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OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

You left out the speed difference between the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac mini:
You are paying a lot more for the MacBook Pro for only a small speed difference. The MacBook Air seems like the one to get if you want a laptop. Otherwise the Mac mini is the top performer for the dollar at a starting price far below either of the laptops.

System: Mac mini (Late 2020) Apple M1 3192 MHz (8 cores)

Single-Core Score: 1728

Multi-Core Score: 7377

System: MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2020) Apple M1 3197 MHz (8 cores)

Single-Core Score: 1734

Multi-Core Score: 7534

System: MacBook Air (Late 2020) Apple M1 3187 MHz (8 cores)

Single-Core Score: 1516

Multi-Core Score: 5735

bwalls said:

Is it currently possible to run Mojave in emulation via Parallels or other virtualization? My brother's business depends on some 32-bit software that isn't going to be updated.

ednl said:

jdb8167 said:

ednl said:

jdb8167 said:

Why would they support 40 GB/s over TB3 and not USB4 which is mostly the same specification? Doesn't seem likely. If they have the bandwidth for 40 GB/s over TB3 they have enough for USB4 as well.

Because they probably use an existing Intel TB3 + USB chip, which doesn't do USB speeds greater than 10 Gbps.

Not from what I understand. The TB3/USB4 controller is on the SoC die and it is an Apple design.

Where did you see that? I don't think it is, at least I never saw that controller drawn onto the M1 chip die photo, like here from Anandtech: https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16252/M1.png

StrangeDays said:

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charlesn said:

1080p camera. HELLO? Even post-pandemic, Zoom meetings for business will be essential--honestly, how do you stick a 720p camera in a new 'Pro" laptop that you're essentially rolling out in 2021? Sure, the image processing may make it look "good for 720p," but the added cost to Apple for a better camera would have been miniscule. 

It’s 2020, not 2021. That being said, I’ve been working on a large federal contract where all of the staff is remote. Do you know how often we use video conferencing the past 5 years? No times. Not a single one. We use tools like Jabber and Webex and Teams and conduct meetings all the time, but they’re teleconference, as that’s all that’s needed to talk. We don’t need crummy video conference where everyone is looking slightly off-camera; there’s nothing gained when it comes to discussing projects and work to be done. Normals think Zoom is omg important, but it isn’t. It’s been teleconference for the past decade on our other contracts too. 

Your experience is not universal. Zoom has basically taken over the financial industry and others. What happened to WebexX ? Cisco dropped the ball. 

Look at Zoom share price ; most of the big push here is from business

My experience may not be universal, but I have decades of Fortune 500 and 100 experience in enterprise IT. We've been teleconferencing for decades. That hasn't changed, just because consumers are infatuated with a new video conference tool. (one with a lousy security track record, btw). My work for energy companies is global, it's teleconference. My work for the US federal government is national, it's teleconference. 

Share price is not indicative of tool value. Investors often don't know what they don't know.