OutdoorAppDeveloper

What's missing?
No upgradeability. At all. None. Zero. Nada.
No way to upgrade the RAM, SSD or any other components.
What you get is what you get. Forever. You are welcome.
Not even a M.2 slot for when the built in SSD seems very slow and small two years from now.

Those GPU speed/power charts were missing the name of the discrete GPUs they used for comparison. The charts shown when the M1 Pro and Max when the MacBook Pro was released ended up being very misleading. How exactly does the M1 Ultra stack up to a RTX 3090 when ray tracing in Blender? Who knows? Guess we have to wait for a real review to find out. We do know that that the M1 Max hash rate is around 10.7 MH/s while a 3090 gets 121 MH/s so even if the M1 Ultra is twice as fast, it is still 1/6th the speed of the 3090.

22july2013 said:

OutdoorAppDeveloper said:

I bet less than 10% of iOS users would enable side loading on an old device but if they want to they should be able to. This is why jailbreaking exists. Apple should just make an official way to jailbreak old devices and be done with it.

Apple should allow jailbreaking by letting users replace iOS with Android, but not by weakening iOS.

You are neglecting the fact that should side loading be allowed on iOS, companies like FaceBook would insist that any software developers who want data from FaceBook would be required to make their app "require side loading." That way FaceBook gets more data. And with a majority of software switching to side-loading to become more profitable, everything would have to be side loaded.

FaceBook could not require that users enable side loading in order to use their app. The market size is just too small. I would expect very few iOS users to enable side loading and disable iCloud an App Store apps on their devices. FaceBook can't give up the iOS market and they don't have the weight to force users to do anything. FaceBook still works in a browser so users would simply stop using the FaceBook app if they tried it.

Allowing jailbreaking does not weaken iOS. It strengthens it. Currently jail breaking is possible in older versions of iOS. That's really bad for security because it means that apps the user downloads from the official App Store on those devices have their personal data exposed to other apps. With the method I propose, it means that side loaded apps would not have access to any secure information. Users would have to manage security on their own (or with third party apps). A jail broken iPhone would be exactly like a Mac Book, Windows PC or Raspberry Pi when it comes to security.

Of course side loading is a malware danger. That was never being debated. The solution is simple: A switch that turns on side loading and turns off features like the official Apple App Store and iCloud that would be compromised by a side loaded app. Users who enable side loading would use third party app stores on their device. It's perfect for older iOS devices that otherwise would otherwise collect dust and is also a great way to recycle old devices. I bet less than 10% of iOS users would enable side loading on an old device but if they want to they should be able to. This is why jailbreaking exists. Apple should just make an official way to jailbreak old devices and be done with it.

tht said:

Reportedly, the device will be mostly based on the Mac mini's design but will feature "much more powerful hardware."

This is what threw me in reading the article. If this Mac Studio is the rumored Mac Half Pro, something the size of 3 or 4 stacked Mac mini's or a PowerMac G4 Cube, or a 2013 Mac Pro, or a Mac IIci on its side, at some point it's really not based on the Mac mini's design anymore.

If it is that much larger, there isn't going to be much similarity between a Mac mini and this box.

Then, how is it going to differ from the Mac mini that is rumored to have an M1 Pro and perhaps an M1 Max?

The one thing I never worry about is how a new Mac is going to look. Apple always does a great job with the visual design of their products. It will look great even if it is larger than the current Mac mini. The thing that worries me is releasing any kind of "pro" Mac that has no expandability. At least give us a couple of M.2 slots!

Both screens would need to be touch screens or the laptop would be super lame. "You can touch this but not that" would be confusing to everyone.