is going to roll back somewhat over the next year or two - whether working from home is a good thing depends on (a) the details of your job and (b) the comfort of your home - but for a lot of people it is a good thing that they're going to want to hang on to.

I think phones are also getting to the point where they're already more than small enough and fast enough for their primary duty - i.e. personal communications - which is why you'd be forgiven for seeing the ads and thinking that the iPhone 13 is some sort of pocket movie studio that maybe - in a pinch - you could use to send someone an instant message (I seem to remember some period drama that showed our forebears using their 'cellphones' to make things called 'phone calls' - but you can't trust what you see on TV). I don't think anything really interesting is going to happen to the iPhone now until they crack the thru-the-screen selfie cam & face ID and go edge-to-edge notchless.
 
The hype is bigger because it’s been a while since the MBP has received an update. But personally I don’t upgrade my Mac as often as I upgrade my iPhone so the September event is much more exciting for me.
 
The M1 runs very favorably compared to Intel/AMD CPUs.
I want to see how well they can compete with NVidia/AMD GPUs.
If this AR/VR thing takes off, we'll need all the GPU we can get.
 
arn said:
I commented last year when the M1 Mac came out, how excited people were about the benchmarks. This is carry over of same.

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LOL the Powerbook G5 that we waited forever for and then got served up the 1.67 GHz G4. I had the 17" G4 and for the time, the thing was thin, sleek, and light. A few years later after hauling it all over a college campus, I no longer found it to be light in any way.

Computers have come a long way, but I do miss the glowing apple.
 
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Kung gu said:
More people are excited for the M1X macs than the iPhones and I am one of them. I fully get the the M1X Mac is just way more interesting than an iPhone.

I won't be buying them anytime soon but I am VERY interested in the M1X as a tech nerd.
Anyone else feel the same??

Can't wait for next week!!
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I definitely am because I really am hoping to be able to replace my aging and slowly dying 8 year old 13" MacBook Pro with one of the new 14" models. I got an iPhone mini 12 last year (LOVE IT) so this years models, while nice, are not a big enough of an upgrade for me to have been excited about.
 
Honestly just looking anywhere Apple you'll find more hype for Apple Silicon than a small update to the iPhone's. I'm certainly getting an M1X system as my current 15" MBP is nearly dead so it will be nice having a new system.
 
That’s because the iPhone isn’t important to Apple anymore so we know not to get excited about it. Apples focus is services, they have 30 times the engineers working on aerobics videos than the number who work on new iPhones.
 
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Can’t we be both? I was really looking forward to upgrading my iPhone XS and find the 13 pro to be a very special zero regret purchase. I am also very much looking forward to a M1X MBP that I feel will be a very big upgrade to my 2017 MBP that just loves to spin its fans.
 
redbeard331 said:
That’s because the iPhone isn’t important to Apple anymore so we know not to get excited about it. Apples focus is services, they have 30 times the engineers working on aerobics videos than the number who work on new iPhones.
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the mac has been getting more dedicated events last year was M1 and this year M1X macs. looks like Macs are in the spotlight again for Apple.
 
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Nah I’m just an iPhone guy so for me no interest. I loved MacBook pros at college but now work pays for laptops haha

To be honest if I was getting one for personal use, I probably wouldn’t get a MacBook, because for personal use I would need windows, and that’s probably why I have an iPad. Basic media consumption.
the M1 and upcoming M1X are mighty impressive though.
 
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