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The MacRumors Show: Jon Prosser Talks Apple's New iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro With M4

Jon Prosser joins us on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show to talk through all of Apple's major Mac announcements from this week.


Over the first three days of the week, Apple unveiled the new iMac, Mac mini, and MacBook Pro with the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips. The chips offer significantly better CPU, GPU, and Neural Engine performance, improved efficiency, higher amounts of unified memory, and more.

The new ‌iMac‌ features USB-C Magic accessories and a refreshed palette of color options. The new ‌Mac mini‌ has been completely redesigned for the first time in over a decade with a radically smaller enclosure and two front-facing USB-C ports. Finally, the new ‌MacBook Pro‌ has a bolstered base model, longer battery life, and a brighter display.

The new ‌iMac‌ and ‌MacBook Pro‌ gain a nano-texture display option and a 12-megapixel front-facing camera with Center Stage and Desk View for the first time. Models with the M4 Pro or M4 Max support Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, and almost all of the new Macs feature better external display support. All of Apple's Macs now start with 16GB of unified memory as standard, including the MacBook Air, with no increase in price.

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Top Rated Comments

26 months ago

Can you expand on what you mean by "struggling"?

As for growing Mac sales - Apple's own marketing department likely knows more about what the world will buy than just about anybody else. That's why Apple has been able to carve its share out of the small computer sector, being one of the four companies that overwhelmingly dominate that market.

The future of all these small computers is pretty much treading water, market wise. The world wants small handheld devices, not bulky desktops or awkward laptops.
I can expand but won’t. Most people on here know what is meant by a struggling economy. Most politicians, economists, and even the general public.

If you need help with it you could always ask Siri and she will direct you to a relevant resource. 😀
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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26 months ago
There's a name I haven't heard in a long time. Nice guy but horribly inaccurate
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26 months ago

Can you expand on what you mean by "struggling"?

As for growing Mac sales - Apple's own marketing department likely knows more about what the world will buy than just about anybody else. That's why Apple has been able to carve its share out of the small computer sector, being one of the four companies that overwhelmingly dominate that market.

The future of all these small computers is pretty much treading water, market wise. The world wants small handheld devices, not bulky desktops or awkward laptops.
I’ll give you a few hints

Growth rates
Inflation
Policy
Debt

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or had your head in the sand, you’d know that those economic issues have been at the forefront of various governments tasks around the world for the better part of 15 or so years.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
Economies around the world are struggling. I think Apple might struggle to reinvigorate sales of Macs it was expecting to with the new AI push. And that goes for other tech companies too.

The reality is that for most people, especially the introduction of Apple Silicon, they have hardware bought in the past few years that still has years of life left in them for the tasks they will be performing on them.

It’s a minority that will benefit from the increasing power of Apple silicon. The people pushing the hardware to its limits and for which every minute counts. For others, the bottleneck in any workflow will be themselves. So no matter if you’re using a late Intel Mac, an early Apple Silicon Mac, the benefit of the new hardware is practically zero at this point unless you really need something that Apple Intelligence offers.

Likewise for iPhones. People just don’t upgrade as frequently as they used to do, they are spending hard earned money on other things in their life that bring much more value. That’s why new markets around the world are so important for Apple. People are just on upgrade cycles and in some cases won’t upgrade for years.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
The Apple Studio display really needs to be updated. This thing is expensive and massive. So thick and heavy.

I wish Apple release a new ASD as thin as iPad Pro and also a «cheap» display (around 800 $) with the same design as the iMac 24
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26 months ago
Dan comparing a maxed out $4700 Mac Mini with 8TB of storage to a base $4000 Mac Studio Ultra with 1TB of storage and then asking which one you would want to pay for is one of the weirder comparisons i've seen in a while. 🤣


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