Xed

hmurchison said:

All vendors should be required to divulge radios and other communication capable products in their product whether they be dormant or not.   We are placing a lot of trust in purchasing hardware and leaving such items off of specification sheets is a red flag to me. 

1) Are you talking about security?

2) Didn't Apple used to include WiFi or BT chips that included FM in them, but without any of the required antennas or SW attached to make usable? If so, should they also disclose those, even if they're nonfunctional? Couldn't this cause some consumer confusion?

PS: I'm not opposed to increased transparency, but I do wonder if there might be a downside here.

jimh2 said:

Who in their right mind checks a computer?

I checked a Mac laptop, iPad, Apple Watch, and a whole bunch of other CE in a suitcase that only had clothes in it for padding. The suitcase and its CE contents were from a family member that wouldn't be using it so I was bringing it home to get it repurposed.

I had access to Find My on the devices so I could track it that way but I also put AirTags in the bag to track it.

williamlondon said:

dutchlord said:

Apple has the wrong priorities. Instead of focussing on the AI hype, better release a M4 27 inch iMac.

Same stale argument you trot out again and again, and oh so true given how successful they are, armchair fucking CEO.

I don't understand what "AI hype" means. Sure, it's been in the media, but that's because major breakthroughs have lead to beneficial new services. It's also something Apple has been including in their own chips for many years now. Finally, AI in their M-series chips has no bearing on whether Apple feels that a 27" iMac update is viable for the market or now. It's all just weird.

chasm said:

What Marvin (and Xed) said.

Desktop Macs appear to now be on a two-year cycle (at best). Notebooks way outsell desktops, so I think we’ll get at least M4 base models this year, maybe Pro and Max options for the MBPs as usual. The M4 Ultra is almost certainly going to wait till mid-next year.

The kind of double-digit speed increases we’ve seen suggest to me that the Mach5 (my name for the M5 … c’mon Apple that name’s just sitting there) is a 2025 chip, and that major chip changes will likely take longer than we’re used to going forward.

keithw said:

paisleydisco said:

The typical 'too bad. my credit card is waiting. Apple is taking too long' crowd has entered the chat.

Meanwhile their current computer does everything they need everyday.

No, I'm using a 2017 iMac Pro, and it's getting VERY long in the tooth. Yes, I DO need the power of a Mac Studio. I'm doing things now I never even dreamed of doing on the iMac Pro.  Yes, Apple IS taking too long. Buying an M2-based Mac Studio would be foolish at his point.  The M4 in the iPad Pro is 2.8x faster in single core and 1.74X faster in multicore than my old iMac Pro.  So please don't make generalizations!

So you have a 7 year old Intel-based Mac but say it would be very foolish to get an M2 Mac Studio released in 2022, which is 5 years newer than your iMac. So that means you don't need use your Mac in a way that would increase your productivity for work to a point that makes the expense worthwhile? If so, then why do you think that M4 Mac Studio would?

I wouldn't bet on a Mac Studio with M4 Max or Ultra being released —which are the two configurations of the Mac Studio) when we just got the M4 chip in an iPad, don't even have the base M4 in a MacBook Air, and don't have any M4 Pro chips on the market. If you have a salient argument as to how and why Apple would somehow skip everything logical to release a Mac Studio M4 Max and Ultra in a week, I'd like to hear it.