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grom007 said:

I do not understand why Apple does not release the m3 MacBook Pro before the MacBook Air. It gives incentive to consumers to buy the very best.

Economics and clever use of resources. 

Also, the single core performance is the same, regardless of how many cores are used. Video editing rely on multicore processing to split several frames across the cores and that improves performance significantly. It's also same with Lightroom or similar products with exporting several images at once. Pros need to have many more cores in order to achieve faster completions. 
  
I suspect they due process for pro type chips but given the higher rate of failure with more cores added, they just use the chips that meet the minimum requirements. It makes no sense to discard expensive chips just because one of the cores failed. And they carefully designed multicore chips for pro level chips. 

So, it really makes sense to go with the entry level offering the latest architecture and let it scale up for pros.

While the single core performance will increase on entry level, they won't see the significant gains as they would hope for with previous generation of Pro chips on certain applications. 

The SoC is likely going to be significantly upgraded to run videos and animations more efficiently. Or even process bigger images than possible so users can zoom in with more details. 


 

Good.

Also, Apple devices clearly have the ability to block data, only accepting power and will ask you if you want the devices connected to be "trusted" if data is to be used as well.

 
"Apple need to switch to USB-C in a way that maintains backwards compatibility with old Lightning accessories, so yes compatible MFi cables are still needed."

They use can adaptors. The USB-C cable itself is not the issue. 

It's possible to ask for sensitive information to verify but they should never store any of those sensitive information. That's why I am questioning why T-Mobile is holding those sensitive information. 

Why is multi-stream transport (MST) not supported on MacOS? Is there a reason for that? I am not even sure what MST really does. What makes it different from other multiple monitor setup?