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Alleged M4 MacBook Pro Unboxing Video Reveals These Four Upgrades
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They are generous with some base specs. My Apple Watch has 32GB storage and it's almost certainly going to be 75% empty for its entire life!
I have no doubt that that Apple carefully calculates the balance between the number of units sold and the maximum price they can charge. It's quite possible that reducing the price would by x% would not result in a >x% increase in unit sales, and so would not increase profits.
There are plenty of people who wouldn't buy a Mac even if it were a 10% cheaper, because they either prefer Windows, or feel that it is still too expensive.
25% faster than M3 is quite the achievement. I've got an M3 Max MBP and that machine is already a beast.
what modern prices
i am pretty sure earlier macs were more expensive
That's why I've built a pc to offload memory intensive tasks for the price of upgrading a macbook to my needs, and essentially relegated my macbook to a thick client. And Apple not only loses the margin on upgrades, but I also won't upgrade my macbook until the battery degradation makes it unusable. Switching away from icloud drive and costing them services revenue is just the cherry on the cake. But the margins stay high, so Tim is happy.
What I meant was that they tested it againt M3, M3 won the perf while having 8GB RAM vs Lunar lake Asus Zenbook having 32. But the battery life was pretty same on both.
Well he is hiding the SN for a reason.
This happened a lot to me when I worked for Apple’s largest reseller in Europe. Had many devices before they were even announced. It’s just not allowed to speak about it/show them prior to official launch.
If he has them the announcement will be tomorrow European time. Cheers.
This happened a lot to me when I worked for Apple’s largest reseller in Europe. Had many devices before they were even announced. It’s just not allowed to speak about it/show them prior to official launch.
If he has them the announcement will be tomorrow European time. Cheers.
Enjoy your faster single core speed when you start swapping. Even back then when my only apple product was an ipod shuffle, the most annoying thing about Apple and some of their users was their fetishism of CPU benchmarks. And since then raw processing power just became even less important.
I have 32 GiB RAM. It doesn't usually swap that much, though I wouldn't mind even more RAM. (But not enough to upgrade to the Max.)
I mean, this is literally a thread about the M4. Of course CPU benchmarks will be discussed.
lol that’s not remotely what Apple users are known for. That’s the Intel/AMD/Gamer crowd you’re talking about. 😂
As a shareholder, I care about earnings per share, not margins. There's an optimal margin somewhere, which would generate the highest EPS. And hardware sales are not isolated, higher volume will lead to higher services revenues, which are important, even according to Tim.
Exactly my point.
Wrong, it is a thread about a macbook pro equipped with m4. A laptop is much more than the cpu. If it weren't you couldn't justify the higher price of the mac compared to an intel on performance alone.
This is true, but I don't see a scenario where lower price tags will suddenly make Macs fly off the shelves more than they already do. They're currently at 8.1% worldwide / 10.0% US market share, behind only Lenovo, HP, and Dell. The Mac is already in a better shape than it's ever been.
I don't understand your point at all. I was comparing Apple's, Intel's, and Qualcomm's CPU speeds; you brought up swap for some reason I don't follow.
Thanks for telling me; I otherwise wouldn't have known!
OK, if you want to have a conversation about Macs being too expensive, enjoy; I kind of got bored of those all the way back in the 1990s.
I think Apple set the bar really high with the M1 chips, everything after doesn't make me want to upgrade. I've got the 14" M1pro 16gb and it's never skipped a beat.
Granted my workflow isn't that taxing, Illustrator & Photoshop with come light rendering in Blender and a bit of After Effects & Premier but nothing has really crippled it. There have been a few times where PS or Blender have maxxed out the RAM but mostly that was down to me not optimising the files properly.
Granted my workflow isn't that taxing, Illustrator & Photoshop with come light rendering in Blender and a bit of After Effects & Premier but nothing has really crippled it. There have been a few times where PS or Blender have maxxed out the RAM but mostly that was down to me not optimising the files properly.
A pure chipmaker of course will talk about benchmarks, d'uh. And the majority of gamers use desktops, so irrelevant here. And Apple even did it in the Intel chip era, with Apple Silicon at least it's more understandable.
Apple silicon is already fantastic on mobiles, so it is not easy to improve it. All improvements will be incremental, in speed, number of ports, RAM and maybe display quality. The base SSD for pro line will be 512 so no changes there. So don't expect anything revolutionary, but a steady evolutionary progress.
Not in a decade I can assure you. Intel’s era is long gone when they grew complacent.
Yeah I'm sure they 'never' publish fakes. Just like how Mark Gurman never gets a prediction wrong.