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sflocal said:

I truly think the next iMac will signal an end to internal expansion.  The M1 has the RAM built into the chip.  That was the only think left that was upgradeable on the current iMac.  I don't see Apple moving away from that with future ASi chips.  Current iMac also has the SSD soldered in as well, and even the 4TB-8TB models (I have the 8TB model) the SSD is non-standard, and it shared with a soldered SSD on the motherboard.  

The ASi iMac will essentially be a gigantic iPad with extra ports and zero ability to upgrade anything internally.  

I'll say one thing about that... based on the horrible experience I had with my 2020 iMac during its first three months due to faulty RAM (by OWC), I can understand why Apple is going the way of UMA.  Not only will performance be so much better, but gone will be the days of system instabilities due to crappy RAM that was not Apple's fault, yet has to deal with countless service calls and repairs.  I'm sure Apple got fed up with that.

I wonder how Apple will handle the RAM situation.  It will certainly hurt it Apple charges the crazy-high RAM prices for their ASi systems as they were doing with the Intel versions.  I'm good for at least five years beforeI upgrade my iMac, so it will be interesting to see what Apple does.

MacPro said:

asdasd said:

I didn’t like him at first. He’s too much driven by the stock market (I thought) and less into product. 

So I thought. 

But now I feel he’s the best CEO since Jobs. And I mean anywhere. Maybe Musk is more innovative but Cook is an incredible operations focussed CEO. And Apple has been extremely innovative under his reign. I can’t imagine the jobs era, had it continued, being better. It would have been different though. 

I agree with all you say.  Of course, had Steve continued Tim would still have been CFO I have to assume.  So, I think Apple would have still been riding high.

Eric_WVGG said:

whoa nelly

I live on the top of an eleven floor building, and our elevator has been breaking down off and on for years. Walking up eleven flights is rough. Twenty two stories would be a serious no joke hike.

I suppose when one scaled that recreationally, they could at least leave groceries and their bicycle behind

crowley said:

I  have both London and Edinburgh as locations in Weather, and Edinburgh gets the next hour precipitation info, while London doesn't