Yeah I think you’re on the money now. I think the Neo is just genuinely a good deal even compared to non-Mac budget competition.

I really don’t think that will stick long term. There’s a reason they started making the PC ports to begin with and that reason still exists. I think they’re just trying to build up the exclusivity things in the minds of consumers ahead of their PS6 launch in the next two years

Problem with that is most jobs are using an AI ingestion and rating system. So if I were a job applicant who doesn’t like AI and prefers to hand write resumes but I need a job to feed my family, I’m going to just blast out the AI resumes anyway because it just has the highest chance of working.

That is the scenario that this data suggests.

The base model moves the most. It’s always been that way.

Except that it doesn’t, and hasn’t been that way in more than a decade. In any given Apple tech lineup the more premium options always sell the most. This is a surprising headline because it actually defies the expectation.

What you said would make more sense if you were comparing laptops across brands, but not when comparing Apple devices.

For the last six years the MacBook Air was the cheapest option with the MacBook Pro being the premium option. During this time the more expensive MacBook Pro was the best seller between the two when you look at consumer sales.

Apples low end something’s usually do not sell gang busters. Thats why they’re surprised here, because their cheapest tier of a given device line selling the most is pretty rare for them.

Yes, which is why this news is surprising.

It’s interesting because it completely bucks the normal Apple trend where the best selling devices are their most premium offerings. People who buy Apple devices don’t usually want the cheapest base models, those folks usually turn to cheaper mid-market alternatives from other brands.

The fact that MacBook Neos are their top selling laptop is objectively sensational news precisely because, and to the contrary of your suggestion, it was not predictable at all.

It’s worth it to note that the majority of US states have similar laws regarding the carrying of blades over a certain length in public, and almost all public transit systems in the United States heavily restrict or outright forbid weapons on public transit.

The USA is really an exemption that people are allowed to carry assault rifles, grenade launchers and flamethrowers in the subway

Not only is this hyperbole categorically false on its face, but it’s often even illegal to bring blunt self defense weapons onto the Subway like brass knuckles, clubs etc.

These will be required in all cars sold in the US as soon as next year and close to zero people are talking about.

The problem with that is you still have to buy the rest of the computer to put that 3090 in.

Like 1k

My MacBook Air with 24GB of unified RAM is enough to run something simple and useful.

It’s good for the same things machine learning has always been good for. Language synthesis and analysis. Selfhosting something like Paperless for document management. It actually has a very rudimentary learning engine for document classification for a long time but feeding document content to a local AI model for organization tagging is very useful.

I live in the US, I’m not drinking the tap water lol. That being said you don’t have to buy cases of individual plastic water bottles either.

They’re not shows I like they’re just widely considered some of the best TV shows ever made. Including The Wire which very famously takes a few episodes to get going. You also mentioned you like Archer which as we all know fell apart in later seasons so clearly you aren’t that concerned about consistent quality.

It sounds like you just aren’t a fan of good TV and have very niche tastes which is OK too.

On the contrary, they’re considered the best of what TV has to offer. Breaking Bad, Star Trek TNG, DS9, The Office, Parks & Rec, The Expanse, The Wire, All have rough or slow starts that famously take at least several episodes to get going lol.

That’s an absolutely crazy viewpoint to have lol.

It’s also uniquely positioned to set you up for mostly bad television, because many shows widely considered some of the best television ever made take a few episodes or even a full season before they really take off, but most shows I’ve seen that really nail episode one are more often than not downhill affairs that came about during the rise of streaming where they put all the effort into the beginning of the show to hook you and get you to binge it and then they don’t bother to put any effort into the back end.

Assuming you go to the doctor and find out you do have tinnitus and it’s permanent, I can totally understand the panic you’re feeling right now. It’s a very existential, pit of your stomach sense of dread you’re feeling right now.

As somebody with tinnitus that is likely more severe than yours is right now, and have had it as young as you if not younger, you will get used to it with time, to the point that 90% of the time, you won’t hear it at all. Right now it’s going to seem far worse and suffocating because more than anything the tinnitus is triggered by remembering that you have it. Since it’s going to be stuck on your mind for awhile it might feel like you’re suffocating under it but as bad as I have it, it really is only an occasional annoyance.

The important thing is to start protecting your hearing today. Ear plugs at concerts, plug your ears when the ambulance drives by, don’t blast the music in your car so loud.

Don’t despair, when it’s really bad there are things that help like white noise, which can be generated on your phone or you can set up a fan at night. iPhones have a feature now that can add subtle nature sounds or white noise behind whatever else you’re listening to including music, if you find that’s something that helps you.