Apple is big enough they could definitely do a $300 box if they wanted to

They wouldn’t get their usual margin perhaps, but remember the neo macbooks are primarily a way of them using up a large number of processors that otherwise don’t have a product to go in, created as a side effect of their main product line.

Mac desktop users (and frankly, many average consumers) don’t seem to care about flexibility, because they already have the fairly successful mini and studio desktop lines which have very little flexibility out of the factory compared to a regular desktop.

I can definitely see schools and offices wanting to take them up on a cheap desktop, so it’s not like the volume of sales isn’t there. I think the main thing stopping it, based on some of the reports following the MacBook neo launch, is they might not have enough of the dud iPhone chips to meet demand. Of course, spinning up a whole manufacturing run to make chips for Neo machines defeats the entire purpose of them existing in the first place, so maybe they wouldn’t want to stretch the resource by asking more SKUs that use it.

Okay fine I’ll rewatch it

We hope

There can only be one defender in these parts

Nah I use both pretty regularly and I’m fairly sure macOS still makes you do the “nope sorry, press ok, go into system settings, security panel, become admin and click trust this unknown publisher” thing

Windows still just does the same safescreen thing they’ve been doing for ages now: “windows stopped this unknown thing from running, wanna run it anyway?”

Oh hey it’s me

I collected the free games almost religiously for maybe a couple of years, mostly so I had something of a backup library in case something terrible happened to Steam

I stopped after realising I was literally only interacting with that store literally to collect the games, I don’t think I put a single minute into any of them

Get knocked out in Tesco again?

unless you just aren’t taking care of yourself.

I think frankly, the tiring parts of music festivals for many people would very squarely fall into this category

Am I getting my parts from Ea-Nasir

Salt and pepper usually, the nutmeg not so much actually, but I pretty much only make it when I’m making a lasagne or as a step on the way to cheese sauce.

What’s your best dish where it’s the star?

I honestly struggle to understand people who say stuff like this

Like, do they honestly not have anything productive they would choose to do if they didn’t have anything else taking up all their time? What do they envision they do with themselves?

We’re humans, humans innately get a kick out of building and creating things, that’s the human nature part. When we don’t experience that, it’s usually down to having the energy ground out of us from our current work or die existence.

Probably as a learning exercise so they know what developing and shipping for that platform is like.

Given they’re currently building a similar product, makes sense to see what the competition is up to

Bechamel is kinda mid without something else going on

Gonna point out this post is from over a decade ago

Things were still pretty bad back then, but people did still typically move out of their parents’ place at that point

No idea on the loss side of things tbh, though given it’s AI based, I’m assuming it can’t be truly lossless

to use a toy example […] for simple maths

I know, I just picked easy numbers for the sake of discussion. The actual data rate is not important to this particular discussion.

washed out - too late starts playing

Why did my dumb ass think there were lasers photoshopped in for a second

You can’t break the system if it breaks you first