I understand why apple has to do these yearly releases, quarterly profits and reports. But wouldn’t it make more sense to have a longer research and development time to make actual leaps in productivity then do these minor steps forwards/backwards?
I’m just glad that I don’t upgrade yearly like some people seem to.
That’s not how this works. The vast majority of people upgrading computers have laptops that are generations behind. The only people who upgrade laptops yearly are people who are fucking insanely crazy/tech reviewers. Every year a new set of people are in need for an upgraded computer along with people just getting into the Apple ecosystem.
Look at what happened with the iMac. They waited 900 days and people were up in arms.
There are a lot of companies that don’t need to push something new every 3-18 months, but investors ultimately call the shots and demand shiny new things that can be marketed as the bleeding edge and sold at exorbitant prices lest they sell their shares and invest it elsewhere. This is because if you’re not using your capital to create more capital, your competitors are and will outcompete you, incentivizing heavy pushes for ever-growing profit margins, stock buybacks, dividends, etc even at the expense of the products or companies involved.
Realistically an M1 will serve you perfectly well for upwards of 10 years so long as software continues to support the ARM architecture it runs on, but if Tim Cook stood on a stage and went “Look, we really tried, but the M1 is just too good and we can’t iterate on it. Just keep buying those M1 Airs until we come up with another generational leap,” he’d be dragged offstage and replaced with some MBA promising infinite growth to the investors before he finished the second sentence.
They should just always make the best laptop they can. Then whenever you go to buy one, it’ll be the best they can make. Why artificially wait. They can give say 10-15% a year or 50% every 3 years. It’s actually the same except for it levels out demand and means you can buy whenever and know you’re getting something good
Guess I’ll get one when M16 comes out
Suddenly everyone is a CPU expert.
imma say it for the people in the back, you DO NOT NEED TO UPDATE EVERY YEAR. The reason why Apple compared to M1 and Intel is to have those users upgrade and even then, people with M1 don’t need to
you DO NOT NEED TO UPDATE EVERY YEAR.
No one does. That’s a myth.
but the way some of these comments out here talk “Oh M2 isnt that different from M3” like that’s the whole point. Don’t need major major updates every year
A SOC with high data bandwidth, being necessary to supply porn to nerds, the right of the people to keep and bear phat data pipes, shall not be infringed.
Well the biggest update seems to be finally having modern GPU features, that is DirextX 12 Ultimate features. They had to make room somewhere for that hardware. Too bad they didn’t give any actual benchmarks for the new shaders or raytracing acceleration performance.
But it doesnt support DX12 or Vulkan, so the GPU performance is near useless for gaming, as very very few games run natively on Mac.
Modern GPU features such as lacking AV1 encoding at the tail end of 2023
A fast flowing data stream , being necessary to the porn for nerds, the right of the people to keep and bear 200 gbps bandwidth chip, shall not be infringed.
Space Black M4 MBP here I wait.
I have an m1 pro MacBook 14 I really don’t see the incentive to upgrade right now
3-5 years minimum but one thing is sure I’m staying with Apple macbook pros…just so amazing
But you’re gonna love it.
How in the hell they have 18 GB of ram? What chips are they? 10 + 8? That’s really weird
I think TSMC’s 3nm has been a dud. Yields are lower, which constrains available chips and forces Apple to use more ‘binned” chips where something is wrong (GPU core doesn’t work right, memory bus is not fully functioning, etc) and also accept some chips that need higher power to stay stable.
This leads to a weak generational leap and the odd proliferation of chip configs/chip options.
To be honest, I fail to see any major performance differences between M2 Air and M1 Air.
Not to say they’re not there, but rather the M series of CPUs are already very well optimized for typical day-to-day activities.
We should boycott this trash
i guess we are back to comparing COREZ AND MEGAHURTZ lol. people who take this shit at face value or “cost savings” are uninformed and doing themselves a disservice. apple is notorious for that but it isn’t always that.