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Starting price of 14" MBP with M3 being less expensive than previous 14" MBP is interesting. That Space Black looks pretty cool too. Definitely something to think about...

I noted that they mentioned more than a few times how much better things would be for those still on Intel Macs (rub it in, why don't ya!), and in particular, how the 24" iMac M3 was offered as a replacement for either the 21.5" or 27" Intel iMacs. I wonder if that means we won't see a larger iMac any time soon.

AppleInsider said:

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Why is any of this important? Because people play games on their iPhone - a lot. Back in 2021, its legal fight with Epic Games revealed that Apple actually makes more on games and game In-App Purchases (IAP) every year than Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft and Activision combined.

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Yet people still say Apple doesn't care about games...

Weird, most of the text in the forum post version of the article is a hyperlink to "https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac"

[Delete this post when it's corrected]

MacPro said:

The speed at which my M1 and M2 Mac Studios can run Windows ARM in Parallels is nothing short of amazing.  For MS Office productivity applications and other non-graphics related software, Enterprise institutions should be able to look to Windows ARM and Parallels on Macs as a complete solution, giving them all the benefits and none of the downsides..

I've been using the Mac based version of MS Office for about a decade. I don't see any reason to run Windows on a VM just for MS Office. I personally have a few reasons to run a VM, but Office isn't one of them.

Initially, having a "Macified" version of the Office UI made no sense to me after having used Office on Windows for so many years. I understood the attempt to make the UI familiar to users coming from a Mac environment, but having a completely different UI than the Windows product practically caused whiplash as I jumped from one OS to the other in my cross-platform environment. After a few years, MS finally got it and unified the two UIs to be more consistent (not 100% identical, but very close). (Autodesk had a similar schism between the Mac and Windows version of AutoCAD which they addressed about the same time as MS Office).

I can see certain power users (especially on Excel) needing to stick with the Windows version.  I know there are often Windows based legacy apps that need to be supported in the enterprise, but at this point, I think most day-to-day enterprise users would be fine with the native Mac version of MS Office and could avoid Windows and VMs altogether.

The "available from Astropad" link in the article doesn't work.

Try this: https://astropad.com/product/rock-paper-pencil/