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I watched this from day one. It could potentially make a nice 16TB SSD drive array with the Blade Station (albiet non standard drives). Whats strange is it was originally released with a Blade Station which a year later has never materialized. It's interesting the manufacturer either doesn't have the resources or the confidence in releasing the second half of the two piece solution. Instead they make you buy a $199 dock which is already lowered to $169 and is essentially a non standard cable to allow their drive to do anything. They missed their own launch. This doesn't go well for a new product launch trying to get everyone on your non standard format of connectors. Don't we have enough grief with all the USB-C formats? Why not buy a standard fast external ssd. They come much smaller than the blade and blade transport combined and are cheaper. I guess the previous poster was right its for camera people wanting to function like RED drives.

This article is skewed and I understand the skewed comments. I have over 3000 machines in a given year out on lease. I own all of them. The company leasing them adds them to their MDM accounts and are informed to remove them at the end of the lease term. When they come back about 30% of them are MDM locked. The person(s) running the MDM servers are not the person I interface with for the leases and I specify up front they are to remove them prior to shipping them back. Remember I own these machines. I simply charge the customer the full price for the machines (as per the lease agreement) since I have no easy way to remove the MDM. It's not my job to address a discipline issue with another companies IT department. I grind them up into bits and send them to recycle. Grinding up 2021 machines now. Chew on that.

I had the 2016, 2017, and 2018 all of which had issues of their own. On the 2016 15in I couldn't reliably pull off 4K @ 60Hz and of course keyboard space bar and dongles. On the 2017 it was pretty good performance and 4K external. When the keyboard started failing I went back to my 2015 and sent the 2017 in for keyboard repair. I kept using the 2015 when mine came back and then kept the 2017 around for my 4K video player needs but was afraid to put too much use into it. Yes I bought the 2018 also and it has worked fine. No thermal issues and a bit better graphics than the 2017 but the ongoing spat with Nvidia that apparently will never be put to rest hurts us all.  I know not to use the keyboard to heavily and I never eat around it. I am desperate for a 16in with a real HDMI port and I would give anything not to need a dock, dongles, and adapters to USB 3.0. All the M1 13in I have used so far have been fantastic but everyone I helped needed adapters for their drives, keyboards, and video. I tried the 13in M1 on the same 4096x4096 I play on the 2018 and it doesn't work as well so I am holding out for a better graphics core on M1x, M2 or whatever they will call it.

I personally wouldn't care in my notebook was 18mm thick vs 12mm thick if I could just have a little more support around the display and no wear on the screen from the unnecessarily tight tolerances. I don't know why they do this. From the front using a machine it only appears 1mm thick on the display so who cares. If weight is an issue you can leave 2 ink pens out of your bag to compensate or better yet one of my 4 DONGLES.

For all of you kicking the non authorized service guys for not going legit, being a authorized service provider I specifically remember my rep. referring to an EXISTING authorized service provider wanting to open another service center. The service reps exact words were referring to WIlly Wonka, "why should we give him the golden ticket for another service location". And this was an existing authorized owner in the top 10% of the nation.  I think theres more to it than just wanting it. You must have an "in" at the top. The Apple promoters here just shouting in favor of Apple need to admit they are plants or get educated.