y2an

Since no-one knows the pre-order inventory level, I t’s kind of silly to get excited about delivery dates starting to slip…

I respectfully disagree. Younger customers in particular are anxious about the planet and Apple has a clear agenda and actions towards their part in this. Far from being a dry and full of chalk and talk report, this lightened this important topic, especially for the TikTok generation, and elevated Apple’s value proposition (justifies the price). And this was a very important first - their first carbon neutral product, with more to come (it might be any electronics manufacturers’ first carbon neutral product, for that matter). This is what success needs to look like everywhere and, corny as it might have been, this was a great way to drive that home. 

The connector in that image isn’t aligned to the central plane of the chassis. Fake?

These are not automatic calls, this is a different problem from iPhone. 

They have an interesting challenge here. They are selling a computer with integrated high performance graphics, so if they enable customers to use external GPUs then the next complaint will be having to pay for the integrated graphics even though with external GPUs it’s not being used. A can’t-win situation. Then again, the performance gains for the integrated graphics come in part from unified memory and would be lost with external GPUs. Can’t win, again.