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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: "The first Copilot+ PC has been tested and it destroys the
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Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 13:48:26 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-05-25, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
> On 2024-05-24 8:09 p.m., RonB wrote:
>> On 2024-05-24, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>
>>> Having had a recent Mac for a while, I will be the first to admit that
>>> the experience using their laptop is stellar, and even better if you own
>>> other Apple hardware. It has power, battery life, excellent transitions
>>> from iPhone to Mac and back depending on what it detects you are doing,
>>> and so on. MacOS also doesn't bother you, is relatively stable, it's
>>> quiet, and seems to respect your privacy a lot more than Microsoft does.
>>> If I didn't already have so much invested in the Windows environment, I
>>> would happily transition to the Mac.
>> 
>> So you've gotten rid of the Mac now? That was quick.
>
> I kept it for less than a year, but I got rid of it because I'm not good 
> at having two of the same thing. I can't have two video game consoles, 
> two computers or two cars. Whenever I do, I wholly ignore one in favour 
> of the other. As I told my wife, I could never have two women in my life 
> either. It's just against my nature.

Interesting (on having only one car, computer, etc.) — having one women 
just seems normal to me.

> Its battery life was fantastic as was its resistance to battery wear. It 
> was fine for going from class to class to take attendance or to display 
> a page from the workbook or whatever. However, playing videos on it 
> through a hub often crashed the system (it might have been the fault of 
> the Anker hub, a cheap one I got for $40 or so, but I didn't care), and 
> that thing couldn't access my movies on Microsoft Films & TV. For me, 
> there were nothing but advantages to just use a Windows laptop.

The last I heard you were happy with the Mac — though crashing (for whatever 
reason) would be a pain. I haven't flipped on my Mac Mini or MacBook Air in 
a couple months. I keep planning to sell the MacBook Air, but keep 
procrastinating. By the time I finally get around to it, the second hand 
stores probably won't even want to take it anymore. (Maybe I can hold out a 
little longer and sell it as an antique.) As for the Mac Mini, I have a 
second SSD in it with Linux installed — so that one will stick around for a 
while.

>> The integration between smartphones and computers is apparently important to
>> a lot of people. I use my smartphone so rarely that it doesn't really matter
>> to me. I mostly use phones for talking and my flip phone does a great job
>> for that.
>
> Seeing how addicted students in general have become to using cell 
> phones, I want to use mine as little as possible. Unfortunately, the 
> WiFi in my school is garbage, so I constantly have to use my phone's 
> data (which is fine because I get 100GB at full speed and unlimited slow 
> speeds). I also love to listen to podcasts, and the phone is great for 
> that. My wife also insists on being able to contact me through Telegram, 
> so I have no choice but to keep one.

My wife and daughter (and a couple of my sons) live their lives on the 
damned smarphones. Maybe I can convince them to install Telegram on them — 
currently I'm the only one in the family who uses Telegram (mostly for the 
news on the Russia/Ukraine war).

-- 
[Self-centered, Woke] "pride is a life of self-destructive fakery, an 
entrapment to a false and self-created matrix of twisted unreality." 
"It was pride that changed angels into devils..."     — St. Augustine