KidGloves

CheeseFreeze said:

KidGloves said:

So, so close... Looks incredible. I could put up with 16GB of RAM but I see this only supports 2 monitors. I need 3 with my setup. Doh!

I thought it was in the bag and had the credit card out to order... Ah well. It does look tremendous though. All three products look really special. One of the great days for the Mac. And almost one for me... 

Three monitors to me sounds like you’d better wait for a more professional oriented offering, perhaps the MacBook Pro 16?

This is actually good news in a way. With only 2 TB ports instead of 4 in the Intel Mini, and a quarter of the max ram, Apple is intentionally hobbling the new Mini. This more or less confirms that the fabled xMac is coming. If it's halfway between this and the Mac Pro I'll be a happy man. They still mentioned that the transition will take 2 years but hopefully that's just a ploy to keep folk buying up current Intel stock and by the end on 2021 the iMac, xMac and Pro will all be getting the Apple Silicon speedy goodness.

So, so close... Looks incredible. I could put up with 16GB of RAM but I see this only supports 2 monitors. I need 3 with my setup. Doh!

I thought it was in the bag and had the credit card out to order... Ah well. It does look tremendous though. All three products look really special. One of the great days for the Mac. And almost one for me... 

Doesn't look good for Samsung. The A51 is a midrange phone. This can't be right, can it?

Does anyone have some rough info comparing the cost of the various Intel chips and the cost of an A12z?

As the A12z is effectively a 2018 chip, I'm assuming that Apple is holding back to show a beefed-up desktop optimised successor that will blow the A12z out of the water. I'm sure they did mention a family of upcoming chips. I'm just wondering if the baseline would be the A12z successor with maybe a couple of more powerful options up to something like a 64-core Graviton2 style chip for the Mac Pro and what the cost would be compared to Intel. 

The in-built security of the iOS ecosystem compared to the bandit country that is Android is always undersold. Android is a nightmare in this regard.

Also, the iPhone 11 will still be getting security and feature updates YEARS after the S20 is left withering on the vine. This is massively undersold too. 

All you read about is spec v spec. The above is extremely important and almost never appears in reviews, especially in the non-tech press such as the BBC, Guardian and the like.