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Apple Launches 'Help Me Choose' Website for Finding the Right Mac

AndiG said:
History prooves you wrong. After Scully, there was Jobs - again. So there is at least hope that after Tim "Scully" Cook, there might be another type of person leading Apple. Same happened to Microsoft with Nadella.
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Nadella, what an A$#hole! Windows as a (dis)service, you know, with an abundance of forced user telemetry and ads :mad:. Now we are facing Windows 11 and Windows Recall, what a farce. The future of Windows seems as enticing as radioactive waste.
 
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Apple needs to separate the processor from the screen, in both their laptops and desktops, so people can select the processor they want and the screen format they want, and not have to pay for screens and batteries they don’t want to get the processsor they want, or not get the processor they need because too expensive screen.

We need a new product line to replace iMac and Mac Mini and MacBookPro. Apple should make a new range of displays, and a “puck” sized CPU with the range of M4 processors. The puck could lock into the display or stand, so it would look like an All In One, or the puck could be placed on the desktop (your choice).

The puck would have your choice of CPU, Memory, Storage, and Ports, and also offer a range of batteries to choose from (and “no battery” option for people that don’t want to pay for a battery).

The puck could also be used with a MacBook as the screen and keyboard, eliminating many problems from putting a Pro CPU in the laptop. If people wanted, they could attach the m4 Pro puck to the MacBook to get that MBP all-in-one feeling.

The puck should not be called a Mac Mini because Mini is strongly associated with “desktop” category, and this would have a battery and be used with laptops. Mac Nano might work, but Nano is associated with iPod Nano that was too small and noveltyish compared to iPod Touch. This would have the full power of their MacBooks, just not be stuck inside one. Maybe call it Mac Liberty to highlight being liberated from chains of all-in-one designs.
 
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tomchr9 said:
Nadella, what an A$#hole! Windows as a (dis)service, you know, with an abundance of forced user telemetry and ads :mad:. Now we are facing Windows 11 and Windows Recall, what a farce. The future of Windows seems as enticing as radioactive waste.
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Nadella isn‘t interested in Windows. MS is about Cloud services, Devops and AI nowadays - Apple missed every single topic and concentrates on creating new emojis.
 
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StuBeck said:
For me I selected up to 2500 and the best choice was an $1100 machine...but yes, it should be an earlier option.
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I would like it to be skippable and just have it show some of the different models for me.
 
HowardEv said:
We need a new product line to replace iMac and Mac Mini and MacBookPro. Apple should make a new range of displays, and a “puck” sized CPU with the range of M4 processors. The puck could lock into the display or stand, so it would look like an All In One, or the puck could be placed on the desktop (your choice).
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Nothing is stopping Apple from doing it, except the bean counters will tell you it isn't worth it.

This is almost like the Jonothan concept (image below).

Modular systems are 100% buildable, but because every individual part ends up being expensive and having lots of overhead costs, the systems you build out of it are also too expensive.

TB5 could absolutely make something like the Jonothan a reality, it just isn't worth doing.

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This is the kind of junk Apple are pushing out these days.
Sales aren’t down because “people don’t know what to choose”

They’re all too expensive and underequipped
Poor value
 
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dspdoc said:
And hilariously, it always recommends that you spend every dime on the budget question they ask. LOL
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I pointed out earlier that they don't do that.

I put in a trivial to perform requirements, asked for a >$3500 budget, and it suggested a $1000 laptop. That is probably the right call for it.
 
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If it linked to your existing devices and asked what extra you wanted to do then that would help a lot.

I have a 2009 iMac with a huge SSD that kinda works for me, but it’d be interesting to see what it thought I needed now.
 
turbineseaplane said:
This is the kind of junk Apple are pushing out these days.
Sales aren’t down because “people don’t know what to choose”

They’re all too expensive and underequipped
Poor value
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Its will get worse when all those 8GB AS Macs have to deal with localized data caching with Apple Intelligence added. Good thing unified memory works as good as RAM with SSD r/w for Macs. Not only does the app/browser/OS need to swap cache a lot but people forget it is also the graphics RAM used by GPU. Imagine allocating 2 GB of 8GB of RAM for Apple intelligence?
 
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thewayfaerer said:
Once upon a time, Steve Jobs went to a whiteboard and drew up a chart which was a simple cross. At the top it had consumer and pro. On the sides it had desktop and portable. And those were the four products to reboot Apple. I think I remember he said that at this time there was some kind of guide for people to choose what was the right Mac for them.
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He was talking about needing a flow chart even as an Apple employee to understand the product lines. We are actually pretty close to the Mac product matrices that were around when Steve was there. Not the initial 4x4 one, but Steve is the one who introduced the Cube (which one could argue is the spiritual predecessor to the Studio) and the mini, which still exists.
 
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