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What to Expect at Apple's October 30th Event: New iPad Pros, Mac Mini, Low-Cost Retina Notebook and More
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Am I the only person who doesn't want a bezeless iPad? I mean I need something to hold onto..... Or am I gonna have to put a pop socket on an iPad? lol
I feel the same about laptops. That bezel provides some cushion area to absorb blows if it's dropped. The screen seems like it would be more vulnerable without a bezel.
Looking forward to the announcements. Some details I’d like to see in the products:
iPad Pro:
- ability to put more app icons on each page. On the 12.9”, the icons look like they’re spread out in a field
- external keyboard still usable in landscape mode. The keyboard has to be wide for normal typing. Can’t envision how it’ll word with the connector on the small edge
- backlit external keyboard
- trackpad on the external keyboard. Yeah, I know iOS doesn’t support it. Makes working on spreadsheets miserable.
Pencil:
- On/off switch, so it’s not dead half the time when I go to use it
- Easier, more reliable pairing
- A flat edge, or at least a rubber sleeve with a flat edge, so it doesn’t roll away
- Strong magnetic connector to clip to the edge of the iPad
Macbook 12”:
- Unlock via face recognition, like the iOS products
- 1TB storage option
- Jet Black color option
Air Pods:
- noise cancellation
- focused microphones that can be switched on and off, like the Bose Hearphones
- Jet Black color option (even if the case is still white)
iPad Pro:
- ability to put more app icons on each page. On the 12.9”, the icons look like they’re spread out in a field
- external keyboard still usable in landscape mode. The keyboard has to be wide for normal typing. Can’t envision how it’ll word with the connector on the small edge
- backlit external keyboard
- trackpad on the external keyboard. Yeah, I know iOS doesn’t support it. Makes working on spreadsheets miserable.
Pencil:
- On/off switch, so it’s not dead half the time when I go to use it
- Easier, more reliable pairing
- A flat edge, or at least a rubber sleeve with a flat edge, so it doesn’t roll away
- Strong magnetic connector to clip to the edge of the iPad
Macbook 12”:
- Unlock via face recognition, like the iOS products
- 1TB storage option
- Jet Black color option
Air Pods:
- noise cancellation
- focused microphones that can be switched on and off, like the Bose Hearphones
- Jet Black color option (even if the case is still white)
Came in to post the same thing. It’s the only way this device makes sense with this line up.
Can’t wait to hear Apple’s latest definition of “low-cost”...should be a hoot. If it’s under $1,199 I’ll eat my hat. They seem to be on a “take features/performance away in the pursuit of almighty thinness and raise the price” tear these past 3-5 years. Why the hell should (or would) Tuesday be any different?
I hope I’m wrong, but...
I don’t follow all this stuff like I once did (who does, right?)...is there some solid rumors/evidence of an updated Mac mini or is this all just some sort of mass “wishful thinking” hysteria, with everyone desperately, gamely hoping to will it into existence?
Because it sure seems like the very type of product Apple doesn’t give a rip about anymore. Evidence? Oh, the past four years.
So what’s suddenly different/changed now? If that model “mattered” to them, why has it sat, completely untouched, for four(!) solid years? I think a lot of people in the Apple forum/rumor community need to steel themselves for the very real possibility that, like the iPhone SE, Apple simply yanks the mini from their lineup completely, effective Tuesday.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit at this point.
I certainly hope not, but this just isn’t the Apple that once was. That’s become painfully obvious with each passing year. I truly believe if Tim and a few others had their way, all they’d make would be phones, watches, Apple TVs and related accessories and software. All his boilerplate, canned rhetoric about “the Mac is as important to us as ever” simply doesn’t line up with reality in any way, at least on the non-notebook front.
Check out the Buyer’s Guide at this very site if you doubt me. It’s quite telling and clear-cut. And a little sad.
I hope I’m wrong, but...
I don’t follow all this stuff like I once did (who does, right?)...is there some solid rumors/evidence of an updated Mac mini or is this all just some sort of mass “wishful thinking” hysteria, with everyone desperately, gamely hoping to will it into existence?
Because it sure seems like the very type of product Apple doesn’t give a rip about anymore. Evidence? Oh, the past four years.
So what’s suddenly different/changed now? If that model “mattered” to them, why has it sat, completely untouched, for four(!) solid years? I think a lot of people in the Apple forum/rumor community need to steel themselves for the very real possibility that, like the iPhone SE, Apple simply yanks the mini from their lineup completely, effective Tuesday.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit at this point.
I certainly hope not, but this just isn’t the Apple that once was. That’s become painfully obvious with each passing year. I truly believe if Tim and a few others had their way, all they’d make would be phones, watches, Apple TVs and related accessories and software. All his boilerplate, canned rhetoric about “the Mac is as important to us as ever” simply doesn’t line up with reality in any way, at least on the non-notebook front.
Check out the Buyer’s Guide at this very site if you doubt me. It’s quite telling and clear-cut. And a little sad.
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Apple needs to extend Space Grey to more of the product line; AirPods, Apple Pencil, Mac Mini...
Apple needs to offer the Apple Watch that DOES NOT require one to have an iPhone for cellular service on the watch; I would rather carry the smaller iPad Pro (there is always a bookbag, jacket pocket, or cargo pants pocket that it will easily fit in), so no need for an iPhone...
While I am eager for a pro-focused Mac Mini, I would really, Really, REALLY love to see a preview of the new Modular Mac Pro; depending on pricing & specs, a baseline Mac Pro might be worth waiting for over a pimped out Mac Mini 'Pro'...
And I definitely want to see some new Apple Displays; I know the rumor is an 8K beast for the Mac Pro, but how about a nice 27" 4K model to complement the new Mac Minis...? And yes, I want the displays in Space Grey as well...
Apple needs to offer the Apple Watch that DOES NOT require one to have an iPhone for cellular service on the watch; I would rather carry the smaller iPad Pro (there is always a bookbag, jacket pocket, or cargo pants pocket that it will easily fit in), so no need for an iPhone...
While I am eager for a pro-focused Mac Mini, I would really, Really, REALLY love to see a preview of the new Modular Mac Pro; depending on pricing & specs, a baseline Mac Pro might be worth waiting for over a pimped out Mac Mini 'Pro'...
And I definitely want to see some new Apple Displays; I know the rumor is an 8K beast for the Mac Pro, but how about a nice 27" 4K model to complement the new Mac Minis...? And yes, I want the displays in Space Grey as well...
This can't come soon enough. It's the most anticipated I've been about an Apple event in years, and all due to this faint promise of actual productive desktop machines!
If there's a MacMini; I'll buy one.
If there's (somehow) a MacPro; the same.
If the reality distortion field actually has a physical impact and they release both; heck; I'll get both.
If there's a MacMini; I'll buy one.
If there's (somehow) a MacPro; the same.
If the reality distortion field actually has a physical impact and they release both; heck; I'll get both.
This. If people are truly expecting THAT many updates at an event in Brooklyn and not on Apple’s campus.....then you don’t know this company very well.
However I’d gladly be wrong!
I would settle for just allowing me to install the watch app on an iPad even if Apple isn’t ready to make the watch completely tether free yet.
It'll be a slightly different shade. Possibly a slight processor change because the current ones are so old that they've been discontinued and run out of old stock.
Removal of a couple of ports with associated ingress rating change from IP21 to IP32.
This is supposed to be sarcasm...
Taking Dale Carnegie's "How To Win Friends and Influence People.", but I digress.
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AMEN!!!
If the new 13 inch low cost notebook uses an ARM processor, are we talking about the A12X bionic that is likely to go into the iPad Pro? Are we talking about 4GB of RAM? Will that be sufficient to drive Mojave and subsequent OS updates for 6 years (which is generally the amount of time I expect to keep a computer)?
I have no idea.....so, wondering if someone could venture a guess.
Also, what are the advantages of using an ARM processor in a laptop? Cost? No Fan? ???
I have no idea.....so, wondering if someone could venture a guess.
Also, what are the advantages of using an ARM processor in a laptop? Cost? No Fan? ???
no way in hell would they do a screen like that.
however, fusing the notions of the Mac Mini and modular Pro perhaps. the base unit for both would be essentially the Mac Mini. Custom config it with bigger core specs and it's the base for your Modular Pro and you add whatever eGPU etc you want
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so basically ditch the Macbook Air for the Macbook in perhaps an 11 and 13 rather than 12. if the logic board is better than the current airs and they do at least 2 USBC ports it could perhaps work.
Apple A-Series CPUs might be ready for macOS, but macOS is not ready for A-Series CPUs. You are looking at least another couple of years. Apple just previewed Marzipan (iOS apps ported to macOS) at WWDC this year and it will not be ready for primetime until next year and 10.15.
The advantage worked that the CPU is now RISC based and Apple controls its own destiny as opposed to being held hostage to Intel's production (or lack thereof) schedules. Just google Intel 10nm Cannon Lake.
Best way to test the waters as they (possibly) plunge into the entire Mac lineup with ARM.
I wait to plunge into a Windows laptop or the new Mac mini as the next main home computer.
I think Apple will keep it simple. First iPad Pros (includes new Pencil, accessories, etc.), Mac mini and the 13"/14" MacBook (Air). Any updates to the 12" MacBook and the iMacs will be mentioned quickly during the course of the event. The MacBook update during the new MacBook pricing and the iMac during the Mac mini pricing. Oh, and the iPad mini may or not be mentioned if it is updated, but it would also be a short aside during the iPad Pro pricing presentation. We have seen them do this a million times before. But honestly, I think they will only focus on the top three.
The unknown is what apps will be updated or ported to iOS and featured on the iPad Pro given the setting. Honestly, this entire keynote could be entirely for the iPad Pro. If it is, I expect to hear these forums actually blow up, literally!
I just thought of something. What if the new Mini and the new Mac Pro are the same thing?
The non-TouchBar “MacBook Pro” should become “MacBook”.
An updated “MacBook” should become the “MacBook Air”. Simples.
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If they did that they’ll have a Mac mini (i Series Chips) and a Mac mini Pro (Xeon Chip). Also expect all beefy GPU options to be external.
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A Series will still need active cooling. The only reason iPhones don’t is because most taskas a based on “bursts” of performance, then the phone underclocks the CPU as it heats.
Take the Apple TV 4K for example. There’s a fan in the until to cool the A10X.
An updated “MacBook” should become the “MacBook Air”. Simples.
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If they did that they’ll have a Mac mini (i Series Chips) and a Mac mini Pro (Xeon Chip). Also expect all beefy GPU options to be external.
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A Series will still need active cooling. The only reason iPhones don’t is because most taskas a based on “bursts” of performance, then the phone underclocks the CPU as it heats.
Take the Apple TV 4K for example. There’s a fan in the until to cool the A10X.
if you've been following the eGPU threads and the fact it suddenly got enabled in recent High Sierra updates, you're pretty spot on the money. Apple's ideal of a modular Mac will just be a basic Mini-like device with TB3 accessories like an eGPU or a PCIe cage, probably third party for the latter, Apple-branded for the former. My guess is they'll use the aluminum case as a passive heatsink for lower-end CPUs and an active cooling solution for the higher end. The fact they can fit a Xeon inside an Imac now is telling of the direction this will go. But I also wouldnt expect Apple to offer high-end CPU offerings in the package... if we're lucky, an LGA2066 based CPU like Xeon Ws, but my money will be on hex-core i7/i9/e3 xeon CTO options with standard i5 as the baseline.
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[doublepost=1540607252][/doublepost]Obviously Apple has already recognized that die-hard Apple fans want a modular mac and clearly (based on the underlying tone of the event renderings) this is up and coming in this event. You just don’t get it, do you?