M2 air - consumer / light creativity laptop & THE Mac laptop to buy in this price range.

M3 base 8GB RAM MBP - corporate purchase computer for managers who are running MS office and keynote.

Expensive for what it is but they’ll claim back some of the sales tax.

No consumers and genuine pros should ever buy this machine - it’s not meant for you.

What about the plain 'ol 12? (Being selfish here as I might get one):

Not that bothered about:

The camera being bad compared to new phones, because ML upscaling etc. will be amazing in a few years time.

- Not too much RAM, as ‘Chat GPT Siri’ around the corner and we’ll all need to buy phones with more RAM and neural engines anyway (even iPhone 15 pro max users).

- Not too much storage (I’m considering the base 64GB version) - I don’t have many apps and no, I don’t need to carry my content around with me. That’s what iCloud and the cloud in general is for.

I like nothing a lot. But it seems that their desire to get publicity from this and prove a point really created a mess.

Suggest that they wait until Apple supports the encrypted rcs standard.

I wonder if this is the first year that we’ll see iOS 18 for new devices only?

TLDR: If Apple attempts to launch iOS 18 with a ‘transformer Siri’ on a range of older devices in September, it’ll likely be a buggy disaster.

So perhaps we’ll see:

- New iPhones get iOS 18 with the ‘ambitious’ transformer AI / Siri stuff (which is obviously what this is).

- With older devices on iOS 17 getting new features that aren’t dependent on this.

AND/OR

- A staggered release, with iOS 18 gradually being made available for older devices as it becomes more optimised and stable.

You could imagine them doing the same for iPadOS and macOS too & for macOS, making the next version Mx processor only.