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lkrupp said:

ireland said:

Darn, my 2015 Air has an SD Card slot. Apple, ffs, add SD Card (MagSafe and headphone jack). Make MBA great again.

First things first: dongles are the worst. If MBA gets no SD Card I would be forced into buying a more powerful, thicker, heavier, more expensive machine I don't want with less web browsing battery life than my current 2015 MBA (new battery).

So I'd have less ports and worse web browsing battery life than my then 7 year old MBA. Seriously.

There are plenty of Windows laptops that can meet your requirements. Why not buy one of them instead of being “forced” by Apple to buy something you don’t want? Seriously.

hackintoisier said:

Not sure how the summaries listed correlate to the opinion that Intel is “under fire.”  

Also, Intel is ramping Alder Lake-S which probably will exceed M1 Max performance (albeit while consuming much more power). Also alder lake will have up to 8 golden cove performance cores and 8 gracemont efficiency cores. Raptor Lake is rumored to launch in 2022 and double the efficiency cores to 16, for a total of 8 + 16 = 24 cores and 32 threads.   Intel is still selling a metric ton of processors to the ecosystem. 80 percent market share. Microsoft just announced that it updated the windows 11 kernel thread scheduler to schedule threads in a manner that takes advantage of the hybrid design. Intel might be coming back. 

Intel and AMD will be in trouble if and when ecosystem partners like Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Razer, Microsoft etc. introduce non-x86 designs. 

I don’t see x86 being in trouble until two things happen. 

First, An ARM vendor emerges that sells an ARM processor to the mass market with performance characteristics on par with Apple silicon or the upcoming x86 designs (or the ecosystem partners develop their own in house designs).  Qualcomm can’t compete with Alder Lake or Zen 4. And as good as Apple silicon is, it can’t run windows natively… and not only that, Dell, Lenovo, Asus can’t put an Apple silicon processor inside of their laptops because Apple doesn’t sell to other people. So for the billions of users out there who don’t use macOS, Apple silicon is not relevant to them.  Now if Apple got into the processor supplier game (it won’t) then that would spell serious trouble for AMD and Intel. 

Second, windows on arm needs to be licensed for broader non-OEM use, and it also has to seamlessly run the applications that people want to use like games, office suite software, content creation software, and so on. 

Until those two things happen, Intel and AMD will be fine. But Apple’s innovations could spur other laptop manufacturers to follow suit and ultimately press Microsoft for a windows on arm solution. Intel and AMD need to tread carefully, and continue to ramp x86 core design production on smaller nodes. ASAP. 

davidmalcolm said:

This doesn’t surprise me much. The production quality was good. But so much of it was just slice of life awkwardness. I honestly had to kind of force myself to watch it. I wanted to like it but the pacing just was too slow. 

patchythepirate said:

Hope we get another event. I love watching those things. But would they do an event just for an M1x upgrade and notebooks?

What they should've done 10 years ago was a Fall event that announces a Karaoke service with the AppleTV, would be amazing, and a natural fit for the leader of online music sales, one would think. But, Apple's services are perpetually 100 steps behind the hardware and OS software. What the hell is Eddie Cue, Senior VP of Foot Dragging, doing? What is Tim doing about Eddie at this point? When will I finally be able to merge my iTunes/music/app ID with my Apple/iCloud ID?? When will Apple Music, Apple's most social app, be.. actually social, eg have more than just profile pic and playlist sharing options. Why tf is Spotify facilitating HomeKit integration with home lights and music before Apple???

dowhilest said:

And what of the satellite calling function???

With the big antennas on traditional satellite phones, I have no idea how that rumor gained traction. You can't beat physics. 

It's just what there is from every other single iPhone update ever - faster, better screen, and a nicer camera.

Stick to those predictions and you'll win verbatim.