melgross

It’s interesting that some here are imposing their values on others. We tend to think that an 8 hour day is final. But that’s not true everywhere, particularly in Asia. When you’re management, or off the clock in a white collar position, you’re often expected to work longer hours. But you get other perks that other employees don’t, as an offset. Apple still expects software, and likely hardware engineers, to spend most of their time near the end of a project, on that project, and limit, to some extent, the time they spend with their families, in order to finish on time.

we look at gains made in labor here, and don’t understand that it’s not true everywhere.

AniMill said:

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

I believe this to be deliberate. If Target Displays Mode still existed, the reason and need for the Studio Display would be greatly diminished. I believe many iMac 5K users would see the Mac Mini M2 Pro as a great alternative to buying a new Apple display.

No. When Apple came out with the first 27” 5k model, there were no driver chips capable of driving a 5k display. There were kludges, but they didn’t work well. For example, using two driver chips and treating one side of the display as one display, and the other as another display, then syncing the two together. Horrible, but that all there was.

Apple designed their own driver chip to have one 5k display. But the conventions they had to use weren’t standard, and as a result, target mode had to go away. Sad, but not intentional.

ah, I didn’t see the other posts explaining this. Just to keep in mind, Apple had displays even when target mode was in effect, so having a monitor now is obviously not why it no longer works.

Apple should come out with this first for the Ultra for two good reasons. The first is that it’s a small screen. That’s much easier to manufacture in quantity, as any defects that turn up in early production will have more screens that that be used. Just as with chip manufacture, larger ones mean fewer product per wafer or sheet, in the case of screens. So while working out the bugs of production, small screens will result in higher percentages of product. Secondly, price is less of an issue with a small product such as the ultra. It’s $800, and the screen is just a fraction of the size of even an iPhone SE screen. 

dstrauss said:

What a disappointing mish-mash today Tim. Pro's get M2 and WiFi 6e (do they even make those routers yet?) However, the new iPad Gen 10 get's landscape camera and the awesome new Magic Keyboard Folio, but it only gets Apple Pencil 1 support. Must have a lot of those lying around the warehouse gathering dust, heh Apple.

It seems as though the Pro also gets the side camera. Apple doesn’t say anything about it, but when talking about the cameras, you can see the tiny green light there in the center of the long side. On my 5th gen model, the light is on the right side of the app when held horizontal. So that could mean they shifted the cameras. The only question I was wondering about previously about them doing this was what they would do with the magnetic charging strip there, but it seems to have not been affected, if they did indeed move the FaceTime array there. I hope they did - finally!

About the old Pencil, that would require the new charging method which costs more than the port it uses now, which is there anyway. That’s the main reason, as Apple is trying to keep costs down for those models.

 My hope is for crypto to just collapse and go away. No, I don’t agree that there’s anything good coming from it. Unless you deal with illegal activities, that is. NFT’s are ridiculous. I hope Apple doesn’t give in to them. If people buy them and they fail, as many have done, Apple will manage to get blamed for that, just as people who think Apple is a bank that can be squeezed to get money out of every time they fail to read the instructions and sue them.