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It’s missing brown-beige.  Talk about uninspired.

DOA.  Nuff said.

They still haven’t beaten that iMac G4’s floating display arm.  That computer got a lot of sales in customer service/kiosks for that reason alone.

This seems very slow considering OLED laptops have been a thing for quite a while now.  I know Apple’s requirements are a lot higher than current offerings, but still.  The iPhone OLED can already hit 2000 nits.  Is it that hard to scale these to laptop sizes?  At this rate micro LED won’t be a thing this decade.  Hopefully they can further improve mini LED in the meantime.

RIP Mac Pro.

Apple hates modularity.  Always has.  Heaven forbid users want to buy expansion not made by Apple.  They love to pressure you into buying more at the start “just in case” because you can’t add more later.  This seems like it was always the plan.  Nvidia is killing it lately and for years but Apple has to block them because they can’t compete.

I feel like Apple only went with Xeon Intel Mac Pros because they hated the product and wanted it to be as unappealing and overpriced as possible.  It seems obvious that they always intended to kill off PCIe despite it being such a massive ecosystem that professionals rely on.

This company is really pushing its luck.  The do great one day then completely screw you over the next.  I love my iPhone 14 Pro Max—a really great product far ahead of the competition in quality (IMO) and price—but despite advances in some aspects their other products seem to be getting gradually less and less appealing to me.  I’ll see what the M2 Max Mac Studio looks like, if there even is one, because that’s the only Mac that I’d possibly consider at this point.