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bobs_monkey ,

Nah I fully get where you're coming from, but locking out users is a cop out. Considering Apple's M-series chips being "system-on-chips" integrating the CPU, GPU, RAM, and more, I can slightly understand limitations with someone trying to do dual monitor video rendering or 3d modeling overloading the chip and crashing the system on lower end chips. But even then, there could easily be a software mechanism that disallows such use when loads are too high as well as a warning to the user by way of a pop up prompt. Modern monitors using display port via thunderbolt and USB C while claiming the chip can't handle it is such a silly restriction when 3rd party software can mitigate it. Like I understand to an extent that they've made computing easy for the technologically uneducated and illiterate, but given their track record with other business decisions, this seems like more of just another "we like money" scenario instead of protect grandma.

Awesome username btw

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