Good! I'm totally happy with Macs being put on a 2 year cycle (with each year altering between the Air and the Pro).
I hope we don't see a new MBP until Fall 2023...
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Good! I'm totally happy with Macs being put on a 2 year cycle (with each year altering between the Air and the Pro).
I hope we don't see a new MBP until Fall 2023...
Agreed on consumer reaction. The average consumer sheeple will just snap up whatever's being offered. I'm sure they get home and look at the back quizzically when they try to plug in a USB-A or SD card, and just figure it must be them...and they go buy a hub or dongle. They're not particularly discerning
Your condescension is showing. There are more than a few discerning shoppers out there.Agreed on consumer reaction. The average consumer sheeple will just snap up whatever's being offered. I'm sure they get home and look at the back quizzically when they try to plug in a USB-A or SD card, and just figure it must be them...and they go buy a hub or dongle. They're not particularly discerning
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With Apple moving all the cables for their iDevices to USB-C, imo there won’t be much issue. And I don’t think the average consumer would be faced with USB-A or SD card that often. Eg even in my country, USB-A flash drives have fallen over, with many simply send documents and files via WhatsApp. Most lay consumers use their cellphones as their camera, so SD card has fallen out as well.Agreed on consumer reaction. The average consumer sheeple will just snap up whatever's being offered. I'm sure they get home and look at the back quizzically when they try to plug in a USB-A or SD card, and just figure it must be them...and they go buy a hub or dongle. They're not particularly discerning
I'm waiting for the Mac Pro update.. I had the first Mac Pro and the Trashcan Mac Pro but I didn't get the cheese grater one but I prefer a desktop over this MacBook Pro 16".
I can take it. Just say, where we can met, so you can give it to me.
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To be honest, I am not really interested in Apple computers anymore, since the applications I am using, are also available on the concurrent platform and at least in feeling, they work the same if not better. If the Mac mini 2014, that I am using occasionally, dies, well, that's it.
I hope we see mention of the Mac Pro. I have a weird feeling, don't shoot me, that we will see (at some point) Apple making their own GPUs. The fact that Jules from OTOY was featured in the last round makes me think this. Octane needs FAST GPUs, but also lots of them. I've seen 11 in a single set up as they scale in a linear way. So, as I say, just a thought.
Looking forward to the new Air and bigger iMac. Hopefully they will come in various colours.
There seems to be a huge divide on the iPhone SE but I hope it adopts the current design language with a larger screen and ditches the home button. It just seems so out of place in the lineup now.
There are a lot of customers that prefer having the home button. You would be alienating them. I think that the iPhone market is large enough now to include variants that meet the needs of more than just one type of user.
Adding 5G seems antithetical to the point of the iPhone SE, given how expensive and nonessential it is. It's not like LTE will be phased out in the foreseeable future, and nobody needs gigabit speeds on a smartphone. If the rumor is true, hopefully it won't mean a higher cost or worse battery life...
No reason to expect that. The new Airs have been rumored to be designed around the M2 which is no where near ready. End of 2022 at earliest.
They will probably include 5G partly to promote it as a feature and also because it is part of the chip sets of the other phones and they usually use the guts of the current iPhone for the SE. The incremental cost of the chips are likely not noticeable in the overall price. Whether the customers want to upgrade their phone plan with the carrier is another question. I haven't bothered to update my phone plan even though my iPhone 12 has 5G. Couldn't be bothered.
I mean, we know they've had the case design for it (hence why leaks of the colors came out what? Last spring?) for awhile. the M2 is based on the A15, which is out now. I believe before supply chain issues they had already planned on dropping it at the end of 2021. Just like the Pro laptops were supposed to come out in the summer, not fall. So a push back of spring was not insane. But supply issues are still lingering, and pushing it to the summer makes sense. But before the end of 2022 is for sure going to happen, which is why every major rumor person has said.
There isn't any reason for it to come a minute sooner. The M1 MacBook Air is still only 14 months old.
Says who?
For me all signs point to the whole M2 family being based on th A16 therefore being released from late 2022 and all through 2023 for the stronger versions.