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dk49 said:

Apple will have to switch to RISC before it becomes mainstream if it has to retain it's leadership in CPUs. And that's likely to happen before "decades". 

Apple Silicon is RISC. ARM is literally RISC as it originally stood for "Advanced RISC Machines". 

You do not need TB for higher power... the usb4 supports up to 240W.

It makes no senses to offer TB for power. USB-C is literally built for that reason and all Apple devices use USB-C - Macbooks, ipad rpos al tuse USB-C, not TB to recharge at higher watts. 
 

ApplePoor said:

The USB-C transfer rate, I believe, was not a part of the EU dogma. The new phone potentially has a USB-C socket and that is all that was required.

No, the USB-C standard require at least 15W for recharging but not data speed which can variable since some devices don't need much data.

Marvin said: 

R1 is a video processing chip, it just needs a small amount of fast memory for the framebuffers. 4k framebuffer is 3840 x 2160 x 5 bytes = 41MB, 12 cameras + displays is < 1GB of memory, could be 2GB to handle 8K, compositing buffers etc. 

Where does 5 bytes come from? From what I understand, a single pixel capable of 32-bit color (including alpha) only takes 4 bytes. 

YP101 said:

Apple should reconsider SSD should be replaceable. What a waste of money and landfilled.
Over $1000 laptop or desktop died due to just SSD failure. Is this really green as Apple always claimed all their product made by recycle material but in the end they create more unnecessary.

If SSD fails which is rare, Apple will replace it under AppleCare. The faulty motherboard does not go to landfill but gets recycled by Apple. If you want a faster Mac, Apple offers trade in credit. It is literally more environmentally friendly that way.  
 
The primary SSD drive is meant for OS, apps, and temporary storage. For long term storage, use external disks. Modern Macs has USB4 ports so the speed can go up to 5GBps (40Gbps) which is almost as fast as internal SSDs (and I don't think we even have external disks reaching that speed yet but it will). 

Also, an important advice: bigger RAM means less writes/reads of SSD so a bigger RAM becomes more important than SSD size if you're a heavy user.  

In short, for power users like photographers and creators should not spend money on biggest SSD (1TB is minimum, 2TB is max, more than that is a waste of money) but do spend on bigger RAM because bigger RAM means less writes/reads on SSD for swap. That will make Mac last much longer. Use external disks for long term storage.

That's literally how mine is set up and never once did I think, "Damn, it needs to get faster!" Do I need more storage? No problem, I get more external disks. And it's blazing fast. Also, faster SSD will NOT make many parts of workflow faster because a lot of data have to be processed first inside CPU before they can be used. If it takes a while to load a massive RAW file (like mine with 60MP RAW files), faster SSDs will not improve performance at all since it's CPU-bound. More time is spent in CPU processing data to be used, not in transferring the RAW file.
 
Faster CPUs often mean faster processing so having a M2 Studio will definitely process data faster and guess what? You have to get a new Mac. Are you going to complain that CPU should be upgradable? We had that and it never worked well - there were too many bottlenecks that it's no longer cost effective.