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What Didn't Launch Today: Apple Tags, 16-Inch MacBook Pro, New iPad Pro Models
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No new Apple TV hardware.
If they are released, it was always more likely to be at the October event with the November release of Apple TV+
I’ve been a tile user for years now and my number 1 feature request would be integration direct to hardware, I.e. a tile type device soldered directly to the motherboard (with a dedicated battery) of all devices. This would mean if your device was stolen and/or powered down it could still easily be found. Fingers crossed the 16” Mbp is the first device to deliver this and that’s why they’ll be released together.
This could be the apple “it just works” approach, you don’t attach a tracking device, it’s just there. Obviously with privacy concerns there would need to be an option to disable, if this was linked to TouchID then thieves would struggle to disable.
No new Apple TV hardware.
Is there anything in the current Apple TV 4K that needs upgrading? I mean, it runs 4K HDR video, runs on fast wi-fi, what’s missing?
The new iPad Pro will be something to watch out for. Powered by the A13, it will take its performance to the next level.
We already had two MBP updates so far this year. There was zero chance of another one today. I would get a new battery if I were you, The MBP is due for a full design. Probably March timeframe. Personally I never buy the first rollout of a redesign. Get a new battery to hold you over for a good 7-8 months so Apple has time to work out the kinks of the upcoming MBP. Keyboards, fan issues there is always something to deal with in the first round.
With you all the way. I have the newest iPhone (well, now 2nd-newest), Apple Watch 4, etc etc but still rocking my 2011 17" MacBook Pro. On its 3rd battery, and has a non-functioning audio jack that means an eminently-loseable USB adapter, BUT 3TB OF STORAGE that I could upgrade to 4TB. Every movie I've ever taken, edited, every song, and zero reliance on the Cloud if need be. And it need be a lot.
I started using a 2019 15" MacBook Pro at the very top of the spec sheet (32GB RAM, buncha-cores i9, 2.4GHz, Radeon Vega 20, 2TB of RAM) and my biggest takeaway is that I miss the storage space, and that my fingers keep brushing the damn Touch Bar and turning the sound all the way up, the brightness all the way down, and launching iTunes every 5 minutes.
(Also, a little secret: it doesn't feel insanely faster.)
In my view, the most important barrier for a new iMac Pro 2019 refresh is the launch of the new Mac Pro later this year. Apple would want us to buy the new Mac Pro so they will not update the iMact Pro in a long time, sadly.
They think that a new iMac Pro with updated specs (new CPUs, GPUs, etc.) would canibalize the sales of the new Mac Pro, and they are right. I will not spend close to €14,000 in a base Mac Pro system with a Radeon Pro 580X and 256GB SSD (including the display and the EU taxes). I like the iMac Pro form factor and performance, but not a 2 year old computer in terms of tech specs. We need a new iMac Pro update as soon as possible. But the Mac Pro would stop this update, or so I think. I wish I would be wrong on this asupmtion.
They think that a new iMac Pro with updated specs (new CPUs, GPUs, etc.) would canibalize the sales of the new Mac Pro, and they are right. I will not spend close to €14,000 in a base Mac Pro system with a Radeon Pro 580X and 256GB SSD (including the display and the EU taxes). I like the iMac Pro form factor and performance, but not a 2 year old computer in terms of tech specs. We need a new iMac Pro update as soon as possible. But the Mac Pro would stop this update, or so I think. I wish I would be wrong on this asupmtion.
So all those 4K signs on the Disney Films in iTunes that appeared yesterday, then vanished, came to nothing.
A case of "And one thing less"
A case of "And one thing less"
OktoberiFest?
Slightly disappointed by the no-show of Apple Tags. Perhaps they mislaid them.
iPad Pro? All Pro event feels like...
I sure wish they'd do a real iMac update, like the new screen size but with a cheaper/normal display tech with all flash storage, at least for the 32" model.
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because this is the base ipad and a barely interesting update in a day of barely interesting updates. I think next event will be "pro" focused, thus the normal ipad introduced now, and the pro later with the rest of the pro stuff.
I'm not all that surprised that we didn't get a MacBook Pro announcement at what was basically an iPhone event. I don't know about the "Apple tags", maybe they weren't ready which would explain why the iPad section was as long as it was. Sort of felt a bit like they were repeating the WWDC keynote at times.
LOL! That's the funniest thing I've seen all day.
Ok. But realize that joke is used pretty much by someone here after every event going back for the past decade plus.
It’s as overused as the ‘getting my popcorn’ post when someone thinks a topic is going to result in heated exchanges. For that particular cliche joke, using the Micheal Jackson eating popcorn gif makes it feel doubly worn out and overused.
Maybe as filler? Seems like that was the kind of update that traditionally is done silently by Apple. Maybe just a chance to plug the iPad as a platform? It *does* seem like Apple is waiting to update all their pro products in tandem. I was starting to worry we wouldn't see the iPhone Pros released yet.
...is going to happen (obviously) but wouldn't justify an event on its own - it got a thorough launching at WWDC.
...is still just a rumour, especially the part about it launching this year and not being accompanied by a (whatever they can fit by reducing the bezels on the 13")-inch model... The screen isn't going to be night-and-day bigger or better than the current 15" (actually 15.4") and its going to have substantially the same specs as the current 15". If the Unique Selling Point is going to be that the keyboard doesn't suck (which seems like the only reason to release it before the next gen CPUs are out), they might prefer to sneak it out by press release...
Unlikely until the Mac Pro has had its time in the limelight - bear in mind that the base iMac Pro price already makes the base Mac Pro sound like a really, really expensive way of getting an inferior GPU and less SSD for the sake of PCIe slots.
As I understand it, the big selling point of the new Xeon-Ws is their extra I/O lanes which might not be a big deal in an all-in-one.
Still - this is pure evidence-free speculation which will be trumped by reality in due course.
Darth Tulhu
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THIS.
My 2011 17" is kinda falling apart:
- I had to use self-cut Command strips to hold the screen cover in place (I've ordered replacements but they never stay stuck)
- The discrete graphics card is DOA (I have to use a script to be able to boot using integrated graphics)
- I had to replace the battery at least once (but it now holds a charge like when new)
But:
- It boots in 6 secs because of a 2TB SSD upgrade.
- The optical drive bay now hosts a second drive.
- The keyboard is rock solid and has NEVER, EVER had any problems whatsoever.
- The trackpad is still as good and as responsive as when I bought it.
- The Expresscard slot houses E-SATA and USB-3 adapters that allow me to connect to all the drives & peripherals I've accumulated over the years.
- My audio jack still works like a champ after 8 years of daily abuse.
- The screen still leaves me with ZERO retina envy. No dead pixels, or loss in brightness (better than my 2012 high res 15").
- It runs MacOS High Sierra wonderfully (non-pro).
- And it holds 20 years of music, movies, and memories OFFLINE (I do also backup to the cloud, though).
To this day it is my daily driver.
Not Apple, or anyone for that matter, will build a computer as nice as this again.
When I finally cannot revive it, I will MOURN it as if it were a person.
This supposed October event probably won't even happen.
They have their holiday lineup already announced with the AW5, cheaper iPad, and new iPhones.
People will unlikely be buying high ticket items such as MBP's, and updated iPad Pros as a gift.
They have their holiday lineup already announced with the AW5, cheaper iPad, and new iPhones.
People will unlikely be buying high ticket items such as MBP's, and updated iPad Pros as a gift.
Fixed that a bit for you.
On a serious note, really admire how so many here are so honest in calling Apple out on their faults.
Compared to the rabid fanbois at Ars..
If I remember correctly, they had an October event last year to announce the newly designed iPad Pro. And that was after the new iPhones and new Apple Watch was announced a month earlier.
Somehow I’d managed to miss the tidbit that iPads might get the new triple camera bump. I mean . . . why?
Because who doesn't want to carry their iPad and click pictures with it whilst they block the view of everyone behind them?