Will that mean the M1 MBP 14/16 will get a price decrease? That would be great.
MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
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#572It’s crazy how far ahead Apple is getting in the laptop game with these new chips. I have the first gen MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro (ok maybe they’re not winning the naming game), and it’s a perfect computer. Battery life is literally all day, every single action is instant, I have zero regard for many apps or tabs I have open. It’s just perfect. I have literally traveled with just a 30 watt anker brick for my phone…
> far ahead Losing external GPU support with apple silicon has become a major deal. In the age of AI tools like stable diffusion, performance per watt matters less if you lose the capability to scale up these kind of workloads. Gurman's report about the mac pro tower gave us reason to hope on this (that the upcoming mac pro will have eGPU support), but when it comes to MacBooks, let alone the pros, no one knows when/…
Apple hates Nvidia and will never support them.
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#573There was just one thing I needed to know - Did they ditch the touch bar? Finally, they did!
I have an M1 macbook air because it was the only one without the bar. I've been waiting for this for a long time!
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#574I'm an Air convert after years of using 15" macbook pros. Small, light, amazing battery life. Feels just as fast on all 'normal' tasks. If I'm doing some work that needs a lot of power, even a maxed Pro wouldn't be enough.
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#575Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, to be fair, if you go to NVIDIA's site for "professional desktop workstations", the Quadro RTX 6000 is precisely what they show first: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/design-visualization/desktop-gr...
It's not? Are you getting A/B tested or something? I see the RTX 6000 Ada and A6000 in both the hero image and the first products listed. The Quadro 6000's a 24GB 4,608 CUDA-core PCIe 3x16 card[1] and the A6000 is a 10,752 CUDA-core 48GB PCIe 4x16 card.[2] I know NVIDIA's branding and product line naming sucks, but those clearly aren't the same cards, or even same generation of card. 1: https://www.nvidia.com/content…
I know its not what you meant, but “are you getting A/B tested or something?” is a pretty great software world roast.
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#576In the feature list, the most underwhelming item to me is the '1080p FaceTime HD camera'. Aren't pretty much all cameras at least 1080p by now? I'd expect a top of the line laptop to have a multi-megapixel camera able to push 240fps for slowmo and windowing abilities to allow software zoom while still outputting a high enough resolution feed that someone viewing on another macbook pro can't see the pixels (ie. more t…
No idea why they don't just stick one of the iPhone cameras in there. Heck, use the last gen camera. If the camera isn't too big for the iphone then it's not too big for a laptop- especially with the notch.
iPhone cameras are absurdly thick compare to the thickness of a laptop lid. If you've noticed, they've also gotten even thicker over the year (the camera bump has gotten thicker). Nobody will want a laptop lid as thick as their iPhone + camera bump.
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#577Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably just aligning with the new Qi spec? https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/qi2-the-new-standard-for-wi... edit: should've rtfa'd, its the laptop magsafe
That's (confusingly) a different MagSafe. Apple has MagSafe connectors for charging on laptops, which was the original MagSafe. The name comes from the connector being magnetic, and being "safe" since tripping over the cable would make it disconnect without pulling your laptop off the table. They discontinued this in favour of charging through USB-C cables/ports a while back. They then introduced magnetic charging fo…
I wouldn't call them unrelated. They're both charging connectors with magnets. (I know the iPhone one is wireless, but still.)
Also, the laptop side is on it's third iteration, so at this point "MagSafe" is more of a category than a specific connector.
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#578Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did it ship with 128GB available to the GPU? That’s part of the claim, because this has a huge amount of RAM that both the CPU+GPU can access.
Plenty of laptops with iGPUs that can do this, yes.
...Not exactly and this is a silly comparison anyways
Apple dynamically scales the GPU memory while Windows GPU memory must be reserved. If you have 64GB of Ram and want 32GB of VRAM you now...always.... have 32GB of system memory.
But furthermore...that iGPU is like 1/10th the performance of an M1 Max lol, absolutely nobody should EVER do this on an iGPU. Their argument is that on a dedicated card you just can't do this.
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#579will this support multiple monitors?
It still doesn't support daisy-chaining, aka. Multi-Stream Transport (MST) from the DisplayPort 1.2 spec.
Basically, connecting two displays via one cable.
An 5 year old PC supports it. Sad.
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Yeah, as the other person says, it’s weird to combine A-level chips which were mobile only (minus that short stint where they put it in a Mac Mini before the M1 was ready) with the M-level chips. Sure, they’re all “Apple Silicon” but the chips should be compared to their equivalents, M-level with Intel/AMD and A-level with Snapdragon/Exonys. We don’t really compare Snapdragon to Core any other time, as they both opti…
I thought the M-level and A-level chips are pretty much identical CPU cores (just different numbers of them). As such it seems reasonable to me to compare single-threaded performance between A-level and Intel/AMD (making allowances for power envelopes). And indeed one could compare Snapdragon, except they're quite far behind.
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