This unit is for US market. It should have never left the manufacturing plant warehouse in the first place, let alone travel from China to Russia to go directly not to some random guy, but a Russian youtuber. It is absolutely embarrassing. Apple staff is probably already on the grounds in China making full inventory of all manufactured units to understand how this got leaked. Heads will be rolling down.
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Thats unfortunately wishful thinking. They are feeling better than before 2022. All thanks to completely failed sanction policy.
Russians even get their hands on latest iPhones. They managed to invent scheme to import them thru Kazakhstan. Yeah, slightly pricier than before, but they still buy them. And iPhones still activate in Russia, no bans or issues with it from Apple’s side
Nope. I have the base MBP M1 Pro, and it still does a fantastic job for everyday use. Maybe the battery could be better after that time — although it works for ~8 hours. Of course, I understand that there are tasks where cutting off a few seconds per minute is crucial, but I'm not that case. That's why the M5 is the minimum, and who knows, perhaps the M6.
They can get certain things through china considering china manufactures a lot of it anyway but things like computer chips that come from South Korea and Taiwan are a big problem for them. They can’t make new modern weapons which is why they are pulling from a lot of old stock and using low grade things from Iran and North Korea
Also, it appears this M4 runs at a slightly higher clock than the one in the iPad Pro.
I could make a video like this. Seems very fake to me, but he'll get loads of clicks and views and so will generate a healthy income from the video. Which is all they care about. And sites like this then promote it even further.
Products get propositioned by UPS weeks in advance before launch. When Apple announces a new product, makes it available for order later that week, some retailers already have stock, under embargo of course.
This avoids individual customers having to fight for the same air freight capacity as retailers.
oh. I thought all iPads releases are in October
YouTube does not pay to Russian authors, he has zero income from YouTube (except direct income from native ad integration if this video have such, because I did not watch the video indeed). And Wylsa never publish fakes.
Intel has finally (after 4 years) caught up with battery life but the rest is exactly how it's always been: Apple's upgrades are for people who reeeeally need a Mac and also need more RAM or space. Apple knows they're professionals and charges professional prices.
PCs have "internal" competition and can't do the same. Also, Apple making its own chips means there's less money they have to share. Apple sells less but makes more money per unit.
What's exactly gonna change for Intel?
Ok, so anybody think this is suspicious
- box looks like an M3 MacBook Pro box, the photo on the top changes each year, that is M3, this is M2
- product code is US
- power plug is US
- starts up in Russian before connecting to WiFi so would not know where it is to change the language from English
- box looks like an M3 MacBook Pro box, the photo on the top changes each year, that is M3, this is M2
- product code is US
- power plug is US
- starts up in Russian before connecting to WiFi so would not know where it is to change the language from English
So in one generation a laptop chip receives 25% singe cor perf gain with a very similar TDP envelope and battery life, same price and double the ram (sure this was overdue, but have you seen the Lunar Lake vs 8GB M3 test? - they are identical in performance 32GB v 8GB RAM)?
THIS is the generation to upgrade if you're on M1 or earlier and do more tasks other than web browsing light office work.
THIS is the generation to upgrade if you're on M1 or earlier and do more tasks other than web browsing light office work.
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Just out of curiosity, why M5 or M6 will be better? Will it allow to enter characters in MS Word faster than before? Maybe it will have faster decoding and you will be able to watch 1h 30m movie in 45 minutes? Maybe it will play all games at 200x speed (you will not need to wait until you'll be killed, game over right from start, you are brilliant!) Honestly, I remember MS Word in MS-DOS and can't see any real advantages (except slowness of modern apps, of course).My M3 Air has managed everything I've asked of it. M4 would be nice but M5 or M6 will be even better
Im hoping if the base and pro minimum is 16GB then it could go up to 64GB RAM? (thinking of Mac Mini here)
Why would you possibly want more than 8TB in a laptop? Especially at the obscene Apple prices.
I have a lot of media (probably more than 8TB), but there aren't any use cases where I need to access it only from the internal SSD in the same work session. The only time I ever wish I had more than 1TB internal SSD is when I'm travelling for an extended period, and don't want to carry a couple of extra external SSDs with me. At home, it's just connected to a 20TB NAS system.
Nowadays, with modern prices even 16GB RAM and 512GB storage should not be a thing anymore. 32GB and 1TB should be the base.
On smartphones, 256GB should be the base storage and 120Hz screen should be the default.
On smartphones, 256GB should be the base storage and 120Hz screen should be the default.
At single-core, Lunar Lake is closest to the M2, not M3. At multi-core, yeah, it gets closer to the M3. But that comes with the asterisk of higher power draw.