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

[grantew1]

Is memory user upgradable?

Doubtful....

 

[Deinocheirus]

I think the Air is the big winner today. The last few intel models were severely underpowered and weak.

The last few? How can only the last few be severely unpowered? They're all faster than the ones before it. LOL. If the last few are underpowered and weak, then so is every one before it.

This is the first truly usable MacBook Air after 12 years.

 

[dannys1]

danny, since you are a verified leaker in my eyes ... have you heard anything about the 12" macbook coming back with the M series chips, or does the Air going fanless put the dagger in the 12" ?

No chance of that, the MacBook Air replaces it.

 

[rikscha]

still 720p webcam on the air but other than that works for me. Perhaps putting 14inch into the same chassis would have been the icing on the cake but there needs to be room for improvement.

wondering how big the difference is between the base mba with 7 core gpu and mba with 8 core gpu

 

[karmstrong75]

16GB of ram is pretty sad, I would have expected the Mac Mini to at least do 32GB if not 64GB like the previous model.

 

[TheFlyingLampie]

What happened to the 10 gigabit Ethernet option...

 

[mike...]

Yeah I was excited about this but now I don't like the direction this is going.

Maybe less RAM will be fine like how the iPhone gets by with less RAM compared to Android just fine. But also the iPhone can't multitask like the Mac, so…

That's just now how this works though. If you use software that needs lots of RAM, or run virtual machines, then you need RAM. It's that simple.

 

[sfwalter]

I wonder why only 2 thunderbolt ports on Macbook Pro and Mac Mini

 

[mariusignorello]

I’m curious to see how these M1 chips handle ram. I’m betting that the efficiency will end the need for cramming in as much ram as possible. We’ll see.

 

[Deinocheirus]

Mac Mini is my ideal machine so well pleased, ordered and due for delivery 23-25 Nov. Bit longer as I went for more RAM and a bigger SSD. Also got my daughters unidays discount so a little bonus

What are you going to plug it into?

 

[adamw]

It appears Unified Memory is built into M1 Apple Silicon Chip die, so no memory upgrades. Lightning fast "on CPU" memory!

 

[mnott]

At least they got chargers and power cord!!! 😂

No they don't. As they said, they come pre-charged out of the box, and when the battery is empty, you just buy a new one.

 

[Steve121178]

720P webcam still. Is this a joke?

Its been improved according to the information in the keynote. But it's still 720p whatever way they tried to spin it.

 

[ghitaeu]

$200 for 8GB Ram, this is outrageous...

 

[Marvelous Patric]

I wonder if they still support eGPUs. Any thoughts?

 

[Gudi]

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

These aren’t the new Macs you’ve been looking for!

With the ability to run iOS apps natively, you want to be able to touch the screen at least occasionally (until your arm wants to fall off). A redefinition of the Mac input scheme is still necessary.

 

[fbr$]

Is memory user upgradable?

No, but it's customer upgradable! 😂

 

[Deinocheirus]

I’m curious to see how these M1 chips handle ram. I’m betting that the efficiency will end the need for cramming in as much ram as possible. We’ll see.

This should be considered a good thing. The old days of never having enough RAM no matter how much you have is a bad trend that needs to end.

The conversation with Apple Silicon should shift to appreciating how little RAM is needed to still see peak performance.

 

[gaximus]

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

Macs market themselves to power users, power users don't use touch screen.

 

[triangletechie]

Given that it uses a fan, I'm sure it's running the CPUs at a faster speed. Probably also has larger capacity options for RAM and SSD. Plus - more than 2 ports.

M1 Pro only has 2 ports.

 

[adith27]

I wish Apple offered some sort of upgrade program for people who want to upgrade their 2020 MacBooks to the Apple Silicon MacBooks. I just bought a MacBook Pro in June only because I had to!

 

[Xenobius]

98% PC laptops support 32GB RAM.

 

[Deinocheirus]

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

Because no one wants such a ridiculous thing. There is an iPad already.

 

[ghitaeu]

I wonder if they still support eGPUs. Any thoughts?

Highly doubt it. Different architectures...

 

[4jasontv]

Is memory user upgradable?

The MacBooks are unlikely. The Mac Mini says 'it's not user accessible'. I suspect that means that it requires an iFixIt kit.