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DavidEsrati said:

Jony Ive is a stylist and ruined the MacBook Pro so he could make a case for his tiny toy- the MacBook Air.
The keyboards were useless, they ditched magsafe - you needed a dongle for everything.
Jony Ive leaving was the best move Apple could make.
Now if someone would talk some sense into Apple about getting serious about small business and return Apple Server- and fix Apple ID to work easily for corporate owned devices we might actually get somewhere.

There's no need for needing a server these days. Apple already has an AppleID solution for enterprise. It's called Apple Business Manager and they also have a lite MDM called Apple Business Essentials. With an MDM there's no reason to have a server at all really. If you need storage there are more than plenty of storage solutions out there that work great with Apple products. 

https://www.apple.com/business/enterprise/it/

https://www.apple.com/business/essentials/

Fortune500 companies all over the world use Apple Business Manager and an MDM solution such as Jamf to manage their Macs, iOS devices and AppleTV's. IBM for one is one of the largest major companies that use Macs in its environment using ABM and Jamf. They also use it for their iOS devices as well. 

You don't image a Mac anymore as it's all configured by MDM out of the box, or you restore it and let the MDM set it back up the way you want it. iOS devices are also setup automatically with the MDM, same goes for AppleTV's. There's no reason to do something like Netbooting, or QT streaming server, etc. There's just simply no reason to have macOS Server anymore. 

9secondkox2 said:

designr said:

1. $3,500
2. Face-scanning to size it.
3. Half-hour sales pitch.

Could they possibly put anymore friction on the customer path?

It must be purposeful. Apple must know by now that this was the wrong path. For every mile they push a rock uphill, the hill grows 2 miles higher. Apple can’t just quietly back away at this point and they need to have this bear some fruit. So whether it’s a version 3 product or an unrelated thing “that couldn’t be done without lessons learned from a shipping Vision Pro,” Apple is marching forward but with clear signs that this isn’t intended to be a mass market deal. 

And it’s not even out yet. Pretty rough stuff. 

The price is just… wow. I could buy a decent spec Mac for that. You know there is something wrong at the foundation/concept level when you have to over engineer the entire thing just to get it to make sense, solve flaws, etc. it’s just a bad concept. I mean kudos to Apple for having the brain and brawn to punch a square peg through a round hole, but dang. At some point, you just wake up and recognize this just isn’t something to pursue. 

You know people said the same thing about the iPhone when it came out and look where it is. Same can be said for Apple Watch, the iPod, the Mac, etc. You're the Steve Ballmer of this forum hands down. You have absolutely no vision (no pun intended) of future technology. You just want to stick with the status quo because it's good enough for today. 

timmillea said:

eightzero said:

AniMill said:

It really feels like foolish to buy a Mac Studio M2 Max/Ultra right now. An M2 Max system comes to $3800…and slower than the M3 14” MBP spec’ed above.

my guess would be the M3 studio line shows up when they can actually get the chip supply. the "missed opportunity" likely caused by the chips not being available in quantity yet. and something had to come out first.

Yesterday's announcement feels more like the death knell for the Studio. It always was a short-term product to cover up the lack of a Mac Pro. Now that an M3 Max can be put in a MacBook, it can be put in the Mini. The Studio should always have been Mini-sized. Only the top end Studio configurations justified the extra size and heat sinking - the lower-end Studios never did. The M3 range of Mac Minis will be coming out in a few months. They will embarrass the current Studio models, which I would expect to be quietly dropped. 

Not a death knell at all. The Ultra chip has always lagged behind the rest. The Mac Studio is the replacement to the iMac Pro and is a much better deal. The Mac Studio was updated this summer so it's not really due for an update yet anyways. I would bet early Spring 2024 w/M3 Max and M3 Ultra. 

And not a moment too soon!

9secondkox2 said:

macxpress said:

Afarstar said:

Hope this is true. I’m desperate to update my 10year old iMac. 

So why not just get what's available now? It's already waayyy faster than what you have and will easily last another 10yrs. 

Horrid advice. Buy a two year old iMac when a new one is just around the corner? You’re kidding surely. 

More like just wait with what you have until the iMac is update. An m3 will smoke the m1. 

Not horrid at all...what are they going to do to see the speed of the M3 in an iMac? Who cares if it'll smoke it. Oh wow you can launch Safari a tenth of a second faster! WOW!!! And there's no sure thing it's coming. It could be another 6 months for all we know. So they should just keep waiting and waiting for what could be within the next 2 weeks? The new iMac has been "just around the corner" for 6+ months now...maybe someday!