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Today Marks the One Year Anniversary of the First Apple Silicon Macs
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Absolutely love my M1 MBP, does about everything I need. Speedy, great battery life and just a overall great software experience. I noticed I am use iWork for more of my tasks than Office too. Sure, I would have loved the 16 inch form factor last year, but everything happens for a reason. Don’t see myself upgrading until 2025.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple is already working on it. Wasn’t there a report out, Apple was working on in-house chips for the iPhones? Couple years ago?
I'm counting on FaceID for the higher-end models. It would make sense with the increased chassis size, even if Apple uses more powerful chips than the M1 Pro/Max (doubtful) and the cooling needs are greater (not incredibly so). If I recall correctly, the FaceID module in the iPhone 13 is at most 6.2mm thick (iPhone 13 Pro thickness - approx 20%) and the 24" M1 iMac is about 11.5mm, so I'd guess there's ample room to put FaceID there, where it does make more sense - versus in a super-thin laptop lid/screen which is used/wakes up slightly differently compared to a desktop.
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But no, I don’t expect them to call it that.
I either expect the desktop chips to either get an entire different letter designation, like “X1” or “D1,” or they’ll literally just give you the option for duel or quad M1max and keep the name the same.
Same here, it's a gem of a laptop. Appreciate the performance, compact size, and light weight. Hat-tip to Apple and TC!
They’ve been designing their own phone chips since the A4 in the iPhone 4. Unless I’m missing something here.
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Rumors seem to point to pairing or quad'ing these... meaning TWO or FOUR M1 MAX or maybe M2 MAX SOCs working together.
There's also rumors of something beyond MAX: "Extreme" or similar.
And of course, "just" M2 MAX.
My guesses:
- bigger iMac gets the very same M1 PRO and MAX options as MBpro.
- Mac Pro is rumored Mac Pro Jr case with DUO and QUAD M2 MAXs. Pricing: as relatively insane as Mac Pro now.
- Full-sized Mac Pro is deprecated because that power fits fine in a smaller case with room for extras.
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My iPhone 7 Plus begs to differ.
Obviously they shouldn’t call it that though, it’s a terrible name (I don’t think they should have muddied the already inconsistent Pro and Max branding further by using them on the chips either, but that’s a separate issue).
Just because something is technically possible does not mean that they will do it.
It might happen eventually, but definitely not in 2022.
Expect feature parity with the new MacBook pros. So a mini LED display with 120 Hz, M1Pro/max with most likely the option for a duel M1max to get up to 128 GB of RAM like the current 27 inch iMac offers, and a Touch ID keyboard.
As the PowerPC to Intel jump was a huge improvement for consumers, so was Intel to AS.
I expect another huge leap in 15-20 years.
I expect another huge leap in 15-20 years.
I felt Apple had become a bit stagnant in last few years. This however is the first thing they've done in years which blew the industry away.
Typing this on an M1 pro MBP and just the battery life alone has embarrassed every other laptop out there!
Typing this on an M1 pro MBP and just the battery life alone has embarrassed every other laptop out there!
Apple Silicon is the single most underestimated breakthrough Apple has done. The potential computing these chips are unlocking is mind blowing.
Can’t tell if you are joking. The iPhone chips are already in-house and have been for years. The m series Mac chips are based on the a series iPhone chip. The phone will already benefit from the work on the m chips since they are in the same family.
Sort of, Apple‘s first actual full in-house CPU was the A6 in The iPhone 5, both the A4 and A5 chips were just slightly modified CPUs from Samsung.
The A6 was the first time that Apple designed everything to their own custom liking
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I thought it was TSMC that is responsible for developing the chips.
Entire TSMC 5nm capacity booked for iPhone 12, iPad Air, and iPad Pro's A14 chip: report
This perhaps explains why Samsung is reportedly manufacturing the Snapdragon 875.
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Gotcha, I stand corrected. Either way, the larger point I was trying to make was that they’ve already been designing their own iPhone chips for a long time now.
What an incredible year. Congratulations to all the amazing people at Apple.
It’s amazing, when one steps back, to think about the number of industries that Apple has transformed and the enormous companies which have been kicked to the curb from the hand of Apple innovation. From music to camera to telecommunications to computing to chipsets. Thank heaven Apple is so privacy and innovation focused.
It’s amazing, when one steps back, to think about the number of industries that Apple has transformed and the enormous companies which have been kicked to the curb from the hand of Apple innovation. From music to camera to telecommunications to computing to chipsets. Thank heaven Apple is so privacy and innovation focused.
TSMC is a fab. They make the chips. They also make the M1 chips, although I believe Apple had to look elsewhere to get enough manufacturing capacity for those.I thought it was TSMC that is responsible for developing the chips.
Entire TSMC 5nm capacity booked for iPhone 12, iPad Air, and iPad Pro's A14 chip: report
This perhaps explains why Samsung is reportedly manufacturing the Snapdragon 875.
Think of it the way Apple uses Foxconn to build iPhones.
The A series are Apple's in house chips... the M1 series are just beefed up A series chips. Apple has been in house for iPhone SOC's since the A4 in 2010
Aside from the internals, the two biggest changes I'd like to see for my next iMac are:
- Height adjustability: It's crazy to expect the user to adjust their position to get the right alignment.
- Thinner bezels/larger active display.
I’m not sure what you were on about, but the iPad Air2 from 2014 and the iPhone 6s from 2015 are still getting the latest software updates and run just fine. Those devices are six and seven years old respectively, and will still be getting updates into 2022 when there turning seven and eight respectively.
I don’t know about you, but eight solid years of software support without major slowdown is pretty remarkable, and about what I expect, if not even more, from the “M” series.
As for the processors you mentioned here, I pretty much agree, although I do think the 27 inch iMac would also get the duo M1max with 16 performance cores, up to 128 GB of RAM and a 64 core GPU.
My main reasoning is that the iMac 27 inch already goes up to 128 GB of RAM, and I don’t see them changing that. Also, you can shove more performance into a desktop, because you don’t really have to worry too much about battery life and such. As long as the thing doesn’t turn into a small oven then everything is good