charles1

I am relieved at seeing the new chips, since I just purchased a Mac Studio M2 Ultra a couple of weeks ago. I wanted the high speed double-bandwidth memory and highest speed SSD only available in the M2 Ultra, wow it's fast. I figured there would be no M3 Ultra at first, maybe not for a full year, since the Mac Studio was only recently updated to the M2.
For once, I predicted correctly. I usually tell my friends, watch and see when I buy a computer, because that's always the wrong time to buy a new computer.

The Nokia 8110 was the original Banana Phone.

I hate these "hypothetically we lost $1B" stories. Nobody ever guaranteed you a revenue stream. 

fkick said:

Even OWC has some nice external SSDs these days. 

Yeah they have always been Mac oriented, I have a cabinet full of old OWC drives including Firewire-only dual drive cabinets. I have a new 1M2 which is a USB4 enclosure, powered through the USB bus, just like any miniature drive. It's kind of large to use as a portable drive, but it's mostly cooling fins on the aluminum case. I just checked, It's on sale today for $99, install your own M.2 SSD, it takes like 30 seconds. I put a 4Tb Teamgroup SSD inside (way too fast for USB4) and it's blazing fast, you could do that today for $350.

Wow that's a great photo, I forgot the LISA had cheat sheets that pulled out from under the keyboard. I was a LISA dealer back in the day. I published a huge binder of LISA marketing and technical details on my website, you can download it as a 204 page, 33Mb PDF file. Here is the link: 

Apple Lisa Sales Marketing Binder – 1983

I loved the LISA but it baffled me. It was the first computer I ever saw that didn't shut off when you hit the power switch. Instead, you got shutdown messages while the computer saved your open documents and context. Then after a lot of slow file saves, eventually it would shut down. This "soft off" shutdown was quite a difference from typical on/off switches that just shut down the power instantly.

I remember the famous Apple analyst Robert Morgan of Apple Recon, back in the days of MacWeek magazine. He once said, "I'll start buying when the insiders stop selling." Of course at that time, he was talking about Bill Gates selling MSFT.

Damn I miss Robert Morgan.

http://www.pelagius.com/AppleRecon/