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This is a curious choice. The base model Mac Studio + Studio display could easily replace the 27" iMac if you configured the iMac more toward the expensive side to get a price in the mid $3000s. And this machine would crush that iMac in all aspects. But for the base 27" iMac, the only choice would be the Studio Display and the Mac Mini in order to get a price target under $3000. And while that machine would certainly be faster than the outgoing iMac, the Mac Mini still leaves you with fewer ports to work with.

I still think a larger iMac is coming since many customers like the all-in-one form factor and have always liked it. We may not see it until M2 debuts but there is a curious hole in the Apple lineup now.

An interesting coda in the history of Activision, probably the oldest independent gaming company (meaning one who didn't make their own console system). They date back to the Atari 2600 system introduced in the late 70s, making games for that console (and drawing the ire of Atari at that time). Electronic Arts wouldn't be a thing for a few more years.

sflocal said:

HDMI 2.1 had a bandwidth speed of 48gb/s.  Thunderbolt tops out at 40gb/s.  The MBP most likely has four Thunderbolt/PCIe lanes and one of those lanes is used to share between the HDMI port and SD-Card port.  So it makes perfect sense why it's limited to HDMI 2.0

People whined and complained about getting back ports, and now that they do they still complain.

I can see people primarily using that port to connect to projectors, and TV's on a TEMPORARY basis.  Quite whining on a feature you may very likely never use on a laptop. 

This is correct. I don't think this changes until Thunderbolt 5 happens which is rumored to have a top bandwidth of 80 gb/sec and at that point, the latest DisplayPort and HDMI standards should be baked in. In the meantime, it's not that the MacBook Pros can't edit in 8K....far from it, they made it clear that you can do 7 different ProRes 8K files in the workflow simultaneously which is nuts. And 8K final content is still largely not a thing except for some Youtube nature videos.

TB 5 is supposed to happen in 2022 and Apple has always been the earliest of early adopters. Perhaps we'll see it in the M2 hardware and the upcoming Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

Apple is all about the control of what they do.....engineering, development and delivery. Right now the one thing Apple is fine with third parties is manufacturing. And that's the only path for Intel right now since Apple will never ever go back to buying an expensive general purpose CPU or GPU since they will never meet their specific needs. And right now, none of them have the power or especially the power per watt that Apple is doing.

To give some context, the new Mini's screen is only 1.5" smaller than the original iPad's screen.