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Post by charlesju »

dijit wrote: post #9
burlesona wrote: post #3

Solid spec bump. Interesting how much emphasis they put on the camera, speakers, and mic; makes total sense in the age of Zoom. I’d also speculate this means iMac won’t be the first computer getting Apple Silicon. I wonder if it will be the last? What’s the consensus guess now? Perhaps a new MacBook Air with good performance but the real “breakthrough” is > 12 hours battery life?

It will almost certainly be a low end macbook. In fact, there's a non-pro 'macbook'[0] that already exists which would be perfect, it was discontinued a year ago, but used ultra-low power CPUs. In fact when they were talking about them (prior to release) they thought they would have ARM CPU's back then. They are fanless and have a 5W thermal envelope, which fits in with the current A12X too. The major criticisms of t…

I primary drive the latest version and its my favorite mac to date (and I have the pro + imac + ipads + iphones). I have found that if you have a little bit of patience for loading, everything works just fine and the form factor beats everything for real work on the go.

If they are really creating an ARM macbook, this will be a great product and this chassis is definitely the right one to start with.

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Post by beervirus »

Tepix wrote: post #482
beervirus wrote: post #318

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Big bezels are annoying on portable devices, because they make the devices bigger for a given screen size. They’re pretty irrelevant for a desktop.

Think TVs. Modern TVs have no bezel.

Yeah, and that’s fine. It’s just aesthetic though. It doesn’t matter all that much in a device that sits in one place.

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Post by timsneath »

burlesona wrote: post #3

Solid spec bump. Interesting how much emphasis they put on the camera, speakers, and mic; makes total sense in the age of Zoom. I’d also speculate this means iMac won’t be the first computer getting Apple Silicon. I wonder if it will be the last? What’s the consensus guess now? Perhaps a new MacBook Air with good performance but the real “breakthrough” is > 12 hours battery life?

I can imagine two priority devices for them to feature from the start:

- A super-lightweight 12" Macbook-like device that lets them demonstrate how Apple Silicon opens up new categories and form factors: small, powerful and amazing battery life

- A developer machine (MBP or similar) will be necessary. There are precious few DTKs out there, and they need more developers to be running Apple Silicon. I can't imagine them not shipping this in the first wave.

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Post by simonh »

_ph_ wrote: post #341

The one thing I keep missing on my 5k iMac is some form of video-in. Would be great if I could connect my MB Pro to it and use the iMac as a display. Perhaps even in a window and all mouse and keyboard events to the window get passed to the connected MacBook.

It made sense on the original 5k because display port at the time didn’t support enough bandwidth for 5k output.

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Post by raydev »

onepointsixC wrote: post #154
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Plenty of Mac users with a logitech as well ;-) works just fine.

Right, but having an integrated camera that is absolutely awful completely defeats the point of having that there in the first place. It really noticeable when you Facetime with someone on an iPhone and you compare the video quality of the two.

> having an integrated camera that is absolutely awful completely defeats the point of having that there in the first place

This is a ridiculous statement considering the camera we're talking about is 720p. The current camera is indeed better than "no integrated camera at all" and is perfectly fine for video calls with your family, or even for work, since you're probably sharing your screen and your coworkers don't need to see every pore on your face.

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Post by simonh »

jyrkesh wrote: post #267
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Still only 8GB RAM though, a bit of a bummer.

Yeah, and upgrading to even 32 GBs is SIX HUNDRED DOLLARS. I get that it has to be soldered on or whatever, but I'm looking at faster RAM on Newegg right now, in brand names, single module DDR4, for ~115. I really wanna buy Apple stuff, but stuff like this continually keeps me away when I finally get to the Buy page.

The 27” models have user-accessible DIMM slots in a compartment on the back, so you’re ok to get that RAM from Newegg or Crucial. That’s what I will be doing.

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Post by arcticbull »

Veedrac wrote: post #491
bredren wrote: post #429

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I see no need for a standalone Macbook to negatively portray Apple Silcon. "Macbook" is the heart of the entire PC portable line for Apple. "Macbook"is the grounding of the brand itself. I think Apple will release the Macbook as the first Apple Silicon machine because of the optics of confidently putting the hardware at the symbolic heart of the entire portable line. I do not think the 12" that was discontinued shoul…

To the skeptics, Apple Silicon is about thin laptops and fat margins. It makes no sense for Apple to reinforce this. Apple's silicon team is exceptional, and they should prove it.

And they will, delivering thin, light, long-lasting laptops, with high performance and the fattest of margins. The only people they need to prove themselves to are shareholders, and this is gonna do the trick.

In many ways the same was true in 2006.

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Post by abrowne »

localhost wrote: post #474
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And https://www.apple.com/imac/specs/ (click 27-inch) says > four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible

Thanks. Hopefully the SSD is accessible too. I have a ~2010 iMac 27" and I had to pull of the front glass of the monitor and disassemble half the computer to replace the HDD with an SSD. That was a gigantic PITA.

I think the SSDs on all the T2 computers are built-in to the mobo — the T2 is the disk controller — so not even a removable card on the back side like the iMacs models up to now.
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