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HDMI+SDXC+magsafe built-in is more practical than a fourth generic port and fishing around in your laptop bag for dongles.

Theoretically more versatile, but high-quality SDXC and HDMI built-in is much more practical than a 4th(!) Thunderbolt 5 port.

Also MagSafe, which the 2019 didn’t have.

Welcome to dongleville, population: you.

Can you use the touchscreen for the "run iPhone and iPad apps" feature of Apple Silicon Macs?

And if so, has Apple changed the policy from developer opt-in to automatic on touchscreen Macs.

Better display, more ports.

Also, there is no M6 Air yet.

Seems like they made their decision when they acquired Pixelmator.

Exchange rate is also a factor.

The iPad mini hasn’t been the budget iPad for quite a few years now. It is more like a small iPad Air now.

All true.

Also jersey patch sponsor and a sponsored mention during the pre-game.

Java 8 (early 2014) is where Java got interesting again. Lambdas and streams fundamentally changed the language. java.time was a very big deal too.

Can this new Siri handle TV-specific questions?

Play the next unwatched episode of X. What is new this week? (across all the services I'm subscribed to) What service is show X on? (localized to my country) When will the next season of X be released?

I'd pay for that (grudgingly, given the big hike). Otherwise don't see much reason to replace my 2021 model.

iPad OS still has a zillion failure modes for the elderly. Long press, split screen and the other multitasking paradigms, multi-finger gestures, touch id, background audio from some tab in Safari... there's just no end of features that can throw them off. And it isn't multi-user.

Not sure if HomeView is the answer, but some aspects of the video were interesting. eg super-fast user switching with no explicit login; and how it puts Siri forward as the primary UI in a way that the iPad doesn't, even if the iPad technically has the same capabilities.

That they drilled a hole through the kitchen island table top for the power cord was hilarious. Exactly zero people in the real world are going to do that.

I started using Perl in 1996.

But the very first CGI scripts I wrote were in C, late 95 or early 96. Apache on Slackware Linux.

Sure, but there wasn’t that much of a difference between the 030 and 020.

Falcon and 1200 had the same form factor. They are the final 80s-style home computer for their respective brands.

More comparable to the Amiga 1200, I think.

The Mac has had the ability to run iPad apps for quite a few years now, since Apple Silicon. Unfortunately it is opt-in for developers and most don't. I wonder if it will become non-optional (or at least opt-out) with the touchscreen MBP rumoured for this fall.

I think that's the unification route they are most likely to take, hopefully along with a thinner/smaller MacBook design and built-in cellular.

They've taken so many swings at the iPad Pro (both hardware and software), and it has never been as good as the MacBook.