[HN Gopher] MacBook Pros, an "M1X" chip, and other stuff to expe...
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MacBook Pros, an "M1X" chip, and other stuff to expect at Apple's
October event
Author : rbanffy
Score : 16 points
Date : 2021-10-15 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| twalla wrote:
| I can't be the only one who's mostly just excited at the prospect
| of being able to buy a high spec macbook that doesn't have a
| goddamn touch bar.
| brysonreece wrote:
| I've never really understood the disdain for the Touch Bar.
| I've been rocking my first MacBook, a 13" Pro, for the last few
| months and haven't had any complaints about it so far.
| duped wrote:
| Did you regularly use function keys beforehand?
| lmilcin wrote:
| Some of us touch-type. Since I have learned to use keyboard
| properly quarter of century ago I have never needed to look
| at my keyboard.
|
| I tried to give it a chance. But it is breaking my flow by
| having to look at the keyboard which is a big productivity no
| no.
| hiram112 wrote:
| My 2015 MBP running Mojave is on its last legs. Everything Apple
| has released since then - both the increasingly unstable OS
| "upgrades" and all the horrible hardware changes including the
| broken keyboards in 2016, lack of ports, removal of escape and
| function keys, gimmicky touch bar, etc. - have discouraged me
| from upgrading to a new laptop, even at work where my employer
| would be paying for it.
|
| I'm at the point where if they don't release a new Intel MBP
| that's a worthy successor to the 2015 15" model, then I'll
| probably just end up giving up on Apple for good and moving to a
| Dell with WSL. I imagine I'm not the only one who has patiently
| been waiting for years, but won't do so much longer.
| spfzero wrote:
| I'm running on my 2015 still as well. The later Intel models
| never got me excited, with what seemed to be only marginal
| performance increases every year, and my 2015 being rock-solid
| reliable. The M1X definitely interests me.
|
| I don't think you'll be seeing any new Intel-based laptops from
| Apple though.
| bsaul wrote:
| 2013 MBP.. same reasons, same hopes...(except i don't mind an
| m1.. i've heard only good things)
| cultofmetatron wrote:
| check out the frame.work laptop. The future is repairability
| and you won't be compromising too much in terms of form factor.
| Also, you can replace the battery yourself. (its sad that in
| 2021, thats a FEATURE)
| nebula8804 wrote:
| There is no way they are releasing an Intel model. Why would
| they? The M1 chip has been an outstanding success exceeding the
| expectations of every reviewer I have seen. It has blown me
| away so much that I can't wait to rid x86 from my life. Burn
| the boats! This is a whole new world.
| daniel-thompson wrote:
| I guess we'll find out on Monday, but have you seen anything to
| suggest Apple is releasing new Intel models? Everything I've
| seen says that they're transitioning completely to the M1/M1X.
| laurencerowe wrote:
| What do you run on it that needs to be intel? The Rosetta
| translation works really well for everything but doesn't work
| for VMs. Notably docker for Mac runs in a VM but almost
| everything has arm images available now so it's no longer an
| issue for me.
| nowherebeen wrote:
| My Ubuntu crashed yesterday in the middle of upgrading to 21.10
| when I moved the mouse and the XPS 15 hinge is literally falling
| apart. I can't wait for this to come out! I am mostly interested
| in the CPU performance and not having to run a VM to build iOS.
| That itself should save me hours waiting for code to build.
| kristianp wrote:
| Surely they're not going to put a full-size hdmi port in them, as
| the article suggests. Apple is all about smaller, newer or less
| ports.
| jstsch wrote:
| I am excited about these. Very curious if they'll be able to
| drive my two LG 5K UltraFine displays.
|
| Got those screens right away when the MBP2016 came out. It is a
| great setup, but unfortunately quite unstable. The MBP2016 had
| tons of crashes, after 4 logic board replacements it got swapped
| out for a 2018. More stable, but I still have to follow some
| ritualistic order plugging/unplugging them...
| cuddlybacon wrote:
| I have two LG 4K monitors with a 2016 model (which I really
| want to upgrade). It's mostly fine. Waking from sleep it does
| go thru an annoying sequence where it wakes up one monitor at a
| time. When I gave feedback to Apple, they suggested plugging in
| the dedicated power supply as well. Maybe that would help some
| of the issues you see.
| gambiting wrote:
| The fact that the M1 macbooks can't drive two external
| displays(even with the internal display switched off) is
| criminal. I know at least two people who bought a brand new M1
| MacBook and returned it the next day for this very reason.
| nebula8804 wrote:
| The Mac Mini Can drive two external displays. One via USB-C
| and one via HDMI.
| AttakBanana wrote:
| Just curious, are these issues not enough to make you look
| elsewhere? Especially since these kind of issues have been
| common with MacBooks over the past few years. Maybe you require
| MacOS for something specific? Or is there just nothing else
| you'd rather use?
| jstsch wrote:
| Apart from this issue, these machines have been great for me.
| And the Apple ecosystem is hard to beat (when you get used to
| the seamless integration between devices...)
| c7DJTLrn wrote:
| Given all the little issues MacBooks have had over the past few
| years, the departure of Jony Ive, the move to ARM, I'm expecting
| this one to be a seriously impressive iteration. I've seen the
| "leaked" images already and it looks about how you'd expect but I
| think performance numbers will blow people away.
| throwawaysea wrote:
| Given that these have custom GPUs, do older games still work on
| them? For example games from Blizzard? What about software for
| ML?
| nebula8804 wrote:
| Yooka-Laylee (a 2017 3D platformer) runs well at 1440p on the
| Mac Mini M1 with everything on. Seems like the GPU is at least
| competitive with cards from a few years ago. Not bad for a 15W?
| SOC.
|
| The Anandtech benchmark puts it within fighting range of the
| GTX 1650.
|
| [1]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-
| apple-m1-teste...
| brundolf wrote:
| I imagine anything targeting Metal will work seamlessly
| ashton314 wrote:
| I have a friend who has an M1 and runs StarCraft I and II on it
| without a problem. I don't know much more beyond that.
| runnerup wrote:
| Many very old games worked flawlessly on my girlfriend's M1
| MBP. Baldurs Gate, Diablo, etc.
| OldHand2018 wrote:
| The pressure is on. Didn't Apple give themselves a short time
| window when they introduced the M1 for a full-lineup changeover?
| Like 2 years, or something?
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