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Two New Apple Silicon MacBooks Expected to Enter Mass Production in Second Half of 2021
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Probably partly because of this
Silicon Is the New Toilet Paper as Chip Shortage Hits Industrial Manufacturing - ExtremeTech
The semiconductor shortage is now hitting the industrial computing market, with silicon lead times jumping as high as 50+ weeks depending on the components in question.
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1. The 4 port Mac mini (the only one of the new M1 Macs that had 4 ports) was inexplicably replaced with a 2 port.
2. The new ports (on all new M1 machines) have 1 dedicated controller per port, instead of 1 controller per 2 ports as on Intel Macs.
3. Rumors of the next M1 Macs (the ones with 4 TB ports and no other ports) magically regaining things like HDMI, SD, and MagSafe. Why? Because Apple just decided after 5 years we need those? No, because 2 of the ports are going away and need to be replaced with something.
Yes, the writing is very much on the wall. Whatever the limitation is, Apple can't or won't do 4 TB controllers on an M1 machine. Maybe we'll see something different down the line with the Mac Pro or others, but it is very very clear the next MBP's will not have 4 TB ports.
This is false. There is no limitation. That’s silly.
Right. I suspect M1 can’t drive more than that. This isn’t relevant to future ARM Macs.
That Mac mini also doesn’t come with a 10GigE option.
They also are all limited to 16 GiB RAM.
It doesn’t matter. They’re low-end Macs.
It’d be like extrapolating that future Macs couldn’t possibly come with more than 4+4 CPU cores.
Because dropping HDMI was a bad call.
So your conspiracy theory here is that Apple can design a CPU architecture, but not one that supports four Thunderbolt ports?
Will they? Maybe not. Do we have much “writing on the wall”? No.
My 2012 15.4" Macbook pro is on its last legs. Looking forward to upgrading ASAP.
with the magsafe chord
the Dell XPS 13' or other is the perfect notebook plug that should manipulate, like that green to amber light always on!
since we dont trip over the plugs anymore like say 2011, we dont need the horrible constructed magsafe plug.
My MacBook air uses the first one and i am on my 5th plug since 2011 and i have seen photos of the magsafe_duex that are frayed and need repair. do not bring bask this nightmare s!
since i use a camera card everyday but dont mind using a dongle instead of the ejector thing the dell xps features.
the mini cards are horrible to eject at times and i hav lost my 32GB in our old house that is getting demolished soon.
that's it!
part duex
the Dell XPS 13' or other is the perfect notebook plug that should manipulate, like that green to amber light always on!
since we dont trip over the plugs anymore like say 2011, we dont need the horrible constructed magsafe plug.
My MacBook air uses the first one and i am on my 5th plug since 2011 and i have seen photos of the magsafe_duex that are frayed and need repair. do not bring bask this nightmare s!
since i use a camera card everyday but dont mind using a dongle instead of the ejector thing the dell xps features.
the mini cards are horrible to eject at times and i hav lost my 32GB in our old house that is getting demolished soon.
that's it!
part duex
that is a shame, they were the best MacBooks ever, some say-
my MacBook air 2010 seems stronger and packs a punch still.
My mid 2012 MBP 15 is still hanging in there. Have to use it plugged in but hope it lasts until the new ones comes out later this year.
hopefully you can still keep and still use the MacBook pro for older programs and just for fun in the future!
i need a new battery, adaptor plug and something else so i might invest in a new MacBook this spring instead.
im not impressed with the new features like special ports and mag-safe so i might get the M1 pro, without the task bar
that hard drive space eating news kinda perked my ears back, but my dellxps does that as well, so i empty the useless GBs.
im more concerned and excited over airplay possibilities and iPad drop off and continuations than anything else.
And those will be more expensive than the current MacBooks? Asking because I'm planning to buy a new MacBook.
Logo on the back lighting up will no longer be possible as not all of the backlight of the screen will be lit at one time, also if they did a separate light source for the logo it could bleed into the back of the display making mini led backlighting a bit pointless, tho possible tho risky as they need to make sure they totally block any light from it to the screen
I would be OK with this if it meant getting a generational improvement (in tandem with the A15 SoC) as well as more CPU/GPU cores.This sounds more like an October / November launch, then.
Unless Apple just combines the two - MagSafe that connector that connects to a USB-C plug. These already exist.
Don't know why people think the addition of MagSafe means the deletion of USB-C charging. iPhone manages nicely with its version of MagSafe and the Lightning port.
Keep the touch bar. -I'm just now getting used to it on my 2016 MacBook Pro.
Can’t come soon enough. I’m ready to put the current MBP form factor behind me for good; nothing but a plague of broken keys and screen issues.
Respectfully disagree. The last time Prosser showed a render of product he got info on, it was the AirPods Max. And it was, for the most part, bang on. And AirPods Max was released two months after he showed the tenders. So I’m willing to give him benefit of the doubt.
Bummer... did you get it replaced??? I got lucky and sent it in under warranty right before the 4 years was up in Nov (bought on day 1 in 2016)... Was was amazing was in that service they replaced the top screen and case and the bottom case with keyboard... basically got a new machine outside of the motherboard... then with the M1s out turned around and found a on-line buy-your-mac store that gave me 1400Eur for it... which covered a nice M1 Air that smacks the pants off the 2016 MBP.
If you can get it in a reasonable state to sell I'd say anyone with an older butterfly MBP should sell before used Intel machines prices crash (due to the M1 pricing/value curve and a potential flood of folks selling).
What an amazing contribution. Nice job addressing or refuting any of the points made. Looking forward to telling you I told you so.
You have no idea what you're talking about. The M1 mac mini is "driving" the exact same number of Thunderbolt controllers as it did before. Except now Apple has 1 port per controller except 2. What they did NOT do is move to 4 controllers in the Mac mini so as to have 4 ports.
Is it possible that future Macs can have more? Of course it's possible. But here is a machine that went from 4 to 2. And now we're hearing the next MacBook Pro are gaining legacy ports INCLUDING worthless MagSafe. Why? Because they will have 2 TB ports, like every other M-series Mac thus far.