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BK2K said:

Is the RAM still user upgradeable? Because £600 for 32GB is to put it mildly...”cheeky”.

Yes on the 27" models. 8GB (two 4GB) of 2666MHz DDR4 memory; four SO-DIMM slots, user accessible

tht said:

People call it thermal throttling, Intel calls it Turboboost.

They are different things. Thermal throttling is lowering the clock speed below base speed because it is too hot, caused by a manufacturer not following Intel’s guidelines on the amount of cooling required and it has a negative affect on performance. Turbo boost is running cores at a higher frequency when there is thermal capacity to do so, i.e. when not all cores are in use at the same time to boost performance. 

nunzy said:

If TouchID was so great Apple would use it. Clearly FaceID is better.

Indeed. Touch ID has a 1 in 50,000 chance of someone's finger unlocking your phone. For Face ID it is 1 in 1,000,000 for someone's face unlocking your phone. Apple aren't going to go backwards.

multimedia said:

What does PEBCAK mean?

User error. Problem exists between chair and keyboard, i.e. the person.

22july2013 said:

Actually, I'm surprised any Apple Silicon Mac supports Thunderbolt at all because up until now only Intel made Thunderbolt chips.

Intel opened up the possibility for other vendors to make their own controllers last year. There are AMD motherboards on the market that support Thunderbolt without any Intel support chips on board.

mortarman81mm said:

Personally, I'd rather they enabled virtual backgrounds in Teams before doing this...

Microsoft agrees, which is why virtual backgrounds have been available for some time.

mac_dog said:

randominternetperson said:

AppleInsider said:

An example of bokeh in Portrait mode on the iPhone XR

That brown shape in the top center of that image is exactly what can go wrong. 

The camera works fine in the image. It’s just a crap composition. 

Whilst it could be improved you don't always get the opportunity in street photography to get a perfect composition. If you had camera capable of providing a shallow depth of field and good bokeh it wouldn't be an issue. Clearly the AI has failed to achieve what is possible with better quality equipment.

julsssark said:

This feature in iOS 14 will also break any fixed IP address assignments (since the MAC address will change each time the device connects) and therefore any firewall rules that are based on IP addresses for those devices will break.

juls

It will break it once and you would have to redo your DHCP reservation for the new MAC address but after that it behaves as before - every time you connect to the same network, the device will use the same MAC address that it initially chose at random.

The feature stops tracking by using a different MAC address on different networks. It doesn't stop tracking on the same network (although Apple has indicated that it could take it to that next level in the future).

Anyone wanting the best low light performance needs to get the Pro Max over the Pro due to the larger sensor.

entropys said:

I am disappointed in the power bricks:
1. It’s external.
2. proprietary
3. the cable is permanently connected to the brick. No swapping out for a longer/shorter cable, have to replace the lot if the cable breaks, or the brick come to that. Serious $.

I dislike external power bricks and have always appreciated built-in PSUs in Apple products (ATV, Mac mini, iMac, Airports etc.) but had it been internal it would have been proprietary and probably very difficult to replace given that Apple have probably made this Mac very difficult to open up.

I'm not sure the connected cable will be that much of an issue. It isn't a product like a laptop that is being plugged/unplugged and moved about all the time.