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Originally Posted by Robo
After the wave of wacky translucent products Apple made a choice to abandon ornamentation and turn their products into minimalist platonic solids.
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Yes, and I think they went too far with the minimalism, making their products needlessly impractical (cf. keyboard, lack of ports) and also boring.
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Originally Posted by Robo
But I also think some of their other innovations, particularly the T-series "Security Chips," have been a little under-appreciated. I mean, adding that in is pretty much the biggest architectural shift for the Mac in forever, right?
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It's an interesting approach (that lets them take advantage of some of their ARM prowess without having to move most software to a different architecture), sure. I don't quite know what you mean by "biggest in forever"; it's clearly a smaller shift than, say, 68k to PowerPC or PowerPC to Intel.
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Originally Posted by Robo
They're being a little stealthy about it, but they've given the T-chip more and more to do, and I think they're going to continue to do so with each revision. In a very real sense, I think the ARM Macs are already here.
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In a way, yup.