Meaning for me at least that Twitter is once again losing me. Perhaps that\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n
Apple is not much better. It\u2019s easy to overlook Apple’s social justice messaging because they\u2019ve always been a closed ecosystem and spent a lot of time breathing the rarified atmosphere of their own farts.<\/p>\n
That being said, Apple has generally made products that I liked from a hardware perspective and because of that, I\u2019ve owned multiple generations of Apple products. It doesn\u2019t mean I agree with Apple\u2019s political, ecological, or social justice stance. It means their products work in predicable ways that I understand. For me owning Apple products is not a fashion statement, it\u2019s a practical one.<\/p>\n
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My current MacBook Pro is about a year old. I find that shocking because usually by the time a machine reaches a year old, there are little things that tell its age. I\u2019m not talking about scratches or stuff like that.<\/p>\n
The machine starts to \u201cfeel\u201d slow, or the battery doesn\u2019t last long enough, and a ton of little things that individually are nothing but collectively they tell the user the machine is \u201cold”. It\u2019s subtle, but over time, dissatisfaction and boredom set in and you find yourself checking out websites looking for the next new thing.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pleased to say that my MacBook still makes me smile. I run it most of the time in low power mode if I\u2019m on battery. I don\u2019t notice that I\u2019m technically running the processor \u201cslower\u201d. I\u2019m always blow away by how long the battery lasts, even with a combination of teleconferencing, web surfing, and me writing, I have yet to have the battery die before I was done looking at screens for the day.<\/p>\n
Running Windows, in VMWare Fusion, either in low power mode or in \u201cnormal\u201d mode I\u2019ve noticed a few things. This computer provides buttery smooth operation of Windows, and the fans are either never on, or they\u2019re on at such a low level I don\u2019t hear them. That\u2019s a big difference from my Intel I7 MacBook Pro. On that machine, within a minute of bringing Windows up, the fans were screaming at full power. The battery life isn\u2019t significantly affected, VMWare makes the machine very busy but I think I could still get most of a day out of the battery even running Windows all day long.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the speed at which this machine handles rendering Video and Audio versus my older MacBook Pro. The performance is so high, the first few times I rendered something I thought the render had failed because the computer said it was done so fast.<\/p>\n
For the sake of this post I did go look at the new M3 lineup. I hadn\u2019t looked at any of the new machines until today. \u00a0Let’s just say I could probably spend $7,000 on a laptop. However, I\u2019m not sure that I would be any happier with that new hotness than I am with the machine currently in front of me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That suggests that right now, for my needs, the machine I have will last me quite a while. \u00a0Fingers crossed, I might get 5 -7 years out of this machine. Who knows? This machine might last me until I kick the bucket.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been looking for a job for a while and not having any luck. A friend of mine has just started a job search and is having no better luck than I\u2019ve had over the past 4 years.<\/p>\n
I suppose this is part of what led me to appreciating my MacBook.\u00a0<\/p>\n
We were talking about podcasting, blogging, and various alternative income methods. It was during that conversation, I thought, \u201cMy current laptop has more than enough horsepower to do those kinds of things effortlessly.”<\/p>\n
I might need a better quality microphone. I could probably use one of the mics Jerry owned, but I can\u2019t find the interface that would allow me to power and connect a standard XLR cabled mic to my computer. I know we have such a device, but I don\u2019t know where Jerry put it, or if he might have been using it at the Church or Temple.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s a pity because we have two very nice microphones.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got more research to do before I start trying to podcast or whatever, so I\u2019m going to keep looking for that interface. Ideally I might not have to purchase anything.<\/p>\n
Who knows? Maybe for once in my life, I\u2019ve actually got exactly what I need, when I need it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
That would be a novel thing to have happen!<\/p>\n
Hope your Monday is a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are a lot of things to complain about with technology companies these days. Chief among my complaints is that technology companies seem to think they can and should be arbiters of social and moral standards. For the record, they can\u2019t.\u00a0 I wish that technology companies would just do technology. I\u2019d love it if they … <\/p>\n