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Does AI not realize how useless and flawed the data from CIRP is?  They are essentially two friends with a blog, who only survey 500 people to get their "data".  You don't need to be a statistics major to know that that sample size is far too small to be salient, even if they did sample it properly (which they don't).  

Their data is completely worthless, and shame on publications that report on their junk "data" without doing any due diligence.

fred1 said:

I’d love to hear about what you think of the LIDAR feature of the camera on the Pro and Pro Max models. Useful? and if so, for what?

The LIDAR scanner has many niche uses, but one that is pretty universal is that it allows the rear cameras to focus much quicker, even in extremely low light. 

stephenhouser99 said:

 A dark green like on the 11 pros &13 pros or a deep red would look amazing on the titanium versions.

I agree completely!  Both those colourways would look killer!!

saarek said:

I'm not the target market for this machine, so am not bothered. But I don't really see why anyone would buy this over an M2 Ultra Studio? I had assumed that Apple would have an M2 Ultra Max, or something, that really pushes the envelope for the Mac Pro and justified its existence...

I mean, I feel like they outlined it quite explicitly.  It’s for people who need PCIe slots for expansion.  It’s a Mac Studio with PCIe slots essentially.  The Thunderbolt 4 ports on the Mac Studio only have 4 lanes of PCIe Gen 3 worth of bandwidth.  That’s less than 4GB/s of throughput, and even worse that’s often shared across multiple ports.  The x16 PCIe gen 4 slots of the Mac Pro have almost 32 GB/s of bandwidth, and there’s 7 of them (two 16x, four 8x, one 4x) all with their own independent bandwidth.  Thunderbolt 4 just isn’t even in the same category.

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.