I’m going to believe this rumour, because I don’t want to the ones from yesterday/this morning.
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Redesigned MacBook Pro Models With 10-Core Apple Silicon Chip Said to Launch as Early as This Summer
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Considering the performance of the M1?
4 more performance cores + 16 or 32 graphics cores + 64 GB of RAM = everything anyone could need in a MacBook Pro.
Could you explain why this statement is true? I believe you, I just don’t understand the connection.
Welcome back to common sense.
I just hope it's a joke about HDMI, it really should be DisplayPort.
The ratio of performance to efficiency cores that optimize overall performance is carefully chosen based on the capabilities of the cores and the nature of the workload (i.e. how the OS and applications behave).
The latter hasn’t changed. But now we are allegedly going to have just two cores doing the same work that 4 cores did on M1. And the ratio is changing from 1:1 to 4:1 - a big jump. That suggests to me that the new efficiency cores are more capable than the old ones - in other words, the gap in performance between efficiency and performance cores appears to have decreased for some reason.
I was hoping for warp core with dilithium crystal.
I hope we get a definitive answer at WWDC even if they are not released then.
Sounds like this is Gurman’s conservative prediction. He likes to say “as soon as” so he’s never really definitively wrong. I would bet on a WWDC announcement and July launch.
Sounds like good news, especially if these cores are a newer generation. I'm very curious to see how well apps easily scale across multiple cores (CPU and GPU). This has been a major limitation in the past of systems that rely of large numbers of cores; if the software can't be *easily* written to take advantage of them then a vast swath of software simply won't run anywhere near as fast as it could (the devs simply won't or can't invest the time and money to optimize it.) Look at how slow iMovie encoding can be compared to Handbrake (iMovie uses a maximum of around 4 cores, making it much slower to encode than Handbrake can be). The PS3 also had this problem (which is why some games looked and performed incredibly poorly (FO3, looking at you here) and a handful were so good they still look great today (GT5 even does stereoscopic gameplay while looking downright splendid.)
I'm very much hoping that Apple has figured out a way around this so that nearly anything, no matter how poorly coded, will make use of as many of the CPU and GPU cores as possible. I'm *guessing* that this will be especially important with the machine with a high-number of GPU cores.
I'm very much hoping that Apple has figured out a way around this so that nearly anything, no matter how poorly coded, will make use of as many of the CPU and GPU cores as possible. I'm *guessing* that this will be especially important with the machine with a high-number of GPU cores.
Give me NOW. My tax return money is ready. I am still rocking my MacBook Pro from 2012 today and it would be great not having to loose HDMI and the SD Card reader
We already know how things scale, since we have mac pros with many more cores than these. Should see some nice performance boosts.
Does this mean that Apple isn’t binning M-series chips like other manufacturers do? Do they just not use any “subpar” parts?
I prefer this rumor to the earlier one. I'll be ordering that 14" MBP within the first minute, configuration depending on price. Be reasonable Apple!
I’d wager thousands of wallets will cry out in terror at the price of the top specc’d 14” and 16” MBPs though. ?Sound like interesting machines if true.
These spec rumors bode well for the larger iMac and higher specc’d Mac Mini too.
These spec rumors bode well for the larger iMac and higher specc’d Mac Mini too.
Looks incredible. Can’t wait.
Just don’t blow it with a 720p camera.
Just don’t blow it with a 720p camera.
Will this be an iCooking book or an iVibrator?
Ah, we've been down this road before. "Summer" in Apple speech means mid September.
What makes you think this rumor is more believable than the other?
Given the fact that the largest Mac in existence (the iMac) lacks any ports besides USB-C and aux, it seems Gurman is off with his information in significant ways. He also claims the Mac Pro will have an all-new design even though it was just leaked that it will still use Intel. Really, Apple is going to design an entirely new chassis for a processor that they are going to immediately deprecate? Intel processors require significantly more heat dissipation for the same level of performance so it would be an utterly bizarre engineering decision.