curtis hannah

The MacBook Airs are a really nice product, especially now that it's the first time Apple has had a 15" screen laptop offered for less than $1500 in many years.

The one problem is this generation they released the M3 version in March and announced the M4 in the iPad Pros in May. So now for the first time Apple has the MacBook Airs with an inferior chip to the iPad Pro, and presumably the M4 MacBook Airs are coming way later in the M4 Mac release cycle too.

This is the same company which held onto 16gb base storage for way to long, 128gb is still plenty for casual users nowadays. Also keep in mind 

That being said my phone I bought in 2020 phone that came standard as 256GB.

It normally would surprise me that Apples does a curved screen monitor before they do a folding or curved phone, but given Apple is probably suddenly into them for the Vision Pro, it wouldn't surprise me that we see both in the next 2 years.

InspiredCode said:

I like the idea of wide curved screens, but I haven’t seen a single one that isn’t very pixelated (low DPI).

The Studio Display XDR is already 6k widescreen, they'd just be curving the same screen and keeping the high DPI.

timmillea said:

CelticPaddy said:

timmillea said:

Yesterday's announcement feels more like the death knell for the Studio. It always was a short-term product to cover up the lack of a Mac Pro. Now that an M3 Max can be put in a MacBook, it can be put in the Mini. The Studio should always have been Mini-sized. Only the top end Studio configurations justified the extra size and heat sinking - the lower-end Studios never did. The M3 range of Mac Minis will be coming out in a few months. They will embarrass the current Studio models, which I would expect to be quietly dropped. 

It was never a short term product 

The Mac Studio is a design monstrosity. It should never have existed. The previous design generation at Apple would never have countenanced it. 

It's a replacement for the Old gen Mac Pros at a reasonable starting price of $2000 and the size of 2 stacked Mac minis.

Considering the Mac Pro is $7000 for the same as a $4000 Mac Studio and the only advantage is PCI lanes offered within the case rather than external Thunderbolt, the Mac Pro doesn't make sense anymore and that's the product you should be calling a design monstrosity. Also lets not forget Apple 10 years ago released the infamous trash can Mac Pro which came with tons of flaws but at least it's a case that would make more sense than todays Mac Pro and fit in the Studios footprint better.