Will Apple's March Event be a big splash for M2?

[oz_rkie]

Actually a lot of people would be concerned about this. If the average user used 100% of that double power then sure they would love it. Most people do not though. The average user barely pushes a low end M1 to it's max limits.

Why bother with this when you can have a more efficient Mac which uses less electricity and still get everything you need done with power to spare.

The prosumers think as you do, but the average user would prefer a lower powerbill and not have an overkill machine they will never fully utilise.

This makes very little sense if at all. First, like others have mentioned already, just because a chip CAN draw higher wattage does not mean it always will. When you are not pushing it, it will happily sip power.

Second, even if you assume a chip that pulls 220W instead of 110W (as an example from the previous post) and assuming you are pushing it 100% all the time for an average of 8 hours a day EVERY day, you end up paying an average of about $3 a month extra (based on average elec costs in the US) compared to the 110W chip. And this is assuming you are pushing the chip to 100% all the time, which will almost never happen.

And furthermore to offset that additional power use, in most cases you get work done faster which means you end up not pushing the chip that hard for as long, reducing power usage.

Regardless though, no one who is buying such expensive macbooks in the first place are going to care about literally 1-2 dollars (if that even) of additional elec bill per month.

 

[senttoschool]

I'm just happy that Apple is updating the M CPUs on a 12-15 month basis. That's a very strong cadence that will make it hard for AMD, Intel, and Qualcomm to catch.

Apple is using the iPhone scale to its advantage. No one else can justify a 12-month CPU update cadence except Apple because most of the R&D is funded by the iPhone already.

I also get the feeling that the new Macbook Air was suppose to be the flagship device for M2 but it's delayed. There were a ton of rumors last year pointing to a spring Macbook Air update. But since that's not happening, Apple said let's just put the M2 in the old 13 MBP instead. Can't wait any longer for the Macbook Air.

 

[senttoschool]

All the rumors show the specs on the M2 compared the the 10 processor M1Pro only look marginally faster. When I switched from the 2013 MBP, I had an enormous increase in speed.

No one expected M2 to be "faster" than an M1 Pro/Max. It will be faster in single thread but slower in everything else. That's the way it should be.

 

[darngooddesign]

...When I switched from the 2013 MBP, I had an enormous increase in speed.

Of course you did, your computer was eight years newer.

 

[MayaUser]

I find it hard to ignore the point that "peek" is a very strong hint at something visual, and therefore this event may have nothing M-related involved at all.

like what?

 

[MayaUser]

When I switched from the 2013 MBP, I had an enormous increase in speed.

even an intel MBP from last year have a big increase in speed vs your 2013 mbp...so, nothing new here, water is wet, almost all the time