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Imagine losing your great job that you worked your ass off for, working at a great company in an amazing state of the art building for something so stupid. It's not like Apple doesn't already pay them well. People are just dumb! SMH

bloggerblog said:

I would like to see Apple run their own MacWorld expo, no iPhones or iPads, just Macs. MacWorld events were super useful and I miss them. I'm sure there will be iPhone, iPad, Windows, Linux, and other products but they'll be related to the Mac.

I do miss Apple Expo's, especially their live Keynotes.

But I understand why they do things they way they do them now. They can reach a much larger audience just doing everything online. 

Apple apparently cares about your Privacy, yet it continues to use Google as its default search engine. This is purely a financial decision only. 

Well in time you should see stuff. You're not going to see mind blowing new stuff every single year. Hell, even with Steve Jobs as CEO you didn't see this. There were so many boring minimal updates year after year after year and people seem to think every year was just amazing for Apple during these times when it wasn't. 

Everything takes time to get there. Apple now has amazing new chips and it has to have stuff in the pipeline and perhaps the technology just isn't quite there yet for other portion of the product in development even though it has really fast and efficient chips at the ready. 

sflocal said:

timmillea said:

The article is full of comments and opinions that will be out of date extremely soon. 

Apple subsidised the CD-ROM optical drive market before PC users knew of their existence and discontinued them just as PC users expected them as standard. Thunderbolt 5 is another forward-thinking but transitory spec. 

The Mac Studio has always been a hideous monstrosity and the kindest thing would be to end it. The new Mac mini, finally relieved in terms of historic size requirements to accommodate an optical drive is the way to go. The Mac Studio was half marketing and half a cover-up over the lack of a new Mac Pro. Apple have made plenty of missteps with Mac over the last five or so years. They make their money from iPhone and 'services' now and appear to have betrayed their core DNA. 

While I do believe the Mac Studio was a Mac Pro replacement, I don't see how a footprint the size of the Mac mini will handle the higher thermal temps of the Max/Ultra chips.  I see the Mac Studio continuing with the higher-tier chips.

Apple will have to do something groundbreaking to continue with the Mac Pro.   

A couple of things that I think would set the Mac Pro apart is if they could put like an M4 Extreme inside it across the board except for maybe the lower end model...something like 2 M4 Ultra's put together or just a bad ass M4 Ultra. It would be expensive to mass produce most likely and would fit well in the Mac Pro. The other thing that would set it apart is expansion if they could figure out a way to allow for user expansion. Even if most Pro users don't "upgrade" their Macs for longevity after a couple of years the fact that they can still plug in the latest audio/video cards, or something like that would possibly set the Mac Pro apart from the Mac Studio. 

Question is...is Apple willing to put forth the effort and money for such a low volume Mac. I would think it's the worst selling Mac they have, even if/when they release a brand new model. So is it worth it to Apple to spend IDK $500 million developing a new Mac Pro which they may or may not get a return on their investment?