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Given the reportedly short battery life of 2hrs I think product design will remain unchanged that long but the M chip will be replaced often to improve battery life.
If the M3 chip is introduced before the first Vision One, is it likely that Apple will use the M3 from day one, or save it for a future upgrade?
What kind of performance increase could we expect with the M3 vs. M2? Will it make a huge difference in real-time photo quality ray tracing?
What kind of performance increase could we expect with the M3 vs. M2? Will it make a huge difference in real-time photo quality ray tracing?
Apple already announced it's coming with M2. Devs are developing apps around M2 performance.
This is one of the most carefully planned launches in Apple's history. They're not going to wing it and tell everyone it comes with M2 but actually ship something else.
The 2020 Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit had a A12Z chip. The consumer chip was a higher-end M1 chip that came out 5 months later
As you noticed, it's a DTK. Apple never stated what the Mac mini would come with in a press release to the world.
Read the press release and Command-F to find M2.
Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.
www.apple.com
Think about it logically. Right now, the 2-hour battery life is burned into everybody's minds. If there was any possibility of it coming with M3 with better battery life, don't you think Apple would withhold that estimate? I know you want it desperately to come with M3, but it doesn't pass any of the common sanity checks.
2 hour battery is short even by 2003 standards.As you noticed, it's a DTK. Apple never stated what the Mac mini would come with in a press release to the world.
Read the press release and Command-F to find M2.
Introducing Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer
Apple today unveiled Apple Vision Pro, a revolutionary spatial computer that seamlessly blends digital content with the physical world.www.apple.com
Think about it logically. Right now, the 2-hour battery life is burned into everybody's minds. If there was any possibility of it coming with M3 with better battery life, don't you think Apple would withhold that estimate? I know you want it desperately to come with M3, but it doesn't pass any of the common sanity checks.
Why not put a part that improves it at no added cost.
The $3.5k MSRP probably covered the M3 part price.
No added cost? I didn’t realize TSMC was running a charity and ASML donates EUV systems to the needy.
Yes the battery life is short. It’s also by far the highest resolution headset available with a dozen cameras and sensors. There is nothing like it.
The $3.5k MSRP is for the M3 chip.
The M2 chip is just a place holder.
Apple has historically bump up chips for free when necessary.
Announcing M3 in 2023 will Osbourne all M2 Macs.
Vision Pro buyers will feel good hearing they're getting something for "free".
It's consumer psychology.
You really don’t get marketing or PR.
There is no reason to burn “2 hours battery life” and “M2” into the memories of millions of people for 6 months unless Apple is committed to it. Notice how price, camera count, CPU, are set but storage, launch date, and weight are not? Some things can change but not the announced specs.
That is “consumer psychology.”
"One more thing". We previously announced that the Vision Pro would ship with an M2 chip and would only have two hours of battery life. Now we are excited to announce that from Day One, the Vision Pro will ship with the M3 chip, twice the RAM, twice the battery life, and will now only cost $2999!
A bump is not just as simple as plugging in a new chip into the headset, it takes a considerable amount of resources ahead of time to make sure that there are no issues with just replacing the chip. The design and early testing was done with the M2 and I believe the manufacturing of it was delayed ... so M2 was always in the plans... I expect this to get to manufacturing soon with the M2... as such I would say the odds are long that they will put in an M3 on launch... That said, I could see them turning around in a year and putting the M3 in the headset with that being the only change -- then the release cycle would move from yearly to 18 to 24 months. This is a low volume product with issues on the manufacturing at scale still needing to be worked out... I expect that would be one of their higher priorities in the short term.
Apple likely has M3 in the Vision Pro reporting themselves as M2.
That resolves your in the box thinking.