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When Apple decided to move from PowerPC (RISC) to X86 (CISC), they had a strategy to move ALL of their computers to the X86 platform. It took a couple of years for the roll out of the hardware products, but it took a few more years for the software apps to be re-written from the ground up to X86, Microsoft being one of the hold outs. Apple DOES NOT HAVE a complete platform of ARM based processors that they can roll out a completely new line of Macs that are ALL based on ARM processors. PERIOD. I highly doubt Apple is going to muddy up and confuse everyone by having some Macs running ARM and other Macs running X86. it will cause more confusion with the application developers and that's going to cause even more confusion. Apple has already stated that they have no intentions of replacing X86 Based Macs with ARM. The only public statement they've made is that they are doing to AUGMENT X86 Macs with ARM for either enhancements or new features, which they have done by using these T chips to add security features, controllers, security features, Fingerprint ID sensing. So, they have reached their obligation and will continue doing so. Until Apple makes a public statement that they are switching to ARM based Macs ditching X86, anything discussed is PURE speculation, rumor, or guessing. There is NO validity to it UNTIL Apple says there is.. Microsoft is just dabbling in ARM processors for Windows devices, and they can do that because they failed in the smartphone industry with Windows phones on ARM. They failed at their first attempt with their ARM based Surface Products. I see them as just dabbling with Windows based ARM computers, but time will tell if they are successful at it and because they have over 90% market share in the installed base of computers, they can afford to dabble in it. Apple can't afford to dabble in it and fail.. They don't have a big enough market share to split off some of their Mac computers to ARM and their others running X86. Now, what's MORE plausible to me is a new designed laptop with a touch screen that's ARM based running a future version of iOS that adds more features that are in macOS. THAT I can see them possibly doing since iOS is their OS for ARM based computers. But running macOS on ARM for only a few or one selected units? Nah, don't be silly.

leehericks said:

Aaaaaaand still don’t need a folding screen.

Although, if anyone was to do it right, I would put my bet on Apple!

I just don’t see how anyone can make a bendable unit that’s sealed against dust, liquid, etc.    take a couple of sheets of paper, lay them flat so the edges meet, fold them gently, see how the edges don’t stay together?   That’s with thin sheets of paper and they don’t stay together.   I think this an impossible task to make the device.   

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melgross said:

They make good stuff. But since I decided to put off buying a new Mac Pro until late next year, when I hope they will go to PCIe 4, I can’t consider it. So for now I bought an iMac. To get all of the stuff from my old Mac Pro, I got an OWC Thunderbay 4 32TB RAID, which I set as a 10–two raid 0s. This way I can use it when I get the Mac Pro.

it’s always hard to decide how to do this. I love internal drives, but you still have to back a raid up. With raid 5, you have a write cache. If something goes down before that cache is written, then you can lose a lot of data. So with raid five, your raid and computer need to be on a ups. Or, you can disable the write cache and accept the slower writes. Dell Business Solutions doesn’t recommend raid 5 for business data. Instead they recommend raid 10, which would use two raid 5s.

just want to say that for critical data, and medium term storage, ALL raids need backup. In our video operations, we used raid 0, for capacity and speed, with another raid 0 as backup, with a third out of the room.

If you’re gonna invest in a RAID, a UPS is not an option, I actually use two, one for each power supply, all rack mounted. I’m not a fan of Promise but that’s a different story. Anyway, instead of using RRAID10, just get a massive drive to mirror your raid, this way in the unlikely scenario where power is lost during writing a file, you’ll still be able to recover your data. With raid5 you can attach two failover drives. I believe raids are better kept in a rack and not inside the computer.

I think you're right. Depending on your needs and budget. There's quite a lot of options for external TB RAID boxes. Have you ever thought about an external RAID where it's also a Boot drive so you really don't even use the internal other than back. up boot drive? I know that most external RAID that support bootable are typically hardware RAID. Just curious as to what you would consider.

Wgkrueger said:

“ Photoshop won't use more than 10 cores”. How embarrassing.

I'm sure Adobe is going to get their Apps to take full advantage of their higher end models. After all, Adobe is buying a bunch of these things for themselves.

rob53 said:

"The SSD are slotted and modular, but they're also linked to the T2 security chip." Very nice and secure feature. This should make it more difficult for people to steal just the SSD or replace it with a malware-laden SSD. This is a feature Apple should advertise. Of course iFixit sees it as an issue.

As far as their stupid video showing them grate cheese against the case, iFixit has finally gone too far and should be banned from any AI reporting. They used to be a very good repair site but now they've turned into a website that constantly criticizes every thing Apple does just because they're losing business because Apple is making products that don't fall apart and require repair like the other products they review.

I was always not thrilled with iFixIt because of a repair that IFixIt gave wrong information and it took me longer to repair and they instructed to purchase the wrong Optical Drive for the computer model I had.. I actually ended up spending too much time and money and I could have just had Apple do it for about the same price, less time and less headache with a warranty for the repair. So I'm not exactly thrilled with iFixIt. Plus the tools they sold me are cheap and low quality. But I agree, those women that did the cheese grating was stupid. At least they should have grated from the inside as it might done a better job. /s Plus neither of them have comedic appeal other than to laugh at them and not with them.