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  • Apple takes a three-day week for its Mac launches

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    9secondkox2 said:
    Bummer. Was expecting m4 Ultra tomorrow. 

    So now the theory seems even more plausible. No more Mac updates until wwdc  m5 intro. Likely 32” imac return. 

    The mini will pair with current studio display. Consumer iMac will stay the same. Mac Pro with m5 ultra/extreme will have a new 8k Pro Display XDR. iMac 32” with m5 max/ultra will be 6k resolution.  M5 based Notebooks will be similar to current. Would make a pretty much perfect lineup. 
    Or January post Xmas get the pros excited after the big flush of consumer demand calms down and capacity opens up in the fabs. 
    “Mac to work week” so to speak either just before CES or just after. 
    Or go to target market with NAB in April. 

    Plenty of options prior to WWDC

    ForumPostd_2Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • A smaller Mac mini brings big problems for server farms and accessory makers

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    baconstang said:
    So, I'm looking forward to the M4 Studio.  Wonder what's going to happen to THAT package...
    Maybe they send a press release at the end of the next video for 2 Extra eVents for Studio and the M4 Ultra then MacPro and M4Hydra. the format seems to work so nicely that each machine has a chip in the family. 



    watto_cobra

  • M4 Mac mini vs M2 Mac mini compared: Leaner and meaner

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    I was hoping the height would stay under 1.75" for 1RU rack mounting. At 5" wide, I'd be able to get three in a row on a 1RU rack shelf, but now I'd need 2RU, wasting a fair amount of space...

    I wonder if they can be mounted sideways, so up to 8 would fit in 3RU. (Obviously rack would have to have proper air circulation). That would be a lot of horsepower and a lot more I/O in less rack space than the 5RU Mac Pro!

    Yes but the old model when vertical needed 5RU so you can have same number of machines in 12RU as 15 with the old form. 
    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • Apple posts new M4 iMac announcement video, confirms more products coming

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    Does Sree the Apple iMac product manager have Siri voice prompts turned on?

    there must be a massive fleet of intel iMacs still in use given the time spent selling AS to those machines. 


    Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • YouTuber shows off hardware hack to replace soldered MacBook storage

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    chasm said:

    ForumPost said:
    It just shows that Apple can make it possible for end users  to upgrade the ssd themselves if Apple made the ssd swappable as shown in the video. Just solder the base connector but leave the slots accessible
    Yes, but ... we are talking about an incredibly small percentage of MacBook owners that would even bother to ever open their machine, ever. Sub-two percent, if even that. So even of the storage slots were removable, which I fully agree would be great, Apple would likely charge to do this work for you as an out-of-warranty repair, and make the storage modules otherwise unobtainable to the public.

    It's SUPER easy to do some real damage to your investment if you open up your Mac and don't feel fully confident that you know what you're doing, even for an "easy" upgrade like that.

    All that said, I wish Apple would change that design to allow for storage upgrades, and charge for doing that that work for you.
    Makes me wonder why we haven’t seen a company push a chip package slot?
    like an m.2 slot but no carrier board not unlike the new flat pack memory standard that is becoming common in PC land. 
    watto_cobra