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A Crazy Thing Happened at Starbucks with my MacBook Air

TSE

TSE

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I was at Starbucks today with my M1 MacBook Air. As per usual, everyone in the store was complementing my MacBook Air all morning long, with a crowd of women being the usual most vocal fans gathered around.

But then a designerly millennial dressed in a black turtleneck, black skinny chinos, minimalist dress shoes, large black framed glasses, and a sophisticated messenger bag came in, grabbing everyone's attention.

This fellow ordered a caramel frappucinno, pulled up to the standing tables by the windows, and pulled out a Midnight M2 MacBook Air.

As soon as he pulled out his newer MacBook Air, all the girls gathered around me went silent, with their eyes locked on the new man and his treasured item. With a sense of impending defeat, I gave one last attempt at impressing my audience,"...And my MacBook Air has a Patagonia sticker on the back" when all of a sudden the women, as if they forgot I even existed, just got up and walked over to him, complementing and praising him on his amazing MacBook Air, stroking his hair and arms.

Fellas if you are single, the M2 Air is definitely worth the extra money.
 
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Forget trying to improve your social prospects with a computer. Your error is hanging around a crap coffee shop. Go to a shop that is not part of a conglomerate which knows how to make decent coffee.
 
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Mid greentext story bro

But hey I have an actual case of flexing to redeem this thread:

Back in May I was at the Apple Store to report the whole speaker popping issue the 14/16 Macbook Pros such as mine were facing. While I was waiting at the store, I brought my Steam Deck with me. All the Apple Store Employees stopped what they were doing and crowded around me wanting to play on it, one of them even kept asking me questions on it as they wanted one themselves. It was funny but got annoying when I just wanted to play GTA5.
 
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TSE said:
I was at Starbucks today with my M1 MacBook Air. As per usual, everyone in the store was complementing my MacBook Air all morning long, with a crowd of women being the usual most vocal fans gathered around.

But then a designerly millennial dressed in a black turtleneck, black skinny chinos, minimalist dress shoes, large black framed glasses, and a sophisticated messenger bag came in, grabbing everyone's attention.

This fellow ordered a caramel frappucinno, pulled up to the standing tables by the windows, and pulled out a Midnight M2 MacBook Air.

As soon as he pulled out his newer MacBook Air, all the girls gathered around me went silent, with their eyes locked on the new man and his treasured item. With a sense of impending defeat, I gave one last attempt at impressing my audience,"...And my MacBook Air has a Patagonia sticker on the back" when all of a sudden the women, as if they forgot I even existed, just got up and walked over to him, complementing and praising him on his amazing MacBook Air, stroking his hair and arms.

Fellas if you are single, the M2 Air is definitely worth the extra money.
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hahahahaha.... loved it. if only women gave a **** about our macs... ;)
 
TSE said:
I was at Starbucks today with my M1 MacBook Air. As per usual, everyone in the store was complementing my MacBook Air all morning long, with a crowd of women being the usual most vocal fans gathered around.

But then a designerly millennial dressed in a black turtleneck, black skinny chinos, minimalist dress shoes, large black framed glasses, and a sophisticated messenger bag came in, grabbing everyone's attention.

This fellow ordered a caramel frappucinno, pulled up to the standing tables by the windows, and pulled out a Midnight M2 MacBook Air.

As soon as he pulled out his newer MacBook Air, all the girls gathered around me went silent, with their eyes locked on the new man and his treasured item. With a sense of impending defeat, I gave one last attempt at impressing my audience,"...And my MacBook Air has a Patagonia sticker on the back" when all of a sudden the women, as if they forgot I even existed, just got up and walked over to him, complementing and praising him on his amazing MacBook Air, stroking his hair and arms.

Fellas if you are single, the M2 Air is definitely worth the extra money.
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No way this is real. Lol cool story tho.
 
“Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.”

But Starbucks? Yuck. 🤢
 
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how long has the macbook air been in that form factor? so am assuming this is a starbucks in a tiny mountain village in a place with no electricity, and no one there has ever seen a laptop before. (and/or the story is missing the part where the guy in the turtleneck, who SPOILER ALERT is unaware that it's summer, had offered a goat to any woman who admired his (superior) M2 air)....
 
Replace the MBA with an Axe spray and you got yourself a commercial from the 90s.
 
I had a different experience. Perhaps I was at a location where the girls were more tech savvy. They all pointed to the fellow with the M2 and laughed at him for the half speed SSD, thermal throttling, and the excessive price increase for the performance gain over M1. They shouted a whole list of issues and their voices overlapped one another so I didn't catch everything.

The man started crying and left shortly after. FWIW I disapproved of their behavior. I was about to stand up and defend the man by shouting over the beautiful girls, "Most people would never notice!" when it occurred to me that's what scammers say, and that Apple increased the price on the base model when at least one component actually got worse, so I kept my mouth shut.
 
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Yeah but do you really want a guy who, in the middle of some fun, gets hot and slows right down? And gets covered in fingerprints from previous people who've touched him?

Sometimes it's worth paying for a pro.
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I read your post too fast. I thought it ended with

"Sometimes it's worth paying for the porn."
 
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