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'M1 Pro' and 'M1 Max' Chip Names Appear in App Log Ahead of Monday's Apple Event

One year cycle for iPhones, 1.5 year cycle for iPads, 2 year cycle for Macs; seems like by the time a new Mac chip comes around, the underlying tech should be pretty solid...?
 
Boil said:
One year cycle for iPhones, 1.5 year cycle for iPads, 2 year cycle for Macs; seems like by the time a new Mac chip comes around, the underlying tech should be pretty solid...?
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Not for me, macs will be yearly once the Covid disruption passes, it will be iPhone chips, lower powered m’s and then mx’s
 
Not concerned about the name, just want to know if there will be more than 16GB RAM!
 
I think the likelihood of these names being used is close to zero for the simple fact that it would create innumerable Who’s on First situations with Max sounding the same as Macs. M1 Max Macs? I don’t think so.
 
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does anyone think it doesnt make sense to use M1 Pro and M1 Max designations for same devices? ie, M1 Max is actually big badass chip for new Mac Pro?
 
More consumer friendly names makes perfect sense given that consumer are used to quantifying power on computers. Instead of "i9 11900k", Apple does M1 Max
 
andrewxgx said:
does anyone think it doesnt make sense to use M1 Pro and M1 Max designations for same devices? ie, M1 Max is actually big badass chip for new Mac Pro?
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Yea, I can see that... so M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max may be the three chips and ranges of power. Feels Apple enough.
 
tyranne201 said:
who cares about chip names?
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You. You care about chip names.

If Apple made two chips for Macbooks. Would you rather pick from:

rsdg2y34255672fg@@#45 and daae56^qdfgyyw

or would you rather pick from

M1 and M1 Pro?

I agree that what it's called ultimately doesn't matter, but my point is that now that they're making their own chips, they'll want an easy way for people to refer to what they want or what they have.
 
If we take iphone nomenclature as a base, pro means better but max only means bigger, I mean, the Iphone 13 Pro is better than the normal lineup in the sense that it has a better camera, more ram, better gpu, etc... but the max version is identical to the normal pros just... bigger. I wonder how it will work on M1 chips, maybe max instead of being a higher GPU model, is the pro chip with expanded capabilities for RAM, ports or something but same pro CPU/GPU power.
 
Nice for all of you who wanted what Apple offered today :)

But no desktop Mac's for us who wanted that. Nothing. Nada 😡😰

I like however that they make shorter and broadcast events more often 😁

So when are next event? Looking forward to that then. In another month, hopefully 😐🤞
 
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