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#2880348 7-Mar-2022 15:39

I'm not sure about this "too fancy" idea :-)

I have a 14" MBP and it is a fabulous machine (Pro not Max chipset). I got a surprise yesterday - it ran out of battery (it has never run out of battery before, ever). Turned out that using it for 48 hours from last charge across three days was enough to drain the battery eventually!

Always fun to see new Apple releases. Some noise around the famous "X-Mac" i.e. a machine filling the gap between a Mini and the Pro, which would make us most delighted - but the idea made sense in the days when RAM was user replaceable and GPUs could be swapped, whereas that's all in the past according to Apple. I guess new will find out...

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#2880356 7-Mar-2022 15:44

I'll be interested to see what Mac Books will be announced.

I have an iMac Pro which still crunches the numbers well. However I'm mindful that Apple has form in abandoning chipsets in terms of OSX support so I've been cogitating a move to Apple silicone.

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#2880416 7-Mar-2022 16:09

@zenourn: I'll post some benchmarks once it arrives both on the CPU and GPU side in comparison to Ryzen/EPYC/nVidia, ...

Did you ever post those comparisons?

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#2883447 9-Mar-2022 08:45

Well, new SE, new iPad, new "Mac Studio" and associated display, and the 27" iMac is dead. No sign of the rumoured Mac Mini upgrade.

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#2883459 9-Mar-2022 09:02

The price bump on the iPhone SE is a shame. $NZ 800 seems like a pretty steep entry price to get into an iPhone.

I am starting to get increasingly frustrated with the lack of movement on the MacBook Air and entry level MacBook Pro. All of Apple's laptop line up below the $3k price point date back to November 2020. I would like to replace my ageing Intel MacBook Pro but there's currently nothing that I feel motivated to replace it with.

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#2883465 9-Mar-2022 09:10

alasta:

I am starting to get increasingly frustrated with the lack of movement on the MacBook Air and entry level MacBook Pro. All of Apple's laptop line up below the $3k price point date back to November 2020. I would like to replace my ageing Intel MacBook Pro but there's currently nothing that I feel motivated to replace it with.

What would they replace the Air or the entry level Pro with? They aren’t releasing M2 yet so there’s no reason for them to change either of them. 18 months would be a very short release cycle for a new Air.

They’ll release the new Mac Pro first, which was hinted at in the event today. That would remove Intel from all their machines, in line with what they said when they released the M1 Macs.

IMO an Air right now is a compelling machine for a user like you - great battery life, no fan and I don’t think you do anything too demanding. Given the thermal performance of the M1 machines it’d be a very good upgrade.

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#2883467 9-Mar-2022 09:11

Behodar:
Well, new SE, new iPad, new "Mac Studio" and associated display, and the 27" iMac is dead. No sign of the rumoured Mac Mini upgrade.

I guess the Studio is the upgraded Max Mini.

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#2883475 9-Mar-2022 09:25

Handle9:

What would they replace the Air or the entry level Pro with? They aren’t releasing M2 yet so there’s no reason for them to change either of them. 18 months would be a very short release cycle for a new Air.

They’ll release the new Mac Pro first, which was hinted at in the event today. That would remove Intel from all their machines, in line with what they said when they released the M1 Macs.

IMO an Air right now is a compelling machine for a user like you - great battery life, no fan and I don’t think you do anything too demanding. Given the thermal performance of the M1 machines it’d be a very good upgrade.

Fair call. I would quite like them to do a minor update of the entry level MacBook Pro to get rid of the Touch Bar, but I guess buying a MacBook Air instead would be an effective solution to that. As far as I can see the only downside to the Air is the 400 nit display brightness compared with 500 nit on my existing MacBook Pro.

Maybe I should just grab the current MacBook Air as it's pretty cheap and, as you say, it would comfortably handle the basic stuff that I would use it for.

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#2883583 9-Mar-2022 11:25

If it's any consolation I do love my M1 MacBook Air so I can wholeheartedly recommend it as a great purchase - but I'll admit to being extremely keen on these rumoured coloured Mac notebooks. If that had been announced today my credit card would be getting a workout!

Speaking of colours, not a huge fan of the shade of green they've announced today for the iPhones 13.

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#2883589 9-Mar-2022 11:34

Handle9:

I guess the Studio is the upgraded Max Mini.

$1,199 to $3,599 NZD is a pretty big upgrade :)

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#2883597 9-Mar-2022 11:59

wellygary:

Handle9:

I guess the Studio is the upgraded Max Mini.

$1,199 to $3,599 NZD is a pretty big upgrade :)

That is comparing the cheapest M1 Mac Mini with the Mac Studio: Not a fair comparison.

Thats like comparing the entry level M1 MacBook Air with a M1 Max MacBook Pro. They are not the same.

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#2883601 9-Mar-2022 12:04

jarledb:

That is comparing the cheapest M1 Mac Mini with the Mac Studio: Not a fair comparison.

Thats like comparing the entry level M1 MacBook Air with a M1 Max MacBook Pro. They are not the same.

Even if you go to the top spec mini, max the Ram and add 10GB ethernet, you still only reach $2K

Its still a huge jump. and implies that its not really an upgraded mini at all..

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#2883651 9-Mar-2022 12:07

jarledb: That is comparing the cheapest M1 Mac Mini with the Mac Studio: Not a fair comparison.

Thats like comparing the entry level M1 MacBook Air with a M1 Max MacBook Pro. They are not the same.

Careful; I said something similar on another forum and got masses of downvotes for some reason!

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#2884001 9-Mar-2022 20:31

I reckon I might get the Studio and the monitor.

I need some reviews to decide which spec Studio.

Alternatively maybe a MBP hooked up to the monitor.

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#2884004 9-Mar-2022 20:36

wellygary:
jarledb:

That is comparing the cheapest M1 Mac Mini with the Mac Studio: Not a fair comparison.

Thats like comparing the entry level M1 MacBook Air with a M1 Max MacBook Pro. They are not the same.

Even if you go to the top spec mini, max the Ram and add 10GB ethernet, you still only reach $2K

Its still a huge jump. and implies that its not really an upgraded mini at all..

Yes. Why would anyone seriously think it was?

My iMac Pro is not just another iMac. The synthesis of the parts results in a machine that is still pretty quick almost 5 years after introduction. More so than paper specs would suggest.

I’ve no reason to change it other than OSX is starting to get features that only work on Apple silicone.

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