iCaveDave
MarK Gurman’s Notes…
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First, shockingly it seems Apple listened to noisy people and has added back the option for Safari having its address window at the top of the display rather than attached to the top of the keyboard as in the earlier betas.
Mark also compares this to iPhone 4’s AntennaGate (You’re holding it wrong) and how Apple gave away cases and bumpers to solve it, and the return of ports and removal of the Touch Bar with the upcoming MacBook Pro redesign.
Moving on, he mentions the Google Pixel 6 on the way, and the reports that the flagship feature, the Google designed custom Tensor chip is actually a samsung chip and sure enough, a quick search and it look like its a rebrand of the Exynos 9855.
Now this kind of makes sense that Samsung would be making the SOCs for Google, if TSMC is fully booked out, and they are, Samsung has probably the best fabs around for production though according to AndroidHeadlines.com, which I honestly have never read before and don’t know their reliability, the chip will be substantially behind the next flagship Exynos or Qualcomm Snapdragon chips.
Then in the Subscriber only Q&A segment, He was asked about whether AirPods Pro would be announced this fall, what’s going on with the Mac mini M1X and Whether the next iPhone will have in display Touch ID.
Most interestingly, Mark says that a new Mac mini with the M1X SOC is expected to be arriving within the next “several months”, replacing the current “higher end” intel Mac mini models, which lets be honest are only higher end in terms of port count. The 10 core M1X inside should be substantially faster than the existing intel and Apple silicon models, with double the performance cores and potentially 4x the graphics cores. My only slight confusion is the distinct lack of a headphone port on the new model, given the poor quality of the internal speaker which is really only intended for accessibility reasons during setup, so presumably the intent is to carry the audio via HDMI or USB-C to the monitor, which could then presumably pass it to external speakers if required. Seems a little convoluted, but assuming the pricing on these are reasonable, ie around the current higher end start price of $1099, I may well be opening my wallet.
Andrew Hornback
#icaveanswers I just resurrected and upgraded a 2007 MBP 17″ (1920×1200 screen, 2.6 GHz chip) running Mavericks, replaced the HDD with an SSD, added an adapter to go from DVI to HDMI – those work great. I also picked up a 4GB stick to expand it out to 6 GB of RAM and the system’s only reading that DIMM as 2 GB. Is there a trick I’m missing?
Lit 8
#icaveanswers what do you think of iOS 6 and Skeuomorphism #lit8questions
Josh
#icaveanswers if you could be the director of apple for a day, what new technology would you launch?
Marcin Kowalczyk
#idrinkanswers decaff coffee ? hate or nay?
The Duke of Kidderminster
#iCaveAnswers What’s your least favourite Apple product?
QuarioQuario54321
#iCaveAnswers How many generations do you think the iPhone nano would have lasted if it did come out? Let’s assume a fall 2011 release. And to tie into this, do you think there will be a 2022 mini iPhone if this year has one?
Steed Scotia • 1 day ago
#iCaveanswers Dave. With the magic keyboard as well as third party versions, why won’t Apple move the front facing iPad camera to the horizontal side. Have they not been zooming over the last 18 month? You think they would have noticed by now.
Evan Rodgers
#icaveanswers What would cause you to ditch Apple for Android and Windows full time and which products would you use?
Josh
#icaveanswers do you know the exact date when iOS 15 is coming out?
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