New MacBook Air, 13-Inch MacBook Pro, and Mac Mini With M1 Chip Available to Order, Launch Next Week

[jgoodmanjr]

Love the new possibilities these new chips bring, but.....capped at 16GB, and only 2 ports on the laptops? Would have hoped for at least 32GB and keeping the 4 ports on the MBP.

 

[kycophpd]

EDIT: Nevermind! The Tech specs page hadn't updated yet. The new M1 macs DO support Wireless-AX and WiFi-6. 👍

STILL no WiFi-6... 🙄

It said WiFi-6 on one of the very first slides of the presentation.

 

[DaveMcM76]

So which to update first, the mid 2011 mac mini or the late 2013 MacBook Pro....

and if only I currently had the cash to update either 😤

 

[kofman13]

rip bootcamp

 

[nvmls]

My god what a boring event for being Mac, lots of bla bla, a massive opportunity to deliver fully redesigned macs with truly bumped hardware. Same old Apple tricks with Timmy over and over.

 

[johannnn]

Same price for an ARM chip with no Windows and questionable Mac software compatibility? Nice one Tim Apple!

Better performance and longer battery. What else do you want? A free car?

 

[Appleman3546]

It is interesting that Apple did not list the ghz speeds...

 

[dannys1]

It's super strange that all of the new models are storage capped at 512GB.

They’re not, they go up to 2TB, are you guys even reading before posting?

 

[DocMultimedia]

I ordered my Air.

 

[cheesyappleuser]

Is memory user upgradable?

RAM is not upgradeable as it is embedded in the M1 SoC.

 

[pearvsapple]

Are they using their in-house GPU or is it still from AMD Crapdeon?

 

[Dammit Cubs]

Is memory user upgradable?

Most likely no. It looks to be one component package.

 

[applicious84]

There's still a touch bar on the pro? I wonder why they're not just going to a touchscreen, esp. since they're introducing the app store library

 

[kinless]

The old Intel models are still for sale, handy if you need Boot Camp/Windows support (like me) and higher RAM capacity. Shame they didn't lower the price of the outgoing models or update the 16" to 10th-gen Intel CPUs. *sigh*

 

[nol2001]

Is $200 for an extra 8GB RAM a lot?

 

[cheesyappleuser]

My god what a boring event for being Mac, lots of bla bla, a massive opportunity to deliver fully redesigned macs with truly bumped hardware. Same old Apple tricks with Timmy over and over.

Why, were you expecting two leaps in a year? Next year a redesign is expected across the lineup.

 

[dannys1]

I wonder if performance will be consistent across the lineup since they all use the same M1 chip, or if the MacBook Pro will have slightly better performance than the Air.

I originally wanted an iMac for my next Mac, but this makes upgrading my 2012 15” rMBP to a MacBook Air or a 13” MacBook Pro a more serious consideration.

it’s got fans of course it’ll be better

 

[totom_]

So any bets whether AirTags or Halflife 3 (for Mac?) will be released first?

 

[Number 41]

As predicted, they iOS compatibility will allow them to claim "MILLIONS OF APPS" when most of the stuff available will be (at best) scaled-up mobile software.

 

[Christoffee]

I wonder if performance will be consistent across the lineup since they all use the same M1 chip, or if the MacBook Pro will have slightly better performance than the Air.

I originally wanted an iMac for my next Mac, but this makes upgrading my 2012 15” rMBP to a MacBook Air or a 13” MacBook Pro a more serious consideration.

There are different GPU core counts. So there are variations of the M1.

 

[Dammit Cubs]

I'm still trying to understand the difference between the macbook pro and macbook air it is justifies getting a pro.

it seems like the pro 13 doesn't make alot sense compared to the air.

 

[johannnn]

Still only 8GB ram as default 🙁 I'm seriously wondering, with todays insane SSD speeds, if I should just stop getting more ram. Maybe it's barely noticable nowadays?

 

[V-l-a-d-i-m-i-r]

Honestly I'd avoid first-gen iteration of these Macs. And wait for Apple M2. But wait, 'M2'? Maybe M3. Because somewhat conficting name would it be, I mean M2 recalls current M.2 SSD standard 🙂

 

[BlueMoose]

says "20 hour" battery life... since when does Mac Mini have internal batteries?

 

[Sethal]

It's super strange that all of the new models are storage capped at 512GB.

No they’re not.