That was because they always needed to wait to Intel for the release of their chips. Now they can have a more consistent release schedule.
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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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That was because they always needed to wait to Intel for the release of their chips. Now they can have a more consistent release schedule.
So don't use "Power" and just use "iBook" - iBook and iBook Pro... Of course, that would mean the device would need to close and have a hinge. Is that a long term given?
Lol. Yep. They’ll rush to do this for few arm Mac buyers. I look for it to be a platform for limited iOS apps. And a few of apples converted ones. An App Store will be the only way to load software.
What native 3rd party apps they’re are will slim pickings and limited versions at best.
For those wanting the future get an intel Mac. An arm Mac is a gimped Mac that may or may not pan out. And will take years even if it does.
Of course it will. Moving away from intel is much more expensive for Apple. Not cheaper.
Mmm... I reckon that people who buy the 16 and people who buy a 13 are by and large a different user market. In particular people who buy a 16 are very unlikely to buy a 13 because one of the fundamental reasons for buying the 16 is the screen real estate. You might get some people who mainly use the computer to drive a external screen but that has to be niche.
I don't regret my 13" MBP purchase this year at all. I'm thinking this ARM transition is going to be a roller coaster ride of what machine to buy and at what time to get the best value until the transition is done. It's going to be an interesting - and entertaining - period.
I own both. I use the 13" for surfing while watching TV, but also for making audio recordings for professional classes because it fits better in my sound booth. I use the 16" for development because as you suggest, there is more screen real estate.
Nope, your argument doesn’t fit with Mac Pro, Mac mini, iMac Pro and iMac.
They simply don’t care desktop market and it’s not only the cpus but also the GPUs. Vega is still the top tier choice for desktop Macs. A 3 year old gpus with premium price... There are people begging for rdna1 and those are still a year old cards now.
Still using a decade old design on iMac side is simply pathetic. Apple is huge. Miniscule PC vendors updates their laptops every year with cutting edge technology and most of the time they come up with a redesign. Tim’s Apple simply rip people off over the same design.
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Gotta love that not only is it not sensible to buy the current and recently released 2020 13" MacBook Pros (one's potential need for Intel-specific features aside), it's ALSO not sensible to buy its imminently arriving Apple Silicon (ARM-based) successor because within the next year, THAT Mac is getting a totally redesigned (and likely faster) 14.1" MacBook Pro successor!
The only Mac laptop that seems to be a safe buy (in terms of it not getting a refresh with a short shelf-life) seems to be the 16" MacBook Pro! What silly times we're living in!
The only Mac laptop that seems to be a safe buy (in terms of it not getting a refresh with a short shelf-life) seems to be the 16" MacBook Pro! What silly times we're living in!
Except if you bring the performance of the 13" in line or above the 16", is that extra 3" of screen worth £1000+? Sure there are people who will say yes, but they are reasonably high earners. Many, many people will say no especially since the smaller unit gives you greater portability and for that £1000 you could put a display in your home office and one in your office office and still have some change to go the pub with.
Apple has to test and reevaluate any time they change a GPU in the iMac. Test the performance, the thermals, compatibility and stability with the other hardware, drivers and driver combinations. Its work and more importantly risk to make such changes. They certainly could review these things more often by changing their processes a bit but they will never be like Dell and HP changing their lineups every five minutes.
Design doesn't need to be changed for the sake of change. Thats what other PC companies do and even people who love a particular model of Lenovo will typically buy something different when they replace it from another manufacturer. Apple iterates its designs as technology allows improvements but there are many classic design examples of everyday objects that are much more than 10 years old that are still popular today. Declaring such a practice pathetic is strange to be honest. I am sure Apple would rather you think of your iMac as more like a piece of designer furniture with the difference being that its functionality is relatively diminished as it ages, unlike a chair or a rug.
If you take everything Kuo says as gospel, sure.
Your explanation reflects my own anxiety about how Apple may handle this transition. Figuring out "the best" is going to get extremely complicated -- and it's already complex enough.
Like you said in the other thread, timing is key. If the Apple Silicon-based 13" MacBook Pro comes out in September alongside Big Sur (which I think is likely, given that they don't usually release anything past mid-November and macOS is usually a late September or early October release), and Apple, with Apple Silicon Macs, returns the MacBook Pro to it's previous 8-10 month release cycle, then a 14.1" one thereafter isn't out of the realm of being reasonable.
My point is that it's more unusual to know about multiple refreshes for a single product at a single time than it is to just know about the next one. But the more I think about it, that's not really super abnormal, especially when there's a design change down the road.
My sources tell me the first ARM Mac will be a 12” MacBook, which will be released in early November 2020. This will be followed by the 14” ARM MacBook Air (yes, 14”) in April of 2021. The 14” and the 16” ARM MacBook Pros won’t arrive until September of 2021, and they will feature a more powerful next generation ARM CPU. There’s also a possibility of the higher-end 16” ARM MacBook Pro to feature dual ARM CPUs.
Honestly, I think it won't be that bad. If you need anything Intel specific in terms of a 13" MacBook Pro, your course of action seems pretty cut and dried: buy an Intel one now before Big Sur releases to guarantee you don't miss out. Otherwise wait. If Apple's first couple of rounds with Apple Silicon are at all similar to the first couple with Intel, then it'll be better to wait until after the new design comes out (and maybe the first refresh thereafter to avoid Rev A syndrome). Or just buy a 13" MacBook Pro whenever you freakin' feel like it?
And those sources are...?
Nothing about ARM forces it to be low-power. The CPU found in the iPhone 11 Pro already beats modern i7s in single-core performance and isn't so far behind in multi-core. For all we know, they might be taking that and adding a lot more cores.
I'm excited, but I'll wait for the dust to settle before I upgrade.
Makes sense to start with the low power ones. But honestly now that they'll have chips that are actually able to work on passive cooled devices (iPad Pros, iPhones), not the core-M throttling clusterf*ck, why they keep playing around with a MB and a MBA? Just ditch both and make a single one having the best of both.
I also like the idea of a 14" MBP straightforward. Going for an ARM 13" MBP didn't make any sense if it was about to be redesigned anyway
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I contacted Affinity about this and they replied that they would have native versions of their apps ready to go when the first Apple Silicon Macs are released.
Understandable, those things even if they happen at rare instances are nerve wracking and send the feature to the “unfinished” feeling land.
I had a seemingly small issue with AirDrop, I Had switched to 100% OS X because of the convenience of many things (photo/vid sync, copy paste from device to device, multiscreen+multi desktop is pretty much nailed, trackpad is godlike there, etc etc etc)... but this one was killing me that it was so wonky. Later discovered that it was being connected to the office network via its VPN, no way around that yet.
Restarts, disconnects, plug/unplug along the day is indeed too much.
If Kuo's rumors map turn out to be true as is often the case, then the Mac lineup will be very confusing and unstable in 2020-22. Various close launches (i.e. 13" ARM MBP in late 2020, then new design in 2021 etc) and ARM/Intel split launches, etc.
I really hope Apple doesn't return to the confusing ~2016 era lineup where there was MacBook (non-Air, non-Pro), obsolete MBA, long overdue MBP refresh, iMac getting no love etc.
I really hope Apple doesn't return to the confusing ~2016 era lineup where there was MacBook (non-Air, non-Pro), obsolete MBA, long overdue MBP refresh, iMac getting no love etc.
I guess the question is when next year for the 16”, if it’s April or earlier then we may not see another Intel one, if it’s September or October then we will probably get a spec bump this year. I’m hoping as a 16” owner that we see intel ones for as long as possible just to keep the support date nice and long, would hate to not at least to be able to sell it on for £1k in 2 years!
I don't think that ever was a question. The benefit for the users will be better battery life and nothing more.