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dstrauss said:

What is the attraction with the iMac at this point? Why not get the Mac Mini, LG quality 27-32" monitor, and the keyboard/mouse and go to town?

Fewer cables, perfect integration, higher re-sale value, beauty. 

I am pleased that there is no consensus on predictions. It shows that Apple have done a better job on their formerly famous secrecy. 

My prediction is that it is all about the M3 on the 3nM process.

That would mean refreshes of the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13" and iMac 24". The Mac Mini, as ever, is likely to follow later without fanfare. 

Apple tends to over-engineer everything. There is more computing power in an Apple USB-C power adapter than powered the first moon landing. Those who study practically any Apple laptop or desktop say they use three to four times the number of screws and bolts of any other manufacturer. The simplest dongle, or cable in this case, would be uneconomic for any other company to design and manufacture. Apple may be just a little pricey but by far the best value. 

jdw said:

The scary thing about very old iPhone is the battery condition.  We in the vintage Mac community know very well how old Maxell lithiums have destroyed one too many Mac motherboards.  So seeing how this old iPhone has fared through the years will be interesting, assuming the new owner decides to open it.  A battery is a bag of chemicals just waiting to spray its guts all over the place. Unlike a vintage wine, when you open a boxed iPhone a hundred years hence, it will reveal little more than a mess inside.

Unfortunately it is the same with wine. At 16 years, the age of the original iPhone, no matter how well sterilised the bottle and cork was, and no matter what the pretentious wine folk say, a wine is well past its best. 

Once upon a time the dominant global supplier of computers, IBM, gave rights to an unknown startup, Microsoft, to provide the OS for the insignificant personal computer market. The rest is...

In this the CMA has acted correctly, taking expert advice that the cloud aspect of the gaming market is in its infancy and to hand Activision to Microsoft would be anti-competitive in an emerging market. The CMA told Microsoft so early on but Microsoft's lawyers lawyers thought they could get around the CMA. They failed. 

What appears to be insignificant today can end up with the likes of Windows dominating personal computing for decades. 

Well done the UK CMA.