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  • M2 MacBook Pro vs M3 MacBook Pro -- specs, features compared

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    skiwi said:
    Can anyone state whether the new MacBook Pro’s can support dual displays over a single T3/4 connection?
    That's supported by the Thunderbolt standard. What isn't possible is connecting more displays than allowed by daisy chaining.

    Alex1N said:
    I would have thought that hardware ray tracing - gone on about at length with the iPhone 15 Pro range’s A17 Pro SoC - would have had more coverage in an article which compares the M2 and M3 (in the context of the devices, of course). Hopefully AI will give more insight into this in a future article, rather than mentioning it pretty much as an also-ran at the end of a section.
    This already long article didn't have much space for a detailed analysis of what hardware accelerated ray tracing and mesh mapping means for M3. You're right, that will be something we'll have to detail later.
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  • M3 24-inch iMac vs M1 24-inch iMac -- Specs, price, and features, compared

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    If you're here looking for deleted posts, look at rule number 3 in the commenting guidelines. Remember to email us if you find a mistake or have a complaint. Forums are for discussing the content of the piece, not how it was written.
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  • How Apple's iPhone 15 Pro Max captured the 'Scary Fast' Apple Event

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    Come on AI
    If you're concerned about how we cover content, please send us an email. Reread the forum rules and see that it is against the rules to criticize the content and coverage within the forums. This is a place to talk about the news, not about how we cover it.

    We always link to the source of news, especially when we cover content originally sourced from another website or even one of our competitors. It is an industry practice not to link to a PR website. The point of PR is to give news sources copy to post on their own website. Rather than copy and past Apple's PR post like some websites do, we contextualize it.

     If we cover news that has already appeared on another website, it is to give our readers a chance to see it too. Maybe you follow every news website in the industry, but there are many who only get their Apple news from a single source like AppleInsider. So we want to inform those readers and insure we're part of the conversation.

    Our links to other AI content help expand on context. Links to specific terms like device names or services are to wikipedia style information pages we maintain to further help the reader if they want more info on a specific thing. Again, an industry norm.

    Criticism is welcome, but this isn't the avenue for it. And much of your criticism comes from not understanding how the industry operates and confusing your personal preferences with how our company should operate.

    Thanks for being concerned and I see you're an avid poster in our forum, but remember we're not writing just for you. We're also generally open about how we choose topics and coverage, so feel free to reach out via email or social media if you have specific questions.
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  • How Apple's iPhone 15 Pro Max captured the 'Scary Fast' Apple Event

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    hmlongco said:
    I'm not quite sure a $1,000 camera strapped to an $100,000 rig is what most people think of when they see "Shot On iPhone"...
    Yeah, there's a lot of expensive lights and dollies. BUT, think of it another way. Apple would normally shoot these events on incredibly expensive and large video cameras that start at $8,000 on the low end.

    Apple replaced those cameras with iPhones. The same iPhone you can buy and carry in your pocket. That's what shot on iPhone conveys. Apple replaced studio cameras with an iPhone and no one noticed until Apple pointed it out at the end of the video.

    To me, that's pretty huge.
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  • iPhone 16 Pro could get thinner, lighter camera lenses that improve optical zoom

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    charlesn said:
    None of the IPhone Pro's 3 lenses feature "optical zoom" and that term should be banned when describing them.
    Yes, it is not a zoom lens, which would imply it physically can move between focal lengths. Optical zoom, as it is used in the title refers to the focal length being increased for the telephoto lens, it doesn't imply the lens is physically zooming. So, optical in this case is referring to the lens being a physical lens, not a digital recreation within the 24MP main camera. Zoom in this case was used to refer to the distance at which the telephoto lens was capable of seeing. I didn't call it an optical zoom lens and understand the distinction.

    You made a similar comment on my iPhone 15 Pro Max review, so I wanted to clear that up.

    Also, I don't believe the Main Camera has to carry the range between 1x and 5x. It's pretty clear that it handles 1x to 2x as the Camera app shows. Then you skip from 2x to 5x. For my uses, that's just fine and desirable. I get way more use out of an optically superior 5x lens versus the previous 3x lens. The 2x crop is enough for that range.

    My most used focal lengths so far this generation are 35 mm and 120 mm.
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