timmillea

An M2 Pro Mac Mini would make the Mac Studio look like the bloated, over-priced monstrosity it is. The only way they would sit together is if the Mini had drastically restricted ports and throttled-back M2 Pro performance. I think it will be a plain M2 Mac Mini, delayed due to supply constraints and because Apple has traditionally been slow to refresh the Mini. 

tommytallboy said:

Now that Jony Ive has left, why does Apple still not give enough ports to the computers?

They actually want people to be in dongle hell. 

I love my dongle. 

Apple has some previous history. Apple Computer was sued by the Beatles company, Apple, for the use of the name. The eventual settlement required Apple Computer never to move into music. Over the subsequent years, Apple Computer dropped the "Computer" and moved into music. I imagine this all happened before Apple's current lawyers grew up. 

These pointless litigations do not portray Apple in a good light. 

Not going to happen. The car-loving US culture blind-sides Apple in the pointlessness of this endeavour. 

Sir Clive Sinclair, who created the original personal electric car in 1985, then spent millions in research into finding the optimum cycling geometry only to find that the existing geometries were already optimum. Solution already there. 

There is no future for expensive driverless cars. The future is walking, cycling, tuk-tuks and shared minibuses. It will always be cheaper to employ a driver than to maintain a network of backup people to rush to a vehicle to sort out inevitable issues that arise. It will always be better for a society to walk or cycle. Something Sir Clive realised decades ago. 

Simply replacing gas-guzzling vehicles with their electric counterparts does not cut it. Driverless does not cut it. The problem has already been solved but many of the current generation do not wish to accept the solution.

A vote for Handbrake. Whether it is transcoding an entire library of Blu-rays or compressing a phone video for email, Handbrake does a shockingly effective job. The only real choice is between encoding time and encoded size. I have just encoded Schindler's List Blu-ray. It took a full day on an M1 Mac (Handbrake is native on Apple Silicon) and resulted in an H.265 barely perceptibly different from the original but just 12% of the size. The audio options are awesome too (e.g. 5.1 -> Dolby Pro Logic in AAC at any bit rate).