That was my summer job in college. Drove around in a ‘84 Pontiac bonneville, tilting people’s Apple monitors and plugging in their macs for them. The tips were great.
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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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Well to be fair, if they were all just TB3/USB4 ports, it'd be a lot easier too - because it doesn't matter which one you plug into, or which way around it is.
But they already have those, on the back.
"Apple plans to launch the redesigned MacBook Pros in 14-inch (code name J314) and 16-inch screen (J316) sizes. They’ll have a redesigned chassis, magnetic MagSafe charger and more ports for connecting external drives and devices. Apple is also bringing back the HDMI port and SD card slot, which it nixed in previous versions, sparking criticism from photographers and the like."
Hmmm... Gurman is no longer mentioning mini-LED displays or any sort of display upgrades. I wonder if Apple has given up on including mini-LED in Gen 1, and will instead add mini-LED (and hopefully ProMotion) with a huge display upgrade next year for Gen 2. I'd personally wait for that one if that evolves into the prevalent rumor.
Hmmm... Gurman is no longer mentioning mini-LED displays or any sort of display upgrades. I wonder if Apple has given up on including mini-LED in Gen 1, and will instead add mini-LED (and hopefully ProMotion) with a huge display upgrade next year for Gen 2. I'd personally wait for that one if that evolves into the prevalent rumor.
Doubling of the high performance cores will likely bring it up from 4500U level in multi-threaded performance to 5600X level which isn't bad for a mobile device.
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/stockfish
https://openbenchmarking.org/test/pts/stockfish
Either that or it's still a bit chaotic behind the scenes as Apple analyze their supply chain and make a decision.Different rumors every hour. First the 'books are delayed until early next year.
Then they will be out before year's end but severely limited.
Now they could arrive in summer.
It's save to say - we just don't know.
These cores most likely won’t be the same as the ones in M1 so I believe it will be even more powerful than that.
The MBP rumors seem to change every hour. At this point, the only news that would surprise me is that the new MBPs have already been released
I would say they do use their “subpar” parts. For example the M1s in the low end MBAs with only 7 GPU cores. It would be very odd if they were intentionally producing a variant with 1 less GPU core than the rest.
It doesn't. It just suggest Apple decide to use High Performance Core for more workload instead of using High Efficiency core to save battery.
You can mostly blame Intel for that. Macbooks of that era were designed with Intel's 10nm thermals in mind. Intel didn't deliver on 10nm and instead was forced to push 14nm++++ way too far and it was a hot mess. It sucks to own one of those house fires but I reckon that fiasco was a major factor behind the transition to Apple silicon.
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I think I'm going to upgrade to the 2nd or 3rd gen Apple Silicon 14" MBP. By then they should have Mini LED displays, and maybe even features like Face ID which I'd rather have in a laptop than a phone. These new models sound good but my 2019 16" MBP isn't that old (and is still being sold by Apple). Sounds like the 14" models (formerly 13") will finally be getting proper GPUs, which has been the main reason I haven't purchased the smaller models, even though I think I'd prefer the portability. It would be great if the 14" and 16" have similar speed as they would be Pro models, and maybe they could even release the 32" iMac Pro with the same CPU/GPU, just maybe clocked a bit higher. Then they put that in the rumored Mini Mac Pro and leave the high-end Mac Pro to use something really extreme.
Right now, the industry benchmark is 128-core CPUs for $4,000, so 16 fat cores should be < $500. Apple has always been cheaper since moving to their own CPUs, so we can hope. By next year, the $4,000 chips will be at 256 cores, so the bar keeps moving higher. But the key to all this is on a laptop, you typically only need that kind of power occasionally - while you do something intensive, like process video or run a game or a simulation. Most of the time, you're just using the low power cores. But when you need the power, there's never enough....
Not sure why you thing you get to tell me whether it does or does not suggest to me what I said it suggest to me, actually.
And the problem with your theory is that it ignores that you actually reduce the overall performance if you simply decide to replace high efficiency cores with high performance cores, because you can squeeze multiple of the former into the same space as the latter, and thus you are giving up cores. For this reason, whenever a cpu microarchitecture is using heterogenous cores, the core count is very carefully chosen based on the relative performance of the core types and the needs of the instruction traces. You don’t make a damned thing faster by replacing a low efficiency core with a high performance core if that means that the high performance core spends much of its time running non-time-critical workloads. And the power that is being dissipated by a high performance core running low priority workloads is power that cannot be dedicated to other work. And the heat that is generated and the local hotspot that occurs penalizes ”real work” that needs to be done.
You think the entry level MBPro is going to go from $1299 to $3999? Gee, I will take the under on that prediction, please. If the entry level MBPro is more than $1699 I will eat an Intel CPU.
Ok, the 15 inch macBook Pro was damn good for its time, and adequate to my needs for like YEARS! The thing is, I eventually came to see it as uncomfortably large. Not TOO large, you understand. So I am super interested in the 14 inch display on the forthcoming, and would tend to max it out on the SSD front, and RAM. But ... I don't even need a mobile computer now. Boo hoo!!! 🍸😿
Where are you finding 128-core CPUs? Even next gen AMD is only 96-core.
https://wccftech.com/amd-epyc-genoa...res-12-channel-ddr5-5200-sp5-lga-6096-socket/
This is exciting, but I would've welcomed something like this in a 24" iMac form factor (or Mac Mini) too.