Interesting how people view shopping at Costco differently. My goal is to spend the least amount of time as possible in there.
What? Like you plan a day of shopping at Costco? That's insane to me. I have never spent more than 30 minutes inside a Costco.
I do a similar thing. Stop at Costco to fill the gas tank, then buy a few things with no shopping cart. Prevents wasting money on things I don't need, and makes the trip quick.
"most americans" absolutely do not have "an order arriving every other day". I order amazon on average once every 3 weeks. My mother (who has full time career and is under 60 years old) has never used amazon. Other…
I also agree. I'd say we're at the last few years of Core 2 Duo machines being usable. Anything before them is just not worth keeping around. Not only are earlier machines slow, but are going to be pretty energy…
They would work but I'm not sure it's worth it. The 11" Air had a pretty terrible screen, and the models with 8GB of RAM are more expensive than I think they are worth. Plus Macbooks of this era are going to need a…
With laptops of this era you only have two sodimm slots and DDR2 4GB RAM modules were quite expensive when they were new. So even still today they are more expensive than you would think. I sold mine for $25/each a few…
Tim Cook stated Apple is eating some of the price increases. I'm guessing they chose not to with the Apple TV.
Apple has been using LPDDR in the MacBooks since at least 2015. I remember it was one of the complaint of the 2016-2017 MacBook Pros. They were still using LPDDR3 because LPDDR4 wasn't ready for production yet (despite…
Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on. This along with AI generated music flooding the market. An…
AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.
Ars Technica Made a guide: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-u...
I'm not really sure why your neo is performing better than the M4. The M4 and the neo share the same CPU architecture but the M4 has 4 performance cores at 4.4ghz, while the neo has 2 performance cores at 4ghz. The neo…
There's really no reason to be scared working on your car. I have no formal training and I have never paid a shop to fix my car in my 20 years of car ownership. The mechanical parts of a car haven't changed much in the…
Seriously, I have several mac laptops dating back to 2004 and they all have less wear than that.
People making $80-90K can live a similar lifestyle to the people making $125K+, they just aren't saving any money. I know people that do this, live their whole life with less than $5k in the bank.
The reason it is thick is because it supports 65W charging. Apple did the same with the USB-C cables that shipped with the pre-MagSafe MacBooks. It was a thicker cable that supported 100w charging but was only USB 2.0.
Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how…
The profit margin is probably better than you think. The iPhone 17e sells for the same price, and the neo is certainly less expensive to manufacture.
"How many M1 mac will still be functional in 20 years?" Probably quite a few, MacBooks have had soldered SSD's for over 10 years now. My 2018 McBook Pro still has a perfectly functioning SSD. I still see people using…
You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
I replied to somebody else earlier, but the 11" air and the new neo are very close in physical size. The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".
Definitely not typical, the 11" MacBooks had terrible screens by modern standards and have no hardware acceleration for modern video codecs. It really is too bad they never upgraded that 1366x768 LCD in the 11" MacBooks…
The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12". It's extremely close in physical size, just with a 2" bigger display. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook...…
Interesting how people view shopping at Costco differently. My goal is to spend the least amount of time as possible in there.
What? Like you plan a day of shopping at Costco? That's insane to me. I have never spent more than 30 minutes inside a Costco.
I do a similar thing. Stop at Costco to fill the gas tank, then buy a few things with no shopping cart. Prevents wasting money on things I don't need, and makes the trip quick.
"most americans" absolutely do not have "an order arriving every other day". I order amazon on average once every 3 weeks. My mother (who has full time career and is under 60 years old) has never used amazon. Other…
I also agree. I'd say we're at the last few years of Core 2 Duo machines being usable. Anything before them is just not worth keeping around. Not only are earlier machines slow, but are going to be pretty energy…
They would work but I'm not sure it's worth it. The 11" Air had a pretty terrible screen, and the models with 8GB of RAM are more expensive than I think they are worth. Plus Macbooks of this era are going to need a…
With laptops of this era you only have two sodimm slots and DDR2 4GB RAM modules were quite expensive when they were new. So even still today they are more expensive than you would think. I sold mine for $25/each a few…
Tim Cook stated Apple is eating some of the price increases. I'm guessing they chose not to with the Apple TV.
Apple has been using LPDDR in the MacBooks since at least 2015. I remember it was one of the complaint of the 2016-2017 MacBook Pros. They were still using LPDDR3 because LPDDR4 wasn't ready for production yet (despite…
Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on. This along with AI generated music flooding the market. An…
AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.
Ars Technica Made a guide: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-u...
I'm not really sure why your neo is performing better than the M4. The M4 and the neo share the same CPU architecture but the M4 has 4 performance cores at 4.4ghz, while the neo has 2 performance cores at 4ghz. The neo…
There's really no reason to be scared working on your car. I have no formal training and I have never paid a shop to fix my car in my 20 years of car ownership. The mechanical parts of a car haven't changed much in the…
Seriously, I have several mac laptops dating back to 2004 and they all have less wear than that.
People making $80-90K can live a similar lifestyle to the people making $125K+, they just aren't saving any money. I know people that do this, live their whole life with less than $5k in the bank.
The reason it is thick is because it supports 65W charging. Apple did the same with the USB-C cables that shipped with the pre-MagSafe MacBooks. It was a thicker cable that supported 100w charging but was only USB 2.0.
Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how…
The profit margin is probably better than you think. The iPhone 17e sells for the same price, and the neo is certainly less expensive to manufacture.
"How many M1 mac will still be functional in 20 years?" Probably quite a few, MacBooks have had soldered SSD's for over 10 years now. My 2018 McBook Pro still has a perfectly functioning SSD. I still see people using…
You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
I replied to somebody else earlier, but the 11" air and the new neo are very close in physical size. The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".
Definitely not typical, the 11" MacBooks had terrible screens by modern standards and have no hardware acceleration for modern video codecs. It really is too bad they never upgraded that 1366x768 LCD in the 11" MacBooks…
The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12". It's extremely close in physical size, just with a 2" bigger display. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook...…