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Apple has a reputation for being expensive, and there’s good reason for that. Generic PCs and Laptops certainly have lower starting prices, but value is more than just how cheap something is, so in this video I’m going to tell you the two almost completely opposite tactics to get the most value from your Mac purchase. So let’s talk about that.
Apple makes premium products. In recent years, the’ve added more affordable options too, and there’s a healthy secondary market for Apple equipment. In this video we’ll focus on the Mac, whether that’s a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac mini, and how you can make your money go the furthest it can depending on your needs. So lets just jump right in.
As I said up front, there are two strategies here, And which one is best for you will depend mainly on whether you’re a power user or more casual but enjoy macOS and Apple’s hardware. We’ll start with the more casual users - the people who want to buy a Mac and hold on to it for a long time.
One of the best things about the Mac, whether its a MacBook or a desktop Mac is that just like iPhones, they get really great software support, so you’ll likely be good for the best part of 7 years if you’re looking to buy a Mac and run it into the ground. And bear in mind, that’s 7 years in most cases of official major update software support, so you could comfortably still be using a Mac you buy today with the latest software versions in 2029. That seems crazy!
This is really the tactic for anyone who’s workflow is more around office type applications, email and the web rather than heavy duty content creation. If you find yourself in the second category here, you’ll probably find yourself happier with our second option, coming up a little later in the video.
If however you’re passionate about having the latest and greatest models, you value performance highly and you’re making use of that power, here’s the better value tactic. Buy quickly and sell quickly.
This takes advantage of how Apple’s hardware keeps its value so well - right now, well over a year after the launch, are selling used on eBay for around £100 under the new price - sometimes much less than that. And when you bear in mind that you can pick up a base Mac mini for £638 on Amazon brand new and sell it used for £635 on eBay - you can see how little owning a current Mac can actually cost.
Now there is a little caveat here, the base configurations tend to lose less value over time, though its pretty easy to find used Mac mini M1 wi
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Apple has a reputation for being expensive, and there’s good reason for that. Generic PCs and Laptops certainly have lower starting prices, but value is more than just how cheap something is, so in this video I’m going to tell you the two almost completely opposite tactics to get the most value from your Mac purchase. So let’s talk about that.
Apple makes premium products. In recent years, the’ve added more affordable options too, and there’s a healthy secondary market for Apple equipment. In this video we’ll focus on the Mac, whether that’s a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac or Mac mini, and how you can make your money go the furthest it can depending on your needs. So lets just jump right in.
As I said up front, there are two strategies here, And which one is best for you will depend mainly on whether you’re a power user or more casual but enjoy macOS and Apple’s hardware. We’ll start with the more casual users - the people who want to buy a Mac and hold on to it for a long time.
One of the best things about the Mac, whether its a MacBook or a desktop Mac is that just like iPhones, they get really great software support, so you’ll likely be good for the best part of 7 years if you’re looking to buy a Mac and run it into the ground. And bear in mind, that’s 7 years in most cases of official major update software support, so you could comfortably still be using a Mac you buy today with the latest software versions in 2029. That seems crazy!
This is really the tactic for anyone who’s workflow is more around office type applications, email and the web rather than heavy duty content creation. If you find yourself in the second category here, you’ll probably find yourself happier with our second option, coming up a little later in the video.
If however you’re passionate about having the latest and greatest models, you value performance highly and you’re making use of that power, here’s the better value tactic. Buy quickly and sell quickly.
This takes advantage of how Apple’s hardware keeps its value so well - right now, well over a year after the launch, are selling used on eBay for around £100 under the new price - sometimes much less than that. And when you bear in mind that you can pick up a base Mac mini for £638 on Amazon brand new and sell it used for £635 on eBay - you can see how little owning a current Mac can actually cost.
Now there is a little caveat here, the base configurations tend to lose less value over time, though its pretty easy to find used Mac mini M1 wi
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Right up front, this segment is going to contain A LOT of speculation. This is not news, or leaks, but analysis based on past performance an hopefully, some common sense.
I’ve complained in the past that Apple sucks at naming things. I’m hoping that with M1 Macs and their kinda fresh start, we could see much simpler names going forward.
So, we’ll run through the ranges Apple offers right now and see what would make the range easier for people to understand and where there could be gaps that Apple may fill with new products.
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This is probably the most compete range, and in all honesty its Apple’s core product right now. As it stands, in price from low to high we have…
$399 iPhone SE
$499 iPhone XR
$599 iPhone 11
$699 iPhone 12 mini
$799 iPhone 12
$999 iPhone 12 Pro
$1099 iPhone 12 Pro Max
So this is almost our template for what we need. Devices with older tech come under the SE banner, mini for smaller, Pro & Max for you know, higher end and bigger. They also hit basically every price point from 400 bucks up, with the only gap at $900.
That also fits with what we see in our Audio category, I’m not going deep on beats, but the fact you can get Beats Flex at $49 is amazing value if you just need a backup to keep in your bag.
On the AirPods side, we have:
$159 AirPods
$249 AirPods Pro
$549 AirPods Max
Assuming Apple wants to hit a bunch more price points, we have got rumours of a new 3rd gen AirPods, which would likely replace the 159 start point, and a lower cost sport version of the AirPods Max according to Jon Prosser, at $349. I could see the classic AirPods returning at $99 perhaps with AirPods SE branding to fill this range right out, especially if Apple goes fully portless on next year’s iPhones.
For Apple Watch we have a range again, though this one is a little more confusing, naming display sizes to identify the lines. This whole range could be easily brought in line with iPhones.
$199 Apple Watch Series 3 38mm
$229 Apple Watch Series 3 42mm -Max
$279 Apple Watch SE
$299 Apple Watch SE Max
$399 Apple Watch Series 6
$429 Apple Watch Series 6 Max
Stainless Steel versions add Pro
iPads - this is another area where the naming could be improved!
I’d personally give the base iPad the SE name as it tends to be a couple of year behind on the chip tech. The original iPad was always at $499, so that’s where I’d fill that gap, with the Air taking the new design language at 599, then iPad Pro at $799 and rename the 12.9” as Pro Max.
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But where was the Mac Pro??
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Why is the 13” M2 MacBook Pro a thing,
Can Apple handoff more to the GPU & Neural engines in future
Thunderbolt 5 - will we get ProMotion 5k?
How scary IS the Unpatchable M1 vulnerability
And will M2 Pro and Max be 3nm?
Rico The MLG PRO • 3 days ago
#iCaveAnswers Why was there no new Mac Pro at WWDC and when do you think we will get a new Mac Pro?
Team Kinetix
#iCaveAnswers Why did Apple keep the 13” MacBook Pro around? With the camera, screen, and speaker spec bumps to the MacBook Air, the tiny difference between the two models makes less sense than ever when the Air now looks like an objectively better device. The difference in performance is negligible, despite the fan on the 13” MBP. At least they kept the M1 Air around to cover the sub $1000 market.
When will Apple kill off the 13” Pro, or at least replace it with something in line with the new models
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#iCaveAnswers More and more applications leverage the power of GPU and NPU cores for performance and completely new features. Apple adds GPU/NPU driven features in iOS and macOS. PyTorch Machine Learning got a 10x speed bump on the M1 Ultra by using the GPU. Blender rendering got faster. A company called GPUaudio works on using GPU power for realtime audio processing, including Apple Silicon support (next year). Nvidia, AMD and even Intel sell processors for GPU computing. Feels like we are just at the beginning of something big. Do you think, Apple will focus more on GPU/NPU development instead of CPU? A15 and M2 are good examples for that.
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#icaveanswers when do you think the next Thunderbolt standard will be released and do you think it will offer 80Gbps? That would allow a studio display with pro motion.
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#icaveanswers how worried should I be about the recent reports of an unpatchable security vulnerability in the M1 series of chips (related to pointer authentication codes (PAC))?
Brute force would take around 700 billion times the age of the universe to try all possible keys.
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#icaveanswers - Dave, what do you make of recent reports that the M2 pro/max chips will be on 3nm silicon. Will this chip be based on the A15 in the iPhone 13 or the A16 in the iPhone 14? Does this foreshadow something for the chip that will end up in the Apple Silicon Mac Pro? And what does it mean for branding, when M2 is 5nm silicon?
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0:00 On Today's Apple Daily,
0:29 Why I look like a zombie
1:02 New Hardware expected from Apple Next Week
2:29 Apple A14 vs Snapdragon 888
4:30 When will Apple Silicon overtake dedicated Gaming PCs?
7:52 Off Topic - SpaceX Starship could fly today! And possibly explode.
According to an internal memo Apple are likely to release some type of new hardware on December 8th. This is based on information released to Apple Service providers and lines up with similar releases in the recent past.
Set for 05:30am Pacific time its though to possibly include new product SKUs, New or updated product descriptions or new and updated pricing.
While it seems unlikely that without a full event we’d see something entirely new like AirTags, it could be something like updated AirPods, Apple TV (though I doubt we’ll have an update before next year), or, heaven forbid, some kind of intel Mac that Apple is happy to just quietly release.
Of course, Apple could just be trying something different here and releasing more major product with a digital event but without giving so much notice, just to see how it goes with a different announcement style.
Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon - Benchmarks.
This week Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 888 - Snapdragon is arguably the gold standard for Android devices, so lets see how it stacks up to A14 in the latest Apple devices, and anything else similar.
The 888 talks about big numbers, its got 8 cores, 25% faster CPU and 35% faster GPU than the last generation and while we won’t dive too deep here as the SOCs are very similar in some ways while other features could be totally different.
So the Snapdragon 888 scores single core of 1135 and multicore of 3681, which puts it right around the A12 from 2018 on single core, but multicore is between A13 and A14. The cores are distributed as 1x 680 Prime, 3x Kryo 680 Performance and 4x Kryo 680 Efficiency, vs the A14’s 6 core design with 4x IceStorm Efficiency and 2x Firestorm Performance cores, but still beating the Snapdragon on both counts.
So it sounds like a great chip, and it will be interesting to see what Android manufacturers do with it going forward. But it looks like Apple is still on top just for now.
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#icaveanswers In what time frame do you think we can expect Apple to reach and begin to surpass the performance of the highest spec windows gaming PCs? We're talking 4K 240 Hz on the best games on the highest settings as the benchmark to beat. The machines that can achieve that are £3,000+. Maybe M4-M5?
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On Today's Apple Daily:
0:00 New iPad Day?
0:35 Big & Little iPhones Delayed?
1:36 Go BIG or Go Home AppleTV+
3:22 New MacBook Patented
6:46 Notification Squad
DigiTimes reports both 6.1” iPhones to ship first followed by the 5.4” and 6.7” variants
I have to be honest, to me this seems really unlikely, for a start, those two iPhones, while both using the same size OLED panels, that’s where the similarity ends. The entry level iPhone will have a lower quality panel that displays a lower colour depth, while the iPhone 12 Pro will support 10 bit colour and potentially 120Hz ProMotion.
Of course the only people who really know are those at Apple, but I’m personally taking this one with a pinch of salt for now, as I believe we’ll get the iPhone 12 Models around 19th October, with pro models following in November.
Why Apple TV+ needs to go HARD this fall
Let’s be honest, hardly anyone has paid for Apple TV Plus so far as Apple gave anyone with a new Mac, iPhone or iPad a full year’s free trial subscription, but that is coming to an end and Apple TV+’s line up is still looking a bit anaemic.
That being said, the line up has grown and there are some genuinely great series and movies in there now. I’m a huge fan of For all Mankind, Trying is brilliant for anyone who liked Cuckoo (an Andy Samberg project) and Defending Jacob found a good amount of acclaim.
But, is there enough now for $5 a month? Well maybe, its a small charge and we’ve mentioned in the past that Apple may well be bundling a number of their services into an Apple One type service. I have a feeling though that they may have a lot more up their sleeves.
Rumours had circulated in the past that Apple was looking to buy the MGM back catalogue to include, but given the Pandemic a lot of movie studios have suffered, being unable to produce or distribute their content in any meaningful way.
I have a feeling we may see a lot of content that Apple has bought the rights to that otherwise would have hit the cinemas, just like Tom Hanks’ Greyhound, but there is a chance they could just buy one of the movie studios for their own future productions, along with a back catalogue to bolster their content library.
Another New MacBook Concept Patented
https://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2020/09/apple-updates-a-major-patent-covering-a-possible-next-generation-macbook-with-2-way-charging-removable-keyboard.html
In another patent filing unearthed by Patently Apple, this time a “continuation” or as I understand it, an update to an existing patent has modified their design for a really revolutionary concept.
This MacBook features a “dielectric input surface” where the keyboard and trackpad would normally be, formed at least “partially from glass, ceramic and/or pla
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0:00 Intro
0:15 How to announce the time in macOS Monterey
1:05 Can the Mac mini even handle an M1 Pro or M1 Max Chip?
2:29 When will iPad Pro run MacOS?
4:17 Will we get M1 Pro in the next iPad Pro?
5:27 When will Nine41 Podcast be available on Audio platforms?
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#icaveanswers Hi again Dave, this question is more for my wife. She is running Monterey on her 2017 iMac and since upgrading it has stopped announcing the time (on the hour) and neither of us have found where it is hiding. Have they removed it in Monterey?
Dante Burritar
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ARM V9 coming to Apple A15 & M2? Siri gets new voices and Apple TV’s getting a new remote. Then I’m answering your iCaveAnswers about AMD going ARM, iPhone 13 Colours, iPad 10, Tim Cook retiring and what MacBook to buy right now. So lets GO
ARM has announced their V9 Architecture, and its the first major update in a decade. ARMv6 was the instruction set in the original iPhone, ARMv7 was the last 32 bit version that was abandoned after the iPhone 5, with the 64 Bit ARM 8 taking over for the 5S onwards.
In terms of what ARM v9 means in broad terms, it’s about faster performance, better AI performance and Security.
ARMv9 is focused on machine learning but will also benefit general purpose computing, AR, VR and 5G. And we’re already aware of Apple’s interest in AR and VR, as well as how real 5G got last year.
CPU performance could improve by over 30% on ARMv9 and all existing software should run perfectly without modification as the standard is fully backward compatible, which given the current performance of Apple’s processors sounds pretty awesome!
Siri gets new voices
The latest iOS 14.5 Beta has introduced new voices for Siri, as well as a new choice of voice (oh that rhymes) when you set up a new iPhone. Gone are the names for the Siri voices, just numbered versions for each accent, though even these are now called varieties. As well as the two new English speaking voices Apple has improved the natural sounding voice synthesis in the English speaking voices as well as Russia & Italy.
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“We're excited to introduce two new Siri voices for English speakers and the option for Siri users to select the voice they want when they set up their device. This is a continuation of Apple's long-standing commitment to diversity and inclusion, and products and services that are designed to better reflect the diversity of the world we live in.”
Let me know your thoughts on the new voices in the comments.
Apple TV Remote with new centre button
tvOS 14.5 has turned up references to pressing the touch surface or centre button on the Apple TV remote in the setup segment of its code, prompting excitement about that new Apple TV that we’re all waiting for. Now Jon Prosser has mentioned having seen these packaged up and dusty as they’ve been ready to go for a while - though if that’s the case they’re unlikely to have super modern chips inside, so maybe the A12X/Z rumour is true.
Now it should be pointed out that the previous Apple TV before the Siri remote version had an aluminium body and DID have a centre button, though the Apple TV that is came with doesn’t run tvOS, so it seems way less likely to be about that. Perhaps we’ll be seeing something looking a bit more like that Aluminium design with a physical d-pad s
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