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apple4thewin said:

Wow all the m4 macs aren’t included i guess education pricing is still the way to go

If you don't need to finance the purchase, Veteran / Military discount is slightly better.

If you own a business, Apple's SB program is best.

mbmoore said:

No USB-A on a Mac Mini isn’t a big deal, but it’s a huge deal on a MacBook. I just bought an M1 MacBook Air, and I like it, but there is no real replacement for my low profile USB-A thumb drive. I’m going to have to use a fragile 90 degree adapter to connect my USB-A thumb drive to one of the two USB-C ports. Not a great solution.

They make USB C drives. Just one example.

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Ultra-Drive-Type-C-Flash/

Passive cables like this one are limited to 1M. ..."connectors and passive cables up to 1 meter.'...

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-introduces-thunderbolt-5-standard.html#gs.hple80

Why do we keep giving this idiot news shelf space.

Well, now Tim can point to this incident next time ANY governments asks Apple to put loosen security or provide a backdoor.


Outside Apple: We need access to the secure enclave
Tim: No

Outside Apple: We need access to the the inner workings of Apple Pay
Tim: No

Outside Apple: We need access to ..., you're anti-competitive....
Tim: No we are NOT and this is why we lock down our systems and maintain such a high level of CONTROL. Now go pound sand.