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I think it very likely that Apple will release products separately. Maybe if all three products get to "ready for volume shipment" within a week, Apple would hold up announcements and make them all at one time. But if the rumored 16" rMBP lags a couple of months behind the Mac Pro, would you...

I'm not going to get into politics. But there is a trade war with China going on right now, and Macs are assembled in China. Q.E.D. it is possible there will be an effect on Mac prices. Say you are in the market for a Mini, with somewhat better specs than the base one has now. Is it better...

According to Apple, iMovie will use the discrete GPU in a 15" MacBook Pro. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202053 Mind you, this doesn't tell you how much benefit it gets by doing so.

Seems like it ought to have a 17" display with 3840x2400 pixels. That would make it a true successor to the old 17", 1920x1200 pixel MBP – giving it UHDTV resolution plus a bit extra in the vertical direction (for a 16:10 aspect ratio). 3072x1920 pixels just doesn't seem like much of an...

Apple already sells a similar display: the $1,299; 27" LG UltraFine 5K Display. Same size, same resolution, IPS, DCI-P3 color gamut as the iMac 5K display. Works at full resolution with all current Macs except for the 12" Retina MacBook and the 2013 Mac Pro. Presumably it will work with the...

It does seem high. The $199 VESA mount adapter also seems priced on the high side, but you could, perhaps, combine it with an under-$800 third party stand.

How about the hiccup when Apple stopped selling floppy drives? Apple used a scheme on floppy disks that let them get 400K, 800K, and (unadvertised) 1600K where other vendors got 360K, 720K, and 1440K. I believe there was a custom chip, the IWM ("Integrated Woz Machine"), that made this...

So if you prefer mature technology at a lower price, what's keeping you from getting a Mac Mini or an iMac instead of a new Mac Pro?

That language is harsh, but I think that he was referring to the practice of embedding links to nearly-invisible (1 pixel) images in e-mail. Probably he has nothing against what the rest of that application does, per se. Embedding links to 1-pixel images is a favorite of all sorts of spammers...

The Early 2009 Mac Pro shipped with a 640 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB hard disk. Not a SSD.

Apple announced its plan to switch to Intel CPUs on June 6, 2005. That is the same time that it released the Developer Transition Kit. Intel-based Macs for customers did not appear until 2006, and while Apple did release some PowerPC-based Macs in Late 2005, their buyers would have known that...

Mac OS X grew both out of NeXTstep and out of classic Mac OS. Both of those started on the 68K architecture. According to Apple, IBM's slowness in coming up with a mobile version of the G5, and Intel's better CPU roadmap, were the reasons for the change. Analysts noted at the time that IBM...

The chances of a 16-inch one? Low. The chances of one with a different architecture? NIL. That would be completely out of character with the way that Apple handled previous CPU and OS transitions, where there was plenty of press coverage – of a higher caliber than rumor site speculation – in...