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arthur greenwald said:

My Apple Watch unfailingly asks "Have you fallen? Are you allright?" every time I applaud at a concert or theatre. So I'm more than skeptical that the watch sensors can monitor "anxiety" in a meaningful way. I imagine any such notification would mainly seem inappropriate and therefore irritating. I also agree that redefining "anxiety" to match the capabilities of the watch is a public relations disaster in the making. I think Apple is smarter than that and that this feature is a baseless rumor.

I don't mean this in a sarcastic way but do you clap particularly hard or maybe think yours is faulty? I have fall detection on all the time and have only managed to have it ask me once when I was (probably quite 'exuberantly' as it was during a few beers in a pub) repeatedly demonstrating bracing for a fall when skiing. I have never been able to set it off when deliberately trying and have seen a lot of people fail to do the same on YouTube etc.

GeorgeBMac said:

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Beats said:

I love iMacs. Would love to see 1TB SSD standard now. And retina on all models. Maybe smaller bezels but not important.

davebarnes said:

We have over $3500 burning a hole in our pocket for a new iMac.
Want:
1. larger size than 27
2. double the resolution
3. SSD only

Larger than 27" and double the resolution? We already have 5k iMacs, doubling the resolution won't make a difference unless you mean very large screens when you mentioned larger than 27”.

Why do you care if an iMac is not SSD only? People are always harping about choice so why force something you want on a user who doesn’t want or need what you do? Of course you can order an SSD only iMac today so what’s the problem? And double the resolution? The iMac is 5K but you want 10K? How does that even work?

Non-SSD’s are only good for external storage.  

Blathering nonsense. Internal spinning hard drives are perfectly fine for most people and it’s why Apple still offers them. You don't need blinding electronic speed to send an email, play some music, and store photos. Yours is the same false argument used by the 5G crowd. Most people don’t need 5G speeds any time soon, especially on a mobile phone.

I have a perfectly workable 2012 iMac with a HD that’s failing causing the thing to be near worthless. Back then SSD prices made that solution unobtainable. Now the SSD costs are low enough to make SSD only iMacs a long term solution for those that want to send email, play some music, store photos beyond 2028. Seems like a win win

That iMac will have never run so well....   Best investment ever!

Did the same last week on my 2012 nRMBP. Thought I was going to throw it out and get a new one. The transformation was something else.

It is like a new computer and will easily last a couple more years for less than 10% of the cost of a new Mac.

The HDD was a bottleneck that was holding back otherwise impressive (after all these years) hardware. I agree that the sooner SDDs replace HDDs the better for the average consumer who wouldn't know why their Mac is slowing down and will just blame Apple and/or replace and waste perfectly good computers.

roake said:

ne1 said:

So let’s take a poll— who thinks we’ll see 

A) an iPad Pro Fall 2020 release with A13X
(And mini-LED, as predicted) 

or 

a next release of iPad Pro in Spring 2021 with A14X?

I’m curious because I have an upgrade due this fall and, well, quarantine— I’m bored.

A fall 2020 release is going to piss off the people who purchased the current one.

I hope it’s a 2021 A14X in a well thought out, much improved platform that the engineers will have been working on for almost 3 years.

Seconded. I can’t see it this year. They have skipped chip generations for the iPad Pro before and the iPad 3 to iPad 4 move was probably a lesson learned for Apple.

Jeff_in_TX said:

Already puchased...  

Ditto, and I got them engraved!