dick applebaum

Mike Wuerthele said:

lkrupp said:

brucemc said:

tmay said:

lkrupp said:

tmay said:

MacPro said:

This explains why all the sudden massive discounts of Mac Book Pro  models reported on AI these last few days I suspect.  Well, I only want a MBP for casual use so I grabbed a MBP with touch bar from Adorama thanks to the AI advertorial and have no regrets, heck of a saving. 

Will Apple use the Radeon RX Vega M GH Graphics GPUs on the next generation MBPs I wonder?

It's been a long wait for many Mac Book Pro users to break the 16 GB memory barrier, and while I'm not the target audience, I expect a nice bump in sales when these are refreshed. Still, I have to wonder what additional niceties Apple will throw in.

I'm guessing it's still a bit early for cellular, albeit Intel must be looking at providing that as an integrated feature in the near future.

No bump in sales at all. The number of people who actually need that much RAM, especially on a laptop, is small indeed.

There will be a bump at refresh is all I that I meant; not that it will be attributable to increased memory. I agree with you that the 32 GB barrier is overblown.

Don't forget the inevitable complaints about the price of the future 32GB variant...and "what I really need is 64GB"...

it’s hilarious how that always happens.

Good news -- LPDDR4 can theoretically hit 128GB.

Yeah, but I see your 2 ^ n and raise you a 2 ^ n+1

Soli said:

dick applebaum said:

Is it possible that lower volumes of A11s could be used in MacBooks and iPads soon -- earlier than the expected new iPhones in the Fall-Winter?

Apple has the A-series, S-series, W-series, T-series, and even the M-series co-processor. The first 3 run distinct product lines from Apple. I'm not sure they'd call their own silicon running a low-end Mac an A-series. I'd think that the amount of RAM, GPU, and other features, like the potential for x86_64 emulation (which I doubt would be included), would fall in line with what Apple uses for the iPhone or iPad.

I see what you are saying...  except that the others are speciality chips and/or reduced function/size ships.  The A series have a much broader potential.  Actually, there already are 2 A series offerings the A and the AX -- where the AX has even broader potential than The A -- with fewer space, power, heat dissipation limitations.

So, maybe A11X chips running macOS in certain MacBooks and iPad models.

volcan said:

blastdoor said:

The rationale to stick with Intel in Macs is getting weaker. 

Probably getting close. Apple's A11 Bionic already has nearly twice as many transistors as the Intel quad core i7. Once they can get an X86 emulator to run Windows with minimal performance hit there should be no reason not to switch to ARM.

Isn't the X86 emulator a legal (licensing) issue rather than a tech issue?  If so, Apple is in a pretty good negotiating position:

• Macs are a small percent of the total computers that use Intel chips
• iDevices provide a very large percentage of mobile devices using modems -- potentially Intel modem chips

Is it possible that lower volumes of A11s could be used in MacBooks and iPads soon -- earlier than the expected new iPhones in the Fall-Winter?

   

@mike ;

These are for the kids... yeah, really... I just bought this kid one as an early 78th birthday present!