john-useless

netrox said:

I am amazed there's no USB-C hub. I don't want USB-A, I don't want HDMI, I just want all USB-C ports. All modern devices use USB-C. Why are there no USB-C hub? 

Have you seen the CalDigit Thunderbolt 4 Element Hub? It's got four Thunderbolt 4 (USB-C) ports and four USB-A ports. I've got one for my M1 Mac mini.

Sounds about right. I've been waiting on a custom-build 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Max for over two months now, since late October 2021. It was originally supposed to be delivered in mid-December, but Apple revised the expected arrival date to late January.

I have waited three months for delivery of two Macintoshes before … but that was back in the early 1990s when Apple was still just a tiny company and Tim Cook hadn't yet arrived to tame the inventory and supply chain beasts. As for my M1 Max-based MacBook Pro today, it's hard to imagine why it's taking so long! One might think we are living through a pandemic with global semiconductor shortages.

OMG, AppleInsider, will you please stop using that Motor Trend image whenever Apple's rumored car comes up? That awful rendering looks like the answer to "What would a Saturn electric vehicle have looked like in 1998?" That's a question nobody would ever have wanted answered, and it burns my eyes (even as a former Saturn owner) every time I see it. Apple would never have released such a breathtakingly ugly vehicle, not even in 1998.

I know you need art for these stories and that there are no spy shots of an actual Apple vehicle available yet. Instead, please have your graphic designer come up with additional futuristic cars in silhouette with a glowing Apple logo on the grill. That will do nicely, thank you!

Mike, if "a buckle or connector right on my wrist flat on my desk" is uncomfortable, the third-party band you bought doesn't look like it would be much better. Why don't you get one of Apple's Solo Loop or Braided Solo Loop bands, or a third-party equivalent, which have no buckles or clasps at all?

neilm said:

ken_k said:

How in the world did Apple design a new keyboard and NOT include the inverted-T cursor keys? They got it right on all of the new Macbook models as well as the iPad Smart Keyboard but botched this up? What were they thinking? This keyboard will be a hard pass for me.

Why would anyone even care about that?

If my own cursor keys stopped working, it'd probably be a week before I noticed.

I use the arrow keys every single day — I certainly would notice. But I also use desktop Macs (iMacs, Mac minis) more often than my MacBooks … and I have a full-size Apple keyboard with numeric keypad on every desktop Mac. I'm glad they kept the same layout (with inverted-T arrow keys) on the new version of the full keyboard with numeric keypad.

That said, I agree with others who dislike the arrow key layout on the new keyboards that don't have the numeric keypad. They have the inverted-T arrow keys on the similarluy sized Magic Keyboard for iPad Pro, and I would have preferred that design on the smaller Magic Keyboard for the 2021 24-inch iMac.