JMStearnsX2

I'm of the opinion that Apple has never made a good mouse. They are always uncomfortable and ergonomically bad, and I feel that the touch stuff on the last few versions is a bad idea. I like to have actual buttons on my mouse, and have them fill my palm/hand. Any "smart" features of the Magic Mouse are available using the keyboard (which I prefer, I must be old...), and I think they are faster on the keyboard anyway.

9secondkox2 said:

Why the heck did they move it? People have basically programmed motor responses by now. That is just bad UX. and lumping it in with a group of other functions? Very strange. 

Love to hear the rationale. Hopefully none of this makes it to gold. 

This! the people at Apple must have no concept of muscle memory. SO MANY TIMES they have moved things around for no apparent reason other than to make it different. Highly frustrating for me.

sflagel said:

TheObannonFile said:

And I haven’t had to go to the AT&T store and pick a phone that seemed cool for the next 2 years from Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Blackberry, etc.

Having Safari and real internet over cellular felt like the future in the palm of your hands. Absolutely incredible. 

The original iPhone did not have 3G so Safari in cellular did not happen until later. 

sflagel said:

The biggest gap of the original iPhone was not having 3G, so emailing and internet only really works on WiFi. The real miracle is that they still sold 1.9 million phones.

What are you taking about? I had the original iPhone, and both Safari and email worked on the Edge network.

DAalseth said:

It’s my understanding that the Air can drive one external monitor. Can the Pro drive more than one? 

Yes, the Pros can drive 2 external. So 3 total.

slow n easy said:

I ordered one but it won't be here until the end of February, and it's also spec'ed out at $1,999.99. I debated waiting to see how it would compare to a Mac Studio but who knows how long it would take for the update to arrive.

I'm in the same situation, I'm not sure which one to get. I have my money ready, I wish I knew when the new Mac Studio is going to come out. I can wait a bit longer though.

DrBoar2 said:

Half the HD space of my mid 2011 budget and half of what I upgraded the RAM to on my own.
The real insanity is that with the M2 I have to pay as much for adding 256 GB SSD as getting a 2 TB external HD!  That is an 8:1 ratio
And why do I have to pay as much for adding 256 (256 to 512) as adding 512 (going from 412 to 1TB) !?

I agree it's insane, I wouldn't mind the soldered memory and storage as much if it were more reasonably priced. How much they charge for memory and storage upgrades is criminal. External Thunderbolt storage has a bandwidth cap, even a single NVMe 3.0 will be much faster. Move to PCIe 4.0 or 5.0 and there is no comparison.
I'm a certified Mac technician, I've seen the inside of the M1 mini. There is SO much empty space, you could fit 2x 2.5" drives inside and still have lots of air movement, much less having a few NVMe blades. The logic board & heatsink only takes about 20% of the interior volume, the rest is just air space from using the same enclosure from the last 13 years.  It would be trivial for Apple to add that capability to the logic board, but they won't when they make as much as they do on storage upgrades.