Considering Apple updated the 14" & 16" MacBook Pro to M2 chips the same time as Mac Mini back in Jan 2023, and many believed that it was delayed due to supply chain and production issues, supposedly the release schedule was Oct-Nov 2022 in previous year.
Now that MacBook Pros get the M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, why didn’t the Mac Mini get the refreshed as well ?
Will Apple just simply make the Mac Mini the drag queen that stretched 3-4 years refresh cycle ?
And the 27” iMac everyone keeps wishing for didn’t come. I’m not too sad about it. I can appreciate having a mini and a powerful laptop and I don’t have the Apple display but having all the power tied up in an all in one is freeing. I can upgrade that mini now much more cheaply and easily. And I can use the screen with my laptop instead of target display mode.
I had a feeling it was going to be 8/256 when it when ‘business owners’ were described as one of the key user types. It’s the laptop the IT department can give to management that’s got a pro sticker on it, without having to give them something over powered. It’s a vanity thing. Actual pro’s will get something better, everyone else is probably better off with an Air.
And the event has ended, which apparently was all shot on an iPhone and edited on a Mac.
It was a 30-minute presentation, straight and to the point. However, I don’t know if this really needed to be a special event on a Monday night before Halloween.
It’s interesting that they keep harping on “when upgrading from an Intel-based Mac”. I guess their data shows that a lot of users are still on Intel chips. Or maybe it just makes a better comparison?
I’m so on an old Intel MacBook Pro. Getting 16 GB RAM (which back then was more of an unusual investment) really has helped the machine stay quite workable.
The only problematic part of the laptops age is that Apple no longer supports it with OS upgrades 🤷.
Until something fails. And then you have to replace or throw out the whole thing because the ram, SSD, video card, and just about everything else is integrated and not socketed/replaceable/upgradable.
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