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  • Iconic 'Trash Can' Mac Pro is now on Apple's vintage products list

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    lotones said:
    The design was too advanced for Intel chips and regular GPUs. Imagine a cylindrical Mac with an M series chip. Maybe they should release an "Anniversary Edition" with an M4 Max or M5 Pro or Max, or even an M series Ultra chip.
    I’d imagine hacking one to have say an M4max in one side and ryzen Ai max in one neat unit.
    lotones

  • Apple's design team leadership in flux once again with Jeff Williams retirement

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    Retirement later in the year. 
    So how do justify calling it turmoil when it has been planned for and the plan still has time to run. 

    I get you need grabby headlines and Apple to keep business as usual in a country gone mad is likely to turn some people off. 

    I would have thought putting the team directly under the CEO who you think is fairly busy but also sign they are supportive of the next tier of the leadership team to keep things moving along but aren’t ready to name someone as head.  Maybe they want to let a larger team shine move away from “single personality” narratives. 
    tiredskillswilliamlondon

  • DOJ goes after US citizen for developing anti-ICE app

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Great. Obstruction of justice is a criminal offense. Doesn't matter if it's done via an app or not. 
    Hasn’t been established as justice to be obstructed…
    no warrants, no badges, no probable cause, held on no charge, with no hearings, no representation, with unreasonable seizure of property and liberty by masked persons not willing to demonstrate they have authority. 


    thtMplsP

  • What Apple products will get hit the hardest by Trump's new tariff orders

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    anthogag said:
    Stabitha_Christie said:
    So, the tariffs were announced in April and then delayed for 90 days. At the point where the tariff were delayed we were promised "90 deals in 90 days"  In that time Trump claimed he had made deals with 200 countries despite there not being 200 countries to actually make deals with. This week we will hit the 90 days with exactly two deals made. That is a well short of the 90 promised and well below the 200 that Trump claimed he had done. So, what does the Trump and is band of clowns do? Announce even more tariffs and immediately delay them for almost 30 days. 

    Any country watching this clown show has learned two things. 
    1. Trump and team have no actual plan are just making this up as they go along.
    2. They can safely ignore is bluster, he will always chicken out and kick the traiff can down the road. This dog has no bite. 

    This cult will make excuses for this and repeat whatever inane talking points Dear Leader gives this and the rest of the country will just be embarrassed on their behalf. 
    Countries dealing with Trump and his inner circle likely believe they are dealing with extremely untrustworthy clowns. Conversing with Trump probably resembles dealing with a psycopath. 
    He has proven over the years to never contract in good faith. No contract can legally exist without that. 
    danoxToroidalsconosciutokiltedgreenspheric

  • Apple plans low-cost MacBook based on iPhone processor

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    macxpress said:
    Seems like they could just put an M1 in it if they wanted a cheaper Mac....What I don't want to see if Apple start this race to the bottom with "cheap" devices. Apple is a premium brand and should be treated as such. They may be pricing some people out but that's just how it goes. I can't afford a BMW or Mercedes Benz but that doesn't mean they should be making $25,000 BMW's or Mercedes Benz's. It just cheapens the brand in the end. 

    That being said if they can keep quality up and use some older SoC's such as the M1 then why not? They make a $500 Mac mini that seems to be good quality however making a $500 Mac mini is a lot different than making a $500-600 MacBook as it has a keyboard/mouse, and screen. 

    I could see this being popular in K-12/College education. Sorta like the eMac of its time, only a laptop instead of a desktop. 
    But they aren’t shipping a M1 product anymore so have no need to produce. A18 could be around for a couple of years and could be used in all the lower tier models to clean up what they need to produce. A18 would potentially have all the in silicon improvements of that the system requires to run some improvements in the new OS26 variants efficiently.  

    Given what is happening I could see Apple pulling back the parts list and unifying the lower tier models and products on more efficient production.  
    Alex1N