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MacBook Pros With M4 Pro and M4 Max Chips Reportedly Being Mass Produced This Month
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The funny part of your story is pro users who really need and are willing to pay the latest and greatest are still waiting for the Mac Studio M4 from 2023
In the meanwhile, students and emailers are getting cutting edge technologies (who are the 90% of Macs buyers..)
If it’s just a chip upgrade, then no point for me, my M1 Max is plenty fast and will get all Apple intelligence features
Haha, yeah, like Craig looking up from working on a Mac mini with a smirk and knowing nod to remind us what's close.
As someone who normally upgrades every 3-5 years, I'm holding off for at least 2 more years. My M1 Pro does all that I need and has no clear slowdowns. That wasn't always the case with previous MacBooks I've owned. Apple Silicon is remarkably good.
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Good. It means what you have is good enough. Noone should upgrade every year.
I’m guessing it will be highly task dependant.
As someone who mostly just uses a MacBook for a casual Internet browsing and music listening, does it make sense for me to purchase a MacBook Pro over an air for longevity sake? The MacBook Pro I have right now is from 2017. It’s having some weird battery issues where I’ll be at 30% and then it just turns off. I’m guessing the “meter” could be off or the battery could just be bad. Anyway, if it weren’t for that in the ******** butterfly keyboard, I feel like I could squeeze another five years out of this thing. However, I will probably be buying a new one in the next year or so and I’m wondering if it makes more sense to buy a pro if I plan on holding onto it for as long as possible. I know I don’t need the power, but will the better specs make it last longer? I can’t upgrade to the latest OS now so that’s another issue about keeping the same computer for a while. I’m trying to find the balance between longevity and not spending more than I need to.
M4 base in Cpu department..M1 Max still have the edge in gpu
We already kind of know what M4 does
I’m going from a 16 core tower hopefully to a 12 or 14 core new M4. The question for me is price… Since I have the keyboard mouse and monitor, I’m probably looking at a souped up Mac mini or a laptop that I can dock… it will be interesting to see the gigahertz speed of the chip and the chip core counts. I don’t necessarily want to go backwards, but may have to a little bit. I had never spent that kind of money to get a tower before and it suited me for five years and I got a lot of work done but I’ll never spend $10,000 plus on a computer anymore - won’t do it. Can’t do it now 
just got married and my new l daughter is in college!!! She’s a perfect 4.0 student amazing!!!
just got married and my new l daughter is in college!!! She’s a perfect 4.0 student amazing!!!The best part of these yearly spec-bump releases is the previous generations (which are already faster than most people need) go on fire sale with big discounts. I'll take a M3 Pro at a $600 discount over an almost identical M4 Pro Macbook at list price!
Since the next big change (OLED) is still years away (despite the plethora of Windows laptops with beautiful 3K OLED 120Hz displays for a fraction of the cost of a MacBook), what else can Apple do but just stick in a new chip and call it a day?
Since the next big change (OLED) is still years away (despite the plethora of Windows laptops with beautiful 3K OLED 120Hz displays for a fraction of the cost of a MacBook), what else can Apple do but just stick in a new chip and call it a day?
MacBook Air is amazing - my daughter has one it’s really good and fast!!!
remarkable how, overnight, my M3 Max went from being the Hatori Hanzo of laptops to a junker that my twelve-year-old nephew would turn down for being unworthy of Fortnite
I highly doubt it. They are very similar in components, other than features and speed. In the old days you could make that argument for e.g. iMac Pro vs iMac, but not currently.
This assuming you are using the same spec CPU/RAM. Of course if you spec the Pro up, it will be usable for longer, but I don’t think that is what you mean.
I specifically got the Air because it is fanless and I use it for Audio, and I’m very pedantic about background noise. YMMV.
For those of us who use the TouchBar constantly, waiting patiently for Apple to resurrect it.
My apologies, but I personally hope it's gone forever. To me it's one of Ive's navel-gazing ideas—that works best in the confines of his head. Like the charging of a mouse underneath. Ive chose this method for charging because to him it was a wireless mouse and this would force the mouse to be used as he intended it—wirelessly. The problem however is there are far better solutions out there... which made his effort a laughing stock.
Personally, I think Apple should bring back some practicality to their Macs and peripherals by giving them more ports. And frankly, for workhorse computers they should offer some wired peripherals again. At least optionally. Wired peripherals are more efficient and reliable and they could offer a wired keyboard with a built-in port hub to make iMacs far more usable in their desk-use setting. I switched back to wired mice and keyboards years ago and they are much better. 100% uptime and not one issue ever.
Conceptually the TouchBar is an interesting idea, but practicality wise they are too fiddly and a not needed added cost and potential point of failure. A physical function row is both cheaper to produce and largely the more practical option. There is a phrase sometimes said in the arts or design worlds, "killing it with improvements". Designers, product designers and artists alike need take care and be cognisant of this aspect. A spoon that is also a fork (spork) is not necessarily a better product, and products like this are often a worse user experience.
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In my case it might actually be true. It was similiar with 2016 (hell no), 2017 (still double core), 2018 (H265 & 4C 13" and I needed a new Mac ASAP). This will be the same (for me).Finally
THIS will get people to upgrade
M1, M2, M3 ... "not enough"
M4 is what the world has been waiting for
TouchBar was less popular than the iPhone mini. I doubt either will make a come back.
The end of TB is one more reason I'm looking forward for a newer MacBook's cousin.