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Sounds to me like there will be no new Intel Macs going forward...

mknelson said:

blastdoor said:

Ack. 

For the most part, I think Apple is right to purge old software in order to advance the platform. But there are some old games that are painful to lose. Is it possible to run older versions of OSX in a virtual machine in order to play these classics? Or would one be forced to run an older version of Windows in a VM to play the classics? 

VM OSX? Not easily unless things have changed - most of the VM manufacturers prevented that unless you were using a server version.

You could always set up an older OS partition and dual boot as long as your Mac supports that OS.

Mystigo: CS6 was the last version on perpetual license.

mknelson said:

blastdoor said:

Ack. 

For the most part, I think Apple is right to purge old software in order to advance the platform. But there are some old games that are painful to lose. Is it possible to run older versions of OSX in a virtual machine in order to play these classics? Or would one be forced to run an older version of Windows in a VM to play the classics? 

VM OSX? Not easily unless things have changed - most of the VM manufacturers prevented that unless you were using a server version.

You could always set up an older OS partition and dual boot as long as your Mac supports that OS.

Mystigo: CS6 was the last version on perpetual license.

All versions of Mac OS X availiable on the App Store (Lion and later) work just fine using Parallels. I have a VM of everyone of them on an external HD.

9secondkox2 said:

Why the heck did they move it? People have basically programmed motor responses by now. That is just bad UX. and lumping it in with a group of other functions? Very strange. 

Love to hear the rationale. Hopefully none of this makes it to gold. 

This! the people at Apple must have no concept of muscle memory. SO MANY TIMES they have moved things around for no apparent reason other than to make it different. Highly frustrating for me.

I'm not seeing this as solving any problems.
As a former business owner, I know that the magstrip tech is really old, and there was a law passed that makes it the shop's responsibility if a customer pays with a forged card using the magstrip. This is to encourage the use of NFC & chip. The fact that the magstrip is being phased out as someone mentioned above, and this device doesn't have a chip to read, makes this not a solution, but one more thing that will be unused in a few years. A lot of vendors have upgraded their terminals to contactless due to covid, that and the law about magstrips makes it unlikely it will stay around for much longer. Already a store has disabled the magstrip where I live, chip or NFC only. 

Why carry something when it's duplicate tech (NFC) that I can have built into my phone? That and the fact this is a Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaign makes this a non-starter for me.

slow n easy said:

I ordered one but it won't be here until the end of February, and it's also spec'ed out at $1,999.99. I debated waiting to see how it would compare to a Mac Studio but who knows how long it would take for the update to arrive.

I'm in the same situation, I'm not sure which one to get. I have my money ready, I wish I knew when the new Mac Studio is going to come out. I can wait a bit longer though.

DrBoar2 said:

Half the HD space of my mid 2011 budget and half of what I upgraded the RAM to on my own.
The real insanity is that with the M2 I have to pay as much for adding 256 GB SSD as getting a 2 TB external HD!  That is an 8:1 ratio
And why do I have to pay as much for adding 256 (256 to 512) as adding 512 (going from 412 to 1TB) !?

I agree it's insane, I wouldn't mind the soldered memory and storage as much if it were more reasonably priced. How much they charge for memory and storage upgrades is criminal. External Thunderbolt storage has a bandwidth cap, even a single NVMe 3.0 will be much faster. Move to PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 and there is no comparison.
I'm a certified Mac technician, I've seen the inside of the M1 mini. There is SO much empty space, you could fit 2x 2.5" drives inside and still have lots of air movement, much less having a few NVMe blades. The logic board & heatsink only takes about 20% of the interior volume, the rest is just air space from using the same enclosure from the last 13 years.  It would be trivial for Apple to add that capability to the logic board, but they won't when they make as much as they do on storage upgrades.

I had an 8th gen iPad (32GB) for my son who is homeschooled that we bought from Apple using the education discount ($299). They offered me $240 for the 8th gen as a trade in, I figured for $60 it was worth it to double the storage alone as 32GB simply wasn’t enough. We don’t normally upgrade devices after just a year, but I decided to this year for him since it was a pretty decent upgrade all around.

Also, these comments are making my day. This is just great!

Good time to buy...

Why isn't lobbying illegal?

There are so many better places to have your $1M work for you than a Goldman Sachs savings account....