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mcdave said:

Not the future of the Mac, let Windows go.

Wish I could, but not quite that easy. Hopefully software devs will wake up (or, more to the point, users will and demand Apple Silicon compatible software from developers) and get on the Mac, but currently there is a lot of stuff that is Windows only. Even if that starts changing, I think we're talking many years. This creates a problem for which the solution seems to be multiple computers.

rcfa said:

Well, Windows 11 ARM Edition is just a matter of time. “Ancient” Intel Macs will be stuck with Win10, and “modern” ARM Macs will get Win11-ARM, with x86 emulation…

I hope so, but isn't there then a similar issue with a lot of the apps people are needing to run possibly not running on Windows ARM? I mean, could you fire up some heavy Windows 3D CAD or animation software on Windows ARM?

And, that's the problem with the above second machine. Instead of buying a powerful Mac that can do both, you might need a powerful Mac AND a powerful PC, which equals lots of $$$. If you just need a powerful Mac/PC, and then a cheap-simple other platform to run a few simple things, then it isn't as big of a deal (well, aside from having to figure out the keyboard/mouse/trackpad, and display issues for multiple machines).

AppleInsider said:

The legislation is the latest attempt by the Russian government to assert its position on online matters and the tech industry.

In Russia they have to work at it like this, in USA, Canada, etc. the social media and media just willingly comply somehow w/o even being asked.

Wgkrueger said:

Who in the world other than entitled rich people calls 78 degrees unbearably hot? 

I guess the concern was for the infant, but I was kind of thinking the same thing. We're in a bit of a heat wave here in Victoria, BC as well, where most of us don't have A/C. I'm pretty sure it's at least 78 in our place right now.

This has to be one of the weirdest survey/results I've run across.

mike_galloway said:
If cd's are lossless then why have 24bit 96k? - surely 16bit 441.1k is enough.

thedba said:
You have more listening rooms in your house than I have bedrooms. 

Yours is a very special case where you probably have the ideal setup to hear differences between a good AAC and a good 16/44.1 lossless, not to mention the higher res recordings. We'll just refer to you as the less than 1 percent. 
The way most people, the other 99%, consume music nowadays, is by doing other stuff at the same time. So yes you are quite right that most of us will benefit more from spatial audio than good old lossless. 

Marco Arment had a good discussion of all this on a fairly recent ATP episode. People with good ears who know what they are listening for, can tell the difference between some of the lower encoding levels, but at higher bitrates, you can't tell between lossless and ACC. The main reason people *think* they can, is that often these lossless files are remastered, so it isn't an apples to apples comparison (it isn't the encoding, it's the source!).

CDs are enough in terms of listening. But, kind of like working with images, if you're going to be editing, adding effects, etc. then higher-level source material will make a difference in the final product.

99% of people these days have a much, much worse listening setup than the majority of kids when I was younger had in their dorm rooms. Forget regular vs audiophile, we're talking abysmal vs regular vs audiophile, with most falling in that first category.

And, while I haven't listened to 'spatial audio' I think it's going to be a gimmick for about everything except maybe FaceTime voice positioning when conferencing with unfamiliar people. It will probably be like most of those 'enhancement' types of things like simulated surround, or 3D audio, or (insert thing here) where you turn it on and briefly go, oh cool, and then minutes or hours later, go back to how you had it set before.