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dewme said:

The MacBook Pro's slight advantage over the Mac Mini tells me that Apple could probably tweak a lot more performance from the Mini if they were willing to sacrifice a bit on its aesthetics to have a more aggressive thermal management subsystem. Maybe a mini cheese grater design rather than the current cigar box design? 

What are you basing that on?  Based on the numbers DuhSesame (re)posted, the pro and the mini are identical--even with the 30-minute test.  Calling 7763 versus 7716 a "slight advantage" is like saying that something selling for $99.39 is "slightly cheaper" than something selling for $100.00.  While technically true, a 0.6% difference just statistical noise.

What these results tell me is that the M1 chip inside all the new Macs are identical (except in terms of memory and that sadly disabled 8th GPU core in the entry-level air), and that (unlike the very first MacBook Air, way back when) the lack of a fan not a huge deal (9% difference at 10 minutes, 18% different at 30 minutes). 

22july2013 said:

I guess I was right, in my posts on this website. The Mac Mini would be one of the first Apple Silicon Macs. I don't recall anyone else predicting that. Yay me!

Given the form factor that was provided to developers, this isn't a surprise at all.

You know what's interesting about that orginal Apple Silicon Power x Performance slide?  I'm sure it's not an accident that the "blue area" (that shows where Apple Silicon will appear) is entirely above the box for "Notebooks."  I read this as a commitment that every Apple Silicon Mac will at minimum match the performance of the fastest MacBook Pros currently sold.  That's a bold assertion.  I'm looking forward to hearing more about this next week.  It's possible that the slide is misleading in this way, but I doubt it.

BTW, here are the relevant parts of Apple's TOS for video purchases:

https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/us/terms.html

"- It is your responsibility not to lose, destroy, or damage Content once downloaded. We encourage you to back up your Content regularly."

"You may be limited in the amount of Content you may download, and some downloaded Content may expire after a given amount of time after downloaded or first played. Certain Content may not be available for download at all."

"You may be able to redownload previously acquired Content (“Redownload”) to your devices that are signed in with the same Apple ID (“Associated Devices”). ... Content may not be available for Redownload if that Content is no longer offered on our Services."

Seems crystal clear that Apple would make exactly the same argument that Amazon is reported to have made, and the terms of use easily back them up.  As everyone in this thread has pointed out, "buying" content online isn't exactly the same as buying a CD, DVD, etc.  (It's also not like buying a house or a puppy or a ticket to a concert.)

AppleInsider said:

An example of bokeh in Portrait mode on the iPhone XR

That brown shape in the top center of that image is exactly what can go wrong.  The picture is great until you get distracted by that not-blurred-enough thing that looks like a borg implant on the far side of the subject's head.  An SLR with a large aperture and shallow depth of field would have handled that better.  I expect the development team would see this as an unfortunate edge case where their AI failed.