Thought the same the very moment I saw it : D

Trade up or get out, eh?

@Jeff Knapp,
No.
Seems the M2 Ultra will be only as fast as the consumer CPU “AMD Ryzen 9 7900” and somewhere between a “GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4080” for video.
The top AMD/Intel consumer CPU’s will still be marginally faster but the M2 Ultra might have a lead in some video export and render duties not to mention efficiency. 
Will set you back about 1K$. 2k$ for a complete high end build.

The case is a professional studio requiring multiple computers synced up in order to mix down a AAA game or major film (and that’s just a case with audio). The power of these machines will now require less of them thereby making it cheaper overall. This is not a prosumer machine. Planning on recording a full orchestra? Mixing over a thousand tracks with plugins? Need to get it done on a deadline or it’ll cost millions? Are you Hans Zimmer or competing with him to get a scoring gig? If the answer is no then you don’t need it.

Of course it will be “patched” and Microsoft has nothing to do with my post.
WTF? Geez how about staying on topic maybe?

I posted a factual instance involving Apple that impacts the consumer, yet again, and regarding stuff that worked and I paid for, yet they F it up for new wallpapers and crap I could care less about…but the Apple fanboys offer “whataboutisms,” and make excuses for stuff that should have been “patched” before release.

No one in R&D at Apple uses an effing dongle with their iPads? Hey Boss this new iOS release F.s up our lightning to USB 3 connectors. Oh don’t worry about it, we will just “patch” it later. FFS, are you serious?

You’re writing this like Microsoft has never released a bad Windows update that breaks wifi, video or audio. It happens all the time because these are complex software environments. It will be patched soon.

“On Thursday, Apple released iOS 16.5 to the public with new wallpaper choices, updates to Apple News, and more. As it turns out, this update also breaks compatibility with Apple’s Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter accessory for iPhone and iPad users.“ – 9to5Mac

Been using Apple since Apple IIe days but this stuff really pisses me off. Both my iPad Pro setups now have to use 18watt plugs for the dongles to be able to charge again. And I only learned that from a comment I happened to find related to the article. Taking away audio jacks, changing connectors, making dongles not work, this is the shit we should never have to worry about. Yet you Apple continue to screw up the little things.

too bad SGI isn’t around anymore….

Well to be fair, my old 17″ MacBook Pro had its video card die, although even though it was out of warrantee Apple repaired it for free as there was a design issue. A year later when the second card died they would no longer replace it period.

oh man, i miss Peak. dsp quattro is pretty okay but peak was tits. thanks not at all for not buying it and contributing to their demise