Apple Readies MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Revamps

Post by offtop5 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

EForEndeavour wrote: post #27

> Apple plans to launch the redesigned MacBook Pros in 14-inch and 16-inch screen sizes. They’ll have a redesigned chassis, magnetic MagSafe charger and more ports for connecting external drives and devices. Apple is also bringing back the HDMI port and SD card slot, which it nixed in previous versions, sparking criticism from photographers and the like. Even if they continue to force the anti-feature that is the Tou…

Post by jason0597 » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:02 PM UTC

valuearb wrote: post #83

The Mac Pro Mx CPUs illustrate the promise of ARM and Apple Silicon. When the Firestorm core is one of the fastest available but uses less than 5 watts, Apple can use a ton of them at once without massive heat and power usage. The top end Mac Pro with 32 Firestorm on one chip is probably will have a GeekBench Multicore score approaching 60,000, triple the fastest Xeon based Mac Pro. And it probably uses half the 300…

Post by tspike » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:04 PM UTC

dylan604 wrote: post #96

barkingcat wrote: post #50

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M1 mac pros were always going to come. Apple themselves announced that the next 2 years will be transition. I'd say if you purchased a Mac Pro, it's still the same. If you find yourself not having enough power, you bought the wrong machine to begin with (probably modern threadripper pro would be what you should have been looking for) If the computer satisfies all your performance needs, what use is it to "feel frustr…

>(probably modern threadripper pro would be what you should have been looking for) Comments like this are always just so empty to me. This person was looking for a more powerful Mac, so suggesting they should have been looking for a CPU that's never going to be available for use in a Mac is just grandstanding. This person had been waiting for years for a product from Apple to replace the worthless trashcan systems. H…

Post by ghaff » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:05 PM UTC

D13Fd wrote: post #71

etrautmann wrote: post #41

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The vast majority of cameras, even professional mirrorless or DSLRs, currently use SD cards now. Perhaps that's changing, but I would imagine there's sufficient utility to the SD card reader that many users would value that feature.

That's not true for professional mirrorless/DSLRs, which on the high end often use other cards like CFast, XQD, or CF. And as mentioned, many readers for those cards also integrate SD readers. The vast majority of people these days just use their phones for cameras, and don't use point-and-shoots or other things with full-size SD cards. So really SD cards cater to just the mid-range camera market, where people use mi…

Post by foldr » Tue, May 18, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

slezyr wrote: post #102

pokot0 wrote: post #95

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Idk, I am no expert but I tend to believe that a design that is shipped to millions of customers and only a handful report problems is probably designed better than what the average youtuber or forum commenter can assess. Apple is known to remove elements from their design in order to optimize. That big and heavy heat pipe seems like a perfect element to remove. And maybe it is a mistake. That happened before and the…

Cool, but why does a new and more power-efficient M1 laptop has it[1], and it's much bigger than this one? Apple is also known for not admitting its design failures. 1: https://www.zdnet.com/a/hub/i/2020/11/20/ab77bd9b-edc0-419f-...