*** Apple event 10th November @ 6pm - One More Thing: Apple Silicon Macs Reveal ***

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You can watch the event on Apple website:
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/

The event will also be live-streamed on YouTube here.

Expectations:

Apple Silicon Macs:
According to Gurman at Bloomberg, three new Macs will be announced:
  • 13-inch MacBook Air
  • 13-inch MacBook Pro
  • 16-inch MacBook Pro
Bloomberg had also previously reported that Apple will make three variants of the A14 family this year:
  • A14: 2 Big cores, 4 Little cores, used for iPhone 12 family and iPad Air 4
  • A14X: 4 Big cores, 4 Little cores, already leaked in iOS code and Geekbench, likely for MacBook Air and future iPad Pro
  • A14??: 8 Big cores, 4 Little cores, probably for MacBook Pro's

We will probably also get a release date for macOS Big Sur.

Other possible minor products: AirTags, Apple-branded over-the-ears headphone
 
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Excited for this. I’m in the market for a laptop. My biggest hope is they have improved the fan noise/heat. The Air is a hot mess and the 16” gets noisy as soon as you use an external monitor.
 
This event isn't going to help my spending list :D I think we'll see some nice performance boost balanced with a battery life boost. I'm still on an Early 2011 13" MBP, which is absolutely fine as my daily driver with quite light use and has turned out to be a huge bargain at the £900 I paid for it in June 2011. That said, it's missing a few features that aren't exactly new - Retina display, newer bluetooth for Handoff, 802.1ac WiFi etc.; quite a few incremental bits that will add up to a nice bump when I eventually buy again.

The hankering for a new laptop has been there for a year or so now and I'm sure these new Apple Silicon laptops will be what tips me over the edge. This is not helpful as I also really need to upgrade the gaming PC as that's getting long in the tooth now, too. Shopping list is probably around £3k and I'm supposed to be saving for a house deposit :(
 
I'm always on the fence about getting anything 1st gen from Apple but my 2012 Mac Mini, while running ok, officially in the retirement phase as far as software updates etc so I wouldn't mind something new. I'll probably end up getting a later Intel-era refurb though because I'm tight.
 
I'm pleased you posted this, I've got so much going on that I'd completely forgotten about it!
 
Somnambulist said:
I'm always on the fence about getting anything 1st gen from Apple but my 2012 Mac Mini, while running ok, officially in the retirement phase as far as software updates etc so I wouldn't mind something new. I'll probably end up getting a later Intel-era refurb though because I'm tight.
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That's two good points actually - I even forgot that I'm forever consigned to 10.13 High Sierra, so I don't get any new macOS features either, and Big Sur is looking great. Perhaps you're right in that a refurbed Intel from 2016+ would serve me very well for a couple of years. My only concern is lack of upgradability; having to pay extra to get the spec I need rather than be able to upgrade storage/RAM etc.
 
squerble said:
That's two good points actually - I even forgot that I'm forever consigned to 10.13 High Sierra, so I don't get any new macOS features either, and Big Sur is looking great. Perhaps you're right in that a refurbed Intel from 2016+ would serve me very well for a couple of years. My only concern is lack of upgradability; having to pay extra to get the spec I need rather than be able to upgrade storage/RAM etc.
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Problem with most of the older MacBooks is the butterfly keyboard, massive point of failure.
 
squerble said:
That's two good points actually - I even forgot that I'm forever consigned to 10.13 High Sierra, so I don't get any new macOS features either, and Big Sur is looking great. Perhaps you're right in that a refurbed Intel from 2016+ would serve me very well for a couple of years. My only concern is lack of upgradability; having to pay extra to get the spec I need rather than be able to upgrade storage/RAM etc.
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You can upgrade storage on pre-2016 MBPs. There's a £20 adapter that you can buy and then most M.2 NVMe drives (Samsung, WD, A-Data, etc) will work just fine.

You can also do a OS upgrade to the latest one, just need to do a few extra steps. There are always guides for upgrading older macs to lates macOS, and after that they work very well.
 
HACO said:
You can upgrade storage on pre-2016 MBPs. There's a £20 adapter that you can buy and then most M.2 NVMe drives (Samsung, WD, A-Data, etc) will work just fine.

You can also do a OS upgrade to the latest one, just need to do a few extra steps. There are always guides for upgrading older macs to lates macOS, and after that they work very well.
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Thanks for the tip on the adapter for earlier models. I did actually try the "Patcher" route to get 10.15 on this unsupported MBP, and it worked to a degree, but I couldn't run things like Netflix due to some interaction with the lack of "Metal", or that Metal was running on hardware that didn't support it etc. Anyway, there were a few other OS glitches and other bits that ended up in me wiping it completely and just installing a fresh 10.13 again - not worth the hassle, IMHO.
 
I'll probably pick up a 13" MBP after tonight to get rid of my 15" MBP, I don't need the size as it's in clamshell mode 90% of the time, and when I do use it as a laptop, I've found 15" to be a bit too big.

But, and I've mentioned before, the exciting product for me is the Mac Mini, which I can see being the last product updated in the lineup.
 
Steedie said:
But, and I've mentioned before, the exciting product for me is the Mac Mini, which I can see being the last product updated in the lineup.
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I'd have thought it would have been one of the first to get done.
 
Feek said:
I'd have thought it would have been one of the first to get done.
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You'd have thought so given the dev kit is a Mac Mini. All the rumours however, point to them doing the laptops first, an iMac and a smaller form factor Mac Pro. Mac Mini seems to have next to no rumours circulating around it. Unless it's just implied because of the dev kit?
 
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You'd have thought so given the dev kit is a Mac Mini. All the rumours however, point to them doing the laptops first, an iMac and a smaller form factor Mac Pro. Mac Mini seems to have next to no rumours circulating around it. Unless it's just implied because of the dev kit?
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A retail AS Mac Mini (as a dev kit) makes a lot of sense (developers actually need to return these DTKs to Apple within 1 year). So Apple should definitely release a retail alternative.
 
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HACO said:
I can't wait to just rid my house of any and all Intel products :D
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I agree!

I don't hate intel, as much as I do the mess which comes with x86 app compatibility

The move to arm I assume means the move to a more app centric sandboxed system. Hopefully it means your OS remains a lot cleaner.
 
TheOracle said:
I agree!

I don't hate intel, as much as I do the mess which comes with x86 app compatibility

The move to arm I assume means the move to a more app centric sandboxed system. Hopefully it means your OS remains a lot cleaner.
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I just don't want to give my money to a company that's as uninventive as it comes. 10+ years of stagnation, I don't want to reward them. I'm happily buying AMD because they've become innovative. Happy to buy Intel products in the future if they change their ways.
 
Apple store is down, I wonder if that means they'll be ready for pre-order straight away.
 
Feek said:
Apple store is down, I wonder if that means they'll be ready for pre-order straight away.
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I'm sure the store went down for the Apple event, but you couldn't pre-order anything for a week. They will update the product pages, not guarantee we can order today.
 
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