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StrangeDays said:

Apple’s is $300 more but is smaller, lighter, way more attractive, and has tons of added features, from speakers to the camera to Center Stage, brightness, etc. Seems like the value proposition is there. 

Apple is $700 more if you want to compare apples-to-apples.  Apple is the only company in the world that can get away with charging an extra $400 for something so central/basic to a proper monitor's physical function.  The added irony here is that Apple has always billed itself (rightly so) as a company that cares about good UI/UX and accessibility.  Well, what could be more important than being able to adjust the height of a monitor?

As others have already pointed out, raw performance isn't all that important.  What good is a browser that blows away the competition in CPU benchmark, when it bogs down your system as you open more browser tabs because it's a memory hog?  And that's not even considering privacy.

I use Safari almost exclusively.  Only two cases where I resort to Chrome: on the work side when testing my applications for cross-browser compatibility and on the private side, when I need to go to a foreign-language web site.  Safari is nowhere near as good as Chrome in auto-translating web sites to English.  Especially since Safari only supports a handful of languages :-(

wood1208 said:

What about OLED burn-in effect ? How far is MicroLED for iPhone,iPad,MACs ?

Is that (was it every?) a problem?  I've had every iPhone Apple sold and my TV is an OLED LG - none of them have shown any 'burn in'.  Of course, I'm not stupid and let those displays statically display the same image all day.

"... [Berkshire Hathaway] still holds Apple as one of its most valuable assets."  Understatement of the century - Apple is, by far, Berkshire's biggest holding.  Berkshire owns some $170 BILLION worth of AAPL.  Their next biggest holdings are a mere $25 BILLION each: American Express, and Coca Cola.

This might be a useful exercise for Apple's smallest MacBook Pros, but for it's main seller, the 16" MBP, it's utterly pointless.  As another poster already pointed out, a keyboard is pretty standard in size, so eliminating the speaker grills doesn't really fix a problem.  And i bet most MBP users' #1 wishlist item for a future MBP is a bigger screen  so even less reason to eliminate the speaker grills.

Apple must be trying to address some concern with the grills if, indeed, they're trying to eliminate them.  Water/coffee/coke ingress through the holes?