It's over: now that everyone can buy the first Macs with Apple Silicon chips, in Cupertino they have contacted all the developers who worked with the Mac mini DTK (Developer Transition Kit) to say that they want them back throughout the next weeks.
This Mac mini, remember, is a special model that Apple offered for $ 500 to developers who wanted to start migrating their applications to the Apple Silicon architecture since last June and throughout the summer of 2020 while there were no such computers.
type for sale.
It equipped the A12Z chip found in today's iPad Pro, and even with that chip it already had promising performance.
$ 200 off to buy a Mac with Apple Silicon chip until the end of May This is the letter that Apple has sent to developers, posted by Mark Gurman on Twitter: Apple asking developers to return their Mac mini Developer Transition Kit (For developing Apple Silicon apps).
They'll be giving those developers a $ 200 credit toward a new Mac with an M1 chip.
pic.twitter.com/uluPoO7hAC— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) February 4, 2021 Now that the M1 chip takes that performance a few twists and turns, Apple wants those machines back so they don't end up in the hands of some unwary user.
To motivate developers, the company will give them a discount of $ 200 to purchase one of the M1-chip Macs that are already on sale.
That is to say: having access to the Mac mini DTK and the Apple Silicon platform half a year in advance will have cost them either $ 500 or $ 300 more than those Mac with an M1 chip cost them.
These conditions have not sat too well with some developers, as reflected in MacRumors: TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS? That doesn't even go a third of the way towards the cheapest M1 Mac.
It just about covers the 4 months the DTK was usable out of the 12 month lease you paid for— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) February 3, 2021 $ 200 and use by the end of May.
Extremely poor considering how unusable the DTK became that you had to buy an M1 already.
Very, very disappointed— Neil Kerr (@nfjkerr) February 4, 2021 It's an absolute joke.
I've been waiting for nearly three months to get my unusable DTK replaced with a useable one, still radio silence from Apple after agreeing to replace it.
Along with the fact it must be used by May 31st.
Very disappointed— Alpha (@AlphaNDB) February 4, 2021 “Hi pls return your DTK you paid $ 500 to borrow.
As a token of our gratitude, here enough money to buy 1 / 6th of a M1 Mac.
Thanks! ”- Adam Bell (@ b3ll) February 4, 2021 Developers have time to redeem those $ 200 discounts until the end of May, so they may have access to more models of computers with Apple Silicon chips if they are released soon.
Maybe those new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros? We'll see.
It's over: now that everyone can buy the first Macs with Apple Silicon chips, in Cupertino they have contacted all the developers who worked with the Mac mini DTK (Developer Transition Kit) to say that they want them back throughout the next weeks.
This Mac mini, remember, is a special model that Apple offered for $ 500 to developers who wanted to start migrating their applications to the Apple Silicon architecture since last June and throughout the summer of 2020 while there were no such computers.
type for sale.
It equipped the A12Z chip found in today's iPad Pro, and even with that chip it already had promising performance.
$ 200 off to buy a Mac with Apple Silicon chip until the end of May This is the letter that Apple has sent to developers, posted by Mark Gurman on Twitter: Apple asking developers to return their Mac mini Developer Transition Kit (For developing Apple Silicon apps).
They'll be giving those developers a $ 200 credit toward a new Mac with an M1 chip.
pic.twitter.com/uluPoO7hAC— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) February 4, 2021 Now that the M1 chip takes that performance a few twists and turns, Apple wants those machines back so they don't end up in the hands of some unwary user.
To motivate developers, the company will give them a discount of $ 200 to purchase one of the M1-chip Macs that are already on sale.
That is to say: having access to the Mac mini DTK and the Apple Silicon platform half a year in advance will have cost them either $ 500 or $ 300 more than those Mac with an M1 chip cost them.
These conditions have not sat too well with some developers, as reflected in MacRumors: TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS? That doesn't even go a third of the way towards the cheapest M1 Mac.
It just about covers the 4 months the DTK was usable out of the 12 month lease you paid for— Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) February 3, 2021 $ 200 and use by the end of May.
Extremely poor considering how unusable the DTK became that you had to buy an M1 already.
Very, very disappointed— Neil Kerr (@nfjkerr) February 4, 2021 It's an absolute joke.
I've been waiting for nearly three months to get my unusable DTK replaced with a useable one, still radio silence from Apple after agreeing to replace it.
Along with the fact it must be used by May 31st.
Very disappointed— Alpha (@AlphaNDB) February 4, 2021 “Hi pls return your DTK you paid $ 500 to borrow.
As a token of our gratitude, here enough money to buy 1 / 6th of a M1 Mac.
Thanks! ”- Adam Bell (@ b3ll) February 4, 2021 Developers have time to redeem those $ 200 discounts until the end of May, so they may have access to more models of computers with Apple Silicon chips if they are released soon.
Maybe those new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros? We'll see.
