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  • Apple Silicon Macs are staying in use longer than Intel Macs

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    Apple silicon can’t really have a track record yet. Only a few years. 

    My g4 PowerBook lasted 11 years and still runs well. But can’t run new software. 

    My 2016 MBP and 2015 iMac still do everything with aplomb. 8 and 9 years. 

    Been holding off for a new large iMac and faster MBP. 

    But don’t know how much longer I want to hold out. There’s new stuff that only works with AS and I’m getting antsy. 

    But any comparison of AS longevity should honestly wait a while, though it looks favorable to exceed previous benchmarks. 
    baconstangwatto_cobra

  • Jony Ive still thinks of Steve Jobs every day

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    Jony is the best industrial designer ever. 

    The man had so many absolutely epic home run hits that it’s ridiculous. 

    The engineers failed on the scissor keyboard, Intel lagged to the point that the thinnest MacBook Pro design wasn’t the best for performance and the apple board was stuck in analysis paralysis when it came time to move all-in on thunderbolt and ditch legacy tech, stopping at the notebook lineup. 

    Some like to blame Ive for those mistakes, but the reality is he wasn’t a man on an island doing that - it was apple as a whole. 

    Still, even if you did want to blame Ive, a rare miss (MacBook Pro 2015-2020) is a drop in the proverbial ocean of successes, which have defined Apple aesthetics forever much as Porsche’s designers have long ago. 

    And he wasn’t just successful, his products literally brought apple back from the dead - to becoming the most valuable company on earth. From iMac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, to notebooks to Mac Pro to AirPods to you name it. The guy has the Midas touch. His designs not only sold apple products, but revolutionized entire industries. Today, all smartphones look like his iPhone, notebooks? Just take a peek at Microsoft surface laptops and Samsungs. Tablets? It’s ridiculous. AirPods have their design copycats as well. 

    Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery and Jony Ive is flattered often by entire industries. 

    The man is a living legend and apple will always owe him a debt of gratitude. 
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  • A MacBook Pro design refresh is probably years away

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    What’s interesting is that Apples designs are so strong that -outside of the 2013 trash can Mac Pro - we haven’t seen any true from change in Mac form factors in a very very long time. 

    The current iMac looks just like the old white iMac g4, just different colors, thinner profile, and slimmer bezels. 

    The latest MacBook pros have the same general look as the PowerBook g4. 

    The Mac Studio looks like a tall version of the original Mac Mini minus the cheap plastic back. 

    The Mac Pro looks like an artsier version of the power Mac g5. 

    Of course they don’t look EXACTLY the same, but the overall form, even the clean way the laptops hinge back, with the bottom of the lid elegantly covering the back, the speaker perforations on the sides, etc. 

    the iMac chin, l-shaped stand, square shape

    the Mac Pro handle placement, leg placement, entire front and back perforated, etc. 

    heck, the monitors don’t look much different than the old cinema displays beyond thin bezels and shorter cover radius. 

    This is the hallmark of great design that has already been established and created an unmatched identity thst more than stands the test of time. It gets better as time goes on. 

    I made the comparison earlier to Porsche and it really fits. 

    There is no need for any radical design change snd in fact, such a change would be a negative. 

    There will always be iteration and that’s for the best. But it will still have the obvious and character defining dna of modern Mac design. 

    From a much of pieces of metal and plastic screwed together to the unibody, from giant screen enclosure to tiny bezels, from thick to thin and back, etc. there will always be a need and a desire from iterative improvements based on technology improvements and that’s how it should be. But, also as it should be, it will always be recognizably familiar as the highest quality, best designed product out there that we know as the Mac. 

    Side note: someone ought to send a not to Microsoft asking them to make their own hardware designs. Copying the entire design of old MacBook Air notebooks is really poor taste. Plagiarism basically. 
    Flappowatto_cobra

  • More M4: When the Mac will get upgraded with the latest Apple Silicon

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    mjtomlin said:
    Kinda feeling Apple will buck history here and update quite a few Mac’s this year to m4 status for multiple reasons:

    a) it cleans up the generational mess over the last couple of years. 

    b) it puts further distance between apple silicon and Qualcomm’s disingenuous comparisons. 

    C) it allows for Apple Intelligence to shine on all Mac’s, showcasing Apple as the AI leader. 

    Between a and b, apple gets seen as the place to go for top tier ai. 

    D) M3 is/was expensive to fab.

    Personally I think Apple will make the most of the M3 line until it becomes cost effective to ditch it. Sticking those SoC's in their highest selling systems; laptops and iMac is an indication that's what's going on here, especially after debuting the M4 in the latest iPad Pro. Any new Macs from this point forward will have the M4, and I think all of the aforementioned systems will be the last to get upgraded to it.

    This year (after macOS Sequoia is released) we'll see the rest of the "low sales" systems get upgraded to the M4...

    Mac mini M4/Pro
    Mac Studio M4 Max/Ultra
    Mac Pro M4 Ultra

    Then next Spring/Summer, the others will get updated. (And with the debut of the iMac M4, we'll finally get back the larger iMac Pro M4 Pro/Max)
    D) the old n3 process was expensive and yielded poorly. That’s yesterdays news. The new process yields well and is cost-effective. 

    Apple already let the world know it has moved on to m4 generation. The m3 max doesn’t even have an ultra interconnect, so apple knew they’d skip it. 

    Agreed on later points. 
    jas99baconstangAlex1Nwatto_cobra

  • New leaked illustrations claim Apple Watch X has a bigger screen than Apple Watch Ultra

    9secondkox29secondkox2
    Big watch screen is great, but needs some ruggedization. accidentally hit my Apple Watch on a wall as I was sidestepping a rogue puppy and the screen popped out on one side. Bot cool at all. Very flimsy. 

    Love the watch, but need some toughness built in befoer I go for another. The ultra looks great, but way too expensive for my needs.
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra