sweetheart777

dysamoria said:

Not interested in “smart” TVs. I want a basic, multi-I/O display. Not even a tuner.

That’s called a “monitor.” If it has a tuner, it’s a TV. Everyone has become sloppy about the difference.

Every Apple device, excluding AirPods can have its battery replaced for a reasonable service fee.

Do you get upset at your car company when your Honda runs out of gas?

Your laptop is designed to function for 3 years between battery replacements. So every 3 years, it needs a $100 tune up. How is that unreasonable? Spend $100 and have a good-as-new laptop. Not a bad deal! 

Imagine macOS optimized to run nearly everything on ARM64 while still allowing interoperability with x86-64 applications. The two processor complexes could be connected via Thunderbolt, which at 40 Gb/sec is pretty fast.

I sincerely hope there's an EPYC-based 64-core Mac Pro in the near future. 

As a software developer and hard-core audio/video editor, I'm hoping they allow mixing ARM-based and Intel x86-64 based cores.

Imagine a MacBook Pro that has 32 or 64 ARM cores, but also a Core i9 so that you can run Parallels and still have integrated Linux/Windows on your laptop, while the ARM cores would sip power when you don't need anything Intel draining the battery.

...or a Mac Pro that has a pluggable x86-64 CPU complex that allows you to plug in an EPYC 64-core module to work alongside your 64 core ARM64 main processor.

It's the perfect device for all those who love to give Apple the finger. :-(