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retrogusto said:

I’ll be interested to see if anyone does benchmarks comparing the top two processors available in the new Mac Mini. I’m wondering if the fastest one will have any issues with throttling due to overheating in that small enclosure. 

There's a fan in the mini, shouldn't have any thermal issues. If I had to guess, and I do as I couldn't find any real numbers, the higher end M2 Pro probably doesn't draw more than 100W when fully loaded. That means all GPU and CPU cores working along with memory completely full. That enclosure with a fan should definitely be able to keep it cool enough to prevent throttling.

bakerzdosen said:

This gives me hope we'll see a $199 sale at Best Buy one of these days. I'll be in for at least one at that point.

That's when I bought mine as well.

But I would hold my breath waiting for that sale again. Apple over produced those original HomePods and had to clear them out of stock, which is why they stopped making them altogether - demand died off. They won't make that mistake again.

docno42 said:

danox said:

Target display mode like MagSafe will be back it’s just too useful to sit on the sidelines.

But will the large screen iMac be back?  Seems doubtful.  

Yes. I believe they will bring back the larger iMac once the dust settles from the Studio Display (meaning, sales drop significantly). I bet we'll eventually see a larger iMac with an Mx Pro in it for a $1000 markup over the same spec'ed mini. So if released now, the large iMac would start at $2299. Which to me would be reasonable.

rob53 said:

Wish I could simply plug a Mac mini into my iMac display.

I had my Mac mini plugged into my 2009 iMac, but after an update or two ago target display mode stopped working on the iMac. So I just connected to it using Remote Desktop. That worked for about a week before I got annoyed with it and ended up buying a 28" 4k Acer display for $279 from MicroCenter. It obviously doesn't offer an "Apple" like experience, but it works good enough for now.

tehabe said:

Of course it is a standard, it has been a standard since it first appeared, even before iMessage was a thing. RCS is just the successor of MMS and SMS, not supporting it is a mistake. Also RCS could be the way to create interoperability between messengers. But Apple was never really good in accepting outside feedback.

Yes, but Google's version is not a standard version of RCS, it is an extension of RCS. Which is what they're pushing Apple to adopt.

Google is the new Microsoft when it comes to standards; "Embrace, Extend, Exterminate"