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MacBook Pro With Touch Screen and New Mac Studio Likely 'Postponed'
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You sound like Steve Balmer slating the iPhone. Microsoft had no vision about music player or phones.
YOU don't want a touch screen on a Mac. Many other people do. There are workflows you have zero idea about.
Apple vision is incredible and used in lots of industries you clearly know nothing about. I've made about 250K from it so far. They it become it's proper potential it will sell billions and will be the end of monitors and purely 2d User interfaces.
So Apple has long term pricing deals and production quotas on Memory for Desktops and laptops. No idea how long they run for though. Part of the reason they can price PC machines ironically out of the market.
I am pretty shocked Apple hasn't just bought a FAB or started their own at this point.
I am pretty shocked Apple hasn't just bought a FAB or started their own at this point.
“Bloomberg's Mark Gurman …….”
Anytime you see this just stop reading, this guy just makes things up.
Anytime you see this just stop reading, this guy just makes things up.
Gurman is like most millennials... often wrong, but never in doubt.
Apple would not have been courting AI influencers to push Mac Studios for local models if they were going to wait till Q4 to debut the new Mac Studio. Gurman will be proven wrong once again.
Apple would not have been courting AI influencers to push Mac Studios for local models if they were going to wait till Q4 to debut the new Mac Studio. Gurman will be proven wrong once again.
Gurman is the worst for this.
Apple never postponed anything that wasn't officially announced
The likes of Gurman try to save face by saying things are delayed when they are nothing of the sort.
Still, as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Why stop at iPad... I'd rather an iPhone that runs iOS when mobile and then macOS when docked via USB-C to a Display (with Bluetooth KB/M). It would be charged all day, theoretically be used as a trackpad in landscape mode, and then be ready to continue use on the way home from work/school etc as a mobile device.
The MacBook Neo is proof that macOS can run perfectly fine on a mobile chip. It's time to bring the Dex experience fully to the Apple ecosystem and for Apple to claim it as their own.
I just really can not believe Apple misses out on 1. the revenue and 2. risks to piss off the high-need professionals by not being able to deliver the M4 or the new M5 Mac Studios. Makes no sense. They are not amateurs.
I still put a bet on WWDC or even earlier for the new Mac Studio.
I still put a bet on WWDC or even earlier for the new Mac Studio.
ItsASpider
macrumors regular
This is such a dumb claim to make when for the better part of 2 years the big story has been "when are all these features Apple announced for Apple Intelligence actually going to come out?".
To your last point, people complain because they want to be seen by other people, complaining is an effective way of getting attention. Unlikely that Apple will change their HW plans or pricing regardless of what people in this thread have to say about this rumored change.
Factories that can make the kind of memory needed cost billions and years to build. Unless demand drops drastically, there are going to be supply issues for years.
Outside of the M1, this was always the case for the Mac Studio. I have begun to despise Apple's treatment to the desktop lineup. Ever since the 2013 trash can Mac Pro they have had nothing but poor treatment to their pro customers. Heck even the Mac mini is lagging. I DO NOT WANT A LAPTOP, give your desktops more attention. Geez!
This has always been the case. Mac Studio never got an M3 Max, so we were stuck with the M2 Max/M2 Ultra until the M4 Max/M3 Ultra was released. And the Ultra being M3 instead of M4. I am just baffled at Apple's treatment to their desktops.
Yeah....macOS will become the next Windows 8 movement. People said this same thing about Windows, then we got Windows 8 and even worse Windows Server 2012. Everything was so simplified and BIG to support touch interfaces.....on a desktop with a mouse.
Marty80
macrumors 6502a
Them launching late this year after already releasing an update early this year never made any sense. I'm sure was always early 2027 (Spring) at earliest but that's without a memory shortage, so I would think more likely during the next typical launch window later in 2027.
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
Big_D
macrumors 6502a
It is where you send the components... They are different factories, different production lines and different motherboards, among other things.
Apple plans in advance on estimates of how many of each type they are likely to sell, set up the production to make the correct number of chips and other components, ship them to the relevant factories etc. If there is a sudden surge in demand for one particular type of device that exceeds the planning, they have to scramble to get extra chips made, or divert them from other factories (which increases the costs) and get extra raw materials etc. in (E.g. aluminium for building the cases) and get extra packaging printed up...
They can, probably, do it, but it will take time to get things sorted. And, if they can't get the components (E.g. RAM), because they have been allotted to a different SKU or even a different chip version, they might not be able to fulfil demand at all. If they had been expecting the Studio to keep selling in the same numbers as this time last year and suddenly there is much higher demand, that is a lot of logistics that need to reworked to make that happen.
Especially if they have wound down the production of the M4 series Studio and have been concentrating on building up stock of M5 or M6 generation models, ready for a launch in the summer, that would mean there are no more chips in the pipeline to divert to the Studio, and they would have to restart the production line for a now "legacy" chip, or leave people waiting for a couple of months, until the next version is ready to ship.
The one plus point of the mini and Studio is the lack of keyboard in the box, you can redirect stock from one country to another more easily. With a laptop, or an iMac with keyboard in the box, that isn't possible, because the keyboard layouts will be different. I doubt many US customers would be happy if they suddenly got MacBooks with AZERTY (French) or QWERTZ (German) keyboards, for example, or even a UK keyboard, just as I wouldn't really want to have to use a Belgian keyboard (we have one Belgian user and when he comes in for support, it is always a pain finding our way around his keyboard).
Big_D
macrumors 6502a
It depends, I had a string of touchscreen laptops, from Samsung ATIV, through Surface Pros to HP Spectre and Lenovo models... I got the ATIV and Surface Pros, because I loved the idea of a tablet form factor, but they spent 98% of their time with the keyboard attached, so I switch to convertible for the next one, which spend 98% of its time docked and I used the touch maybe 1% of the time, it was nice to use, but such an edge case, I decided to not "waste" money on getting a touch version with the next laptop, because the extra cost just never paid for itself.
I'm sure you have a different experience. But I wouldn't pay extra for touch on a laptop.
Big_D
macrumors 6502a
Yes and no. They had to sign an agreement with Samsaung for iPhone chips for the A19 and 19 Pro chips at the beginning of the year and agreed to a 100% price hike in the RAM prices... So they might have a long lead time on RAM that gives them some protection, but they haven't bought an infinite amount of RAM.
As to their own FAB, they could do that, but you need a new FAB for each generation of RAM chips and that costs billions and has a multi-year lead time, before it can productively manufacture chips... They would need to invest now for a RAM chip FAB for 2030, or thereabouts, and in 6 months, they'd need to start working on a FAB for 2031/2032 models, then in a year another FAB for 2032/2033, maybe another for 2034, after that, they could probably go back and re-fit the first plant for the mid 2030s and so on. It is an expensive and never ending business to build latest generation RAM chips, plus you also need to have the R&D people to come up with those future designs and technologies, so even if they started building for a FAB in 2030, it is questionable, if they could find the expertise to design the chips in-house and without infringing on the patents of the other manufacturer, it is much quicker and cheaper to simply buy the RAM, or at least it has been until now.
I am a 70+ year old. I am only 1 person. I will NOT buy a laptop that does not have a touchscreen. No Mac for me until one is offered with a touchscreen.