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M6 MacBook Pro Expected This Year With Apple's First 2nm Chip

randomthoughts said:
Could they just slow it down a bit. It’s stupid to have so many chip generations for computers annually.

G3 was around 97-03
G4 99-06
G5 03-06

Could my M4 MacBook Pro that I spent $2,000 on not be obsolete so quickly?
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My opinion is that you are misunderstanding the benefits of rapid chip upgrade cadence. First, your M4 laptop is in no way obsolete. Even the M1 machines aren’t really obsolete, though it can certainly be said they are less performant and functional in mid 2026, depending on what you do. In order for your M4 Pro to be obsolete, we would need to see workflows that haven’t really arrived. Yet.

Second, the PowerPC (and eventually both the Motorola and Intel) lineup history shows you just how important it is to keep up a frequent cadence. If you don’t, you get passed and better alternatives take your market share. Jobs begged to have better performing and lower-power-utilizing PowerPC options for years prior to the switch to Intel. He said he couldn’t make either the MacBook Air or the iPhone with the kind of performance/power envelope IBM and Motorola could provide on that product line. Look at both those product categories now; they are imitated so much it is hard to keep count.

Let Apple (and TMSC and ASML) push ahead as fast as it can, if the result is better product. It may be that new, major uses cases (and form factors) do arise. But at the least, I’m definitely a fan of longer battery life at the current performance levels in electronics without adding more weight. Apple advertises “all day battery life”, but I use my devices so much and for so long that none even comes close to functioning on one full charge for the entire day. Perhaps your workflow is quite different.
 
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UltimateSyn said:
Huh? Does this mean the rumored 2026 14”/16” OLED MacBook Pros are getting carryover M5 chips, will only be available with base M6 chips to start, or that they’re delayed into 2027?
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That’s what I was thinking. The OLED MacBook Ultra might not have a Pro/Max chip in it… If that’s the case, I’m a hard pass.
 
Apple won’t get another dollar from me on hardware until my current devices no longer work whatsoever. And I’ve always been someone willing to spend some cash on Apple products… these bizarre hikes have taken those sails and shredded them on the beach.
 
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Tyler O'Bannon said:
I bet the AI accelerators in each GPU core will be improved a lot. These things are about to go wild in the “built for AI” race
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The price may be the biggest downside. We know unified memory is excellent for running larger models, but unfortunately AI performance isn’t linear, going from 32B to 70B to 120B, 400B doesn’t produce proportional gains. In many real world workloads a well-optimized 32B model on a fast GPU can outperform the work of running a much larger model on slower hardware.
 
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transpo1 said:
That’s what I was thinking. The OLED MacBook Ultra might not have a Pro/Max chip in it… If that’s the case, I’m a hard pass.
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Then it should not be called MacBook Ultra but MacBook for the Stupids.

I was planning to buy the Ultra when it is released this Fall or earlier Winter. Now I have to change plan.
So the best would be to get the latest M5 Pro MacBook Pro and don't get the Ultra until at least 2028 if it is noticably lighter, has a higher resolutions and notchless screen? I am not against the touch screen but OLED does not excite me. The current screen type is fine with me.
 
Today's price hikes scotched a premium-configuration M5 Max MacBook Pro I was hours away from buying — Apple raised the price by 40% for the config I planned. My M1 Pro MacBook Pro will carry on a few more years while I try to wait out the RAM/SSD bubble. I'm thinking Apple's going to see a profound effect from this decision today.
 
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randomthoughts said:
Could they just slow it down a bit. It’s stupid to have so many chip generations for computers annually.

G3 was around 97-03
G4 99-06
G5 03-06

Could my M4 MacBook Pro that I spent $2,000 on not be obsolete so quickly?
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Two things conflict against that. Apple wants to sell new computers and people in the market for new computers want to buy one that’s actually “new”. 😀
 
I am happy with the M5 Max I bought prior to price increases. Lets see what things are like in two or three years. This machine will still be great in five years though.
 
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Eithanius said:
What’s the point…? Everything is so expensive nowadays with AI…! Might as well just cloud compute…
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That is what they want. To remove all processing power from our hands so that we ware completely beholden to them for EVERYTHING.

We will then have to pay them an ever increasing cost per month for access to “our” data which they actually now also own.

Yeah. Nah. Better not wish for that because they spalyign right into their blood soaked Epstein class hands.
 
Good to hear about this. The new MacBook could be costlier than it is today. If the mini and iMac does not launch next week with M5, along with back to school offers then I think it will be updated in October, only after back to school offer ends and probably with M6.
 
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If this is truly the case, then the M5 MacBook Pros with Pro/Max chips won’t be replaced until late 2027, which would be very very odd.
 
For some reason, "better power efficiency" always means "more heating". Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
 
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