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Well, the problems with intel are much older than Swans tenure as CEO, he’s a convenient scapegoat for sins of the past, and I’m sure he’ll be well compensated for taking the fall.

If anyone needs a scapegoat CEO, a proper golden parachute provided, I can furnish a resume 🤣

It’s one USB-C port short, at least.
Assume you’re traveling, where outlets or plug adapters are always in short supply.

So you have USB-C AC adapter taking up one slot, now where can you hook up the MacBook and iPad?

Sure, one can arrange things differently: hook up the laptop to AC, the iPad and power bar each to the laptop (provided it has enough USB-C ports not otherwise in use), but that’s suboptimal, as the laptop tends to heat up, if it has to deliver a lot of charging power output.

“Emulate” is a bad choice of words in the context of CPUs where emulation has a distinctly different meaning, “are inspired by”, “take a similar approach”, etc. would be better.

Also, unless you try to accuse intel of industrial espionage, there’s no way intel would be able to bring to market new chips that quickly after the M1 introduction, so to imply intel is trying to knock off Apple’s approach, is a bit thick.

SoC isn’t a novel approach, even RasPis are doing it for years, and ARM had long hybrid CPU designs with low-power and high-performance cores. That’s not unique to the M1, nor is it in particular what makes the M1 a great design, i.e. integrated, unified memory design, integrated graphics, signal, and neural processing. None of those things which are hallmark features of the M1 seem to be present, except likely an intel on-chip GPU.

Who cares? The real question: will people upgrading (especially from the 2018 model, where it may be more tempting to do so) have to buy another, expensive MagicKeyboard, or will the new versions fit? “Some mm” can make a big difference, in these regards...

Cool concept. As to price: yeah, sounds expensive. But after you save a few hours in productivity (and that happens quickly) as a professional, you’re already turning a profit.
And a press photographer being able to suck down a few cameras’ pictures at once quickly may mean the difference between selling a shot or losing out to the competition: one otherwise lost sale, and the thing paid for itself.