You're so right, I have a gut feeling that there's going to be a 23"-24" (obviously ASi based) iMac tomorrow. Fingers Crossed. ?
Well when Apple switched to Intel processors, they had an iMac & the MacBook Pro. So here’s to tradition! It doesn’t look like that’s happening.
Yes but Apple has said many things and then later changed their minds. Things change. In order for users to have the best experience using iOS apps on a Mac, and Apple said the experience would be great, there has to be touch screens. Touch screens combined with a keyboard/trackpad is the best of both worlds. I have no doubts we will see touch screens Macs eventually.
Yes, I think I agree with you. It will be interesting to see what that means for the small MBP as a model though. My impression has been that there's not a lot of room for clocking up the individual A14 cores (though that impression is based on AT's tests on the A13, so perhaps something is different this generation), so ST performance is probably not going to increase much from device to device, and increasing core count / MT performance is the path to more performant ASi chips. As you said, even an A14X that is simply the iPhone chip with the CPU cores doubled and put in a better cooled chassis is probably sufficient to outperform Intel and AMD in the laptop space. But if the A14X cores in the MBP are essentially unchanged from the iPad Pro and Macbook Air, that leaves Apple with a lot of thermal headroom in the MBP chassis. Do they just throw a ton of GPU cores at it? Complex ML and asics? What differentiates it performance-wise from the MBA? Or do the MBA and MBP at the same screen size become like the iPhone v iPhone Pro, differentiated by features rather than performance?
Imagine how shocked we would be if first they transitioned their entire laptop lineup to ASi, and then as a One More Thing transitioned the original modern Mac over as well with a complete redesign.. would be insane.
I'm on board with an updated design to signal this new generation, but a moving rainbow gradient logo screams gamer PC aesthetic (no shade!).
Yeah, I get what you mean...I don’t know, I’m just convinced they could pull it off tastefully? Like I’m literally imagining the invite (so just a few colors at a time), moving so slowly that you don’t actually notice it. Maybe dimmed or with some kind of a dark/textural surface treatment so it doesn’t look like Christmas lights. I love color so I’d be on board with that. But yeah, maybe it’s been associated with gaming PCs for too long to not have that association.
Makes sense to get a retail Mac mini ready and grab the dev kits back in and hand those out instead. Then devs have the final hardware to use for any fine tuning needed going forward.
I really don't think it's anywhere close to built for touch targets even with the increased spacing. The elements just have a little more breathing room now, and it's nice.
Apple won't add touch screen to laptops in its current form factor. The ergonomics of such a setup were terrible five years ago when it was 'envisioned' by some and still are now. It just doesn't make sense to hold your arm up in the air to scroll instead of resting in the trackpad. They *might* have touch-screen Macs in their plans but not with the old designs. And so far there hasn't been any leak regarding a redesign for the first batch of Apple Silicon Macs.
