skiwi

As others have noted, there is an error in the article.  There has been no upgrade to the ports available on the iMac 27".  Rather than the 4 T3 ports the article states (which is what it iMac Pro has), the standard 27" iMac retains the 2x T3, 3x USB 3.2 ports of the old model - leaving the 4x T3 for the iMac Pro...

Shame really as 4x T3 would be a very nice upgrade.

elijahg said:

Seems strange to add a T2 this late in the game, especially since on the desktops it doesn’t really do much. I doubt they’ve just recycled the iMac Pro logic board as the Xeons are a different beast and would require a lot of engineering to convert the socket to a Core CPU.

I wonder if Apple will use the lack of a T2 chip in future Macs as a reason to drop support. 

Actually the T2 does a lot.  Securing the boot process is a unique differentiator of the Mac across all its forms now. Just look at the firmware hacks for USB & Thunderbolt devices and you see why this is a great feature.  Also, I'd note that the ability to "key" an SSD to the device makes the encryption that much more secure.

The article contains a factual error.. The 16” MacBook Pro is a Coffee Lake (9th generation Core i9) processor, not a 10th generation (Ice Lake) processor as asserted in the article.