<story><title>27-inch iMac gets a major update</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>efficax</author><text>the 12&amp;quot; macbook is my favorite laptop of all time. Mine is the 2016 version and it&amp;#x27;s starting to feel dated and I&amp;#x27;m hoping that they rerelease this on the new silicon first. I&amp;#x27;ll be smashing the buy button the day it&amp;#x27;s out.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>It will almost certainly be a low end macbook. In fact, there&amp;#x27;s a non-pro &amp;#x27;macbook&amp;#x27;[0] that already exists which would be perfect, it was discontinued a year ago, but used ultra-low power CPUs. In fact when they were talking about them (prior to release) they thought they would have ARM CPU&amp;#x27;s back then.&lt;p&gt;They are fanless and have a 5W thermal envelope, which fits in with the current A12X too.&lt;p&gt;The major criticisms of the design at the time was: Butterfly keyboard, the Single USB-C port and the speed of the device (Intel CORE-M is truly, truly painful). But for a $600-$700 machine with an ARM CPU? that&amp;#x27;s insanely competitive, and is in-line with the &amp;quot;basic&amp;quot; macbook branding.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MacBook_(2015%E2%80%932019)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MacBook_(2015%E2%80%932019)&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Solid spec bump. Interesting how much emphasis they put on the camera, speakers, and mic; makes total sense in the age of Zoom.&lt;p&gt;I’d also speculate this means iMac won’t be the first computer getting Apple Silicon. I wonder if it will be the last?&lt;p&gt;What’s the consensus guess now? Perhaps a new MacBook Air with good performance but the real “breakthrough” is &amp;gt; 12 hours battery life?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PopeDotNinja</author><text>I think my favorite computer was my late-2010 MacBook Air.  It was such a departure from the big &amp;amp; clunky Windows laptops I&amp;#x27;d owned up until that time.  And of course I have fond memories of my first computer, an IBM PC Jr (although I really wanted the 2nd disk drive, and copying floppy disks with only one drive &amp;amp; 128kb of RAM was suboptimal).</text></comment>
<story><title>27-inch iMac gets a major update</title><url>https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/08/27-inch-imac-gets-a-major-update/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>efficax</author><text>the 12&amp;quot; macbook is my favorite laptop of all time. Mine is the 2016 version and it&amp;#x27;s starting to feel dated and I&amp;#x27;m hoping that they rerelease this on the new silicon first. I&amp;#x27;ll be smashing the buy button the day it&amp;#x27;s out.</text></item><item><author>dijit</author><text>It will almost certainly be a low end macbook. In fact, there&amp;#x27;s a non-pro &amp;#x27;macbook&amp;#x27;[0] that already exists which would be perfect, it was discontinued a year ago, but used ultra-low power CPUs. In fact when they were talking about them (prior to release) they thought they would have ARM CPU&amp;#x27;s back then.&lt;p&gt;They are fanless and have a 5W thermal envelope, which fits in with the current A12X too.&lt;p&gt;The major criticisms of the design at the time was: Butterfly keyboard, the Single USB-C port and the speed of the device (Intel CORE-M is truly, truly painful). But for a $600-$700 machine with an ARM CPU? that&amp;#x27;s insanely competitive, and is in-line with the &amp;quot;basic&amp;quot; macbook branding.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MacBook_(2015%E2%80%932019)&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;MacBook_(2015%E2%80%932019)&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>burlesona</author><text>Solid spec bump. Interesting how much emphasis they put on the camera, speakers, and mic; makes total sense in the age of Zoom.&lt;p&gt;I’d also speculate this means iMac won’t be the first computer getting Apple Silicon. I wonder if it will be the last?&lt;p&gt;What’s the consensus guess now? Perhaps a new MacBook Air with good performance but the real “breakthrough” is &amp;gt; 12 hours battery life?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>thewhitetulip</author><text>Mine is a Macbook pro 2012 and it is still phenomenal.&lt;p&gt;2yrs ago, my screen used to flicker. I contacted everyone and they said &amp;#x27;change motherboard&amp;#x27; and Mac support people were like buy a new laptop. so I kept the laptop in cupboard for a few months and I open it to check if it works, had decided to sell it and buy a new one and viola, it was working perfectly fine.&lt;p&gt;~5yrs with no issues.</text></comment>