I've had a repair by Apple of my laptop. The Hitachi HDD had manufacturing issues that did not surface until 6 years after I purchased my Macbook. Apple replaced it for free even though it was way past warranty; they could not replace it with the same capacity as that was no longer manufactured. I had to accept a HDD with twice the capacity. The damn Apple gave was customer service.

Yes it's not like Intel disabled AVX-512 on older chips that customers purchased and then only made it available for high-end chips going forward.

Intel and AMD should be worried if the Neo sells well. That means Apple is competing with them in the sub $1000 laptop market which is a big market. That leaves the sub $500 market which has razor thin or no margins.

For further proof why it was a bad requirement, the first Zune had Wifi. All you could do was "squirt" with other Zunes. Later you could wirelessly sync your collection. It didn't have a browser. It didn't have email. Reason: It didn't have a decent processor. It didn't have a usable UI for touch or other libraries. It did not have any 3rd party apps that could use Wifi because it did not have a decent app store.

1) Why would you think that you could access the file directory of a device that not have any direct file access? That's like me asking my IT admin if I can copy files from a specific hard drive on a specific server. The easiest way would be to upload the files to a shared directory like iCloud, OneDrive, Google Drive, etc.

2) A Mac is not an iPad. On a Mac, the process would be drag and drop. If you are fancy you can open Terminal and use Unix/Linux commands. "cp * /OtherFolder" works

Er what? Well that's a bold faced lie. MacOS restricts installation of software unless you change settings to prompt you instead. I have no idea where you get this "Recovery mode" nonsense.

Considering that numerous reviews have shown YouTubers editing 4K video with them, the first complaint is how people cannot edit 4K video, I'd say they have done zero research before putting in their unqualified opinion of what the Neo can't do. This is a budget $600 laptop for the average consumer. Many $600 budget Windows laptops can't do that they are asking.

It's better than many Windows laptops at that price range. And why can't a tech-native use it? MacOS is Unix underneath. I have had to use Terminal a few times to do things like moving and deleting many files with commands rather than dragging and dropping.

Yes because the only thing I see Windows users doing in coffee shops is modeling protein folding or computing the last digit of pi. Oh what, no, they are using their laptops for browsing, Facebook. I think I once saw them use the Calculator app. *gasp*.

As opposed to putting the firmware of the SSD nowhere near the SSD?

Yes because Apple didn't pay ARM a huge load of money for architectural licenses so they could make ARM chips they want to design them.

For the average user, probably a lot. For the people here on Slashdot, everything is multicore/multithreaded workloads that requires a Beowulf cluster as a minimum.

I was thinking of the the M1 chip which has the two RAM chips next to the main CPU. It is under a heat spreader. Same with the M2. Oh it won't be easy but it is possible to upgrade an M1 or M2 with more memory.

I am not sure where the "Boom-brag" is coming from. People edit 4K video all the time with laptops these days. Editing 4K video is a compute intensive workload that some users may do. Editing 1080p video might be more reasonable I guess.

Why don't you go watch some reviews on that?

Not to Microsoft. Also via Powershell I can remove all sorts of things from Windows that breaks it. Mandatory does not mean what you defined it to be.

With AI face matching it has been even more egregious but there have been cases where the wrong person was arrested with a similar name. The police simply did not bother to do simple things like check a name.

• Jennifer Heath Box was arrested on a warrant for Jennifer Delcarmen Heath. The person arrested was taller, 23 years older, and did not match the physical description of the suspect.
• Bethany K. Farber spent two weeks in jail on a warrant for Bethany G. Farber. The jail and police had a mugshot of Bethany G. Farber which clearly showed the person arrested was not the suspect.