Apple's M4 chips are coming this year with a big focus on AI

12 April 2024
The AI features are to be presented in June at the Worldwide Developers Conference.

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FatShady, 12 Apr 2024"apple ecosystem benefits" only works if you&#... morewell yeah most students ik have been fooled into buying their walled garden of stuff
and yeah speakers/display are pretty important to students ig

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    • 12 Apr 2024

    Anonymous, 12 Apr 2024Username doesn't draw any conclusions, but your commen... morethe fact that you copy paste my thoughts being also off topic...means you are just a kid
    Grow up and dont get angry for nothing

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      • Ejb
      • 12 Apr 2024

      Anonymous, 12 Apr 2024because you are poor and others are not and they live in ap... moreUsername doesn't draw any conclusions, but your comment reflects who you are, and your narrow thought process.

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        • nDy
        • 12 Apr 2024

        QC elite doesnt even came out..probably in June/July and that (based on marketing) its focusing on M2 ....and now we will have M4..not good at all

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          • nDy
          • 12 Apr 2024

          M4 will be 3 years ahead of windows systems unfortunately

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            • 12 Apr 2024

            Kangal, 12 Apr 2024The slowest MacOS Device was the one given to developers at... more"So after a decent hiatus, everyone was excited about the M3 lineup of Mac's. And not only did they not deliver any new features (eg FaceID)"
            faceId has nothing to do with M3...again, you people are talking about looking at the mac as a toy...dev and proff even cover or dont use webcam/faceID so for them efficiency and power is more important

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              • 12 Apr 2024

              FatShady, 12 Apr 2024"apple ecosystem benefits" only works if you&#... morebecause you are poor and others are not and they live in apple garden...you are not fooled..
              Based on your nickname...there is no question about who are you

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                • CbE
                • 12 Apr 2024

                Big focus on AI

                Why not, they scrapped the apple car project and diverted the billions towards ai...

                  HyperionBurn, 12 Apr 2024hmmm i alr have a laptop but i can understand why other stu... more"apple ecosystem benefits"

                  only works if you've been fooled into buying all their crap...

                  "better speakers+display"

                  actual students would overpay for these 2 things.

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                    • vxj
                    • 12 Apr 2024

                    Soldered SSD is a big nono for me thats why i avoid mac like plague.

                      Manchito, 12 Apr 2024All that power to browse the web and see your pics from you... moreNot gonna call out anyone explicitly but most Mac Users who are casual only need M1 power lol. I play games with a Intel Mac and it's pretty shite. I'm switching back to Windows anyway. Found a good ASUS Vivobook (LCD) for about 270 bucks with trade in!

                        The slowest MacOS Device was the one given to developers at the start of 2020. It's a Mac Mini that uses the Apple A12Z chipset. This was basically a higher binned A12X chipset that launched 2 years prior.

                        The next step above is the M1, and it's a significant upgrade; in efficiency, performance, graphics, and support for x86 threads. The M1 was designed concurrently with the A13, which was a significant upgrade over the A12 chipset. With the final draft of the M1 taking upgrades from the A14 architecture too. The M2 lineup was a refresh in many ways, and just took the efficiency upgrades from the A15, and turned them into pure performance gains. It would've been worth it, had the prices stayed same or gotten cheaper. But most of the M2 lineup actually had price hikes. And even that would have been worth it, if Apple would have included a new feature; like FaceID. They have the cutout and notch, so it's there. But their backwards decision led to a lukewarm successor.

                        So after a decent hiatus, everyone was excited about the M3 lineup of Mac's. And not only did they not deliver any new features (eg FaceID), but it seems the wait was for nought. It wasn't really a better chipset, it offered fairly similar efficiency just at a higher performance. And it did this using a new silicon standard / lithography. One that's been highly awaited for a while now. Price wise they did seem to go up a bit, perhaps to match inflation. Overall, this was an even more disappointing launch.

                        So am I excited for the M4 lineup?
                        No. I don't know, and highly doubt, that they'll finally bring FaceID. Or Apple Pen 3 support. Or using finger/touch support on the screen. Will the prices go down, highly doubt it. It will likely go up a bit. What about the chipset, would that offer higher efficiency, higher performance, or both ? Really doubting everything lately. And now them mentioning and focusing on buzzwords/marketing such as "AI" means it's likely to be a worse chipset than imagined.

                        So yah, even Apple loyalist will be disappointed by next years Mac. That's my prediction, what is yours?

                          Mills, 12 Apr 2024We did get M3 Airs like a couple of weeks ago if I'm n... morehmmm i alr have a laptop but i can understand why other students would go for the macbook air m2
                          its lighter
                          apple ecosystem benefits
                          better speakers+display
                          smoother

                          if youre like an engineering student or something and need the extra power then windows is better

                            HyperionBurn, 12 Apr 2024didnt we just get the m3 macbooks? or is it just meWe did get M3 Airs like a couple of weeks ago if I'm not mistaken. Making the already powerful M2 Airs start at 999 USD and making the M1 Air discontinued from Apple's website. They're going for 650-750 on Walmart or BestBuy

                            If you are a student, I would still go with Windows because it has more RAM than Apple give. OEMS also don't try to upsell you on RAM nor storage either. You can find a 600 dollar Windows Laptop with around 12-16GB of RAM (probably LPDDR4) and at least 256GB of space, normally 512.

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                              • Anonymous
                              • 05a
                              • 12 Apr 2024

                              Planned Obsolescence is Priority One.
                              All other priorities are rescinded.

                              This is pure software. Apple _will_ sell this as an iPhone 16 exclusive feature, just like Google planned to try with the Pixel 9.

                                And here I was thinking Apple was above the whole "AI" marketing nonsense.

                                  Manchito, 12 Apr 2024All that power to browse the web and see your pics from you... moreDon't forget "professional artists" & "content creators".

                                    Anonymous, 12 Apr 2024Yeah but RAM and SSD will still be soldered to the logic bo... moreBatteries are absolutely replaceable. Apple charges $199 (or $249 for the 2023) for their replacement

                                      The Mac Studio is always left behind...still in M2 chip and update only in mid 2025?

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                                        • m62
                                        • 12 Apr 2024

                                        Eh. Unless they bring the base price down/ reduce upgrade cost, this is still not it. M1 Macbooks are still the thing to buy for value, perfectly fine for office work, without the insane and generstionally increasing temps of the newer M-Chipsn nor their throttling.

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