'Unleashed' Apple Event Focusing on New Macs to Take Place on October 18

Was about ready to throw my M1(8gb) out the window the other day trying to edit photos in Lightroom. I'm so ready for an update, and considering that I usually do every other iPhone release at a minimum and stretch Mac replacements for years(my M1 replaced a 2012 15" Pro) this will be unusual for me to replace a "current" device with its immediate successor.

Before getting my M1, I thought USB-C charging was a terrible idea and was excited to hear Magsafe was coming back. I'm still excited about it, especially considering the number of times things have happened like the dog grabbing my power cord and pulling my computer off the table, or any number of other things.

With that said, I love the "true one port docking" that USB-C/TB3 can provide. I use an OWC PD dock at home, and at work have a little mini-dock that I keep a charger plugged in to. It's so convenient, and I hope the new Macs retain the ability to charge by USB-C even if the Magsafe is now the "primary" charging mechanism.

At least if they don't charge by USB-C, I really hope Apple goes straight back to Magsafe 2 or does something easily adaptable. I have piles of Magsafe 1 chargers around, which can easily become Magsafe 2, and also a few Magsafe 2s. Further, at home, I use a Thunderbolt display, which has a Magsafe(1) charger built in to it. so I can keep my set up relatively "clean".
 
bunnspecial said:
Was about ready to throw my M1(8gb) out the window the other day trying to edit photos in Lightroom.
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I'm curious. What are the issues there? I don't use Lightroom but I'm curious nonetheless. I thought Lightroom was M1 native. Is the 8 GB memory lacking?
 
EugW said:
I'm curious. What are the issues there? I don't use Lightroom but I'm curious nonetheless. I thought Lightroom was M1 native. Is the 8 GB memory lacking?
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It's definitely a memory issue, and is specific to me running Firefox in the background while also trying to use Lightroom.

Basically it's so slow as to be almost unuseable. Memory pressure will hit 90% or higher, and each time I load a new image it takes a minute or more to actually render. The M1 native version helped some, but not a ton.

I'd like to be able to multitask while using it, especially as sometimes Lightroom is doing background processes(DNG conversion in particular, but also JPEG exporting). My old 2012 with 16gb RAM handled this no problem, but using the same cameras and same sized files on the M1, Lightroom quite literally needs to be the only program running. Once it gets all the memory, it's fine.
 
baryon said:
It's kind of funny seeing Apple undo a bunch of their "innovations": Butterfly keyboard, USB-C charging, TouchBar, lack of HDMI, lack of SD card slot... That's quite a long list of mistakes there! Their new "features" are merely a return to how it was before. I'm sure M1X will be fast but the other things should not really be mentioned as features. Those were all present in the original Retinas.

I'm more curious about the discreet GPU options, will nVidia return? We've yet to see an M series processor with a discreet GPU.
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I blamed Johny Ive for those features. now that he’s gone, it’s good again.
 
Virinprew said:
Yeah. Mac has been at 256 GB since forever. While iPhone moves from 16GB to 128GB.
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Nope. The mid-end MacBook Pros have been 16 GB / 512 GB for quite some time now. It was the lower end MacBook Pros that were 8 GB / 256 GB. The M1X MacBook Pros will take over that mid-end (and high-end) MacBook Pro tier. (The low end MacBook Pros will likely remain M1 with 8 GB / 256 GB.)
 
Yeah I need big 2k cheap big monitor windows laptop to get work done, I like Apple does this then companies like Lenovo will just copy the concept
 
jz0309 said:
I take that over. SD/HDMI in a heartbeat ...
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Nah. Not into the nasalgia for its own sake. I’d rather ever bit of power and watt spent for real use not just glamour. Regardless of what we’ll save with the M-based processors.

if a glowing Apple logo was to happen on Apple silicon Mac it would’ve happened on the MBA as Apple sees that as the laptop premier/flagship above all else.
 
bunnspecial said:
Was about ready to throw my M1(8gb) out the window the other day trying to edit photos in Lightroom. I'm so ready for an update, and considering that I usually do every other iPhone release at a minimum and stretch Mac replacements for years(my M1 replaced a 2012 15" Pro) this will be unusual for me to replace a "current" device with its immediate successor.

Before getting my M1, I thought USB-C charging was a terrible idea and was excited to hear Magsafe was coming back. I'm still excited about it, especially considering the number of times things have happened like the dog grabbing my power cord and pulling my computer off the table, or any number of other things.

With that said, I love the "true one port docking" that USB-C/TB3 can provide. I use an OWC PD dock at home, and at work have a little mini-dock that I keep a charger plugged in to. It's so convenient, and I hope the new Macs retain the ability to charge by USB-C even if the Magsafe is now the "primary" charging mechanism.

At least if they don't charge by USB-C, I really hope Apple goes straight back to Magsafe 2 or does something easily adaptable. I have piles of Magsafe 1 chargers around, which can easily become Magsafe 2, and also a few Magsafe 2s. Further, at home, I use a Thunderbolt display, which has a Magsafe(1) charger built in to it. so I can keep my set up relatively "clean".
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whats funny is this concept was way back on a small private computing company back in 2012. I cannot recall the computer company name but they used a proprietary port that charged and all else of Tb3/4 to a desktop that offloaded the computer power thereof. Now defunct. But the concept lived on to what we have now.

I just hope Apple fully embraces eGPU for powerful desktop compute & crypto processing.
 
babyexercise said:
No Touch Bar will cut the cost a lot but charge higher price, so smart
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That new display is going to be a very expensive component.

Apple typically likes to re-invest savings from cutting obsolete technology by adding other enhancements that will meaningfully improve your overall experience.
 
dumastudetto said:
That new display is going to be a very expensive component.

Apple typically likes to re-invest savings from cutting obsolete technology by adding other enhancements that will meaningfully improve your overall experience.
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not that expensive comparing to the pro MacBook price
Even the whole 2k 27” monitor is just 200 dollars (non apple)
 
Will finally be able to replace my 2011 MBP! Don’t want to see how bad the bloodletting (dollarletting?) will be when I upgrade to 32GB RAM and 2 TB storage to make this machine also last 10 years…
 
bunnspecial said:
It's definitely a memory issue, and is specific to me running Firefox in the background while also trying to use Lightroom.

Basically it's so slow as to be almost unuseable. Memory pressure will hit 90% or higher, and each time I load a new image it takes a minute or more to actually render. The M1 native version helped some, but not a ton.

I'd like to be able to multitask while using it, especially as sometimes Lightroom is doing background processes(DNG conversion in particular, but also JPEG exporting). My old 2012 with 16gb RAM handled this no problem, but using the same cameras and same sized files on the M1, Lightroom quite literally needs to be the only program running. Once it gets all the memory, it's fine.
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16 GB M1 is the ideal config....I run my M1 MBA with it and there are absolutely no issues. Sometimes I have like 50 tabs open in Chrome and there are no slowdowns...
 
anshuvorty said:
16 GB M1 is the ideal config....I run my M1 MBA with it and there are absolutely no issues. Sometimes I have like 50 tabs open in Chrome and there are no slowdowns...
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There is a huge difference in surfing the internet and running memory hungry apps like Adobe Lightroom. I’ve got my doubts that even 16gb on a M1 Mac will be enough for heavy duty image and video processing.
 
w5jck said:
There is a huge difference in surfing the internet and running memory hungry apps like Adobe Lightroom. I’ve got my doubts that even 16gb on a M1 Mac will be enough for heavy duty image and video processing.
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Good point. But there are co-processors in the SoC that help with this kind of thing, so it isn't as cut and dry as it used to be...
 
Tagbert said:
I hope that if the iPad Air comes in purple it actually has a color. All reports I’ve seen say that the iPad Mini purple is just a gray with a very slight tint. Very disappointing.
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Yeah, I was thinking about getting the purple if I decided to get the iPad mini 6. When I finally saw the purple display model, I knew space gray would be a better choice.
 
boak said:
I think that will come in the Spring Event, together with the purple iPhone 13.
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Yeah, I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple pulled that trick again with the purple just to increase interest in the iPhone 13 as it wanes in anticipation of the redesigned iPhone 14/14 Pro.
 
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