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I don’t understand this folding phone nonsense. Are the planning to make the phone twice as thin?

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

This year, at least one cell phone maker managed cover up the hole punch with visible pixels. It would be great if Apple lead the market on display technology rather than following it by two or three years.

Apple waits until it can be done right, not just done to to check a box. It’s like when people look at a PC laptop and a Mac laptop and see they both have trackpads, then check the box, not realizing that Apple’s trackpad is in a class of itself in performance. 

Moving parts, especially the kind of motor required for this would just create more points of failure for repair. Makes more sense to adjust the angle of the camera lens, not the whole lid. We will never see an automated lid come to market. This is like a patent grab to protect IP.

Mike Wuerthele said:

golftango said:

with two sandisk ssd's plugged into the two tb ports on the m1 mini and using striped raid, i get approx 1500mb/s throughput. when i use the owc dock this drops to approx 1000mb/s. a single standalone ssd which clocks at about 750mb/s when plugged into the mini drops to about 550mb/s. owc basically blew me off after i sent them reams of test data and tried everything they suggested by saying the problem was the monterey os. first bad experience i've ever had with owc and now i'm stuck with a boat anchor. /guy

I haven't seen that problem. On a pair of NVMe-based drives I also bought after testing that did 2400 megabytes per second read and 2000 megabytes per second write, I got 2400 with one connected, and about 1500 megabytes per second with a read to one and a write to another. I haven't done SSD RAID testing, though. Which SanDisk drives?

That does feel like RAID-driver related in Monterey, but I can't say for sure, as I haven't tested it beyond finding no native support for RAID 5 in Big Sur on M1 versus having it on Intel.

This I real problem with USB 3.1, 3.2 and 3.2 (2x2) drives that I have been complaining about since DEC 2020. It’s easily reproducible and affects every TB4 dock I tested and returned to OWC, CalDigit, Akito, etc.

TB3 dock’s perform OK but TB4 aren’t even worth buying if your using any fast USB SSD drives.

mjtomlin said:

AniMill said:

I believe that the iMac Pro is only sunset as an Intel machine. I’m guessing that the next iteration will be a 28” iMac Pro w/ the M1 Pro, and an iMac Max with the M1 MAX chip. Also perhaps a Mac Mini Pro with both high-end chips (wishing). The rumor of a 27” Liquid Retina Display for said iMac’s and as a separate display are rolling out. I also think we’ll see the base 24” iMac get up to the best M1 Pro only.

Base M2 will come in 2 configurations; CPU 4/4 and 6/4, GPU 8 and 12. All lowest end base models will still ship with an M1 as they do now, but  24" iMac and mini will also get M2 models. The MacBook Air will stick with the M1. We'll see the return of "MacBook" with the M2, to fill the gap between the Air and new MacBook Pro. Starting at $1299. (13" MBP will be discontinued.)

I think we will see a mini "pro" using the new M1 SoC's. Still not sure what they're going to do with the iMac "pro" though. Low-end models could use the new M1 SoC's as well and possibly get a beefed up M1 Ultra with 16/4 CPU and 64 GPU cores.

The rumor is that the MacBook Air will be the first to get the M2 and that M# will be incremented for each new line of chips: M2,  M2 Pro, M2 Max and M2 Extreme for the MacPro.

The Mini will never be the fabled headless Mac, because it would cannibalize iMac and MacPro sales. The Mini will get the base M2 which will fix some of the M1’s failings, such as support for two monitors, 4 Thunderbolt and up to 32GB RAM. The Air and 13” MBP will get the same. I suspect they will change the based M2 core count to 6/2 in favor of performance since the M2 should come with the improved efficiency of the A15 and an upgraded low noise cooling system, just like it’s big brothers. The GPU core count won’t change.