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Speedy recovery. From my personal motorcycle creative riding, you will discover even more places that hurt over the next few days. Fortunately you were within a cell tower's range. I carried "SPOT" back in the day that could communicate with SARSat, but I would have to be conscious to activate it. The automatic feature was a life saver for you.

This built in emergency system is why I upgraded my watch and iPhone "just in case" when it became available. 

Very pleased this chap was saved by a technology that is so new but extremely wonderful when needed,

All these scores miss a very pertinent point: file transfer and storage. The 8TB SSD option is probably (for Apple inventory purposes) the same drive on the Mac Mini, both Pro laptop models, MacStudio and the Mac Pro. The MacPro should be having SSD raids with a bus designed to support high speed transfers of the TB sized video and data files. No raid array room in the MacStudio and laptops with current designs.

So the single core speed is very relevant for the daily mundane chores that are not multi-threaded. Maybe the M4 will improve from the M3 average of around 3000 to around 3450 or so. But there is probably a thermal barrier to how fast they can clock the processor and still have a useful service life.

The M series bought Apple some breathing room to get away from Intel. But they need a new series to keep downsizing and speeding up. One would think there is a finite barrier to this existing "M" technology.

We need a new extremely fast communication protocol to get stuff on and off the computer and fiber optic may be the way but the bus and storage devices have to be able to handle the data flow coming and going.

So give it up guys. Apple is making their own GPUs as part of a chip. They expended no effort to support graphic cards in the new M powered Mac Pro. They have said in big bold letters "we are building our own complete system so we do not have to worry about compatibility or support for third party products".

That basically means that all the comparisons to third party stuff is meaningless as none of it can be directly installed in Apple products and or run on MacOS. We have zero information on how third party stuff would work in the current Apple world equipment.

We have a very simple choice array now. Apple OS or Windows.

Once the Apple OS decision is made, then one can choose from consumer products (in Apple's world) of the iMac, low tier MacBook Airs and low end Mac mini. The middle tier is the upper models of the MacBook Airs and Mac mini and 14" M3 MacBook Pro. The pro world includes the M3 Max, Pro and Ultra trim lines with prices to match. 

The Geek Bench scores are one of the best known ways to compare the performances  to a score. However, some vendors have been known to build to make a great score.

Based upon the the memory differentials between the M2 series and released M3 series , I would expect that the M3 Ultra will have 256GB of ram unless they cripple the Studio so that the Tower gets the most memory to justify the $3k differential.  My M1 Ultra Studio has 128GB of ram and the M2 Ultra Studio has 192GB of ram.