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I will never donate to Wikipedia again— too biased and unreliable. 

I see what you’re doing, Mark Zuckerberg. 

xyzzy-xxx said:

bluefire1 said:

No matter how laudable Apple‘s motives may be, this is an idea which should never have come to pass.

Totally agree, if it's really about the cloud they would need to scan in the cloud and not putting spyware onto a billion if devices.

Since scanning data on user's devices is prohibited in many countries, Apple is also in legal trouble (even when it officially is only in the USA), since a company plays the gatekeeper of this spyware and could change things at any time (even for specific users)!

Agree with both these points. 

Love the review of this older machine and I read it on my own 2018 i9 560x w/32GB RAM.

I was wondering how the 2018 i9 stood up to the M1 and very much appreciate the Geekbench scores. Since I work with RED 8K footage at times (mostly editing in proxy), the knowledge that the graphics card stands up to the M1 is helpful. 

Nevertheless, this is the year for me to upgrade, and so I will be saying goodbye to the 2018 i9 and purchasing an M1X 16" when they arrive this fall. But this has been a great machine and is still speedy and quick for most tasks!

Great, Apple. Now do the same thing for China.