windowsrookie

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by windowsrookie 6d ago
1. I always know where my box of cables is, because it’s never moved from its location . 2. It takes up less than two shoeboxes of space, which is hardly anything in my home. 3. If I need the cable right now, I don’t have to wait 24 hours.
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by windowsrookie 2mo ago
Interesting how people view shopping at Costco differently. My goal is to spend the least amount of time as possible in there.
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by windowsrookie 2mo ago
What? Like you plan a day of shopping at Costco? That's insane to me. I have never spent more than 30 minutes inside a Costco.
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by windowsrookie 2mo ago
I do a similar thing. Stop at Costco to fill the gas tank, then buy a few things with no shopping cart. Prevents wasting money on things I don't need, and makes the trip quick.
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by windowsrookie 2mo ago
"most americans" absolutely do not have "an order arriving every other day". I order amazon on average once every 3 weeks. My mother (who has full time career and is under 60 years old) has never used amazon. Other membe
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by windowsrookie 3mo ago
I also agree. I'd say we're at the last few years of Core 2 Duo machines being usable. Anything before them is just not worth keeping around. Not only are earlier machines slow, but are going to be pretty energy inefficient. Buyi
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by windowsrookie 3mo ago
They would work but I'm not sure it's worth it. The 11" Air had a pretty terrible screen, and the models with 8GB of RAM are more expensive than I think they are worth. Plus Macbooks of this era are going to need a battery re
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by windowsrookie 3mo ago
With laptops of this era you only have two sodimm slots and DDR2 4GB RAM modules were quite expensive when they were new. So even still today they are more expensive than you would think. I sold mine for $25/each a few weeks ago. Also
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by windowsrookie 3mo ago
Tim Cook stated Apple is eating some of the price increases. I'm guessing they chose not to with the Apple TV.
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by windowsrookie 4mo ago
Apple has been using LPDDR in the MacBooks since at least 2015. I remember it was one of the complaint of the 2016-2017 MacBook Pros. They were still using LPDDR3 because LPDDR4 wasn't ready for production yet (despite regular DDR4 be
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by windowsrookie 4mo ago
Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on. This along with AI generated music flooding the market. An AI generated song ha
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by windowsrookie 4mo ago
AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.
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by windowsrookie 5mo ago
Ars Technica Made a guide: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-u...
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by windowsrookie 5mo ago
I'm not really sure why your neo is performing better than the M4. The M4 and the neo share the same CPU architecture but the M4 has 4 performance cores at 4.4ghz, while the neo has 2 performance cores at 4ghz. The neo also does not ha
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by windowsrookie 5mo ago
There's really no reason to be scared working on your car. I have no formal training and I have never paid a shop to fix my car in my 20 years of car ownership. The mechanical parts of a car haven't changed much in the last 25 yea
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by windowsrookie 5mo ago
Seriously, I have several mac laptops dating back to 2004 and they all have less wear than that.
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by windowsrookie 5mo ago
People making $80-90K can live a similar lifestyle to the people making $125K+, they just aren't saving any money. I know people that do this, live their whole life with less than $5k in the bank.
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
The reason it is thick is because it supports 65W charging. Apple did the same with the USB-C cables that shipped with the pre-MagSafe MacBooks. It was a thicker cable that supported 100w charging but was only USB 2.0.
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how to edit professionall
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
The profit margin is probably better than you think. The iPhone 17e sells for the same price, and the neo is certainly less expensive to manufacture.
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
"How many M1 mac will still be functional in 20 years?" Probably quite a few, MacBooks have had soldered SSD's for over 10 years now. My 2018 McBook Pro still has a perfectly functioning SSD. I still see people using 2015 an
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
The reality is most 8GB M1 Macs are still working just fine 6 years later. Power users know they need more than 8GB of RAM and will buy a MacBook Air or Pro with 16GB+. The MacBook neo is for students, grandparents, travel, etc. Hell, even
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
I replied to somebody else earlier, but the 11" air and the new neo are very close in physical size. The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
Definitely not typical, the 11" MacBooks had terrible screens by modern standards and have no hardware acceleration for modern video codecs. It really is too bad they never upgraded that 1366x768 LCD in the 11" MacBooks otherwise
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by windowsrookie 6mo ago
The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12". It's extremely close in physical size, just with a 2" bigger display. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-a
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by windowsrookie 7mo ago
Seriously. I mainly want to use iPhone mirroring for when my iPhone isn't sitting right next to me. It then nearly always asks me to unlock my iPhone first before I can use it....
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by windowsrookie 7mo ago
There are millions of people using 8GB or RAM with MacOS without issue right now. I would bet 80% of all MacBooks in use right now have 16GB or less of RAM.
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by windowsrookie 7mo ago
macOS has been running on A series chips since the beginning of the transition to Apple Silicon. The original developer Macs had an "A12Z" CPU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit

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