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This is interesting to hear, especially after all the “YouTube opportunists” came to the conclusion that it wasn’t thermal throttling at all, but was in fact an Apple design issue in which they were sloppy in their implementation of supplying the correct amount of voltage to the CPU to keep it from needing to throttle. Glad Apple quickly resolved this. 

Many of you may have seen this but in case you hadn’t here is the summation. 

“In my opinion, Apple seriously screwed up here. The testing that I did was easily within Apple's capabilities, and it is highly irresponsible of them to ship these machines out this way. As far as I am aware, the MSR is set to the intel's default ... and clearly Intel expects that if you are going to use this default, you will have a machine capable of delivering 100 Watts of power steady state. Intel does not expect that you must have thermal capabilities of shedding those 100 Watts, as the chip will thermally throttle if it reaches TJunction (100C), and that thermal throttling would not be nearly as painful as this type of VRM throttling. Most likely, if Apple wanted to handle things that way, they could have figured out a way to attach the heatpipe to the VRM. Even if they did not want to handle things that way, they should have reduced the MSR value from the factory to something that the VRM is actually capable of delivering (ie: My settings).”

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/91256u/optimal_cpu_tuning_settings_for_i9_mbp_to_stop/

Can Apple manage to build a Mac Mini without soldering all the internals inside? I have a feeling that will be a bone of contention. Personally I’d rather Apple go back to 2012 design when we could installl two SSDs and hopefully the architecture haa been updated to 32 GB of RAM.

I was trying to think back to the late 90s and remember if there was a concerted effort to destroy Microsoft as were now seeing it done to Apple. And yeah, I guess there was, but in that case it was about MS monopolistic practices (an acceptable reason). 

The media and businesses do it for money, but what’s really getting old is the constant hate and bashing by user of other platforms. The team mentality in technology is old an tiresome. I’m sure all companies like it, but it’s foolish. 

I for one feel like Apple vindicated the iPad Pro yesterday. I bought into the 12.9" last year and it's been my only mobile device ever since. 

I'm a composer. I use Notion iOS to score for orchestra and I need the largest screen possible. The 12.9" roughly equals the size of a letter sized piece of paper. The 12.9" feels like I'm carrying around a clipboard which is perfect. Now with the A10x the iPad Pro will have that extra bit of power the A9x was lacking (the A9x could handle the playback of a full orchestra but just barely). 

Pair that with the macOS Finder and Dock like features and iOS 11 in general and we certainly have a laptop replacement. You guys are always debating over what pro users want. Well I'm a pro user and I use the iPad Pro as my only mobile device and I love it. 

I would like to see an even larger size but I'm ok with it if Apple stops at 12.9". I've thought about multi-user too. But it's not a deal killer for me as I consider it a true mobile device that won't be shared. 

Best WWDC since Tim Cook became CEO. That iMac Pro 18-core is the first iMac I've ever wanted. I can imagine an 18-core iMac Pro as my host Mac, with the upcoming Mac Pro with its own 5k screen as the slave computer. 

Very excited. 

Wow! I take back what I said last week. Apparently Tim Cook does still care about us.

High Sierra, this iMac Pro and the upcoming Mac Pro. NOW we're talking!

18 core Xeons and an optimized OS! Mac Power Users rejoice!!!

Now I really wonder what Tim has in store for the upcoming Mac Pro. Dual 18-core Xeons?