SkyReiter

This is an excellent show not only for the action and drama, but for portraying both sides with humanity as well as an acknowledgement that they are both capable of morally questionable actions in pursuit of their political goals. The good guys and the bad guys are all human and they have a passionate loyalty to their respective countries.

If you enjoy "Tehran", give a look at Netflix's "Fauda" by the same writer. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is looked at with no attempt to whitewash it. It perfectly showcases the complexity of the region where any atrocity can be justified by one side because of something the other side did first.

It's too expensive...except that it costs the same as the Quadra 950 I bought in 1993. A whopping 40 MHz 68040 CPU and an additional $2000 for 64 MB of RAM. Add $1000 for a 20" monitor and another grand for a 1GB hard drive!

Well, it actually is too expensive for me these days :-) but that says more about the circumstances of my bank account than it does the value of the machine. Decked out the way I'd like would probably run it up to what I paid for the Quadra system in 1993 and I could still use my good NEC monitor. 

Default Folder is the best utility I've ever used on my Mac. I've used it for decades. Every time I sit down and try to use someone else's computer that doesn't have it, it just feels dumbed down. It makes my life simpler every day, multiple times.

Never leave home without it!

Better GPUs don't depend on Intel, nor does a return to a more expandable chassis design-if you want to call it a 'pro' machine. Maybe they're under promising again?

In all honesty I think they are being hamstrung by Intel at least on the mobile side of things. They want to move forward with USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 which is only available on a small subsets of processors.  For instance, there is only one Xeon processor that could go in the MacPro lineup right now and the rest of the roadmap from Intel has been delayed by up to two years.  Unfortunately Apple has pinned it's success on a company that is also focusing on mobile now, so they are unlikely to see massive improvements.

The one way Apple can get out of this of course is to design its own processors and chipsets for the laptop segment.  They may have already seen the writing on the wall and started down that design path (which takes years).  But in the meantime, what else do you expect the company to do when the company that makes the core components is happy with the status quo?  You get exactly what Apple is doing... better screens, better keyboard, thinner design and a Touch Bar.  Things that Apple can control directly and that is not tied to Intel.