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Rumor: New 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pros Delayed Until Next Year
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You dont have to buy the latest MBP every year. You have an M1. If the environment is a concern people can just not upgrade to the newest chip. No one will know the difference between M1 and M2 anyway.
You can put yourself on a 10 year update cycle if you care about the environment enough.
You don't need Apple holding your hand.
I am still on my early 2013 MBP, wanted to upgrade to M2 Air or M2 Pro Pro depending on the specs of the latter.Same, same. Or even the M4–I’m pleased as punch with my M1 Air.
I only argue and write about M2/Pro/Max/Extreme not being skipped (all probably based on A15), don't care about Ax in general a trying to fit schedules together.
This makes my purchase of the 2022 MBA — which is awesome — an even better move!
M3 might launch with RT cores for real time raytracing. Is a reason they might skip M2 variants for their flagship Mac Pro.
They have caught considerable flack for the lack of RT cores (Even though the situation is same for AMD pretty much..) I GUESS that is the risk they carry for doing the integrated GPU/CPU/RAM.
Also, China is experiencing major disruptions with covid shutdowns and whatnot.
I wouldn`t be surprised to see them skip the release of a full M2 variant line in 2022. Perhaps they do lower end M2 Pro/Max and high end M3 Ultra/Extreme in march with a release of MacBook Pro AND M3 Mac Pro instead of M2.
An M2 Mac Pro that cannot compete with Nvidia RTX options is not gonna land well, so I bet you we will see something along those lines.
They have caught considerable flack for the lack of RT cores (Even though the situation is same for AMD pretty much..) I GUESS that is the risk they carry for doing the integrated GPU/CPU/RAM.
Also, China is experiencing major disruptions with covid shutdowns and whatnot.
I wouldn`t be surprised to see them skip the release of a full M2 variant line in 2022. Perhaps they do lower end M2 Pro/Max and high end M3 Ultra/Extreme in march with a release of MacBook Pro AND M3 Mac Pro instead of M2.
An M2 Mac Pro that cannot compete with Nvidia RTX options is not gonna land well, so I bet you we will see something along those lines.
The battery swelling has warped the laptop to the point that it doesn't sit flat on a desk anymore, so I'm guessing the cost to repair would be a lot more than $199, unfortunately.
Yeah, they've been locked down TIGHT for months...
Dropping $1,500+ per year for a 5%-10% speed increase over an already fast M processor is definitely not worth it unless you're swimming in cash.
I read the report that Apple lost a recent negotiation with TSMC about a price hike. Maybe this is just Apple sticking it to TSMC a bit by not moving some models to a chip that's more expensive to make?
Apple has no pressing need to refresh the MacBook Pro line - a minor M2 bump won't get many sales to M1 owners and for new owners the M1 options are still ahead of Windows laptops.
Apple has no pressing need to refresh the MacBook Pro line - a minor M2 bump won't get many sales to M1 owners and for new owners the M1 options are still ahead of Windows laptops.
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Not surprised at all. I for one was leery about the M2 coming to the MacBook Pro since it offered little benefit and once Apple discovered the die combining issues related to the M1 I figured the same design issues were already implemented in M2 so M3 was going to be the next gen processor for the MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro that addresses this problem.
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Thanks ... today's news in the second link wasn't known when I posted my inquiry earlier this morning. But I did notice front page of M.R. where I see mention of delays related to the lock downs.
Cheers.
What do you mean by "die combining issues"? I know they combine two M1 Max's to get an M1 Ultra, but I've not heard of any issues with that.
Here's what I get with Google:
In fact, for most Mac owners, more frequent refreshes would do the opposite. And biannual refreshes (which they used to offer for the MBPs) are even better than annual ones.
With a 2-year refresh cycle, on average the computer you're buying has year-old tech. With a 6-month refresh, the tech is an average of 3 months old. The latter provides an obvious benefit to the consumer. In addition, it benefits the environment because, on average, the consumer is buying newer tech, thus giving the computer more years of service before it needs to be replaced because it's become too slow to run the latest software.
It only harms the environment if consumers somehow feel compelled to upgrade their Macs every time Apple releases a refresh, and who does that? The only place you see that behavior to any significant extent is with iPhones, where Apple offers a yearly replacement plan. But it does not have such plans for the Mac.
There will always be a later model coming out. The vast majority of users don't live in this forum, and have a different mindset.
Buy what you need, when you need it. There's good offers to be had now, 10%-20% off. I garantee you their will be a 10-20% price INCREASE when the m2 pros come out next year. at which point you're looking at up to 40% value proposition difference, plus 6 months use of an m1. they will not be that much faster, heck there's only a tiny portion of work loads that max out an m1 system right now.
No, I will lose the same money on the sale then. So I won't win anything. According to preliminary information, there will be faster memory, and this is very important. There is no point in investing in M1 right now, I need an expensive configuration, so I will definitely wait until March.
