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netrox said:

Adaptor exists for that purpose. I carry USB-C hub which serves for many devices. No professionals carry laptops without a bag for power and adaptors.  

Wow - a dongletown apologist.  Amazing. 
And with the battery life of these machines no, I will not be carrying around a power cord; it's not neccessary. And since it has useable ports I no longer need to carry around a bevy of dongles either.  Imagine that!  Not having to have a bunch of accessories in order to support basic functionality.  How innovative!

omasou said:

The screen is bigger so the notch is not taking away from he screen. If anything it's part of the menu bar

How do you figure?  For full screen content it's going to be there.  Indeed it was pretty prominent in the full screen shots they had during the show.   The screen is wider than 16:9 so that notch is going to be there when you play full screen video.  It's a baffling decision to me for a company so otherwise focused on aesthetics.  Even the notch on the iPhone doesn't interfere with full screen video in landscape mode. 
Oh well, guess I'll find out pretty quick just how much of a distraction it is. 

netrox said:

They even said you can charge with USB-C so what's the point of MagSafe?

The point of magsafe is the breakaway connection.  Biggest annoyance with the M1 Macbook Air - that stupid %@#$ USB-C charging cable that didn't detach.  So glad they brought it back; I thought I was going to loose Magsafe forever.  So glad I returned the MBA because I needed more RAM.  The only thing that would have made this laptop utterly perfect is if they would have included at least one USB A port - but with Magsafe and the SD slot it cuts the dongles required down to just one.  Thank god! 

What an odd segmentation of a service.  I see this driving more people away from the Homepod, not towards it.  

Not a good trend either. 

"Convincing people — and developers — to make a transition like the move from Intel to Apple Silicon, is enormously difficult."

Difficult for who?  All you have to do is use an Apple Silicon Mac and see just how seamless it is - and then experience the performance, to become a full convert.  I could hand an Apple Silicon Mac to my mother and she would have NO idea that the CPU in it is entirely different; the amount of applications that not only run unmodified but significantly faster still than on previous Mac's is truly astounding.