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New 14-inch & 16-inch MacBook Pro sport M3, and come in black
The introduction of an M3 model of the 14 inch is odd, especially since the 15 inch MacBook Air is meant to fill that larger cheap MacBook Price point(and it's still $200 cheaper than the Pro with a larger screen than it), I guess some will really pay that much more for the Mini LED display. Otherwise introducing the M3 processor on 2 products that never even had an M2 chip I guess implies they really are trying to slow the rollout till later into next year. The M3 chip still having 8GB ram base is now even more out of date and ashamed since the M3 Pro is now at multiple of 18GB of ram.
It's nice to see the MacBook Pros received 2 upgrades this year and the legacy 13" is gone, and there is even more options than before both on the high and lower prices side, so it's certainly a nice update. -
Mac Pro in danger after fumbled Apple Silicon launch
The biggest weird thing about the current Mac Pro is they kept the design and only upgraded it with a chip they effectively had 2 years ago.
Also the PCI expansion has long been redundant with Thunderbolt and Apple has actually surprisingly killed the need for the Mac Pro with the Mac Studio being the same thing for $3k less. If they had kept higher end desktop chips tied to the iMac, the Mac Pro would have still been relevant compared to the alternative of more expensive iMac Pro models.
As for them updating the Mac Pro and money, I assume they kept the design so moving forward they can annually or semi-annualy update the Mac Pro alongside the Studio with a current gen Ultra chip. I also assume they currently have a team working on a redesigned Mac Pro chassis aimed for the late 2020s, but they might use these metrics to abandon that redesign. But unless that redesign brings back upgradability, it's a moot point anyways. -
Compared: New iPad versus 2021 iPad
robin huber said:Mike Wuerthele said:robin huber said:A comparison to current iPad Air would be interesting because they seem identical.It’s still crazy Apple is discontinuing the 27 inch iMac considering it was their highest selling desktop. The Mac Mini is customizable to 2tb though and you can use a third party 4K display assuming you want to save money from the Mac Studio. -
New iPad requires USB-C Apple Pencil adapter for pairing & charging
entropys said:DangDave said:There are some good points and some bad points in the above discussions. Apple had a pretty simple decision to make to keep the new iPad (10th Generation) as the inexpensive option. So what was more important to the most users?
1.) Having a USB-C port and providing an adaptor, with all of advantages of USB-C, or
2.) Keeping the Lightning port, just to be able to use the the 1st Generation Apple Pencil.Apple made the correct decision.- Keeping the lightning port, just to be able to use the 1st gen pencil (agree no longer tenable)
- change to a USBc port, and update iPad to a 2nd gen pencil (best option from a user perspective, but more development work for Apple)
- change to a USBc port, and release a modified gen1 pencil (called say, gen 1b) with a USBc connector replacing the lighting connector (second best option from a user perspective, and less development work for Apple).
- change to a USBc port, and forget about any changes to the pencil requirement, so require pencil users to carry an adapter as an embarrassing, clunky kluge. (What happened, with least development work for Apple).
2.Done on the other iPad years ago and should have been done here. There's no way that magnetic wireless charger should cost more than $10 at the factory, on a device with an already price hike.
3.Not sure this option was on the table, the Apple Pencil one is so out of date it seems like it's not worth more development cost, and they'd have to sell three models fragmenting the market even more.
4.Yep, least work for Apple, and there decision. At this point its like going back to when the base models didn't have Apple Pencil support at all, and they came up with this as a backup for people already owning the Apple Pencil.
IMO this adapter should have come out when the 2018 iPad Pros came out providing backward compatibility however cumbersome it was, that way when this change iwas made it'd still be a joke not carrying over gen 2 support with USB C, but not something that felt like it was so forgotten as it was, this means newer iPads still don't have gen 1 support, which is such anti-consumer. -
Compared: M2 iPad Pro vs M1 iPad Pro
Literally just a chip upgrade, otherwise everything else is the same and none should change their minds on these, maybe someone buying a 2021 on a budget.
It also maintains the 11inch having an inferior screen which is such a bad distinction given the Air and now base model have basically the same screen size wise.