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What to Expect From October 18 'Unleashed' Apple Event: New MacBook Pros, AirPods 3 and More

ruka.snow said:
You want to replace an expensive proprietary cable every 18 months or less when it buckles and frays? Why do you even need it now when you can charge with a ubiquitous USB-C cable that'll quickly give you 20+ hours usage?

I get the feeling some people have some misplaced nostalgia for MagSafe. Aye, it was great that it popped out. And aye, we needed to tether our machines to a power brick at the time. But the blasted thing didn't half like fraying, buckling, breaking. Even with the newer barrel configuration. And the £80 each time to replace it compared to a £10 USB-C cable that can go in any port isn't selling me.
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I have a lot of bent and useless usb-c cables.
 
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To answer the guy's question, I love the idea of the touch bar. My problem is that it's a dynamic display in a place I can't see, and it's pointed away from me. I can use a fixed keyboard because I learned it. I can't use function keys because they change with every model. I always know where the escape is because it's been in the same place since my dad taught my how to install dos in 1987. But with dynamic keys if I can't see it, then I don't know what to type and if I'm not hunting for an answer, then I'm literally not even aware there is anything on them. mac ergonomics guides from the '90's recommend keeping the screen and keyboard a couple of feet apart to avoid bad posture. When I'm at a desk at work, I have a pro screen connected with external keyboard and track pad. and every one who's worked in an office knows we need extra things to stack these monitors on top of to avoid back pain. When I'm doing that, the touch bar is out of my hi-res vision area, so if there's dynamic things on them, they're useless. When I'm focussed on typing instead of mousing, sometimes I wish I could just reach out and tap a button on the screen, instead of searching for m track pad, searching for the mouse and then carefully maneuver the mouse into place.... but I guess that's what a 13" iPad pro on a keyboard case is for... maybe I should get one of those instead of a mac, but they have a hard time holding their heads up when I'm laying back on the couch with the laptop on my chest while browsing social media. And those are my primary 2 modes for using a mac laptop.
And from that angle, I can't see or read anything on the touch bar -- in the position it's located and at the angle it's facing. if it were facing at me I would be able to use it. if it were where I'm looking it would be useful. but it's not.
Would I ditch my mac for an iPad pro? If it could hold its head up, in a second! I had a Logic case for my original 12.9" iPad pro which I did use a lot, but it has 1 screen angle, and the thing would fall over at the slightest instability. That apple keyboard case makes the iPad more expensive than a mac, and still makes the screen more precarious and fewer options for angles ... and my mac just doesn't fall over..
 
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jz0309 said:
I am fully with you, and I have gotten lots of "thumbs down" in a few other threads for not wanting to have legacy ports :eek:
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SD slot was nice - I had a near zero profile card with pretty big storage and it was an easy way to have a physically removable "drive" that way. I miss that.
 
BuddyTronic said:
SD slot was nice - I had a near zero profile card with pretty big storage and it was an easy way to have a physically removable "drive" that way. I miss that.
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True, and then there were the real small usb drives, but, my M1MBA has 2900+ read/write and those “old style” removable drives are really slooow, fine for backup but I wouldn’t want to use those for day to day data, just my opinion.
 
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Cosmosent said:
Bold Prediction Time, it will generate more Enthusiasm than Apple's iPhone 13 family announcement event (last month) !

And, very importantly, 2-3 days AFTER the Monday event, we'll ALL see Articles on the Net proclaiming that Peak iPhone was last year, & that Macs & other stuff will take Center Stage moving forward !

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Who is predicting a 15% drop in iPhone revenue? How did you come to this conclusion?

Why was this graph produced?

I certainly disagree with it :) Let's come back and see at the Apple January earnings report.
 
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I'd take more USB-C ports over an HDMI port. HDMI and MacOS historically have not worked well together. At least with more USB-C ports, I can get DisplayPort-USBC cables for my external LG monitors.

With my current 2 USB-C port setup, I have one used for the display and the other used for power, so I really can't plug anything in while docked which is annoying.
 
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I don't really care if they put in ports that I don't use, I'm only worried about how many USB-C ports they're taking out in lieu of all those ports. Hopefully they keep at least three of them.
 
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Interesting thing is, that there is not "big" iMac rumor. So these will probably stay on Intel chips, right?

Chip shortage etc.
 
The Touch Bar is great for predictive text when typing (using Pages) and the sliders are better to use than tapping minus or plus keys several times. I also use it for blend modes in photoshop and slide previews in Keynote. If the Touch Bar goes it’s features will probably return on a future full touch screen model of MacBook - as the MacBook becomes more integrated with the iPad.
 
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New 14" & 16" MacBook Pro laptops with M1X (M2, M2X, whatever) are expected...

It would make sense to also use the same M1X SoC in a new Mac mini, as well as in a new 27" iMac...!

Then the only remaining Macs that have not made the transition to ASi chips would be the Mac Pro...

These new Mac Pro units are rumored to have two sizes; the current beast that is Cheesegrater 2.0, and a smaller chassis (which I am hoping will be an all-new Mac Pro Cube)...

The Mac Pro units will have the Jade 2C & Jade 4C chips; basically two or four M1X SoC chips on a unified package...?

Then could also be a larger iMac Pro, something in the 30" to 32" range...?

But I would expect the "Pro" desktop Macs sometime next year...?

So if M1X gives two options:

10-core CPU (8P/2E)
32GB RAM
16-core GPU

or...

10-core CPU (8P/2E)
64GB RAM
32-core GPU

Then the Jade 2C / Jade 4C chips should basically be two or four M1X chips packaged together...?

Jade 2C
20-core CPU (16P/4E)
128GB RAM
64-core GPU

Jade 4C
40-core CPU (32P/8E)
256GB RAM
128-core GPU

Maybe Jade 2C for the 30" (32"?) iMac Pro & the Mac Pro Cube, with the Jade 4C being reserved for the Big Boy Mac Pro...?

Although I wouldn't mind seeing a Jade 4C in a Mac Pro Cube; a super powerful workstation for those who don't need PCIe slots...?!? ;^p
 
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mp8 said:
magsafe:
It could be interesting to see what they came up with, but personally with a laptop that's supposed to use *less* power, why bother at all. A Thunderbolt cable's 100W max is plenty to power any and all Apple Silicon laptop they could come up with.
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USB-C is going up to 240W soon anyway, thanks to the PD 2.1 spec.
Increased charging power is not a valid reason for MagSafe.
 
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First ASi offerings were the MacBook Air, the 13" MacBook Pro, and the Mac mini; then we had the 24" iMac come along with ASi inside...

Two laptops & a desktop, followed by an all-in-one...

So maybe we get the two new MacBook Pro laptops (14" & 16"), along with a new Mac mini, then the 27" M1X iMac follows early next year...?

A repeat of the two laptops & a desktop, followed by an all-in-one...?

Then that would leave just the Mac Pro lineup; the current Cheesegrater 2.0 chassis, a smaller Mac Pro (Cube?) chassis, and possibly a 30" or 32" iMac Pro...?
 
To everybody who is speculating on the ports: the schematics have been leaked. Any differences from what was leaked will be minor.
 
pete6 said:
The Touch Bar is great for predictive text when typing (using Pages) and the sliders are better to use than tapping minus or plus keys several times. I also use it for blend modes in photoshop and slide previews in Keynote. If the Touch Bar goes it’s features will probably return on a future full touch screen model of MacBook - as the MacBook becomes more integrated with the iPad.
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The Touch Bar is completely useless. Anyone with basic keyboard skills can type a word faster than looking at a Touch Bar to figure out if their word is on there.
 
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