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

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 don’t think defining them as mistakes is accurate, and if you call them as such I wish all companies (and individuals) would happily change their minds if they discover they’ve made a mistake. I’m still surprised the Touch Bar didn’t catch on. I tried one early and thought it was helpful with media authoring apps. But perhaps placement wasn’t sensible, it was more difficult to use.
 
anshuvorty said:
Apple rarely specifically mentions products that will be shown off in their invites. You have to infer...and when they mention "Unleashed," they have to mean unleashing the power of the Apple Silicon for sure! It is strongly implied!
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Yeah, was just checking and I think they ONLY did “Back to the Mac” as a specific call out, right?
 
EugW said:
I'm guessing extra cost to upgrade GPU on 16" to 32 cores. Not convinced the 14" will get that option. Similarly, even if the 16" gets the options of 64 GB RAM and 8 TB SSD, I'm not convinced they will be available on the 14". I'm guessing the 14" will max out at 32 GB RAM and 4 TB SSD.
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I do wonder if that’s the case how the $600 price gap is justified. Currently you get a more powerful CPU (6-8 cores @45W vs 4 cores @28W) and dedicated GPU for the money (plus presumably $1-200 for the screen size bump as other product lines also demonstrate). I think either they trim the entry price of the 16 slightly, or start it with maybe 1TB storage or 32GB RAM if they don’t want to do that. Alternatively the 14” might get more expensive, though I don’t think they will go above $1,999 starting price for it.
 
I would love to see new MacBook Airs, but I’m not holding my breath. The Air is the most interesting machine that Apple is selling at the moment. Since I work mostly from home I’m fine sticking with my M1 Mac Mini, but it would be nice to have a supplemental laptop that I can grab and go when I want.
 
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It's going to be interesting to see what game publisher will show their "optimized for M1X" games. If I see an M1X-specific version of Unreal Engine 5 I'll be completely shocked.
 
baryon said:
Is it possible that the the GPU built into the M1X will outperform what's currently available as discreet GPU options on the intel 16 inch MBP? I just can't imagine a computer geared towards professional video editing and grading that lacks a discreet GPU, but I haven't tested what the M1s can do in terms of GPU yet.
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I highly doubt that there will be a dGPU in any new Macs with the possible exception of the Mac Pro which may have some kind of accelerator like the Afterburner cards.

The current 8-core GPU in the M1 is quite good - I use mine for editing 4K video and it's a pretty solid experience. It's quite close to the entry-level AMD Radeon Pro 5300M in the current Intel MBP16.

I expect the 14" MBP will support 12 or 16 GPU cores that are somewhere between current 5500M and 5600M GPUs in performance (hopefully close to the 5600M) and a 24 or 32 core GPU in the 16" version that is close to a 5700 XT.
 
Art Mark said:
I don’t think defining them as mistakes is accurate, and if you call them as such I wish all companies (and individuals) would happily change their minds if they discover they’ve made a mistake. I’m still surprised the Touch Bar didn’t catch on. I tried one early and thought it was helpful with media authoring apps. But perhaps placement wasn’t sensible, it was more difficult to use.
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The iPod mini was similarly a mistake. So was the Apple ][ in that they were both things that Apple used to do and that they no longer do. :)
 
Fomalhaut said:
I highly doubt that there will be a dGPU in any new Macs with the possible exception of the Mac Pro which may have some kind of accelerator like the Afterburner cards.

The current 8-core GPU in the M1 is quite good - I use mine for editing 4K video and it's a pretty solid experience. It's quite close to the entry-level AMD Radeon Pro 5300M in the current Intel MBP16.

I expect the 14" MBP will support 12 or 16 GPU cores that are somewhere between current 5500M and 5600M GPUs in performance (hopefully close to the 5600M) and a 24 or 32 core GPU in the 16" version that is close to a 5700 XT.
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I wonder if there will be industry standard “slots” in any potential Mac Pro (if it’s part of the announcements). When looking at what went into those slots, Graphic Cards was number one (which likely won’t be a thing) and special networking cards were 2 through mayyyybe 7. If they can offer that networking framework via some Thunderboltish cabling, are slots required?
 
I will be getting a 14" Pro ONLY if they actually give us something worth the price over the M1 models.

120hz display
small bezels
Massive camera upgrade
new design
 
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