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SpamSandwich said:

How about a door that is completely seamless and impervious to lockpicking and being forced open?

Good luck with that after The Lockpicking Lawyer gets his hands & tools on it.

Rayz2016 said:

Once again, stopped at “Bloomberg”. 

They’re usually on a mission to promote issues caused by political reasons without directly saying it. I too stopped at Bloomberg and immediately looked to see if there was a comment on the story. If there wasn’t any I would have just moved on. 

mknelson said:

I'd tend to think supply issues still linger.

One weird sign: Go to the top 27" (8 core) and Apple says 3-4 weeks. Change RAM (because you aren't cheap  ), change the CPU, Storage, still 3-4 weeks

Change the GPU on the other hand. 1-2 weeks! The 5500XT seems to be the bottleneck on that model.

The bottleneck as for what folks are ordering. A lot of people know that the GPU an iMac ships with is almost always sufficient for their needs of a very long lasting machine with the software optimization that’ll take place for 10 years or so. What’s crazy is people are still buying the hell out of the “Outdated 5 years ago design” while knowing apple is about to release an entire new lineup. Don’t believe the YouTube media hype saying the current iMac is an eyesore of an old design. My 2017 i5 iMac is still a pleasure to look at and will bring top dollar as a used machine when I go to sell it. Not a single Windows machine has the ability to pull that sort of longevity off.  

If you don’t like Apple’s ways then don’t buy Apple. I don’t like Bill Gates’ ways so I choose not to purchase Microsoft products. It’s that simple. You cannot just “Force” a store to allow people to run around the isles possibly destroying your merchandise that you own and paid for much less force Apple to allow 3rd party app stores. This is the latest in socialism policy that doesn’t work in America or anywhere else for that matter. Force is not welcome. Free market and freedom period is. 

chasm said:

I note that this is specifically about 4K *HDR* content, so possibly the T2 is handling the image processing on that -- or, as the article posits, Netflix is over-generalizing to ensure that 2018 and later Macs are used when streaming Netflix to those devices.

Just my own opinion, but I spend plenty of time on my Mac and would rather not continue to sit there to watch a film. I can access services like Netflix on an iPad, on my Apple TV (or other streaming box, if I had one), and on every model I'm aware of Netflix is already built into the smart TV directly. A computer screen is the second-least desireable screen I would use for movie-watching (the first being a smartphone, though they'll do if you're stuck on a flight in economy class or some such).

I may be completely incorrect but I believe Apple had to come up with something (A chip) to handle the heavy-hitting processes like these because of Intel’s failure in the chip development allowing their iWhatever processors to process said 4K content without totally overheating and cooking the computer it’s in and all other components without throttling. Hence the whole reason Apple is in the process of switching to their own silicon, Intel cannot handle all of it on their own. My opinion, that’s all.