I am not against things getting better, but... displays today already look beautiful. Maybe we should concentrate on another technology?
No. Display technology has lots of room for improvement. LCD sucks and OLED is not durable enough.
I am not against things getting better, but... displays today already look beautiful. Maybe we should concentrate on another technology?
Nothing about ARM processors in the MacBook. It looks more and more like the rumour who won't die was just that, a rumour.
Apple is planning four to six products with mini-LED displays over the next two to three years, including a high-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro with an A14X chip in the third quarter of 2020 and a refreshed 16-inch MacBook Pro in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to well-known Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
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In a research note with TF International Securities today, obtained by MacRumors, Kuo said the mini-LED displays will "significantly improve productivity and the entertainment experience" without elaborating.
LG Display and GIS will be the most significant benefactors of these mini-LED products starting next year, according to Kuo.
Kuo has previously said that Mini-LED displays will allow for thinner and lighter product designs, while offering many of the same benefits of OLED displays used on the latest iPhones, including good wide color gamut performance, high contrast and dynamic range, and local dimming for truer blacks.
Kuo has also previously said that future iPad and MacBook displays will each use approximately 10,000 LEDs, compared to 576 in Apple's upcoming Pro Display XDR. Each LED would be below 200 microns in size.
Apple is widely rumored to refresh the iPad Pro in spring 2020, and if so, a new 12.9-inch model in fall 2020 would certainly be soon after.
Update: DigiTimes reports similar: "For the new MacBook said to adopt mini LED backlighting and to be released in 2020, its backlighting module reportedly will be supplied by Taiwan-based Zhen Ding Tech, the sources noted."
Article Link: Kuo: 12.9-Inch iPad Pro and 16-Inch MacBook Pro With Mini-LED Displays to Launch in Second Half of 2020
To be clear, this article is about Mini-LED, which is basically just TFT-LCD + LED backlighting as usual, but with smaller (and more) LEDs to improve contrast and reduce energy usage.
Micro-LED is a whole other thing.
Nothing about ARM processors in the MacBook. It looks more and more like the rumour who won't die was just that, a rumour.
You do realize the late 2018 iPad Pro is right there, and is plenty fast?
Still - although I'd be up for an ARM-based Mac, I'm skeptical - the Mac Pro commits Apple to Intel for at least 3 years, and the pro end of the market will be the hardest to move to ARM (...all those specialist plug-ins for pro media apps, for example) and the noises from the last WWDC still seemed to be about building up the iPad as a "real" computer.
The "ARM Macs in 2020" story from Intel could just have been Intel worst-casing as part of their "due diligence". Plus, its good for Apple if Intel don't take their custom for granted.
Of course, if the iMac gets upgraded in 2020 then all Macs will have ARM processors - in the form of the T2 chip, not their main CPU. Actually, I wouldn't bet against most Macs already having one or more ARMs in them - they crop up as embedded cpus in all sorts of stuff (like SSDs).
I don't like buying technology that is over a year old. The pay off is 5 years from now when Apple chooses to no longer support certain models.
Honestly, I’m pretty careful with my gadgets but I love to toss my iPad in a sleeve and put that in my bag. I’m pretty certain the new pro would have bent by now so I’d rather not take the gamble. Waiting to see how the new ones holdup
If it happens at all, I only see it on the low end for now.
On a 4GB/6GB iPad Pro? They still support my old 2GB 9.7” iPad Pro from early 2016 with the latest iPadOS.. the slow transition to larger amounts of RAM (they were still selling 2GB iPads until mid 2019!) makes me think they’ll support these iPads for a long time to come.I don't like buying technology that is over a year old. The pay off is 5 years from now when Apple chooses to no longer support certain models.
I know its not as good as the graphics of the a12x but the a13 might be cheaper and runs cooler which was why i suggested it
I think there's plenty of potential for ARM in mid-range laptops, minis and all-in-ones for people who are ready and able to re-think their workflow a bit. People tend to think in terms of sticking an iPhone/iPad Pro processor in a bigger box and calling it a Mac - but there already 32 core ARM server processors etc. and the pick'n'mix nature of ARM means that a serious caller like Apple can tailor systems-on-a-chip with the right combination of CPU cores/speeds, iGPU and other acceleration gizmos built in.
E.g. the current problem with the Mac Mini is that intel doesn't make a desktop-class CPU with anything other than a bare minimum iGPU. Apple could build a great ARM SOC for both the Mini and the mid-range iMacs.
Still, I think the main flaw in the trashcan idea was to offer it instead of a PCIe tower rather than as an alternative.
The other problem is x86 virtualisation - if you really need that, end of argument.
However, I think the days of masses of people needing Windows to run odd bits of obscure software are receding as web and smartphone apps take over (plus, Ding! Dong! Internet Explorer is dead!) - and if you need an X86 linux VM because your special-snowflake node.js or python code somehow contrives not to work on ARM Linux, just spin one up in the cloud for $5/month (billable by the day). OK, that won't work for everybody, this minute, but looking forward... Then look at all the iOS and Android developers who might benefit from the availability of native ARM virtualisation... Not to mention the emerging interest in ARM as a server platform (although, to be consistent, you can spin up an ARM Linux server in the cloud).
Basically, though, Apple would have to be prepared for a slow transition, and make sure that they continued to offer a credible range of Intel machines alongside ARM for a substantial period - not let them go to seed for years and then try and force the New Paradigm on people who aren't ready (*cough* Mac Pro twice, Mac Mini, even the 2015 MBP to a point... plus iMac Pro if it doesn't get a bump soon)
Speed isn’t an issue. My 2017 is still plenty fast. I’m disappointed the only screen innovation between the 2nd and 3rd gen was edge to edge. Would also like to see a little more weight be shed (the 12.9 has gotten a bit lighter with every generation)You do realize the late 2018 iPad Pro is right there, and is plenty fast?
I think that would have relegated the trash can to the same fate as the Power Mac G4 Cube:
Whom would the trash can have been for if there had also been a tower?
That's true, but in the short term, not having x86 virtualization is going to be rather painful for developers, which is a significant market segment for the MacBook Pro.
Increasingly, Apple has been missing their own product development deadlines. My guess is that they will bypass A13X and go straight to A14X and incorporate WiFi-6 in the same stroke. Their entire hardware product line has reached a quasi stasis and become commodities. Their competition will soon be catching up.
Does anyone really care about MiniLED? Yesterday a friend seeked my advise to buy a used Mac. His son wants to start app development. What should I tell him? Should I tell him about the keyboard that sucks and is likely to break. Should I tell him about soldered RAM and SSD so this thing can't be repaired or upgraded? Should I tell him that 256GB is enough to start but if his son needs more disk space he needs a new laptop?
"Get a Mac" turned into "DON'T BUY" and I don't see an Apple computer without rivets and glue in the next years.
To be precise QLED but it is not so important because I just wanted to highlight that competitors started picture quality revolution in laptop products which was and is main strength of Apple products. So if they will not show something breathtaking I suppose that they can loose also photo video entusiasts or just Netflix / HBO fans (oops in case of Netflix they failed long time ago not supporting ultra quality on Safari).what microled ultrabooks ??? again? MICRO-led or mini led? again pixels in microled are too big and thats why for now we have microled big TVs...for a laptop....i hardly believe what you heard is true...or you are mistaken, like a lot of people microled with mini led
Whether QLED amounts to picture quality revolution is debatable. QLED (contrary to microLED which remains a unicorn) retains drawbacks of LED screens and for me miniLED is a step in the right direction, toward an emissive display. Given how many dimming zones Apple is rumored to put into miniLED, we can have experience close to OLED without it's common issues. We may get substantial power savings too.To be precise QLED but it is not so important because I just wanted to highlight that competitors started picture quality revolution in laptop products which was and is main strength of Apple products. So if they will not show something breathtaking I suppose that they can loose also photo video entusiasts or just Netflix / HBO fans (oops in case of Netflix they failed long time ago not supporting ultra quality on Safari).
Any news regarding the mini-LED displays coming to MacBook Pro 16 as someone who just needs to decide to whether to buy it now or wait for the 2nd gen including mini-LED display? Thanks in advance!