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jas99 said:

It’s refreshing to see someone have the guts to admit they were wrong. 

If this is the start of some kind of tour where Neumann individually admits that he was wrong to every single person whose life he's impacted… well he's young, probably got several decades ahead of himself.

No analysis of these bleeding edge personal computers is complete without some hard numbers regarding holes.

I estimate about 150 holes - each slightly larger than a dime - drilled into the front face of the Mac Pro. These holes are deceiving, though. The holes don’t penetrate all the way through the face; the grill is instead met by a slightly lower number of holes drilled into the back. Let’s split the difference and say that the Mac Pro has about 130 high performance holes.

The MacBook Pro takes a radically different posture of an estimated 3000 holes per side for a rough total of six to seven thousand low performance holes. (That’s just an eyeball estimate, I’m looking forward to actual geekbench numbers.) 

So the question for the eventual Apple Silicon desktop pro is, are we all in on tiny holes, or does the future hold a hybrid of fewer high performance holes mated with an array of low performance holes? Will the M2 MacBook Pro perhaps have one or two high performance holes, and will that necessitate an expansion of the notch? Only time and Ming Chi Kuo will tell.

tpurdy said:

Will it mess up my iPad Pro if I use this base with USB-C on both ends? Would be nice to keep it plugged in and use for both the laptop and iPad. 

Or the other way around, can I use the iPad charger safely on the new MBP?

1. Nope, that'll work great.
2. Sort of… as I understand it, if your laptop has an active draw of say 60 watts, and you have a 30 watt charger installed, then instead of charging, you'll be actively draining your battery (albeit more slowly than if the laptop were fully unplugged. This negative-charging of the battery could potentially be damaging.

It is safe, as far as I know of, to charge your laptop with the iPad charger if it is asleep or turned off. So if you were traveling and wanted to bring the lighter, smaller, charger, and was only charging the laptop while you were sleeping overnight, no problem. 

It's a smart name change.

I've got a buddy over there, he says that it’s common knowledge that "facebook.com" is a legacy product, of interest mostly to racist grandpas. The bulk of their business and eyeballs is Whatsapp and Instagram and that's not even recent. 

Calling the company Facebook today is almost like calling Apple "Mac" or "the Mac company." 

That said, I sincerely hope their aspirations fail, badly.

I've been on the beta since sometime last summer. I think this is one of the best releases in the past five years or so.

Almost has a "snow" release feel, except that there really are a substantial number of new features. Regardless, the stability is rock-solid.

It's worth mentioning that Apple is listening to their users. They took a big swing with the Safari UI changes; beta users hated it, Apple walked back on them. Ditto for little things like the disappearing "app proxy icons" — Apple went ahead with their change, but introduced a System Preferences setting to keep them visible. Exactly as it should be.

Normally I tell my family to wait until the "point-one" release of any macOS before upgrading, but this cake is cooked and ready.