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  makmanalp
  Man every time I want to get a new macbook air they come up with a new macbook pro which means 6 months later they're going to come up with a new generation of airs by which time I think "let me wait a bit and see if people like it", and so here I am with a 2022 M2 that is perfectly fine except for the disk being too small.
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  weystrom
  Great hardware, but I can't stand MacOS anymore after switching to Linux on home dekstop. KDE is such a breath of fresh air after years of dealing with Apple's idiosyncrasies.I think I'll keep my Framework 13 Pro preorder.
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  edude03
  It's clique at this point I know, but "If steve jobs were still alive" he wouldn't give people the option to get a 14 with M5 Pro/Max or M6 while the 16 can only have a M5 Pro/Max. Yes, I know the 16 will get it, but I'm point out this weird recent trend where there isn't a clear choice for the non tech savvy person.The major thing I notice about modern apple is they definitely rush to meet a deadline instead of just waiting for the product to be ready
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  elicash
  Nano-texture upgrade option is coming for the whole line of products.Edit: the thing I'm confused about is it seems there are at least two but maybe three different things that they are calling "nano-texture". On buying screens, the Studio Display and iPad Mini say "Nano-texture glass" and the new MacBook Pro says "Nano-texture display." But the Duo marketing says "Nano-texture finish."I get that the internal Duo screen has the film over it and so it says "finish," but is there a difference between "glass" and "display"?
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  Havoc
  Interesting choice of pic...a guy with a military camo hat, laptop propped up on a hardshell field deployment case...but in a crop field. That's quite a departure from Appe's usual creatives sipping soy lattes vibe
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  timpera
  Bring back Boot Camp and let us install Windows 11 on these, you cowards!
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  paxy
  Minor rant – why come up with a consistent CPU naming scheme (Mx generation with Pro, Max etc. tiers) but then sell variants of each with different numbers of cores? It tosses the entire convention out of the window.It is especially annoying during resale or benchmarking, because “M5 Pro” by itself doesn't mean much, and you have to count the number of CPU & GPU cores to figure out the actual SKU.
• onraglanroad
  You know, it kind of surprises me there isn't an Apple Linux yet.It seems like such an easy win and could rapidly become the most popular Linux distro, even running on non Apple hardware.They have the money so why not just do it?
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  gniv
  And it's still $1999. That's impressive. I paid the same for the M1 Pro in 2021.
• sgarrity
  There's never been a more confusing time to buy a MacBook. I understand there are technical variations, but it's difficult to compare when different screen sizes require different chip generations. Different memory amounts require different processor types. Etc. Etc.I probably complained when Apple offered too FEW options too - but hey, this is the Internet.
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  alberth
  I thought Apple "Pro & Tell" day is tomorrow.Makes me now wonder what's in store for tomorrow's pro launch.
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  skrtks
  I was considering getting the M6 with 32GB which would come down to €2769 here in the Netherlands. But now I have an offer for a used M2 Max 64GB for €1900.Which one should I pick?
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  throwaway270925
  Apparently after the memory and storage shortage we are also experiencing a power supply shortage now - if you choose the base 16GB/1TB config you cant even choose any power supply as an option, guess its a use-once device now...
• k310
  I don't want AI. I am preparing for a jump (back) to Linux. "Choice" disappeared, and yes, I know about the "fix" [0]Maybe this idea may be foreign to many, but personal computers were something I built from bags of parts socketed and/or soldered onto S-100 cards, and that experience was the foundation of most of my career.I was a Henry Higgins, and proud of my Eliza(s). While I get along cooperatively with Eliza (the happy ending to "My Fair Computer") I don't want Eliza to be my caretaker. This morphing of computers and internet into nannies and caretakers is IMO reverting to the "good old days" of servants. While some inventions are truly liberating (ask the guy who missed his Mom at an airport and freaked out for hours until she showed up at my home, courtesy of a cab or bus) how many are just replacing people with machines?I could seriously use some friendship of the human variety, rather than a humanoid in a box (or an especially nice robot as in "I Sing the Body Electric" by Ray Bradbury, memorable on The Twilight Zone) Try being older and living alone, typing away.I don't even use GPS any more, since I trashed Apple Maps when they kissed the Emperor's big fanny.[0] https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI
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  petetnt
  It seems that you can only get 32GBs of RAM maximum for the new 14" M6 Macbooks? M5 still has 64GB options available. edit: the larger configurations are only available for the Pro and Max chips apparently.
• Danox
  Nice, but in the long term, Apple is going to need to bring memory in-house.
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  carruler
  Don't think it's worth moving from previous max products yet to be honest. My M3 MAX still does a hell of a job whenever I need it.
• sealthedeal
  Spec'd out Air is all you need
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  dofm
  If you want to run LLMs: get the M5 Pro, not the base M6.
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  coreyh14444
  Wasn't this rumored to have OLED or am I confusing it with something else?
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  weird-eye-issue
  After using a 16" laptop it would be hard for me to go back
• anon
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• cromka
  "A Huge Upgrade". They literally just changed the CPU? How is that a huge upgrade? What would they call an actual upgrade, the kind people expected?So tired of their PR grandiose.
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  cbeach
  My 5090 has a bandwidth of 1,792 GB/s, and that is just about good enough for basic (i.e. 27B models) local LLM inference.The fastest M6 MacBook Pro (24/32GB config) has a memory bandwidth of 170 GB/s. And the M5 Max is 614 GB/s.Am I missing some nuance of the M6 MBP here, or am I right to assume it won't set the local LLM world on fire?
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  arkwin
  32GB of RAM only? What? Also weird that they are talking about token speed, but no larger LLMs can fit on this thing.Also, what happened to the I/O?? I was happy to see on the M4 they had HDMI, an SD card slot, and more. Why are they back to 2 USB-C ports? I only see pictures of one side, but the left side has traditionally had more I/O.C'mon, Apple, do better. It's a PRO model, not a MacBook Air
• kingleopold
  16gb for default ram? is this a joke? base level is same for almost 5 years now, crazy level of slow upgrades, basically anyone needs pro device will never purchase the default specs, even air makes more sense.
• maromocooo
  I think I'll skip this one. Apple's M-series chips are so good that my upgrade cycles just keep getting longer and longer...
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  lettergram
  Am I reading this correct? Max of 32Gb of RAM?> With 16GB of unified memory standard, configurable up to 32GB, and higher memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, MacBook Pro makes multitasking and working with demanding apps and large projects even faster.So they're basically removing the ability to run local models effectively. I wonder if they'll bifurcate their market to enable those.
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  eastbound
  Apple has moved from a "Big day out" of marketing per year, where all product lineups would be announced, with novelty and conferences, to rolling releases along the year.Do they get the same marketing impact?