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mortarman81mm said:

Personally, I'd rather they enabled virtual backgrounds in Teams before doing this...

Microsoft agrees, which is why virtual backgrounds have been available for some time.

multimedia said:

What does PEBCAK mean?

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

CuJoYYC said:

I expect an iMac with the M1X or M2 which is essentially 2 x M1 SOC in one integrated chip with a 16 core CPU (maybe just 12 cores), 16 core GPU, 16 core Neural Engine, and double the USB-C/Thunderbolt ports, with HDMI, Ethernet, and even a 3.5 millimetre headphone jack. It will come with with two memory options of 16 or 32 GB of unified memory, FaceID, noticeably better built-in speakers and, optionally (hopefully), the ability to drive two satellite HomePod minis.

Announced in January or February.

That may be good enough for a 21" iMac replacement but not the 27". The current iMac can support up to 128GB of memory, and has much higher GPU performance with up to 16GB of dedicated memory, compared to a couple of M1s put together with shared video memory.

These higher end machines need a lot more engineering around how to incorporate GPUs and extra memory - unified memory on the SoC isn't scalable into the higher end iMacs and Pro machines. I'd imagine that all the cores will be high performance, no real need to waste space on efficiency cores on a desktop class processor, and hopefully an increase in clock speed over the M1 too.

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.

DAalseth said:

mike1 said:

Should you buy the Apple Watch Series 3?

Unless you're looking for a basic fitness tracker and simple iPhone to Apple Watch communications, the Apple Watch Series 3 should be off the table. It doesn't support some of Apple's newest bands, it doesn't support some of the latest watch faces, as you can't get a LTE version it doesn't support Family Setup.

Please explain about the bands. Always thought the 42mm/44mm bands were exactly the same size.

Yes, I thought the deal was all watches could attach to all bands. An AW band is an AW band. 

Not sure if it physically isn't possible however Apple state:
The Solo Loop and Braided Solo Loop straps are only compatible with Apple Watch SE and Apple Watch Series 4 or newer.