Any idea when will Malaysia's Apple ship their new M1 chips?

No idea, all the shop's FB page (e.g. Machines, Mac City) all had a post says coming soon.

Initially want to get hp envy 13 but after seeing all the review might as well topup a "bit" and get M1 macbook air instead.

Microsoft productivity software is avaliable right? It's been a long time since I last use Mac. That time use boot camp to load up windows. So not sure what is the current scenarios.

Do I need to have something like boot camp or does the software (office) natively available?

Microsoft 365 is available as in native app....but you need to pay lah.

update:

this is the new video on Microsoft Office Suite --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKl4_4fBp7I

This post has been edited by kevinpss: Nov 22 2020, 01:10 PM

time to throw Intel's shares.

I hope there's a 12" Macbook with Apple M1 and chiclet keyboard. Make a lot of sense using the M1 in the tiny chassis.

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

looks like apple has no such plan.

i always think that 12", 14" and 16" will make the complete line-up for different needs.

i always find having same size macbook air and pro are totally redundant.
especially now both models are using same chips and the gaps are rather small...

Are there any issues with running the x86 software on emulation on the M1 laptops? Or we have to wait until the native M1 apps are available?

This post has been edited by engseng: Nov 22 2020, 06:17 PM

What I have seen so far regarding x86 emulation:

- Rosetta 2, runs x86 mac software, so far seems quite good.
- Crossover, suppose to run windows x86 software, not sure how good it is
- Parallels running Debian 10 (Linux), was shown briefly during wwdc 2020
- Steam game not being able to play, people trying to play steam games but getting error

Jeng jeng jeng, its coming boys!



Mac mini not yet.

how long after approval does it get to store shelves? Do you have any estimates? I need to get one before December and I am almost considering getting another laptop (very urgent)

This post has been edited by stgian211: Nov 24 2020, 10:18 AM

Sometimes, approved already doesn't mean that Apple would be eager to sell it. For example, iPhone 12, they approved 1 day before announcement day but ended up retracted the SIRIM approval and then, waited for almost a month to start selling here.

So the line is pretty vague on when they will start selling.

But of course, let's estimate a date. Leakers said that Apple have something planned for the holidays = December/Christmas which means they might do a press release announcement on the 7 8 or 9th December and release their new stuff on the next week's Friday. Sometimes, Apple love to put their pre-orders together with other products in other countries so I'm guessing around 6th or 12th Dec for pre-order and the following week to be in stores.

Aite. thanks bro.. seems like I might have to go with another laptop man I really wanted that performance

Wahhh thanks for sharing and giving us hope.

sad, i am waiting for the mac mini, selling my PC!

mind to share which link can check this? want to monitor myself

Here you go
https://ecomm.sirim.my/sirimenquiry/search_model.aspx

I'm actually building an app that can notify a user whenever a new product is approved by SIRIM.
If anybody wants to try out first hand, lemme know

Thanks alot!

They would ask you to please get the iPad Pro 12.9" instead

should i change mine?
my macbook still new TT
2.3 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i5, 16gb memory
but now the M1 so attractive and make my macbook not so worth to sell 2nd hand