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She was supposed to come just before all this crap started, like the end of 2019, she decided to come a few months later...that didn't end well.
Also, it's still hard for her to come here, with lots of paperwork.
She should have been here on a residence visa, had to learn the language though, but she's a bit older so not easy and then Corona came, no teachers allowed to do their jobs, can't get a resident visa without passing the language exam.

It should not take much longer, bit fed up with this.
I can only imagine how hard a long distance relationship is. All I can say is the time when you get to see each other is much closer than it was before.
 
I can only imagine how hard a long distance relationship is. All I can say is the time when you get to see each other is much closer than it was before.

Went through that in the 1980s. Hard enough without the pandemic. INS was a lot harder to deal with back then. It was a small funnel.
 
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She was supposed to come just before all this crap started, like the end of 2019, she decided to come a few months later...that didn't end well.
Also, it's still hard for her to come here, with lots of paperwork.
She should have been here on a residence visa, had to learn the language though, but she's a bit older so not easy and then Corona came, no teachers allowed to do their jobs, can't get a resident visa without passing the language exam.

It should not take much longer, bit fed up with this.
Tell me about it....I haven't seen my wife for nearly 10 months, and I've only just got permission to leave the country to go to her, after providing a ton of paperwork and evidence of my "justifiable need to live with my partner". And no, I don't live in North Korea...but feels like it.
 
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Checking back it seems like this usually happens about a month ahead of time.

Anyone else remember?
Think we'll see them all together in September?
 
Really? So if Apple had instead priced these cards at $2,799, and $4,999, and $5,999, you might have thought, “These must be exactly the right prices for these products”? :oops:

When I see a something priced at, say, $5,999, I have an entirely different reaction: irritation that a company thinks its customers are so stupid as to think, “What a relief! I thought I was going to have to pay six grand for this, but it turns out I can get it for only $5,999! What a bargain!”

(Of course, nowadays companies often have to price their products that way just to avoid them being sorted into a higher bracket online. “Hey Siri, show me all graphics cards priced under six thousand dollars.” But the sad fact is that companies were pricing products that way even before the days of online searches. “Buy your gasoline here for only $4.0999 a gallon!”)

I am not talking about 2,999 or similar, think those are stupid, I think more like $2,634 or $4,963, like the cost to *produce a product plus the (lets say) 30% profit, example, a product costs $134.95 to make, sell it for (+30%) $175.43

*Produce= all cost involved like R&D, overhead, building, personnel and so on.

Tell me about it....I haven't seen my wife for nearly 10 months, and I've only just got permission to leave the country to go to her, after providing a ton of paperwork and evidence of my "justifiable need to live with my partner". And no, I don't live in North Korea...but feels like it.
I feel your pain, hopefully the wait is over.
 
Funny thing is, in a lot of respects we're hoping the redesign to add back in updated versions of what older generations had included before being removed. I'm using a late 2011 13" and am looking to upgrade and it's very possible the new ones will in a lot of ways be a continuation of my current machine with magsafe, card slot and solid function keys
That's the funniest thing I've read in a while.
Reality is you'll be getting 2 USB type C ports on one side and 2 USB type C ports on the other.
 
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After spending a week with an M1 MacBookAir (sooo blazing fast), I can honestly say, the loss of the Touch Bar will be a huge downgrade! Hard function keys miss out on a million little benefits of the TouchBar. Been using it since 2016 (MacBookPro) and for all the ways it's half baked, it's truly 1000% better than hard function keys.

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I suspect you are solidly in the minority on this opinion.

I have both the M1 MB Air and the 16 inch MB Pro. I tried to use/like the touch bar and it just didn't take. The two things I want to do most often are adjust the screen brightness or audio volume. With the hard function keys this is trivial. With the touch bar I have make multiple taps/gestures to get the same thing done.

Keyboard shortcuts in apps substitute for any other functionality the touch bar provides and don't require me to look up and figure out where I need to touch to get something done.

The Touch Bar was a half baked attempt to avoid making Apple laptop screen touch capable. It failed miserably.
 
I'm kind of disappointed with the smaller screen after using a 15" Inspiron before,

I know how you feel. I would so like to order a MBA right now but I use a 15 daily and used to use a 13 and the extra spaces is nice. Indications point to an announcement for the MBPs in September. No idea when they will actually ship though. Hopefully this year.
 
Just brace yourself for a whopping price tag. If the specs & display are to be believed it could have a significant premium over the existing 16" Intel model.

They're saving the AMD and Intel taxes. The theory is that lower CPU/GPU costs will offset the higher new tech.
 
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