MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Unleashed’ special event

MacDailyNews ^ | Monday, October 18, 2021 12:03 pm | MacDailyNews Staff

[KarlInOhio]

Apple stock up about 1% today, so no shocking good or bad news yet.

[Swordmaker]

Apple introduces fastest, by far, MacBook Pros ever made, new AirPods, and refreshed HomePods at October 18, 2021 “Unleashed!” Apple Event. MacBook Pros are up to 20 times faster at doing some processes than the previous Intel i9 MacBook Pros and faster than other manufacturer’s top of the line PC pro laptops while using far less power and sporting much longer battery life. Apple is introducing the newly designed Apple Silicon M1 Pro and M1 Max System on a Chip to achieve this performance, with 32 GB and 64 GB of fast System RAM respectively on the silicon for processing. The specs of these SoCs are amazing. —PING!

NEW APPLE MACBOOK PRO 14” & 16” PING!

If you want on or off the Apple/Mac/iOS Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Swordmaker]

Mostly the updated MacBook Pro line was expected, but not the “blow-out of the park” specs… These specs cannot be matched by any other maker.

[Da Coyote]

More software I could care less about. No new original hardware.

Meh.

[SunkenCiv]

The event itself was about 50 percent stupifyingly boring, IMHO, the first half consisted of various employees going on and on about the improvements to the Airpods and how an eavesdropping Siri and the Apple gestapo just looking out for party, er, public safety, is a good thing, and not just because it enriches Apple.

BTW, thanks to all who pump money into the iTunes ecosystem, I’m a shareholder.

I’d be surprised if there isn’t a late November or early December event to announce the spec-bumped higher-end Mac Mini and/or iMac. I’d probably be in the market for an M1 Mini or M1 Pro Mini.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/apple-intros-14-and-16-inch-macbook-pros-with-display-notches-m1-pro-and-m1-max/

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-18-at-1.20.47-PM.jpg

[SunkenCiv]

Wholeheartedly agree — if I had that kind of cash, I’d get this new 16” Macbook Pro with some kind of spec bump from the base model. But the base looks pretty smokin’.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

M1 Pro and M1 Max are “life-changing”

Yeah, right. Not 0.1% as life changing as FJB and his politburo.

[Red Badger]

I don’t want nits in my computer......................

[Swordmaker]

For reference, the Apple Silicon involved…

[Swordmaker]

More software I could care less about. No new original hardware.

Uh, yeah, there is… completely new processors. Very little new software to speak of. It runs the software that already exists VERY much faster. You’re done before you started.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

--> I’m a shareholder. #metoo

[proust]

64 GB of Ram. 😯

[dayglored]

Hey Swordmaker, thanks for the ping.

What's the status of VMware (Fusion I guess?) on these M-series computers? Specifically, will they run Intel VMs?

I'd love to get a faster Mac laptop, but I have to run those x86_64 Linux and Windows VMs for my job.

[dsrtsage]

They coming out with a phone with internet access and a camera?

[texas booster]

Timmy stated that Rosetta2 was available for Intel based programs.

[Vermont Lt]

Wasn’t the Mac book stuff based on a new chip? That’s significant.

[smokingfrog]

Lots of interesting improvements.
But my life is so boring, I kind of doubt the “life changing” part.

[dayglored]

> Timmy stated that Rosetta2 was available for Intel based programs.

Right, but that's not the same as running a Virtual Machine of a different operating system on a hypervisor. Rosetta2 lets me run a normal user-level Intel x86_64 program, but a VM hypervisor is something else, much more complex, and almost certainly has to be compiled for the M-series CPU.

I suppose I could ask VMware directly...

[dayglored]

Nevermind, got my answer: "NOT YET"

https://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2021/09/fusion-for-m1-public-tech-preview-now-available.html