I’ve had my iPhone 17 Pro and Apple Watch Series 10 for a half a year now. It’s about time for some reviews. iPhone 17 Pro Let’s cut to the chase: the most important feature of the iPhone 17 Pro for me is the color. That’s why I bought it. 1The color is great. I’m …
The MacBook Neo is Here!
Apple capped off a three-day product release extravaganza a couple weeks ago with what to many was its most anticipated product: a “cheap” MacBook. It’s been rumored for years, I wrote about it in November (see how my predictions landed), and it’s finally here. Say hello to MacBook Neo. I’ll get to my thoughts in a bit, but let’s cut to …
The Low Cost MacBook: How Did I Do?
The long-rumored low-cost MacBook was released last week as the MacBook Neo. It’s a 13” laptop based on an iPhone chip and offers 8 GB RAM, 256 GB storage, and four color options starting at $599. I’ll post my thoughts about it in a bit after some of the reviews come out, but today I’d like …
Adaptec SCSI PC Card
Back in the nineties, before USB was the common way to connect everything from keyboards to RAIDs to junk from Temu, SCSI was the king of fast storage connections. Macs had a form of SCSI since the 1986 Mac Plus and an entire ecosystem of hard drives, scanners, and removable storage drives were built around …
Farewell Microsoft To Do
I’ve always been a list person. I like to break things down into tasks and feel a sense of accomplish as I cross each item off. In school I’d make lists in my notebooks to keep track of assignments and at home I’d keep a piece of paper around for personal things. In college I …
My Hacky Little AppleScript
Ever since the second Steve Jobs era, Apple has been known for its product shots. They’re clean, crisp, detailed, and lit with just the right balance of highlight and shadow to create depth and dimension. They showcase the design of each product and make it enticing and coveted. These are the images that Apple uses …
Inflation and a Little AI
I enjoy reading old magazines and enjoy looking at their ads as well. There's something about the way they're pitched – the images, the layouts, the specs – that still gets me. I often fall into the trap of looking at the prices and marveling at them, thinking about how "cheap" or "expensive" various systems are. I …
Ruminations on the Low-Cost MacBook
I bought an M1 MacBook Air in 2020 for $1,249. It provided a significant performance boost over my 2016 MacBook Pro, even when running applications that weren't optimized for it. Since then. Apple has released four more generations of its M-series Apple Silicon, nearly doubling performance, but that M1 MacBook Air is still on sale. Not on Apple’s website …
What I Read: The PowerPC Macintosh Book
Apple transitioned to Apple Silicon starting in 2020, replacing the Intel CPUs transitioned to from PowerPC 2006. This book was written during Apple’s first transition: from Motorola 68K to PowerPC in 1994. Why the heck would I read a book from 1994 about a microprocessor that's now two transitions defunct? History! I love history and …
September Interests
As summer winds into fall I've been doing a mix of things: a bit of organization and a lot of customization. Notion I’ve been using Google Sheets to keep track of my retro museum for at least a decade. I inventory what I buy to understand what I own, what I want to own, and …
Relatively Ambitious 