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JinTech said:

And this is why Apple is switching to their own silicon. 

libertyandfree said:

The M3 iMac is a very nice upgrade but Apples pricing for memory and SSD upgrades is ludicrous.  These upgrade prices should be sliced in half immediately and Apple would still be making huge profit margins on them.  Minimum configuration should be 16GB and 512GB SSD.  The lower options should not exist. 

  Moreover, Apple is always pounding its chest about how green they are but then they create an entry level high volume consumer product that will be out of use and in a landfill within 5 years.   If they doubled the memory and SSD size it would last many more useful years 

Mike Wuerthele said:

GG1 said:

I wonder if this version iMac has the improved cooling of the iMac Pro.

We have this question too. We'll see.

GeorgeBMac said:

radarthekat said:

A 20” iPad at 4:3 aspect ratio would have screen dimensions of 16” x 12”.  

If that device had a hinge, and a flexible screen, that allowed it to bend up to, say, a 100-110 degree inside angle, it could be bent into the shape of a laptop with a keyboard.  If the laptop portion were to have a 16:10 aspect ratio, that implies the hinge would fold the 16” side into a 12x 7.5” screen side and a 12x8.5” keyboard/trackpad side.  Presumably a Smart Cover, that connects to the device’s 12” side would fold back into a screen-supporting stand for the laptop mode.

So, the device could be a completely flat iPad with a 20” 4:3 ratio display:  sqrt ( 16^2 + 12^2 ) = 20”

Or bent into a MacBook with virtual keyboard/trackpad with a 14” 16:10 ratio display:  sqrt ( 12^2 + 7.5^2 ) = 14.15”

Would be better if those display sizes were reversed, but it is what it is.  There’s only so much display area to work with and the MacBook form factor needs to use some for a keyboard/trackpad.  

Overall I’d judge this not to be a good compromise. People will want to use the entire display in laptop mode, so an attachable keyboard/trackpad cover on a non-bendable display seems a better option.  But this bendable option is at least potentially more doable versus a device where the screen needs to fold all the way over to a closed position.  

Please, Apple, if you’re thinking of making a two-in-one iPad+Mac, just give us that device in a few sizes in the existing iPad form factor with attachable keyboard/trackpad covers.  I just want a single, high-quality, hard glass covered screen that can be both touchscreen iPad and Keyboard+mouse/trackpad Mac.  

A critical part of any laptop is the keyboard.   Apple keeps forgetting that fact sacrificing the keyboard for other priorities (the thin & light butterfly).  Recently they recovered from that fiasco.  But it seems there is still a faction at Apple advocating against fully functional keyboards -- probably the ones who can't yet touch type.

paisleydisco said:

LOLOLOLOLOL 

the rich guy looking for a handout 

Rogue01 said:

mike1 said:

timmillea said:

Next on the culling list is the Mac Studio. When a 14" MacBook Pro can outshine a Mac Pro in reported benchmarks, then the entire M3 SoC family can be fitted to a Mac Mini. There is simply no need for the Studio. 

Wow. That is a ridiculous conclusion. Everyone should stop developing new computers and chips now. timmillea has decreed that computers can no longer get faster/smaller/more efficient or better in any way. Do you seriously not believe that the Studio, Pro with M4 and M5 or whatever is coming won't have better benchmarks than the current M3?!

Actually it is not so ridiculous considering the M3 Pro is only 6% faster than the M2 Pro, and intentionally hobbled by Apple to upsell their other computers.  The M3 Max has the huge increase in performance, but the M3 Pro was hobbled with two less performance cores, one less GPU core, and 25% slower memory bandwidth than the M2 Pro.  Why would Apple do this when they claim Apple Silicon is so great?  So a MacBook Pro with M3 Max will be faster than a Mac Studio with M2 Pro and M3 Pro.  So the 3nm process for the M3 Pro did absolutely nothing for the chip.  If Apple maintained the 8 core performance and 4 core efficiency with the same GPU core and same memory bandwidth, the M3 Pro would be a much better chip.  So don't assume the M4 or later would be surprisingly better when everyone thought the M3 was going to be this huge performance boost.  Only true if you look at the M3 and M3 Max.  M3 Pro is a waste.

omasou said:

In watching the demonstration, I think it will.

Not having to mess w/screens, projectors and x.1 sound systems could be huge.

ravnorodom said:

So much for modular design and now back to square one. This is going to be Mac trash can, the 2013 Mac Pro, all over again. Oh brother.

CiaranF said:

Maybe people are getting pissed off with your prices eh? Your actions on the market then drive up the prices of other smartphone manufacturers cos then they get greedy too. I remember buying my first iPhone 3GS for £299 or £349 back in 2009 or so. Now the same equivalent for me in a Pro Max model is circa £1400. That’s greed too, not inflation. 

Now you’ve also increased your  One subscription prices globally. Third time in 2-3 years too if you’re outside of the US.  TV is useless, you’ve to pay for most of the non  stuff.  Fitness+ bugs the life out of me cos they’re all on Prozac or something with those fake smiles. iCloud is rubbish compared to Googles offering but I need it. Not much use for Arcade either. 

Start listening to what your audience wants and will endure instead of telling them what they want or you’ll end up like Nokia. 

And so we try to pick things that are in their springs. And if you choose wisely you can save yourself an enormous amount of work versus trying to do everything.

... Sometimes you just have to pick the things that look like they're going to be the right horses to ride going forward."

-- Steve Jobs, June 2010 (Has Apple, Inc. Been Betting on the Wrong Technology All These Years? | The Motley Fool)

Apple, in the last 10 years bet on the wrong horse.  They bet on autonomous systems while the world was heading towards generative AI.  That said, I still think Apple should have made a go in the EV market even if it only had Level 2 autonomy.  Like the rest of their product lineup, they could iterate over time.  I would be more interested in seeing an Apple Car than a Vision Pro.