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  • Apple, please move us all to USB-C across the board with the 2019 iPhone

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    Alternative idea: Perhaps the plan for iPhone is to phase out a wired connector entirely. It seems to me that once wireless charging gets a big enough foothold, and Bluetooth matures for short range data transmission, there is not compelling reason to continue punching a big hole in the bottom of our iPhones. I'd prefer a completely wireless iPhone that was more waterproof & had more room for battery & functional components.
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  • Apple's powerful new Mac mini perfectly suits the 'Pro' market, yet the complaints have al...

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    bloggerblog said:
    This is a hostile, lopsided article that fails to understand users needs.

    I am no Mac Mini enthusiast or buyer, but I can relate to the user’s arguments of a reasonably cost effective Mac for those who aren’t seeking portability and who already own a monitor, keyboard etc. For Apple to slap them with such high prices is not going to go well. There should’ve been a well configured option for $499, then charge whatever  for the pro. They sure know how to pull off such options for the iPad. 
    Apple charging high prices won’t go well for them? Do you hear yourself? That’s exactly what Apple does! And they’ve been quite successful. 
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  • Apple's powerful new Mac mini perfectly suits the 'Pro' market, yet the complaints have al...

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    rcfa said:
    The one thing that is missing: ECC RAM, otherwise, particularly in combination with an eGPU, this is a killer machine.
    MacPro feature. 
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  • Apple's powerful new Mac mini perfectly suits the 'Pro' market, yet the complaints have al...

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    maxkraft said:
    The Mac mini is not a bad machine. But if I wanted to make a pro machine I would have added a better GPU option. Anything in the 1050 or 560 range would be fine. Apple even shows one benchmark with an external GPU. So Apple is aware that people might want more GPU power. 

    Not all Mac minis would need a faster GPU, but this will in no way make Pro users that looking for a new desktop happy. Especially with no new iMacs.
    MacPro feature. 
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  • Apple's new Mac mini finally arrives with 5X performance, Thunderbolt 3, more

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    danvm said:
    polymnia said:
    I love the 180° turn in Mac design. Maybe I'm living in the reality distortion field, but the last few Mac hardware updates seem much more substantial. I love seeing them move their T chip technology through the Mac line. One could argue that the most likely Mac to leave off the T chip is the Mini—its (traditionally) such minimalist Mac. Putting a T chip in the Mini sends a signal that this is a core component fo the Mac platform moving forward.

    When Intel leaves Apple with no significantly new tech for years, Apple has gotten resourceful and developed some great supporting technology. Best part about it is no other vendor can just order T chips from Intel to make equivalent secure machines. Apple is designing they own differentiating tech and they don't have to share it. Apple has been crafting a PR story about privacy and security for years. Now they have that strategy baked into silicon that will soon be shipping in every Mac.


    I found this whitepaper from Apple (which is very nice) about the T2, and was updated this month.


    Although I haven't read it in detail, I noticed that the T2 has many elements Windows and business devices as Thinkpads had for years.  IBM/Lenovo have been offering hardware encrypted hard drives for close to 10 years.  Windows 8 was the first version with Secure Boot and it think the first version of Windows that worked with the TPM chip.  Windows 10 is a step higher, since now Bitlocker integrates with hardware encrypted HDD. Plus MS have Windows Hello since the SP4 a few years ago. 

    It's true that PC vendors don't have access to the T2 chip, but they still have the tools and hardware to secure their devices.  At the end, it's nice to see that many vendors are looking seriously to secure their hardware. 
    I guess my point wasn't that no one else has these kind of features.

    My point is that Apple developed it's own solution and didn't buy it from someone else.

    When they buy from someone else, they end up victims of their own success: Apple required PowerPC chips with certain attributes, but since it wasn't aligned with the way their vendors wanted to take the platform, Apple had to jump ship. Now Intel is happy to sit on their laurels and milk the tech industry while releasing precious little breakthrough technology. Apple is in the position of having built up a market of users happy to pay a premium for premium product, but their vendors all like, "woah, there, big shooter! We are gonna take things REAL easy and trickle out the tech slowly and make every cent possible at every incremental improvement. That's how we roll."

    I'm happy to see Apple roll their own, wether or not they invented the tech or not.
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