I dropped $3000+ on a MBP last year but I can't justify that sort of money on a novelty item like the Vision Pro. What is the point of watching a movie through goggles if I can't share the experience with my family. In that regard, the Vision Pro is too isolating. I would rather put the $3500 towards a 98" 4K TV or 120" short-throw projector that the whole family can enjoy.
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I dropped $3000+ on a MBP last year but I can't justify that sort of money on a novelty item like the Vision Pro. What is the point of watching a movie through goggles if I can't share the experience with my family. In that regard, the Vision Pro is too isolating. I would rather put the $3500 towards a 98" 4K TV or 120" short-throw projector that the whole family can enjoy.
When I was in college, I desperately wanted an iPod Mini. About a year ago, after toeing around eBay for awhile, I came across what looked like a mint 2nd Gen Mini with the original box and all the accessories. When I got it, it had the name of some investment firm engraved on the back, so assume it was either a corporate gift or silent auction item that someone received and then never used, eventually being sold by relatives or someone who picked it up cheap in an estate sale. Following steps online, I replaced the HDD with a 256GB SD card and the battery with a brand new higher capacity model while I was at it. So almost 20 years later, I rock out daily to my Mini, and everyone that asks about it wants to know if they can get one too. There is absolutely still interest in the iPod, and if Apple can release a stupid coffee table book for ungodly prices, they can release a limited anniversary edition iPod with updated internals, and the hype train would fuel itself.
People are so spoiled. Just 5 years ago, for decades we enjoyed 5% performance gains yoy. Now a solid 20-25% every year turns out to be too little. It's worth having perspective, the MBA M4 is already as strong as the 14/16" M1 Pro/Max in everything except graphics, which is also only ~50% weaker despite having only 1/3 cores. A machine that is silent and so light.
Ordered my Sky Blue M4 MBA last night. My 2020 Intel MBP is slower than even my M1 Mac Mini 8GB/256 that I have in the studio - really noticeable on video editing - so I'm looking forward to the new Mac - even though I'll be sorry to see the end of the touch bar.
To everyone getting one of these, enjoy your new devices. Planning to get the MacBook Air later this year.
Germany: iPad 11 arrived, but having problems bringing the device to work: There was an available software update announced during setup, which failed (progress bar didn't even start). Eventually I tried DFU mode but there seems to be no software for this new device on Apple's servers:
I would definitely buy an iPod touch 8 ! It would be a great device for testing and more… Just take the iPhone 16e : remove cellular and sos features/satellite, remove some other things and boom you get a cheap device which can be used for many many things…
I agree… everyone is forgetting the m3 MacBook Pro which according to nanoreview (and me) is better than the actual air ! https://nanoreview.net/en/laptop-co...s-apple-macbook-air-13-m4-2025?m=c.1_r.2-and-
I picked up my preorder blue iPad Air 11 inch (M3) at Best Buy this morning. I went with the Wi-Fi 128 GB to replace my 4 year old green iPad Air 4th Gen. 64 GB. My iPad has always been my “around the house” device so it’s a nice upgrade. One change I noticed over the M2 (and previous versions) is the iPad Air branding and model/serial numbers have been taken off the back of the unit. It just has an Apple logo on it now.
A fair question...I am going to be more mobile than I was before so I wanted the larger screen. I also needed more memory for my Windows 11 VM for running SolidWorks.