BANNED
I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: Dec 2005
|
Quote:
|
|
Sneaky Punk
|
Quote:
My general impression, Apple is on par with AMD Ryzen mobile 4000 chips on mobile and on pair with Ryzen 5000 for desktop. Good, sure. Mind blowing, no. |
|
Lord of the Rant.
Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
|
Quote:
I mean, unless they let us add internal SATA/PCIe drives to it. I don't expect that to happen though. Louis L'Amour, “To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.” Visit our archived Minecraft world! | Maybe someday I'll proof read, until then deal with it. |
|
Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
|
It was the three most basic, consumer-level Macs - the Air and Mac mini, and, some would argue, the 13" MacBook Pro - getting things first. It make take the full 18+ months before they're ready to unveil a beefier, more capable Mac (the iMac, 16" MacBook Pro and the Mac Pro).
The iMac will mostly likely be accompanied by a redesign. That rumor from last week talks about the Mac Pro getting smaller, and I'm better a 16" MacBook Pro gets a redesign/tweak (accompanied by a redone 13" on the same day). These might all take well into 2021, who knows. But a ton of people buy/use the Air and 13" MacBook Pro, so today's announcements will appeal to a plenty of buyers. And, timing-wise, it works out. I imagine the new Air being a strong seller for many. Mac mini is silver again. That's nice. That $999 256GB MacBook Air BTO'd to 16GB RAM is $1,199. Is that cheaper than before? They don't offer any CPU options, but hasn't that been the case for a while anyway on this model? I can't remember. If all they said about the MacBook Air in that presentation is true/holds up, that's a nice little notebook for $1,200. |
Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
|
Ahhh...only the two lower-end 13" MacBook Pros got the M1. The other two models with twice the RAM, the faster processors, etc. ($1,799 and $1,999) are still Intel-based, so it wasn't the entire lineup of the 13" MacBook Pro models, so it was a very consumer-oriented rollout/announcement.
They're saving the heavy hitters - maybe they're just not quite there yet, or they wanted to get these more affordable models out into the world before the holiday buying season - for later. Interesting. But it points to good things that nothing went up, price-wise. It's odd...nothing to go by, clock speed-wise. I know that isn't the end-all/be-all of buying a computer, but that's how one's always kinda judged things..."oh, this is 1.4GHz, and this other, for $300 is 2.2GHz...", etc. |
Sneaky Punk
|
Quote:
|
|
‽
|
Quote:
As for colors, not looking good based on this first batch of ARM Macs. Grey, darker grey, gold-like grey. OTOH, there's the iPad Air, and maybe we'll see some of that? |
|
‽
|
Quote:
Perhaps it's a matter of chipsets — PowerPC Macs had an Apple chipset; Intel ones never did. |
|
‽
|
Quote:
It's only in multi-core where Ryzen Mobile beats Intel. |
|
Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
|
If anyone cares, the M1 page at Apple has the specific chip comparisons at the bottom of the page.
This bit is especially interesting: Quote:
- AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
|
Which way is up?
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Boyzeee
|
Quote:
Sheesh! - AppleNova is the best Mac-users forum on the internet. We are smart, educated, capable, and helpful. We are also loaded with smart-alecks! :) - Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. (Mat 5:9) |
|
Mr. Vieira
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Tennessee
|
Quote:
Also, I'm not calling for colors and all to come back. They had their time, and it worked with the materials, shapes and "fun" of that period. I'm okay with silver and space gray. Last edited by psmith2.0 : 2020-11-10 at 19:20. |
|
Sneaky Punk
|
Quote:
|
|
Posting Rules | Navigation |
Page 3 of 4 Previous 1 2 [3] 4 Next |
Thread Tools | |
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
One More Thing... | PKIDelirium | Apple Products | 1 | 2012-06-11 13:53 |
If you had one last thing to say... | Kickaha | AppleOutsider | 13 | 2008-07-25 12:49 |
Military Facility Closings: Good thing or Bad thing? | Moogs | AppleOutsider | 1 | 2005-05-13 09:59 |
Confession Thing? Pretty Funny. Pope thing? Not Funny. | Moogs | AppleOutsider | 33 | 2005-04-01 14:25 |
'One more thing....' | Jason | Speculation and Rumors | 2 | 2004-10-31 19:07 |