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  • Apple Silicon MacBook Pro migration starting in late 2020, new model in late 2021 says Kuo...

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    Interesting that he forecasts lower prices from higher volumes.

    I don't think Kuo forecasts that at all.  From the AI post:

    "In an optimistic scenario," says Kuo, "if Apple lowers the price of Apple Silicon's MacBook Air to reflect the cost reduction, and if the newly-designed 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro are better than the old MacBook Pro, we expect... shipment volume to grow significantly to 18-20 million units in 2021."

    "In our bull-case scenario," says Kuo, "the MacBook shipments in 2021 will markedly increase to 18-20 million units if Apple lowers the price of MacBook Air equipped with the lower-cost Apple Silicon and the demand for the all-new form factor design 14- and 16- inch MacBook Pro models is better than that of legacy models."

    There's nothing there suggesting that higher volume -> lower prices.  It's all about the reverse.  He's talking about the demand curve, not the supply curve.
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  • Apple's Federighi and Joswiak discuss Apple silicon, iOS 14, Big Sur and more

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    rcfa said:
    The question is: will direct booting an alternative OS, e.g. Linux, be possible and allowed, or be prevented by Apple’s security measures?

    Windows is already available for ARM, even though not widely available compared to x86; so the question is there too: not what will Apple provide and support, but what will Apple block or make possible by documenting hardware sufficiently for device drivers to be written/adapted?
    I think you have your answer:
    "We're not direct-booting an alternate operating system," he said,


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  • Apple's exceptional WWDC 2020 keynote should be a model for future shows

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    drhamad said:
    No, no it shouldn't.  It was an infomercial, plain and simple.  There's always some of that to a Keynote... it's obviously basically an advertisement... but the live keynotes have emotion to them.  This was nothing more than an infomercial.  It was slick, included a lot of information... and I might as well just read a press release.  There was no reason what-so-ever to actually watch it.  The reason you watch is to get sucked in, and this did none of that.
    Completely disagree.  I showed my non-techie wife a few minutes of the presentation and then went back to my office to watch the rest.  That evening she told me that she tuned into the rest of the presentation and found it very interesting (even though she didn't understand all the nuances of the Apple Silicon stuff).  So at least one person was "sucked in."
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  • Apple unveils plans to ditch Intel chips in Macs for 'Apple Silicon'

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    larryjw said:
    We know one system that will run the Apple Silicon -- Mac Pro. That's what they were demoing the products on.

    Actually that's not true.  It was running on a custom prototype.  You're confusing the monitor with the MacPro hardware.
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  • Apple has reportedly solved the AirPower overheating problem

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    Fatman said:
    An A11 processor in a charging pad? - at first I thought this is total overkill, since you would think that you only need a basic ASIC and a sensor to measure temperature and throttle current in response. This is a ‘smart charging pad’ that could communicate with each device! They are designing this the Apple way. Also if true about the A11 that gives some insight into how inexpensive these processors are to make.
    Or how expensive AirPower will be.
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