jesusfreak said:

Nothing but pessimistic Trump bashing and liberal spin on our "education funding".

We spend PLENTY on education in America, but we spend it POORLY.  We do not need MORE MONEY for education, we need to toss out all the bull dung and bologna and focus on SKILLS and BASICS instead of useless woke indoctrination.   Too many high paid Administrators and fancy buildings, not enough going to teachers, allowing teachers to teach and maintaining DISCIPLINE and demanding SUCCESS out our public schools.  

But how educated to you have to be to assemble an iPhone?   I think the Robots will be taking over most of this in the not too distant future.  Especially once we make it unattractive for communist dictatorships to force their multitudes into modern slave labor.

A lot of bashing Trump, but at least he is DOING something.   The last 6+ Presidents did nothing, or made things worse.   But, let's bash the guy trying to move the needle.

Unfortunately a lot of what Trump is doing is chasing industry out of America.

If you are at all involved in the global supply chain, these tariffs are increased te cost of your goods - why do you think so many of our manufacturers are now moving to Canada? I'm not sure we're going to have any vehicle manufacturers or heavy inducstry left in this country when Trump is done with his tariffs.

If that's the case, y'all are all going to have to go to working planting and picking crops because all the farm worker's will have been deported and the good jobs have fled the country to avoid the tariffs.

Something that the stupid MAGAites still haven't figured out is that tariffs are taxes paid by American citizens to the government, increasing the price of consumer goods. These are not taxes paid by foreigners - they're paid by you and me, and they're generally going towards reducing the taxes of the top 0.1% of American earners.

8thman said:

I have seen the statement about China’s “skilled labor”
several times but no one describes exactly what that means and is it only in regards to labor for Apple devices, or are these skills different. 

Also, I’d like to know more about Apple’s “Training Academy”. If you already written about it, please point me to it!

What are these mystery skills that Americans are unable to acquire. Is it the tediousness of small parts assembly that makes it unattractive? How much is automated??

I think this is in reference to the engineers capable of turning plans into consumer goods, and turning at a moment's notice adapting the design to a new reality.

That's one side of coin - the other is the tedious manual assembly of the device(s) by unskilled labor - which Americans don't want to do at all.

Trump's so into saving those jobs, but no citizen wants to do them.

Assembly line automaton work, picking and planting crops, construction work on hot roofs under the Florida sun - these are things Republicans crow about losing to foreign workers that no one born in this country wants to do.

Trump is unbelievable - you might as well have a bribe box on one side of the oval office. I remember a time when you didn't have to go and butter up a chief executive to get left alone to do business in America.

discountopinion said:

M3Ultra instead of M4Ultra is likely due to Apple being hard at work during 2024 to make that happen and would have had to start over if skipping directly to M4Ultra.

Hopefully any lessons learned with M3Ultra can help accelerate M4Ultra.

They obviously had to reengineer the Thunderbolt controller for Thunderbolt 5 on the M3 Max, but the interconnect may be something that is much harder to insert into the SoC architecture - otherwise they would've probably made a M4 Ultra.

gwmac said:

9secondkox2 said:

gwmac said:

This is what I and a lot of other 27 inch iMac owners have been waiting on.  My only remaining decision is what monitor to buy. I want to get at least a 32 inch so was considering the

Dell UltraSharp 32 4K Thunderbolt Hub Monitor - U3225QE

Does this seem like a good monitor to pair with my new studio? I get a $200 Dell credit every 6 months with my Amex Business Platinum card so that will knock it down to $749. 

Nah. We've been waiting on a new 32" iMac.

That would be my preference but the chances of that are slim to none at this point. I would have been happy with a M4 iMac 27" but that also doesn't seem to be in the cards. My advice is just get a new studio like the rest of us. 

I'm willing to part with some cash to separate the monitor from the computer.

I'll be replacing a 2017 iMac 5K with a 2020 iMac 5K for the family, and this will be the second perfectly good 5K display I'll have to abandon due to the associated compute hardware being obsolete.

HandsomeSmitty said:

Wow, the balls on Apple, continuing their bait and switch tactics with limited memory options for low-end Max chip on the studio. Crazy criminal!

Who knows?

Maybe some of the high order address lines were damaged in the fab process for a lot of the defective (binned) chips.

They'd almost certainly want to sell their astronomically priced unified memory if they could.