The problem is paying 4000 to 5000 €/$/£ for a M4 Max MacBook Pro and not getting WiFi 7
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Unlike iPhone 16 Models, Apple's M4 Macs Lack Wi-Fi 7 Support
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I never expected TB5 to happen with M4 - that was a positive surprise.
I think I prefer WiFi 7 over TB5
I am wondering the same since a long time. At least since I had my first iPhone and iPads exist. Why can't they just put a SIM-Card slot in Macs too?
Do I get also some money if I upgraded to WiFi 6 and don't need it? 🥺 I didn't even sell my old WiFi 5 router and need the money even more. I rather keep it. Since a Thunderstorm killed my router about 12 years ago it's always better to have a second one.
Why don't they just release it today? 🤔
I hope the new Studio will be released soon, because the Mini in my wished configuration could be the same price.
Because it's expensive for limited benefit. Most people already have a phone and can hotspot to that. Do you really want to pay for another mobile SIM/subscription?
But then again, with the new Apple baseband chip coming soon, who knows? Maybe they'll finally do it!
Why are they offering it for iPads then? It could also be optional.
Might be different where you live but here you sometimes just get four SIM cards for one contract for free if you want and can use them all at once.
Also plans for data only SIMs are much cheaper than phone SIM cards.
But there are also cellular modem sticks. I hope they got smaller in the meantime and just work with a Mac. I'll just buy a cheap one and try it. It's always good to have a fallback. I could get a card without contract for it and just charge it with money when I need it. Or just put one of many lying around prepaid phone cards in it.
I have a SIM card that is completely free with 250MB every month and I only charged it once with €10 because I needed to write some SMS the many years before and after that I never paid a single cent for it. Even the shipping costs were free when they sent it to me. That's my main iPhone card at the moment again because I am mostly at home. It's even unlimited data but after the 250MB is used it's 64Kbit I think.
They sent very rarely SMS ads in the first years and the email ads that seemed to fund it mostly went to an address that I didn't use anymore and also doesn't exist anymore since a long time. They don't send ads to the new one I entered. Maybe they have enough paying customers now too.
I just wanted to say that card isn't good for tethering with my Mac if I have an Internet blackout. But I could buy a data package if I put some more money on it.
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I always use Ethernet on stationary devices, so not a big problem for Mac Mini and iMac imho. MacBook Pro however…somewhat of a bummer. Oh well, if you really need WiFi 7, I guess you can hold out for the next release, it will most likely have it
Yeah this. One of the reasons I want to go back to a desktop is ethernet. WiFi is bloody terrible. I live in a large apartment estate and there are so many APs it's unusable sometimes.
I sometimes even use Ethernet for my iPhone. WiFi is turned off for the most time of the day. Because I am doing almost everything on my Mac.
They don’t do that because they have to pay Qualcomm a percentage of the entire product cost if they use their chips. It’s why the price increase for iPads with cellular is so high. This won’t happen until their own chips are ready for consumer use.
I recently upgraded to the eero 6e system. I only have 1gbps speeds and the price for a WiFi 7 system is to high. They will probably be on a new so c by the time I upgrade again
Please tell me where I said wireless wasn’t an option?
Pretty sure I said wired is a better option, not the only option.
They don’t want to pay Qualcomm the large percentage they get from every device with their cellular chip. Macs can cost substantially more then an iPhone those royalties aren’t cheap
There are several 4G USB-Sticks for about 15-30€ on Amazon. 5G is rare somehow. But most people here use only 4G anyway. I just found expensive 5G routers with a quick look.
Isn't internal normally not even cheaper than external?
But it's not only Apple. There are some Laptops with cellular, but not many.
I have this one twice. Sometime iOS thinks there is no Internet connection if only Ethernet is connected in Airplane mode. But after a short while everything is working.
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I updated my routers during this sale as wells unfortunately it really made no difference in speed and I feel like I lost range from my old eero 5s
I guess we shouldn’t be surprised considering they released the Vision Pro with only WiFi 6 and it relies so much on WiFi… and they released HomePods with wireless N🙄🙄🙄
I almost bought that one too on Prime Day, but I upgraded to 6E just a few months before. And decided to wait until I have a faster Internet line. Because the first upgrade already didn't make a difference. But I was attempted to try a different brand. I always had FRITZ!Boxes for many years and I am looking for a Router that might have better options to use third party firmware.
My Ethernet cables are now all 40Gbit/s. I don't know for what those even exist, but they were not much more expensive than 1 or 10GBit. 🤔
Oh no, no WiFi 7 because I have 48 Gb/s switches and Ethernet adapters in my servers what do I do now…
WiFi 7 is mainly fun for stuff that needs extremely low latency like VR equipment, not for internet/data transfer. It doesn’t yet have practical use for users over WiFi 6E. If you think you need WiFi 7 for a device like this, then you’ve already put fiber throughout your home and will just use cable anyway because wireless will then never be good enough for you and money is no object.
If you had 6E and upgraded to 7 and notice a difference, you simply have no idea what you’re doing. No one with a degree in network technology would experience the same. Should have looked at placement and band usage and gotten proper equipment instead.
WiFi 7 is mainly fun for stuff that needs extremely low latency like VR equipment, not for internet/data transfer. It doesn’t yet have practical use for users over WiFi 6E. If you think you need WiFi 7 for a device like this, then you’ve already put fiber throughout your home and will just use cable anyway because wireless will then never be good enough for you and money is no object.
If you had 6E and upgraded to 7 and notice a difference, you simply have no idea what you’re doing. No one with a degree in network technology would experience the same. Should have looked at placement and band usage and gotten proper equipment instead.