Eric_WVGG

Skeptical said:

Dumbest article to date. Slow news day?

Hm? I think it's an interesting question. Like the mythical "xMac" (a sort of sub-Mac Pro desktop with PCI slots that Mac gamers have clamored after for like twenty years now), there's always been a vocal slice of users who want a 15" Macbook Air. In fact, everyone in my extended family fits this bill. They wind up inheriting old big computers from me, or just swallowing the expense every few years; they'd rather just have a big flat Air.

The M1 Pro is radically over-powered and frankly kind of a tank. To answer the author's question, yes, I think in both price, power and heft it is pretty exclusively a professional's computer. I would not be at all surprised if more casuals start begging for a big-screen Air. I don't think Apple will ever sell one, it would cut too deeply into the 16" Pro sales, but holy heck they'd sell a lot of them.

harry wild said:

Apple TV+ is having all these Progressive content on that you can find for free on over the air network broadcast channels and HBO channels and Prime as well as Netflix.  Many people want to get away from this type of programming content and go back to real life situations, not how it should be content and leave out the politics too!

You capitalized "Progressive"… are you talking about the car insurance company?

"get away from programming content… not how it should be content" lol I wanna make a joke here but this is gibberish

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.