I’m sorry, but if we’re going to go along this line of “everyone who is a pro at something should have a pro machine targeted at them” then almost all computing devices become pro devices.<p>I was interested in these unexpected pro functionalities this guy was about to reveal but then it turned into a post about all of his opinions on what he’d like to be different about these computers.<p>Sounds like he’s been using his iMac since 2014 though. So <i>something</i> about these devices is making him stay, even though many of his problems as perfectly solvable with other solutions. Which is something a professional would probably go for…
I thought this article, or at least the title and the thesis of the article is quite poorly written. None of what he wrote has anything to do with "other types of professionals".<p>Although I agree with most of his complains.
As I see it the primary customers for the professional class Macs are employees of ‘tech companies’, where there are rich veins of enterprise funding just waiting to be wasted.
Re: Cellular Connectivity
Apple purchased the 5g chip ip and development teams from Intel in 2019, so I suspect we’ll see those modems in more apple gear this year. To maximise advertising impact and lessen the cash flow, I would guess they’ll be in non iPhone devices first, that feels like an apple move to me.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they add it directly in the m2 chip, since that would help explain why they didn’t switch over to it last year.
Looks like there’s VESA mount adapters available for iMacs.<p>External mount is likely the best way to go if you want to improvements. I also like the extra room they leave on desk when the monitor stand does not use space.<p>I’ve been using products from Multibrackets at home and office in different configs (1x32”, 2x27” etc).<p><a href="https://products.multibrackets.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://products.multibrackets.com/en/</a>
I was worried about the lack of cellular connectivity on my new Macbook Pro, but I am happy to find that working off wifi (eg. in the train) works pretty seamlessly just with my iPhone in my pocket. I would still love to have it built into the Macbook, but I guess that it is less urgent than I feared.
Honestly these all seem like perfectly reasonable complaints in the context of apple hardware (rather than the usual “open up the hardware” stuff, which whether valid or not apple clearly has no interest in doing. All of the issues that this post raises are perfectly reasonable for a Mac running macOS)