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LanceMeAlot said:

I have a mackbook air M1 for working purposes. For office, and online work it’s fantastic but as soon as you use MS teams for a meeting, sharing a screen and video conferencing, the cpu get’s too hot. And because there is no fan inside MacOS makes the cpu’s work slower to avoid heat problems. And then the machine will get very slow. Therefore I would always buy the 13” mackbook pro to avoid this problem.

MS Teams does that on 16 core behemoth desktop systems - it's not the system, it's the appalling software from MS.

Given inflation since M1 MBA'20 launch is around 10% (depending on your country of residence), we could say the old MBA has a price drop (of $100) in real terms, but the new M2 MBA'22 is still more expensive for what is an expected generational refresh. Perhaps Apple is factoring in future inflation, and perhaps costs are up due to China issues.

Perhaps with the brighter screen (but still only 60Hz), magsafe, and 10%-20% CPU performance increase, and slightly better GPU, it is worth that extra $100.

sbdude said:

Everyone that "hopes he wins" has forgotten (or doesn't know) the phrase "caveat emptor", or "buyer beware". Just because you click through the user agreement without reading it doesn't mean you're not bound to it. Ignorance is not a defense of the law ("sorry officer, I didn't know I wasn't supposed to turn left across that line").

In many places, unreasonable or unfair terms and conditions (or complex, difficult to understand, too long even) are unlawful, and will be knocked back by courts, in favour of the consumer.

Sorry if consumers don't have that right in the USA. Maybe you should fight for them, but judging from the comments on this thread so far, I don't think many will - until it happens to them personally.

I think that terminating an apple id without any reason given is really poor, and not on when that apple id is used for basic device functionality, never mind also being used for purchases (whether it's $25 or $25000) for the right to indefinitely access content.

It is clear consumer protection laws around these online services are really weak and do not protect the consumer at all.

A (possibly minor) breach in one area should not lead to a permanent ban somewhere else, and it shouldn't result in physical devices you bought operating less efficiently.

So it's clear Apple needs to set up some firewalls around it's AppleID program, so that they can block specific aspects of functionality, but not others.

xyzzy-xxx said:

16 GB maximum memory for a 16" MBP ?

This is why we know this 'leak' not based on real information.

The M1 had a trade-off to make, because of the integrated GPU being decent. GPUs need memory bandwidth. That meant the M1 had to use LPDDR4X memory, which is faster, but you cannot connect as much (and it's always soldered and non-expandable). You will see that Intel's TigerLake and AMD's Renoir (and Cezanne) will use LPDDR4X as well on the better performing systems (their memory controllers support DDR4 as well), but with limited memory as well (some go up to 32GB I believe, so there's room for Apple to improve).

It's likely the M1X will have to support higher amounts of memory (and not just 32GB, but up to 128GB or more, because of the Pro users), so it will have to use DDR4 or DDR5 (hopefully the latter). This means that the bandwidth will be reduced, and the GPU will need to compromise - either have its own pool of memory (so much for 'unified memory' but a HBM stack could be provided for it) or be less efficient (or have a wider bus, but there are physical limits). There were rumours that the M1X would be paired with a larger discrete Apple GPU, so the integrated GPU could actually be smaller (or a more exotic configuration).

Other rumours suggest 12 large cores and 4 small cores for the CPU side of things... so I think we have a lot to look forward to finding out in the next couple of months, assuming these devices are being released soon.