I have a feeling it will skip as the Mac mini is like the Studio a slow seller relative to the MacBooks. Apple can save money by making them a two year update cycle.
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Skipping the New MacBook Pro? Here Are the Rumors About M5 Models
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Apple goes in reverse compared to the industry in lost of things, like selling bigger laptops for more, and starting a new chips series with the lower end models. I hope M5 will debut with Ultra and Max in the Studio at wwdc, and every other model should upgrade to m5 by fall. Cannibalization is minimal contrary to what a lot of people says, but going in reverse order and huge discrepancies in cpu gen is killing studio sales by generating the "I should wait, who knows what they announce in a couple of months"-effect. They do this with iphones, and it doesn't hurt the sales. Time for a fixed release cadence for EVERYTHING.
Only a minority of people do annual phone upgrades. 2 to 3 year replacement cycles are common.
There are no issues with burn in on the new iPad Pro, so I think it should be fine. I don’t have any complaints about the current displays, but OLED could save quite a bit of power during use.
There will be the 1% that swear it's much better, I'm not so sure?
99.9% won't notice it in everyday use, however they will draw less power, therefore better for the batteries, although no doubt Apple will use that to reduce the batteries, burn in will be an issue for heavy users, therefore Apple care a must, which is great for Apple....
By the time you upgrade, not sure you will have a choice and the prices will go up for sure.
I think the M4 is the last sweet deal for a while.
I am thinking about changing my M2 Air for a basic Pro in the M8 generation or around that, so let's see where the 2026 redesign goes...
For now, not interested in the slightest
For now, not interested in the slightest
I will of course wait till m6 comes out. Curently i am on a old intel mac. But i personaly liked the last looking intel macbook pro designwise. So i will wait not only cause of the new oled. But also cause of the new design and the 2nm chip....
You make some valid points, however 10-15% upgrades to the processors aren't worth rolling out (which is what we got from M1 through to M3), the only reason M4 is substantially faster than the M3 is because M3 3nm process was botched at the first attempt.
The only reason we get these annual upgrades is to stay on top of the pile as far as the chip wars are concerned with various manufacturers.
They all profess to care about our planet, but in reality it's just PR 😏
M4 is the first chip, worth upgrading to from M1 and getting real meaningful differences in every day use, that's just a fact.
A lot of CPU bumps are in that range. Most people won’t upgrade sequentially; they skip multiple generations.
I try to hold out on phone upgrades every 4-5 years and desktop every 7-9 years. As I’m a cheap person. My 2018 mini is only 6 years old and still going strong. I hate laptops but my work computer is so limited that it is hard to do some of the stuff I need to do and my 12.9 m2 ipad is too limiting and painful to work with (the file system, software like office 365 is crap, etc). A laptop would be helpful but $2300 for a M4 pro (or even $1800 for M4) is a bit much for me to swallow with working hardware.
And overheating. Seriously, you need space for thermals (and batteries by all means). There is no magical free lunch here.
Making the design thinner limits your design options, goes against the actual pro usage of the pros, and is hard to backpedal from.
Even if they surely will save a few tens of millions in shipping and materials. It is purely dumb.
My M1 Max is still doing just fine - M4 Pro is compelling but I won't update until apple either shrinks that stupid notch or make it actually useful (eg faceid).
I don't get the excitement some people seem to have over the OLED screens in a 14"/16" device though - current miniled screens have huge amount of backlight zones and negligible blooming thanks to it. Most people wouldn't be able to distinguish the two
I don't get the excitement some people seem to have over the OLED screens in a 14"/16" device though - current miniled screens have huge amount of backlight zones and negligible blooming thanks to it. Most people wouldn't be able to distinguish the two
It has already been stated that Apple has stopped pursuing research on MicroLED because it is still cost-prohibitive to manufacture compared to OLED technology. They will likely add OLED with at least a 90hz refresh to the MacBook Air lineup to compete better with Qualcomm models. They will probably add a version of Tandem OLED to the MacBook Pro lineup as the more expensive option.
They’ve halted the research for now. It’s likely we’ll eventually move past the flawed OLED.
