APPLE WWDC M1X MACBOOK PROHOLLISTER UPGRADE
APPLE WWDC M1X MACBOOK PROHOLLISTER PRO

But it is looking a lot like the M1X is nearing the horizon.

And they will finally (maybe) nix the Thunderbolt-only design in favor of one with an SD card port and an HDMI port.ĭid Apple plan to announce the M1X at WWDC and later pull it (perhaps due to the aforementioned supply shortages)? We’ll probably never know.

APPLE WWDC M1X MACBOOK PROHOLLISTER PRO

According to a recent report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the new Pro will include eight high-performance cores and two energy-efficient cores, for a total of ten (ten!) cores.

APPLE WWDC M1X MACBOOK PROHOLLISTER UPGRADE

It only makes sense that the next iteration of the MacBook Pro would be even more impressive.īy all accounts, the M1X MacBook Pro is going to be a significant upgrade from the M1. Ten-core encore - The first round of MacBooks made with Apple’s in-house processing unit has received rave reviews from casual users and laptop fanboys alike. Though this, too, seems unlikely - the WWDC keynote was pre-recorded, so it’s not as if the lineup of announcements changed at the last second. This does seem unlikely, given that Apple has plenty of viewers without this kind of engagement hack. Spotted by Twitter user Max Balzer, the livestream of the WWDC keynote included the keywords ‘MacBook Pro and M1X in the metadata. So it’s possible Apple included the tags as an engagement strategy, in order to pull in as many viewers as possible. Tags are one of the easiest ways to boost engagement on a YouTube video as they’re used by YouTube for indexing and search purposes. There are a few reasons why Apple might’ve added those M1X tags to its video, and not all of them are because it’s planning to release the new MacBook soon. MacBook Pro with M1X did make into WWDC 2021, sort of. As of right now, though, there’s still a whole lot of guessing going on.Ĭould be a fluke - As always, we’re trying not to get too pumped about what boils down to a rumor - an educated guess of a rumor, but a rumor still. With WWDC out of the way, we didn’t know an expected launch date for new MacBook Pros so far. There’s still plenty of time for Apple to announce a summer release for the M1X MacBook Pro. Despite rumors that the new MacBook will be announced WWDC, Apple didn’t announce new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models at WWDC 2021 last month. Sources claimed the new Pro would arrive sometime this summer, though component shortages could keep them in short supply until 2022. There is a strong belief that the M1X MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 will be announced at WWDC 2021, which starts on Monday, June 7.In the weeks leading up to WWDC, many notable Apple analysts predicted that we’d be seeing the next-gen Apple Silicon MacBook Pro at the big livestreamed conference. While the power cost of these impressive graphics performance estimates is very attractive for the 16-core and 32-core GPU M1X SoCs, Lee reckons the cost of the actual devices that will sport the 2021 Apple Silicon will be much higher than many expect. The benchmark used for the comparison was GFXBench 5.0 Aztec The results and estimates can be seen in the image posted below, but what is immediately striking is that the FPS estimate for the 32-core GPU M1X is at the same level as the RTX 3070 dGPU – at less than half of the power requirement. Keeping these power draw figures in mind, Lee compared the 16-core and 32-core GPU Apple Silicon with the M1, GTX 1650, Radeon Pro 5500M, and GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. So the 2021 MacBook Pro laptops will consume more power than M1-based devices, with the M1X with 16-core GPU needing an estimated 20 W and the 32-core GPU SoC drawing on an estimated 40 W.

The larger footprint of the MacBook Pro 16 will allow for a sufficiently sized battery and the requisite cooling system.

The TechTuber reasons that the Apple MacBook Pro 14 would be able to support an M1X with 16-core GPU whereas it will be the MacBook Pro 16 that might offer an additional 32-core GPU option. Lee opines that the increased core count will mean the M1X (or whatever Apple names the M1 successor) will feature a much larger package size and will, of course, require more power and a stronger cooling system. While the current M1 Apple Silicon has had to make do with a 7-core or 8-core GPU, rumors and reports have pointed to the M1X having 16-core and even 32-core GPU options. Dave Lee from the highly popular YouTube tech channel Dave2D has offered up some astonishing estimates for the M1X in terms of graphics performance.

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