I’d much rather have upgradeable RAM and SSD thanks.
Never gonna be a thing with the way Apple Silicon Macs are built.
I was hoping when the Mac Pro came out they’d do some sort of 2 tier memory solution where you have 32 gigs of very fast ram, and 1TB of slow RAM. But instead they just put glued two M2s together and called it a day.
On what situation do people buy this over a macbook? When they absolutely need an ethernet port?
I hope they don’t get stingy on the ports.
I know some people will “everything is usb-c now!” except everything isn’t, so stop.
I have a ten year old Mac Mini on my desk that has two FireWire, four usb, an sd card reader, and Ethernet. I still want most of these things (though, of course swap FireWire for some number of usb-c). I don’t want to HAVE to buy a dock for this machine.
In hearing that it’ll be smaller, my initial assumption is Apple will do the Apple thing and arbitrarily reduce the number of ports while saying “if you want more here’s the Mac Studio that’s way more expensive!”
Realistically they could just make this a hybrid model that can be either an entry level Mac or an Apple TV all in one device.
The “Apple Hub”, use it as an Apple TV or use as a lightweight family computer on your existing display. Perfect!
Then sell for $225 with 1TB nvme and 16GB RAM but no display or camera.
