Huh? Where do you get that from?

Mix of anecdotes and law of large numbers - for every 10 person startup founded by hipsters in Berlin you have a 500-1,000 person GCC opening up in Warsaw, such as Google.

Gulf Corporation Council? GNU Compiler Collection?

Google & co have very little footprint in the EU.

citation please

In 2022 they had 25K employees and interns. That's tiny.

Source: https://blog.google/company-news/outreach-and-initiatives/di...

This is probably going to be my new laptop next year if it gets the A19 Pro with 12 GB of RAM.

I'd bet these things are going to be on a two-year upgrade cycle, instead of yearly. Will be super happy to be proven wrong.

They released the 17e a year after 16e so there’s hope.

The new naming of iPhones makes sense for a yearly update, not so much for the Neo.

Apple has products in their lineup where they refresh and keep the name. Example: Mac Studio is the same every refresh.

Literally the only thing wrong with these is the RAM is so borderline in 2026. 12GB would have been right on the money for an upgrade options.

Not saying you are wrong or the option shouldn't exist, but what specifically makes 8 GB too little but 12 GB sufficient? Planned obsolescence and software that is written with the idea that "8 GB is borderline in 2026" seems to be blame. But perhaps there are genuine limitations that 8GB RAM runs into. Certain AI models, rendering at certain resolutions maybe?

My 8GB M1 Air is my daily driver for over 5 years now and so far it has worked out well. Sometimes, I have to replace badly optimised software for good alternatives. I hope that by the time that MacOS becomes unusable, Asahi Linux is mature enough to replace the OS rather than the hardware. I'm still on Sequoia and from what I've heard going to Tahoe would be terrible for the usability of my Air. So, no idea how much longer I will be able to hold out and if Asahi is ready now. It looks ok on first glance.

Edit: On second glance it seems not ready at all https://asahilinux.org/docs/platform/feature-support/m1/ "Video Decoder: WIP"

100% that. So frustrating. Their lifespan is artificially short because of this.

This one will be my new laptop this year, and I'll then see what happens next year.

might as well get an air

Oh, man... What I wouldn't give to have Pages (and other apps) appear like they did in OS X Lion. This is just depressing.

While I feel so too, I do actually think that objectively Catalina is a UX-side step up. Current displays have 16:9 or even 3:2. Putting less things in the top bar and more stuff in the sidebar, especially in something like Pages where your content does not even fill half of your display horizontally, I think it makes sense.

From the first version of iWork, the inspector panel had the same basic purpose and layout as the sidebar. (Screenshot: http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/120609-inspector-win... ).

The formatting bar was an (IMO unnecessary) option added in iWork 08.

With iWork 2016, they took the existing inspector panel setup and docked it into each window.

Nothing unexpected about it.

S**, I haven't felt much urge to upgrade from my 16GB M1 Air and I even use it to play some Windows games under Crossover. Quite possibly the best laptop I've ever owned.

We had little marco rubio (not capitalised on purpose) over here in Europe lecturing us about freedom of speech. Every accusation is a confession.

The same chomsky who claimed that Epstein is a "highly valued friend and regular source of intellectual exchange and stimulation"?

In addition: the same chomsky who wanted to send Ukraine into oblivion?

Sanctions on Russia due to the war in Ukraine (and other bad actors) and whatever the hell orange mussolini is doing are not even remotely close to being a similar situation.

"Introducing macOS 27 'Snowy Tahoe' with 0 New Features!"

Denial of free speech? In which way? And it's incomprehensible that you would bring random Ukraine bashing into your argument out of the blue.