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zoetmb said:

Apple wants $600 to replace the battery in my MBP (late 2016).  There’s no reason why memory and storage can’t be plug and play as it used to be. 

If you are brave and reasonably handy (and have a well-ventilated workspace), iFixIt will show you how to replace the battery yourself, as well as selling the battery ($140) and tools necessary to do the job. 

rob53 said:

Most consumers don’t read AI so this information generally won’t stop them from buying when they want to. 

Of course, all of us care and we know new products are always on the horizon. Problem is I want to replace my iMac 2015 one more time while I still have an interest in computers and the constant new products give me heartburn trying to decide when to spend money on one last, almost full-blown Mac. Please tell me the M1 Max will not be EOL’d in the next 10 years (software wise) and I would be comfortable with the new, base model Mac Studio (of course with more storage and maybe memory) and the Studio Display. 

Why is the M1 Max special? As long as Apple Silicon-based software is available, the M42 SupraMegaWonderful will run the same code the M1's did. While only you can predict if something wonderful™ in the future could convince you to replace your 2022 iMac with a newer model, you can pretty safely predict that neither Intel nor Apple will be selling the exact same CPUs in 2032 that they're selling this year. In case you missed it, when Apple introduced the original M1 lineup, they introduced a compatibility mode for apps that had not been rewritten/recompiled for Apple Silicon — and everything I've heard about it has been good. Why worry? Buy when you need a new machine, or can't help the money flying out of your pocket. (Disclaimer: I own some shares in Apple but not enough to send even one kid to a private college. Even for a year.)

lkrupp said:

Okay, so there were two statements made that sealed the fate of the larger iMac. The first was that the Mac Studio and Studio display were the perfect for 27” iMac users. The second statement was at the very end when he said there was only one Mac left to transition, the Mac Pro.

So, there will be no iMac Pro, no iMac with a larger screen. The 24” iMac is it. The Mac Studio is the future and I’m okay with that.

Sounds exactly right. The heat dissipation in the Midi, er, Studio clearly dictated the height of the enclosure, and that, in turn, meant there was no way they could fit the same cooling capacity into an M1 Double Wide, er, Ultra-powered 27 (or larger)-inch iMac and still retain a slim profile. Unless with some future generation of M<something> chips Apple manages to achieve even higher performance with less heat generation.

seankill said:

It’s almost as though authoritarianism is communism isn’t it? Because you generally can’t have communism without authoritarianism. 

Well, “generally” leaves out Dubcek’s government in Czechoslovakia, which was trying to establish “socialism with a human face” in 1968…. until the Soviet tanks rolled in.

Most other cases, yes, authoritarianism (“the dictatorship of the proletariat,” usually run by an elite) was a central feature. As was state terror, an invention of Lenin and his cronies.

I have to say, nothing about the current Chinese government resembles communism in any way. It’s a party of, by, and for the extremely wealthy, with dictatorial powers to enforce their will.

"No normal iPhone use will accidentally cause your device to erase all data."

Unless you consider an eighteen-month-old getting ahold of am iPhone that's prompting for a password. A friend's kid got to three. I guess a toddler with the patience to mash non-haptic buttons ten times is six-ish sigma, but there's always one....