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Kuo: Two Redesigned MacBook Pros in 2021 and New MacBook Air in 2022, All With Apple Silicon and Mini-LED Displays
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Darth Tulhu
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OK, I meant to say know and/or love.
And I thought this was implied, but I'll add "in my (not so) humble opinion" as a prefix.
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Right. It's so great that it's ONLY on the MacBook Pros, and Apple already backpedaled a bit on it's "flexible" design by adding the ESC key back.
BetterTouchTool is wonderful no question, and if I had a Mac with a TouchBar it would almost be irresponsible not to use it because I paid for it, and it's there, so...
But do I want it? No. Need it? Nope. Find it useful when presented with no other choice? Sure.
That's the Apple way, isn't it?
I was referring to MacBook Pro 16" next year, at least the 16" will have a chip that is larger die size if they intend to have it operate on 50W+ The current SoC are already pushing it at 25W. Which only fits MacBook Pro 13" with room to spare. ( Or Apple decide to go thinner again )
Really? I didn’t see this in any article. I thought they are the exact same chip.
I'd like a version with real keys up there, but they have oled displays in them so their function can change. Also the new oled like the Apple Watch that stays on the whole time. tapping to wake the Touch Bar is even more annoying than the Touch Bar itself
Better make it 64GB on the 16”, and could also use a 27” mini-LED AppleDisplay to couple with it.
Don’t we all miss magsafe? I think even Apple must miss it (proprietary chargers?), though EU is pushing towards non-sense “universal” charging interface.
I hope that by "affordable" they mean 700 or less on the MBAir. By 2022 this stuff should be fairly mature and might have some decent Windows on ARM support.
Technically agree, but Let’s hope they also promote, and allure developers into Metal, as without Metal optimization in pro software, I presume things will not get better for pro users...also hopping, without much faith, I must confess, for discrete graphics.
Higher Peak Brightness is not likely to increase battery life for screens that are not dominated by black/dark content. It will help with high range color reproduction (via local dimming/brightness).
If have dozens of more lights and have to compute which ones are on and what level that is a harder problem than just 1-4 lights and you get whatever the results are.
Folks who put the screen theme into "dark mode" and darken out lots or areas on the screen then yes. ( if turning more of the additional lights off then they don't consume power. ). Similarly if can put the peak brightness into just one zone and leave the rest in lower brightness. But all of that is varying by the screen content. The classic word processor/spreadsheet on bright white screen with small black text probably isn't going to drive big power savings.
Deep Blacks dominating the screen for vast majority of the time isn't really a widespread "norm".
No, keep it - use it all the time... much prefer it to a touchscreen.
More lights and more control processing for the lights may not bring energy savings on many regular mainstream screens. If can turn most of the them offf ( or way down ) with a dark mode theme perhaps. But that is content based savings, not really the tech.
If vast majority of the content is bring and complex dynamics scenes then could use more. The XDR monitor has fans in it. Most monitors don't . ( yes, it is being held to higher color accuracy but it is also producing heat with its array and the associated processing. ).
Actually not. The Mini wouldn't have to backslide on port allocation and display support if it wasn't an addition volume outlet for the others.
Apple primary approach with their processor design to date as been to use the same SoC as "hand me down" into several product. The mainstream iPad line up is entirely phone SoCs . Homepod .... really old phone processors. Apple TV really old iPad Pro processor. The Apple watch is now sharing efficiency cores design with iPhone SoC . etc. etc. (and all watches $300-3,000 all come with same SoC for a given generation. )
Apple isn't super customizing this to each every Mac product. They are probably working toward the minimal set they can get away with. Apple hasn't previously pushed the GPU envelope on the 21.5" class iMacs so pretty good chance whatever the MBP 16" gets will be dropped in an iMac 21-24" model also. ( along with a 4 port MBP 13" ).
Similarly the half sized Mac Pro rumors are indicative to Apple "walking back" the Mac Pro to something closer to an iMac 27" SoC. ( dumping most of the slots because major chucking of i/O bandwidth provisioning ).
On the whole the M-series is probably generally going to be closer coupled to laptop requirements than desktops ones. Apple will extend the performance so get some bump on the desktops eventually rolled out to but brings "power usage" savings to those system is likely going to be principle side effect.
It wasn't two companies in the current Intel era. The larger GPU vendor in the current Mac space is Intel. Not the AMD vs Nvidia fan boy wars that commonly boil the forum threads here.
That is Apple's primary target. The dGPUs in the MBP 16" is next in line. ( as stated above that will probably have a happy side effect for Apple of covering the bottom half of iMac line up with a "good enough" solution also. ). Volume wise that is probably large double digit percentage of the dGPU component purchases that Apple does. An Unified Memory iGPU with bigger caches and lots more bandwidth could cover that with just incremental modifications.
But iMac 27 , iMac Pro , and Mac Pro. That's probably more so putting an iGPU common floor under all of those rather than replacing all of the dGPU options there. Replacing every single dGPU that Apple buys would be a dubious move for Apple. As they go up product line up , the volume goes way, way ,way down. [ The Mac Pro comes with a 580X or W5500 starting point. They'd only really need to just get within a reasonable distance of that to call it quits (provision a virtualized interface for native iPhone apps to run on) and just punt work on the rest of the range to third parties through the available slot(s). ]
Apple's super high priority on energy efficiency is probably going to keep them in the "Unified Memory" GPU zone. Which at some point in the super high , embarrassingly parallel computation space ... starts to loose traction. Just way more cores than going to get around a single centralized , limited size "System cache" just won't cut it.
I can't imagine the power savings from this combination. Hopefully Apple is able to come up with their own DLSS alternative.
You can do all of those things with buttons that already existed on-screen that didn't require you shifting your focus from screen to keyboard(and back again once you've hit the "button"). Alternatively, virtually everything on a Touch Bar can be done with keyboard shortcuts. The only positive thing the Touch Bar has done is make it easier for lazy users to find features instead of using the menus. For intermediate/advanced users I suspect it's 100% a hindrance.
Will the redesign include the Touch Bar as an option?
There are people out there who need to get actual work done!
There are people out there who need to get actual work done!
my personal theory is that apple will wait until 2022 to release a compact MacBook because they need to workout the keyboard in the previous 12 inch MacBook and redesign. it will be a 12.5 or 12.9 inch MacBook and the Air will get dropped. it will be 2 lb and will have an M2, 8 core. The current air is as thick as my 16 inch MacBook Pro on the top end and weighs as much as the 13 pro. there is no need for the Air. its too fat and and heavy for what it is supposed to be. the new 13 MacBook will have a regular LCD and will see for $999 or $899 and will be the best choice for travel and students cue to cost and compact size. Also everyone loves that MacBook just like they loved the iPhone SE 1. due to the release of iPhone mini I feel Apple is listening to what people want and before 2017, apple was releasing the 12 inch yearly. The new M chips are ideal because the point of the 12 inch was to be fanless and portable and the 13 Air isnt all that portable. This is why ill wait until Apple gives me the laptop I want. then ill keep it til its dead because its not for editing 10 bit raw videos anyways. come on apple. roll out the 2 lb MacBook 12.9" for $899. I'll pre-order same day of announcement.
I think it's great that we will get much cheaper 14" and 16" MacBook Pros.
Oh wait, a research note, not a rumour from Ming. Everyone bow down for the he is here!
Shh, I hear voices, they're telling me a device will be launched to the market, it'll have this screen, a new chip and a keyboard, you won't pay less than previous models, but more!
Shh, I hear voices, they're telling me a device will be launched to the market, it'll have this screen, a new chip and a keyboard, you won't pay less than previous models, but more!