He doesn't mention touchscreens. I think that all Apple Silicon Macs will ship with a touchscreen (based on OS12 and native-running iOS apps). Am I right?
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Kuo: Apple Silicon Macs to Include 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Air This Year, 14.1-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro Models Next Year
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Apple just update the 13" MBP with the new 10th gen intel chip, and they are going to update it again before the end of this year ?
Meanwhile the 16" MBP only got BTO option on the GPU and won't see any update until Q3 2021 ?
wow. just wow.
This is actually a good time to invest in the 16" MBP for the last intel model and won't see an update until next year.
Meanwhile the 16" MBP only got BTO option on the GPU and won't see any update until Q3 2021 ?
wow. just wow.
This is actually a good time to invest in the 16" MBP for the last intel model and won't see an update until next year.
I get excited about the possibilities when I hear "all new form factor design," but then I realize that this is considered "a major redesign"...
"Power button integrated into TouchBar" and "redesigned arrow keys" doesn't get my blood pumping.
"Power button integrated into TouchBar" and "redesigned arrow keys" doesn't get my blood pumping.
Nope, never going to happen. New industrial designs are going to be Apple Silicon only.
Except apple isn't really using emulation this time. Applications get converted at install (so it only happens once) rather than in realtime as before with emulation.
With mini-LED. Me too.
I am still concerned about this transition. If Apple were really prepared to make an architectural transition, I would expect all consumer machines to transition this year and professional machines by next year. The rumored update to yet another Intel chip for the iMac does not inspire confidence in Apple's silicon for me.
This makes more sense. Then Apple's lineup would be 12", 14", 16" as some of us have been wanting for a while.
It should have been AMD. Somewhere somebody at Apple mixed up which A-based processor should be used in professional machines.
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I would definitely be interested in looking at the 14.1 Apple Silicon as a possible replacement for my 16". Likely be nearly as fast and run a lot cooler. Hopefully with a buttery smooth 120Hz display like they use in the iPad Pros.
Sounds like MiniLED display production is lagging behind the earlier projections from MCK and others, so what was originally assumed to be a late 2020 release for these new MiniLED Macs with Intel CPUs is now early-to-mid 2021, which makes them now "eligible" to move to Apple Silicon and that change could push them back into late 2021 or early 2022.
Can someone clarify whether Citrix Workspace will work on the upcoming lineup? I know nothing about virtualization software.
Clearly you didn't hear Tim Cook say during the last WWDC "We still have many Intel Macs to present".
As a desktop user I'd like to see a reasonably-priced Mini with Apple silicon come out fairly early on to be used as a test-bed system. I know I could just buy a low-end laptop and run it on an external monitor, but I'm cheap and don't like spending money on things I don't need (screen, batteries, touchpad, etc).
Yes you can have a bottom of line MacBook Pro, the question is would you want one? The i9 processor has plenty of horsepower for a while.
The 15” was the first to get retina screen and the first to get Touch Bar. I’d be surprised if the 16” didn’t get AS first. Unless the 13” is as powerful as the current 16”.
Hope my 2016 15.4'' MBP makes it. Fingers crossed, it started intermediately showing symptoms of the flexgate issue the last few months. Hopefully the screen makes it as $600 for a used replacement display doesn't really vibe with me. Being an early adopter of an ARM 16'' MBP with a different form factor definitely rocks my boat though.
I'm hoping the previous rumor holds true. I currently have a 2017 15" MBP, and will be eligible to upgrade to a new one this fall through my employer. It would be great if there is one more (final) Intel based 16" MBP I could upgrade to. Then in another 3 years, I can switch to Apple Silicon when all the rough edges have been smoothed out.
Seriously, the design is quite decent. If there's a choice, to ask for an overhaul design vs shoving in rtx 2080 level graphic inside, i would opt for later. I want the iMac to deliver power enough run any games nicely. I don't want all the extra stuff that comes with iMac pro, just a regular iMac with a mammoth graphic card inside.
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Macbooks have hardly gone any redesign since the unibody, they have slimmed it only, But then if you make something simple and sleek, there's not much designing you can do in it anyway, unless you start making in un-clean and clutter with things.