That web page is insane - normally I sympathise with the 'scrolljacking' bemoaners, but that's just so funny (maybe it would annoy me if I was actually shopping), not at all what I expected from the page, or Apple at all.

It's at least as annoying as your initial impulse said it was...more so from the people who dictate UI down to a gnat's ass in every app we submit to their store, but somehow exempt themselves from even common courtesy when it comes to designing a page. I'm typing this on a mac, but for god's sake don't make excuses for them.

I'm not making excuses for it, I'm typing this from a ThinkPad (work, and personally have a Framework & a desktop I built, Android phone), it just amused me.

Yeah Apple site is borderline unusable at times. To much emphasis on looks and design at the cost of sane usability

Seems very on-brand then.

As a backend windows dev, how the hell is that even possible with just scrolling?

It's just an input right? Forget your expectation that an input causes a 'page' to move vertically; the screen is just a canvas that can change over time or in response to inputs.

(But, because it breaks your expectation is why people don't like it, call it 'scrolljacking' i.e. hijacking scroll behaviour, etc. It's worst IMO when it's done to make the page 'sticky' at certain banner points, so it takes unintuitively more or less scroll movement at certain points as you move down the page.)

That (Mac Studio) and the iMac are also qualifying another ARM desktop PC (as in personal computer).

> 4x Thunderbolt 4 1x 10Gb Ethernet 2x USB-A 1x HDMI 1x 3.5 mm headphone jack

... and 2000 $

For this price a Bluray drive and some audio I/O would have been nice.

External Bluray and professional audio IO can be connected via USB-C. Why add things almost nobody will use to the base model?

MacOS never supported Blu-ray, and Steve Jobs described the licensing of it as "a bag of hurt." This was still ~2008 when the licensing of H.264, VC1, MPEG-2, Blu-ray Patents, AACS, BD+, Cinavia, and all the stuff that makes it work was still in the air. Arguably it never came down[1].

However, I would still beg Apple to reconsider this, even a decade later, at least for desktop professional use. Blu-ray discs come in 25GB, 50GB, 100GB, and even (rare) 128GB disc sizes. It's still a really cheap, portable, distributable, long-term (as long as you check every ~5 years) storage medium.

[1]Blu-ray discs for movies were pretty shamefully designed. Do we seriously need 3 different codecs? Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms?

>Or 3 different copy-protection mechanisms?

Consider the source.

I’d suggest that an SSD makes a far better option. For the price of a burner and blank media, you can buy a whole bunch of cheap 128gb ssds. They’re re-writeable, durable and easy to connect with a twenty dollar usb dongle.

The catch with SSDs is they are not long-term reliable when left without power. If left as little as 12 months without energy, data degradation can occur. SSDs need power regularly to automatically refresh their memory cells. No power, no refresh, slow loss. They are almost like RAM in that regard, just with a really slow discharge.

Compared to good quality writable media which is designed for storage without power. This, and the write-once versions (no ransomware), are great for backups of faster modern media.

Fortunately, external USB-connected Blu-ray drives are pretty cheap[0]!

0. http://www.pricegrabber.com/blu-ray-external/products/?sort=...

Not sure I'd want a low-capacity mechanical legacy drive like Bluray integrated in a modern PC. Why do you want that?

And you can send audio over USB. You can't possibly have more than 10 Gbps of audio?

I have an old MacBook with a cd/dvd-r drive and SD card reader in it. I literally keep this machine just to use these features. I never understood the incentive for getting rid of them. The cd/dvd drive was something I used every day when that was my primary computer.

I just don't think many people have any DVD media anymore, let alone any CDs (!) outside of enthusiasts.

> I never understood the incentive for getting rid of them.

Can't be that much of a mystery? Less weight, less space, less cost, less clunky mechanical stuff - given almost nobody would ever use them it's a no-brainer.

> I just don't think many people have any DVD media anymore

Don't you think that's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy? DVDs are absolutely not obsolete, and are still manufactured. Lots of content exists on DVD but not streaming. We get movies and shows at the library all the time that are not on any streaming platform.

Sure, everybody has a computer built only to stream, so streaming is the default for anybody who doesn't want to carry an external drive in their laptop bag. Design decisions influence how your product is used. Surprise, people who have phones without headphones jacks are less likely to use wired headphones.

The price is too high for me.

But I already have an external blu-ray drive that connects via USB, and I don't ever need audio beyond the headphone jack. Those who do can use the USB-C ports for that.

Maximum flexibility via USB, without a bunch of ports and parts that will be unused by most people, please.