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apple4thewin said:

Could this high performance processor be the m-Extreme rumored chip? Or even the older rumor Apple Silicon dGPU?

chasm said:

Very fair and balanced review, prioritizing what’s actually important about these machines.

Around 95-99 percent of the people I know who are not full-time geeks would be blown away by the base model and get seven or more years out of it. Fantastic value for $600 that blows Windows machines at that price point out of serious consideration.

You know who’s going to make a killing off this new Mini? The first company that creates a small travel case that neatly fits the Mini, a keyboard and mouse or trackpad with room for the power cord and an HDMI cable, effectively making this a portable, that’s who. About all I’d need beyond that is a lightweight screen and I could work just about anywhere.

Pema said:

Apple Vision Pro is a bottomless money pit that will drain billions of dollars and countless resources. Dump it. Resurrect the Apple Car Project as the Apple Vehicle Software Management and partner with UK, US, German and Japanese car companies to match or beat the Chinese at this game. Vehicle Software Management is many trillion dollar revenue stream. 

The sooner that Apple gets into this game the sooner it will have beaucoup car companies locked in. The longer they wait the quicker the car companies will partner up with Chinese software companies like Xiaomi. 

Luca Maestri is retiring and Tim Cook ought to retire along with him. It is time that new blood took over at Apple to fashion a future built away from iPhones and all the other thingamajigs that bring in $ but not the big bucks that is Apple's cash cow. 

charlesn said:

It's hard to see what "signficant redesign" could even mean. Sure, the internal components will always improve as the tech improves, that's a given. But the design is now so purely driven by function, what could be "significantly" changed? The top half case is already all-display and incredibly thin, so maybe the notch goes away? The bottom half of the case can only be so thin, since a certain thickness in the Pro models is required to accommodate ports and for heat dissipation, so I don't see thickness of the bottom case changing much from where it is now. 

Pema said:

If you happen to follow the upheaval in the car industry - several excellent videos on YouTube - the paradigm shift will validate the Apple Car. The Chinese car manufacturers realised some few years back that the future of the automobile is not the anachronistic ICE engine and tailpipe emission but the battery driven vehicle managed by software. That's the future and it is happening right now. So much so that the world's no. 2 car manufacturer VW - nine brands - will be closing three plants across Germany and laying off ½ million workers. Why? Because they dragged their feet transitioning from the ICE model to the BEV. 
Which is exactly what Apple was working on when they scrapped the Apple car project in favour of this pointless device that nobody wants called the Vision Pro. 
In less than five years time Apple historians will look back at 2023/2024 and point to Apple's greatest mistake: scrapping the Apple car project. 
It should have been called the Apple Software Driven Vehicle. With Apple's second to none software skills it would have easily catapulted Apple to a $6 trillion company on the back of supplying the Apple SDV to millions of cars worldwide. 
Also, in less than 5 years China will upend the car industry to become the world's no. 1 car manufacturer. The only reason that Toyota is still no. 1 is because it has the hybrid market. Which for now is viable. As soon as the BEV charging infrastructure matures motorists the world over will switch to Chinese BEV cars. Toyota has absolutely nothing viable in this market. And neither do the Germans. 
This is the same paradigm shift that upended Kodak when they missed the Digital Camera Market and Nokia missed the Smartphone shift. Where are Kodak and Nokia now? Good question. 
Apple got skittish and missed the boat on BEV software for cars. Huge, massive mistake to focus on the ridiculous Vision Pro and pouring more and more resources into iPhones with better cameras. Great. When is that gravy train going to dry up? Soon, very soon. 
Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker is now directly linked up to the Chinese car manufacturers supplying them with BEV software management. 
Apple could have been the worldwide supplier of software for German, American, Italian and Japanese car manufacturers who collectively manufacture over 20million cars per year. Instead Apple is pushing s**t uphill with Vision Pro. 
Dumb. Really dumb.