Not sure why I got downvoted on this... The Mx series has had two display channels since its inception.
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New MacBook Airs and 13-Inch MacBook Pro Will Reportedly Feature M3 Chip
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12 months is a pretty good run. That's generally how long each MacBook Air/Pro got during the Intel era. Plus it's not like we'll be seeing a new form factor. Improved speed/battery life is the name of the game.
Has been since the start of the Apple Silicon era
Stupid thing to gate keep over but it is what it is.
I feel like the leakers have confused themselves now. Airs are coming, but I believe they don’t have concrete details on whether they will make Spring or Summer @ WWDC, so they’re alltaking a stab and guessing. Whichever they guess , I think they’re just saying what chip they THINK it will have based on logic of how far it is from M2 first launch.
Gurman and quo are being fed fake rumours. I personally don't care. we will see when they get released.
If you say everything once, then when the event happens you can always say you were right!
But it's maybe a good thing, as if it gets to be too much, Apple themselves will respond and quash a rumor if it represents a problem wilth expectations.
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TSMC qualified their 3nm process in Dec. Apple is already in production of 3nm chips.
A better (more honest) headline would read “might or might not feature M3 chip”.
There are rumors, and there are rumors. This is a whole lot of nothing.
There are rumors, and there are rumors. This is a whole lot of nothing.
Petition to change the plural of "MacBook Air" to "MacBooks Air"
is my MacBook air 2010 the M3?
the 11" one i'm typing on nows
the 11" one i'm typing on nows
I am going to have a nervous breakdown with changes even on a daily basis.
Wouldn't that be something!
We'd still get the node gain but interesting.. That could make sense.
Then the pro/max tier is on the N3E?
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My hunch says that those are A series chips and not M series. My guess is that the M series won’t be 3nm until sometime after the launch of the A17.
I call ******** on these rumors. M2 Mini was just announced. M2 Air won't even be out yet a full year and it's still a great machine. And they haven't even come out with the Mac Pro yet. What's the rush? By all accounts the M2 is already an amazing machine...
I suspect you won't be waiting overlong for it.
I sense there is confusion so this is how I understand it
- M1 > most of mainstream Intel and AMD (yeah, this is cheeky)
- M2 > M1
- M3 > M2
- M1 Max/Pro > M1, M2, M3(?)
- M2 Max/Pro > M2, M3, M1 Max/Pro
The Max/Pro chips will always be better than the regular M chips, but when will a regular M chip be on par with earlier Max/Pro chips? So, in theory, could the M3 be as good as the M1 Max/Pro? Or will we be waiting for M4 or M5 for that?
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Yea but according many benchmarks the M2 Pro is better than even the M1 Max with the exception of only super heavy GPU based applications. Even some graphics applications that are memory heavy are better on M2 Pro vs M1 Max.
Competition at the high end is my guess. Apple needs to make up ground with Intels power hungry machines and now zen 4; the m3 generation starts with the base line.
Also the MacBook Air was updated in early 2020 and then again in November 2020, so it's not unprecedented. iPhones are only out a year and still an amazing device, yet here we are with annual upgrades.
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I'd like Macs to be on a reliable update schedule like iPhones are.
Hang on. I’m confused.
So Apple will release an M2 15 inch laptop in the spring and turn around and release an M3 15 inch at WWDC?
That would make it the shortest release by far, even the iPad 3rd gen had more than a few months of release.
So Apple will release an M2 15 inch laptop in the spring and turn around and release an M3 15 inch at WWDC?
That would make it the shortest release by far, even the iPad 3rd gen had more than a few months of release.