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Mini-LED Display Production Improving for Redesigned MacBook Pro Models Later This Year
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I'll be a day one pre-order for the 16-inch. Hope they announce them at WWDC.
720p Facetime camera or it ain’t Apple. 🤠
I wanted to hold out for the 14” MacBook Pro but I imagine to get a similar configuration as the iMac I ordered would cost substantially more. I expect these to be quite expensive with the new design and features. A 13” MacBook Pro M1 with the 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD is only $200 less than my iMac with that same configuration.
Definitely hope this is all true. Would love a 14” with MagSafe, no Touch Bar. Please include SD card slot and 3.5mm out… Otherwise, the M1X or M2 and the mini-LED are all I really need to pull the trigger.
Was in a similar boat, but decided the iMac would be less expensive upfront, give me all the same benefits I need from a computer, and I still have my 12.9 2018 iPad Pro/Magic Keyboard setup for portability and note taking for school. I literally keep my 2017 MacBook Pro on my desk at home and virtually never take it with me on campus or out.
I suppose a 4K webcam and FaceID is too much to ask for? Or is it?
Just trying to prevent the inevitable outrage when prices will be announced: They WILL be much more expensive than their predecessors. The new tech has to be paid somehow. Just like with the first Retina Macbook Pros in 2012. And as always, prices will come down.
Given how long it has been that since the "M1X" Geekbench score leaked it is quite clear that it was either a complete hoax or just an early engineering sample as no products with this chip have shipped.
What we did have is lots of rumours by "good" sources claiming that those products would have shipped by now.
So what did happen? Still could have been a decoy to root out how leaks get out or maybe something just didn't work as expected.
M1X would/will have the single core performance as all the entry level HW that ships with M1 and adding more cores adds more complexity on power supply, heat and IO access (including RAM). Making a chip bigger does not only reduce the number of chips you get per waver (which is what constrains production atm) it also reduces yields.
On the other hand we have news that TMSC is/was ahead of plans in getting their revised 5nm running and Apple seems to be quite advanced when it comes to the 2021 generation of AS (AKA A15).
Going with A15 based "M2" for the more expensive/pro Macs does bring some benefits, single core performance will be 10-20% up compared to M1 making for good market differentiation and it might also be enough to get away with core counts somewhere between M1 and "M1X" resulting in more units at better yields -> PROFIT++++
So yeah !if! Apple can get something "M2" ready for a July launch it would make perfect sense to go for it.
Looking forward to this tech coming to a lower cost version of the Pro Display XDR.
Given how they priced the new iPP 12.9 I can't even imagine how much a new 16" with an adequate amount of RAM is going to cost 
Caution! I thought I would be for the new iPP until the pricing was announced to get 16GB of RAM, I'm not making that kind of statement again
That's it. This is what I am talking about. These are the type of renders that result on people being extremely disappointed when the real thing gets revealed (just like with the new iMacs). You can quote me on this in the next few months, it will look nothing like this.
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I wonder if these issues will cause the end user issues with their iPad Pro’s I surely hope not…
Yap , and those will not be in a shipping product , yields are just that , how much of the current "crop" is usable from a production run , same goes for CPU`s where they go through "sort" and "screen" validation before going to a product , some CPU`s will fail the testing in the FAB and will be discarded or used as a lesser chip (binning).
95% is a very good number , for example Intel 10nm had single digit yields when they started.
if QA is good , and Apple usually does have very good QA for their HW , they will find all the bad screens ahead of time , but i assume some will slip by and be replaced by warranty
