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So the reason for the taller profile on a Mac mini base? Pretty massive active cooling. Not so much about M1 Max performance, but the M1 Ultra is putting out twice as much heat, since it is basically 2 M1 Max chips.

Like a few people above, a taller Mac mini makes no sense, unless it is tall enough for PCI slots, and that doesn't seem to be. I don't see Apple putting in space for spinning rust drives in this day and age, if they allow for disk expansion, it will be NVMe or smaller.

That much empty space doesn't make much sense, unless this thing is going to run really hot, which doesn't seem to be borne out by the other Apple Si Macs.

In other words, I think a mini-tower is probably a better configuration for a proposed "Mac Studio" to allow for expansion slots. So I don't see this as likely at all. Still, I don't work for Apple's design unit, so what do I know?

opinion said:

Wishlist:
-No chin
-No external power brick
-Height adjustable stand

I don't get, and have never got, this obsession with "no chin", "no bezels", and all that nonsense. As for the external power brick, I think that ship has sailed. I'm guessing hey want to use the new MagSafe adapter for it, and that isn't just a dumb power plug. Plus, if they moved the power supply back to being internal, then they'd probably have to give it a bigger chin, so there goes your first wish.

Height adjustable stand they might do, or they might just sell a plate so you can install it on a monitor arm.

muthuk_vanalingam said:

crowley said:

muthuk_vanalingam said:

ravnorodom said:

Watch. The moment this folding iPhone is out, Samsung will release ultra folding origami phone. 

Just FYI - Samsung has already launched 3 generations of folding phones. By time Apple comes out with their own version of folding phone (assuming late 2023 at the earliest), Samsung would be on 5th generation of foldable phones.

They were on their nth generation of 'smartphones' when the iPhone launched too.  Being an early bird might catch a few worms, but Apple aren't interested in worms.

As I already mentioned, you have to read my comment in context - it was a response to @ravnorodom who claimed the Samsung would follow Apple's lead on the foldable phones, which is an extremely ridiculous claim to make.

And you seem to be one among the many in this forum who do not get why a foldable form factor is a useful one. It will change in the next couple of years. The technology has moved forward fairly well in the last couple of years. The recently launched Oppo Find N seems to be the best of the lot in terms of footprint/design. Foldable phones will become mainstream by 2024/2025.

But if you read ravnorodom's original post in context, they weren't saying that Samsung would suddenly start selling folding phones, they were saying that Samsung would react by releasing an "ultra folding origami phone", which to me implies they would start selling a phone that folds multiple times, possibly into the shape of a swan.

A foldable phone may be useful, for some use cases, but I'm yet to see a good solution to the folding screen idea, that doesn't deals with the issues around repeatedly bending a flexible screen in the middle.

But I thought professionals used SD cards, not CF cards. I mean isn’t that why the MBP needed an SD card reader?