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  • HyperDrive Thunderbolt 3 Mobile Dock review: Convenient port expansion for MacBook Pro

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    “Apple has slowly brought back ports that it initially cut in the move to Apple Silicon.”

    understood what’s trying to be said … but it sure sounds wrong to write it this way
    chutzpah

  • M2 15-inch MacBook Air in mass production, says supply chain

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    TheObannonFile said:
    Was hoping for a MacBook or MacBook Studio with single fan, M2 and M2 Pro option, completely replacing M2 MBP 13”
    Exactly - a 15” MacBook Studio with those CPU options and an SD card reader - $1499+ up
    SOLD!


    watto_cobra

  • Mac Studio may never get updated, because new Mac Pro is coming

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    Mac Mini
      Mx & Mx Pro

    Mac Studio 
      Mx Pro & Mx Max

    Mac Pro
      Mx Max & Mx Ultra

    assuming the Mac Pro has all of the Studio functionality, and then some, the only reason to keep the Mac Studio is to fill in a price gap… unless the new Mac Pro has a (bare bones) starting price closer to $1999-$2499 (similar to MacBook Air and MacBook Pro price differential)
    watto_cobraentropys

  • Entry level M2 Mac mini, 2023 MacBook Pro have slower SSD than predecessors

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    escargot said:
    Aaroncz said:
    Apparently the M2 Pro Mac Mini base model (16GB ram, 512GB SSD) only has a single 512GB Nand chip.  However the 14" MacBook Pro has a 256 nand chip on either side of it's motherboard in the 512GB ssd model (maybe*).  So the 14" MacBook Pro gets almost double the disc speed in the Blackmagic test because it's in a raid configuration (maybe*). 
    Here's the motherboard of the M2 Pro Mac Mini (single 512GB chip in green rectangle).  It looks to be flat on the table - no second nand chip on the other side.
    Thanks for sharing that link, it was very informative.  However, I believe you are mistaken about the NAND chip on the Mac mini.  They show both sides of the M2 Pro 512GB board, and you can see very clearly that there is a chip on both sides, meaning that there are 2 NAND chips for the 512GB model, not one.
    This thread is quite informative as I’m looking to get solid information before buying an M2 Mini.

    A few comments:
    - as someone posted, it will be interesting to see the performance of the M2 Mini with 512 GB
    - Apple has cost, chip availability and/or other reasons for designing the various computer configurations. That said, they are marketing the silicon in a big way, and the SoC is fixed … therefore, for clarity, no matter the computer product line the M2 Pro should have a standard level of CPU and disk performance for a given number of C & G cores.
    watto_cobra

  • Everything new coming to Apple TV in tvOS 16

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    StrangeDays said:
    mike1 said:
    CheeseFreeze said:
    My prediction:

    1. Apple will keep focusing having the TV app on as many major smart TV’s as possible to ensure mass access to their services.

    2. Apple will sunset the Apple TV hardware 

    I doubt it. While they will work to include on as many TVs and other devices as possible, they will not discontinue their own hardware. It is the only way they can deliver the best possible user experience. TV hardware is typically under powered and they tend to give up software support after a couple of years.
    Agreed. I haven’t used a smart TV that didn’t suck due to being painfully slow (including a new at the time Visio with Apple TV app), not to mention terrible, terrible remote. I would never voluntarily give up my ATV for one of these supposed smart TVs. (Not to mention all the spying for advertising analytics.)
    I have AppleTVs on multiple TVs in our home.

    Also agreed, except that…

    1. ATV is too expensive for my kids’ bedroom TVs

    2. FF / Rewind is too awkward still on AppleTV vs Roku and newer built in OS (Sony OLED for example)
    watto_cobra