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entropys said:

I am disappointed in the power bricks:
1. It’s external.
2. proprietary
3. the cable is permanently connected to the brick. No swapping out for a longer/shorter cable, have to replace the lot if the cable breaks, or the brick come to that. Serious $.

I dislike external power bricks and have always appreciated built-in PSUs in Apple products (ATV, Mac mini, iMac, Airports etc.) but had it been internal it would have been proprietary and probably very difficult to replace given that Apple have probably made this Mac very difficult to open up.

I'm not sure the connected cable will be that much of an issue. It isn't a product like a laptop that is being plugged/unplugged and moved about all the time.

multimedia said:

What does PEBCAK mean?

User error. Problem exists between chair and keyboard, i.e. the person.

lkrupp said:

melgross said:

In June, during the presentation for the DC, Apple clearly stated that Office would be available when the first new Macs came out, so this is a disappointment.

They’re taking about a universal binary version. Are you claiming the current version will not run under Rosetta 2? Isn’t that what Rosetta 2 is for, running Intel coded apps? And you don’t need a universal binary to do that, right?

Apple demonstrated Word, Excel and Powerpoint all running natively on AS in June so I guess it is a little disappointing that you will only be able to get it within the Beta channel at product launch. Hopefully it is a stable version of Office recompiled, rather than including new Beta features as well which don't always work too well.

22july2013 said:

Actually, I'm surprised any Apple Silicon Mac supports Thunderbolt at all because up until now only Intel made Thunderbolt chips.

Intel opened up the possibility for other vendors to make their own controllers last year. There are AMD motherboards on the market that support Thunderbolt without any Intel support chips on board.

mac_dog said:

randominternetperson said:

AppleInsider said:

An example of bokeh in Portrait mode on the iPhone XR

That brown shape in the top center of that image is exactly what can go wrong. 

The camera works fine in the image. It’s just a crap composition. 

Whilst it could be improved you don't always get the opportunity in street photography to get a perfect composition. If you had camera capable of providing a shallow depth of field and good bokeh it wouldn't be an issue. Clearly the AI has failed to achieve what is possible with better quality equipment.