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A comment on iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On ‘Hey Siri’.

Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by alphabettsy on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:30PM (#15734818)
Could handle Face ID, etc. Possibly offload video encoding/transcoding? The A10 can handle 4K HEVC. Not sure what the point would be with dedicated graphics doing the same.
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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by dzhiurgis on Sunday November 19, 2017 @12:48PM (#15734939)
Article mentions secure enclave so FaceID is very likely. It doesn’t make much ergonomic sense to put fingerprint reader like you do on macbook.
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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by jpalomaki on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:53PM (#15735248)
External keyboard with touchbar and touchid might be interesting (but hard to make wireless, unless with some cool new wireless charging mechanism).
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Re:iMac Pro Appears to Include A10 Fusion Chip for Always-On... by JustSomeNobody on Sunday November 19, 2017 @01:00PM (#15735001)
Right. With Face ID, you sit down in front of your computer and your desktop is already up and available.
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