I always enjoy seeing new hardware unveiled, but iPad Pro is now and will forever be the best laptop money can buy.
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'Unleashed' Apple Event Focusing on New Macs to Take Place on October 18
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My bet:
- MacBook Pro - basically guaranteed
- Mac Mini - no
- 27-inch iMac - maybe (?)
If the event goes on for 1.5 hours, then they can easily include the 27-inch iMac....
In the shorter version of the event, I just don't see them including the 27-inch iMac...
This is the thinking that led to my favorite 2013 MP. Sadly, I appear to have been in a decided minority.
I freaking love the 2013 appliance design though.
Nope. Don’t need it.
I might add another 10-20 shares of AAPL to what I already own, though. The price is right.
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You can just use a standard usb-c port but have a cable that magnetically detaches the head if pulled.
Of course this kind of solution could be provided by any third party so Apple will work to actively destroy it.
They’re preempting Google’s announcement bu a day to steal some thunder away.
I would agree if they allowed iPads to run Mac apps via some emulation.
The ergonomics of the iPad Pro + magic keyboard are amazing. But the software limitations of iPadOS make it unworkable for many people.
Besides smaller bezels, what do you want in a new design? People often say "I want a new design" without clarifying what they want changed. I don't know if they want specific changes or just "New for the sake of new."
Somethings I'd like to see:
-Builtin number pad (I often have to enter a bunch of numbers, and I find number pads easier to use)
-M.2 SSD connector (Extra storage, plus it shouldn't add too much room/weight to a laptop)
I don't do too much, and my eyesight isn't that great, to really appreciate a 120 Hz display, but better to have it and not need it. However, I've seen some 15" & 17" laptops with 360 Hz displays, albeit only 1920 x 1080 full HD. I've also seen 4K displays at 120 Hz, so it's doable.
The hype train for the next six days is going to be unreal.
FaceID on a Mac would be so neat — that alone would be a standout feature. I just think with component shortages this year that this might not happen. Eventually…
This is my stumbling block....I would switch to iPadOS immediately if I could have multiple windows and the same freedom that I have with macOS or any standard desktop OS...especially in regards to manipulating files and folders and moving them freely and easily...
Just not possible with the current iteration of iPadOS and the sorry excuse of the Finder replacement which is the "Files" app....
3456 x 2234 is a weird aspect ratio. At 1.55:1 it seems to fall in between 16:10 (1.6.1, which would be 3456 x 2160) and 3:2 (1.5:1, which would be 3456 x 2304). Odd. Neither TV standard 16:9 (thank heavens) nor Apple's previously common 16:10. I wonder if it could be 16:10 with a 74px "extra" region/stripe across the top or bottom - at 257dpi, it's a stripe a bit over 1/4" tall (camera "notch", anyone?).
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I would love Apple to learn from the iPad and magic keyboard. Move away from the traditional hinge mechanism. The magic keyboard is thinner, shorter, and yet holds the screen closer and higher than the equivalent MacBook.
That style of hinge on a MacBook Pro would be amazing. But far too much to expect from Tim Cook’s Apple.
Heh I get too tangled up in the many, many plausible scenarios to post a settled prediction:Well, feel free to post a guess.That was just my guess after all, as I have no inside information. Perhaps you're right and the 32-core GPU will come standard on the 16". Or perhaps the pricing will be lower. We can always hope...
And in truth, it doesn't really matter to me, since I won't be buying one anyway. I'm interested mostly in an M1X Mac mini, a discounted M1 Mac mini, or else an M2 Mac mini next year.
Apple's consumer-facing price logic is pretty strict, e.g. 8GB -> 16GB RAM upgrade always costs $200 whether its on the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, Mac mini, iMac 24 or iMac 27, same with SSD upgrades 256GB -> 512GB is always $200 etc, etc, etc.
Applying some of that, if prices stay the same, the $600 could be made up by +$200 screen size, +$400 32GB RAM which would give:
$1799 - 14" MacBook Pro 512 GB M1X 16 GB
$2199 - 14" MacBook Pro 1 TB M1X 16 GB
$2399 - 16" MacBook Pro 512 GB M1X 32 GB
$2799 - 16" MacBook Pro 1 TB M1X 32 GB
Or maybe it will be +$200 for the screen size bump and +$400 for 32 GPU cores - in which case it would match your prediction and the current set up almost perfectly. The downside would be no lucrative GPU upgrades for the 16" any more as they've already put the best they've got in.
Then there's the chip binning scenario, including clock speed changes, disabling cores etc. Maybe they could do the above GPU core thing but it would actually be 14" - 16 or 24 cores, 16" - 24 or 32 cores.
Or if they do feel like adjusting the prices, they could do your identical specs with the 14" at $1,799 and the 16" at $1,999 (+$200 just for the screen) or they could do 14" at $1,999 and the 16" at $2,099 (+$100 for the screen, but the 14" is more expensive) and that's before even all the options at staggering starting specs which was the case for a while with the 15" and higher end 13" (8 vs 16 GB RAM as standard was part of the deal until 2020).
So much they could do it makes your head spin trying to pin down what the most likely way they approach it is
Google will be holding an even on Tuesday... wonder if this has anything to do with it
I've experienced a few MagSafe ports that have failed (on the computer side), so that goes both ways. But at least a PD USB cable is much cheaper than a MagSafe charger.
AirPods really have no place in this event…. If they’re even mentioned, it should be a 5min aside. That 15 min will be consumed by people talking about how the previous M1 machines have ‘changed peoples lives”.
