No graphs and all comparison is with Intel's Macs, not with M1s.
Not quite true, I see some comparisons made to the "previous generation" which are clearly M1s
MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Is it strange these were not announced during a live event? My conspiracy theory / gut reaction is they want to hide this launch? or at least don't want too many eyes on it? I don't know why I think this but yeah. I have no insider information. This is an unsubstantiated guess.
Extremely underwhelming improvement. The M1 to M2 general performance gap is minor at best.
To be fair it doesn't need to be a massive leap every CPU upgrade. The M1 was already a pretty damn powerful chip.
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#23will this support multiple monitors?
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#24Strange that Apple still isn't offering OLED screens when most other laptop makers are this year...
Apple laptops unfortunately give me severe eye strain and headaches; I don't know why. I'm on a laptop with a beautiful OLED screen now, and my eyes are much, much happier. I would switch back to Apple if they offered OLED. I doubt they will, though. They're keen on mini-led, which is inferior in my opinion.
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#25Mac mini seems so cheap in my country compared a brand-new Macbook. I wonder if they want to move as soon as possible to ecosystem made by only Apple Silicon powered devices.
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#26Pricing has gone crazy here in the UK. Paid £1899 for my M1 Pro. Same spec M2 Pro is £2199. Edit: at this rate when my previous gen one expires I'm going to think seriously about shifting back to ThinkPads...
I'm sure part of that is the pound tanking against the dollar!
Yeah likely but the thing is that Apple prices never go down even if the exchange rate becomes favourable.
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#27Strange that Apple still isn't offering OLED screens when most other laptop makers are this year...
They tend to not sacrifice longevity over flashy technologies. They migrated to OLED very late in iPhone when compared to other manufacturers, too. The last thing I want is a burn mark on my laptop screen because of static parts of my IDEs and such.
Is OLED even flashy anymore?
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#28Does anyone know "the fastest Intel-based MacBook Pro" means? In my mind, I've always pictured them using the 16" i9 model that throttled before it could hit the boost clock, let alone sustain it.
From the footnotes of the article, you're right!
> Results are compared to previous-generation 2.4GHz 8-core Intel Core i9-based 16-inch MacBook Pro systems with Radeon Pro 5600M graphics with 8GB HBM2, 64GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
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#30I've been waiting over a year for this. My M1 8GB is simply not up to spec for iOS Dev work. Apple Store literally had nothing with 16GB when I had to buy it. I asked about when they could get one in -- Apple store assistant told me it would be at least 3 months. This was in Ireland during Covid.
For reference my 2016 MacBook Pro had 16GB RAM so it was surprising to me that 6 years later I would be unable to buy one with 16 GB of RAM. So while the CPUs are amazing what the hell are Apple doing selling machines with such little amounts of RAM?