I am writing this on a new 16″ MacBook Pro, which has an ARM-based M1 Pro for its CPU. It was delivered this past Tuesday, October 26th, 2021, almost exactly 16 months after Apple announced the transition away from using x86-based processers built by Intel. By most accounts Apple’s ARM-based M1 Macs are the fastest […]
Monthly Archives: October 2021
I already had an MP3 player that I used while jogging when the iPod came out, a Samsung Yepp. It could store and clumsily navigate between about 12 songs, all of which had to be transferred over the course of an hour via USB 1.1. By comparison the iPod could hold about 1000 songs, which […]
I decided to check out the highest end PC laptop used for the benchmarks in Srouji’s presentation, the Razer Blade 15 Advanced. It doesn’t look bad, but it really highlights the differences in priorities between professionals and gamers, particularly among displays. Razer touts three options1 for displays on 15-inch laptops with the monicker “Advanced”: FHD […]
In the promotion of his new book, Michael Dell has been talking about a 1997 conversation wherein Steve Jobs asked Dell to license Mac OS. The timing seems suspicious. Why would Jobs be actively shopping Mac OS licenses in the same year he was killing off the only licensing business Apple ever had? From Connie […]