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I was kind of hoping for an iMac update too. Not anything important, but move it to USB-C so it's in line.

That would have been nice. I was hoping for Mac mini update too. I still have mine from 2012, and the newer versions don't really offer much over that version.

Just upgraded the SSD in it from the fusion drive to a full on SSD, and it is incredibly fast now.

Surface Studio perhaps? ;)

It will be interesting to see if Apple decides to try to respond to that thing. It's pretty impressive in quite a few ways.

They most likely will just like they did with the iPad pro.

> It will be interesting to see if Apple decides to try to respond to that thing.

Probably not, they really seem dead-set against touch interfaces of macOS, and have made pretty much no improvement to it towards that end.

They're probably right about that. But they could put the pin sensor technology from the iPad Pro into an iMac and get a pretty good product. They did a fantastic job with it.

One reason might be that, if you buy a Macbook with a touchscreen, there is less reason to buy an iPad in addition to the Macbook.

I had one laptop with a touchscreen and it was so annoying that I disabled it. Every time I would brush something off of the screen, or someone would point at my screen and touch it, unexpected things would happen. Keyboards are much more efficient than touchscreens, so there didn't seem to be any point.

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