Same for Linux, many of these dubious hardware vendors only support Windows, so Linux dodges that bullet too. 3rd party drivers are usually the source of the problems, Windows, Linux, or Mac.

Quite the opposite since the WinNT line of the family came out. I've been dual booting WinNT/Linux since the mid 1990s. Both Windows and Linux ran fine on my DIY PCs where I pick good parts from reputable vendors that directly support both OS.

Crashes are usually 3rd party drivers, both Windows and Linux. Linux dodges some of that disaster by the shittier hardware/drivers from budget hardware vendors not supporting Linux. In the last 30 years my only flaky PC was not DIY, it was a school selected laptop, and it was flakier under Linux than Windows. The wifi drivers for Linux were terrible.

Actually it's mostly price. Server grade hardware tends to run Windows very well, just like Linux.
To a lesser degree servers are UNIX home turf. So Linux had an advantage with the legacy software compatibility from UNIX workstation/server days. Sort of like WinNT had a legacy software compatibility advantage for desktop systems.

The same is true for my dual boot Windows / Linux boxes. Neither side crashes. It not the OS, its third party drivers that are typically the source of trouble. My DIY PCs have well chosen parts from reputable manufacturers, with good drivers for both OS. I've been doing this for 30 year. The only PC that had problems was the one I did not build, a school selected laptop. I configured it to dual boot and wifi was always flaky under Linux, crappy Linux drivers for the Dell vendor with the lowest priced component.

Similarly, macOS is pretty damn reliable for similar reasons, driver quality. With no slots, pretty much anything a users adds will be plugging into Apple's USB or Thunderbolt drivers.

Yes, a $300 processor upgrade on the M4 Max to go from CPU/GPU cores 14/32 to 16/40;
and a $1,5000 upgrade on the M3 Ultra to go from 28/60 to 32/80.

That's a different service. A hide-my-email user does not "log in" to their alias email. They log in to their normal Apple ID email.The alias is more of a mail forward than an actual email.

I do full drive encryption locally on a Mac, I choose not to use my Apple ID for rescue purposes. My rescue key is displayed on the screen, this key never leaves my system, Apple never sees it. Hence when Apple is ordered by a court to provide the key they are unable to comply. Unlike instances where the user chose to use their Apple ID for rescue.

I'd note that upgrades are limited in the Pro. Intel based has PCIE3, Apple Silicon PCIE4. So GPUs would be stuck at a generation or two behind.

CPUs, the M3 Ultra and M4 Max based Studios will be just fine. Unless you are running a Windows Intel VM. However if you are running a Windows !! ARM VM then running Windows is not a problem.

PCIE, its PCIE3 in those Intel based Pros. Those GPUs will be quite dated. The 80 GPU cores attached to unified memory in the Studio's 800 GB/s RAM will likely not be a problem.

RAM, it was a simple business decision. That the market niche that needed more the 256 GB was too small.

The mini was not Pro alternative. The Studio is.

Partially, there was also the high performance feature. The Studio fills that role. Which in the redesign was considered a feature to continue, unlike the other features which were more a legacy of Intel days and not really necessary anymore.

Yes, because is those old Intel days no external connector could compete with SATA III. But that is no longer the case with modern Apple Silicon based Macs and their thunderbolt connectors.

If anything Apple is returning to SCSI days, when they offered an external SCSI port for additional drives and they ran as well as an internal.

Actually a colleague I work with often has a Pro. And as a very long time Mac user I am very familiar with open architecture Macs.

So you have no effective argument to my points. That's sad, I was hoping you might have a point I had not already considered.

Of course Apple knows the real email and Apple ID, it has to in order to map the aliases to the account.

This is not like storage encryption that can be done in a way where Apple does not know the key and is technologically unable to comply with court orders.

That was the redesign.

The discrete graphics card situation is not like the PC's. First, you were severely limited as to what cards you could drop in, drivers were quite rare. And became even more rare when Pros moved to Apple Silicon. Secondly, the Pro's open architecture is primarily from Intel days. Before Apple had highly capable GPUs sitting on that Apple Silicon's unified memory.

Those drives were connected using what SATA III? So 6 GB/s. Wouldn't an external on a USB-C 10 GB/s connector be faster?

I'm not sure these Pro features are all that meaningful compared to a Studio. What am I missing, beyond the freedom of building your system as you want to. I'm quite familiar with that since my PCs are DIY.

I think the Studio is such a redesigned Pro.

Given "ET of Varginha", I'm delaying my opinion util after evaluating the probing jokes.

Of course, but here's where the superfan aspect comes in. He could be a good writing resource to keep things consistent with canon. No one is saying he's going to write the entire script, are they? He'll do some edits, maybe toss out some relevant canon in the "writers meetings", and he'll get a writing credit which is a superfan "precious".

Hence my "back in the day." Now add in the relative quality of recent stuff vs back in the day. :-)

The theory is that unsupervised social networks can be harmful for young children, plus a corollary that parents have the right to monitor such online activity. These are the two topics that the courts will have to make determinations upon.