iPads too. I wanted to buy three base spec IPads for my nephews. Best Buy is out. Amazon is out. Apple… late March.
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Three Months After Launch, Apple Still Struggling to Meet Demand for Redesigned 14-Inch and 16-Inch MacBook Pro
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The vast majority of cameras, not to mention drones and action cameras, have SD lots and at least 2/3 flagship full frame and medium format cameras also use SD. Cameras with CFast or XQD are still in the minority, but what's surprising is that Apple didn't use a multi-format slot like you find in the A1. Still, my Fujis use SD so I'm thrilled that I can use the slot in the 16" I just ordered.
This is factually incorrect.
The performance of my 16" M1 Pro 16GB is terrible. When using Xcode or even browsing on Safari the audio and system stutters. Feels like I am using a crappy Windows machine. I don't know why this is happening to my machine, but I see that the high performance cores are never in use and th efficiency ones keep all the time in 100% usage. I am thinking to return to a base M1 machine because of that.
I'm on the same boat, what I've read is that the high-end Mini was ready to roll at the same event the MBP were announced, but sure lower margins -as you mentioned- and cannibalization (as a M1 Pro/Max Mini without the expensive screen, speakers, redesigned keyboard + trackpad, etc. has to be a lot cheaper) combined with the chip shortage might have made Apple to hold it for later... hopefully the shortages start easing a bit and we get a well supplied M1 Pro/Max Mini in March/April.
Flagship full frame cameras are exclusively CF express. The Nikon Z9, D6, and D5 are dual CF express. The Canon 1Dx Mark 3 is also dual CF Express. Canon's older flagships where CF and CFast 2.0. Canon's not a flagship R3 uses CF Express as the main card and has a SD backup slot like other semi pro cameras. Even Sony are using CF Express on their semi pro cameras (though being Sony they went for Type A instead of Type B like everyone else.)
Yep, was going to say a lot more than just cameras use SD cards these days. They are the most common form of removable storage aside from USB flash memory sticks.
I received my 14" BTO last week after waiting a month. These long lead times are common across the board right now -- Lenovo, Dell, HP. I was looking at a BTO Lenovo laptop (P14s) and the estimated ship times are 4+ months. There is no way I'd buy one of those right now. 4+ months is long enough to wait that the tech could already be out of date (which is true in the case of the Lenovo P14s because they have 11th gen Intel processors).
Waiting a month for my 14" MacBook Pro was comparatively good. It came 4 days sooner than the expected date (which was a range of about a week so it came almost 1.5 weeks faster than the longest time Apple said). It's an amazing laptop so far.
Waiting a month for my 14" MacBook Pro was comparatively good. It came 4 days sooner than the expected date (which was a range of about a week so it came almost 1.5 weeks faster than the longest time Apple said). It's an amazing laptop so far.
Still totally in love with my 14" M1Pro. Best computer I've owned. OK, that's somewhat obvious based on the tech (especially for a portable Mac), so let me say that it's probably my FAVORITE computer I've ever owned. Great time to be a Mac person!
I had purchased a 14", but after two weeks the display had a row of dead pixels, a hardware defect. Took it into the store this past weekend and got a 16" as a replacement since they didn't have the 14" on hand.
Not as fond of this model because it's so much larger (by comparison), but the larger screen is nice, at least.
Not as fond of this model because it's so much larger (by comparison), but the larger screen is nice, at least.
Supply chain issues continue to persist 
I wonder how many more years this will last?
I wonder how many more years this will last?
its a great laptop. I especially enjoy the keyboard. I thought my space gray iMac Pro full size magic keyboard was great but after using the new MacBook keyboard, I really notice a difference and I get annoyed wiht the tactile feel of the magic keyboard. I had this Mac since halloween and I enjoy it every day. I guess I maybe wish I got the 32 gb Ram model instead of the base. Once ram fills up and the ram pressure goes to 60% I do see a performance hit so I do restart the Mac every 1-2 weeks to clear things. but its the best laptop and I dont plan on upgrading for years.
The notch looks a little odd on the Home Screen. But I almost always run my apps in full screen mode, and the notch disappears.
I've been paid for my photos for 10+ years, and still use an SD card to get photos off of my 5d Mark III and IV. Your hyperbole is what is BS, here.
Dude is obsessed w/ them. I bet you years from now he'll be an old man living like a hoarder...except with rooms full of stacks of Macs instead of newspapers and clothes.
You've been using your camera's backup slot for file transfers? It's a backup in case your main card fails and you have no recourse but to resort to pulling the (usually JPG's so as not to cripple the camera) of the SD card.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lexar-Professional-1066x-CompactFlash-Memory/dp/B00ICD3WNY/ a 64 GB CF card for those bodies is only £50. It'll let your camera run at full speed with significantly less buffering. Unless you are taking one still an hour of some landscape, but even then there is a case for using the primary slot so you have less chance of card failure.
Regardless on those bodies with that speed of SD or even the CF card you can plug directly into the computer and it won't be any faster or slower than using the built in reader, even with Canon's notoriously slow SD slots.
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Several of us detailed how to conduct online search of Apple store stock for local pickups. There is multiple configuration available that they get besides the three shown in either shadow grey or silver. I didn’t preorder I got mine when all inventory was gone a week later. The M1 Max examples are grabbed in minutes of being listed, while the M1 Pro show more available as they come in. When checking locally here I saw multiple store showing M1 Pro models available yesterday. Still a lot also showed none. Likely all possiblies are in play. Transportation, manufacturing, part shortages, high demand, certain custom configurations take time versus standard stock.
The obvious question we all like to know is how many were sold? It got to be one of the most popular Macs to acquire these days going by all the stores continuing to sell out of stock fairly quickly. Hope posters here do well with the 14”/16” they received. My 16” M1 Max is doing great.
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Sure these Flagship 6000$+ cameras no longer use SD-Cards. I am just wondering, do the professional photographers using such high-end cameras still have a workflow where they poke memory cards from their camera-bodies, or is this this whole discussion a red herring?
Honestly I wonder how much this has to do with them being able to build the charger. I was considering buying a spare 140w but the shipping time has always been longer than the ship time for a Macbook. So now I'm just checking from time to time, and once they are available for same day pickup, I'll get me one.
Probably a red herring. They make drive arrays which automate ingesting media from cards. You just plug it in and it does the rest. Put another card in your camera, and come back later and the photos are waiting for you. The SD card slot is a feature for the bulk of the customers that would buy the MacBook Pro. I'd venture that the number of people who would benefit from a professional card slot are a rounding error on Apple's sales sheet.
They never used SD cards. CF -> XQD/CFast 2.0 -> CF Express. SD was always in consumer bodies or as the backup media on the semi pro bodies like the rather popular Canon 5D Mark III which was the first to offer a (painfully slow) SD backup slot.
If by 'poke', you mean remove? Yes, CF Express cards are PCIe devices that you take out and plug into an external TB3 reader. Being PCIe devices they have access to 2-4 lanes on TB3 ports and 4 on a TB4 port unless it is using a hub.