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Dan Seifert

Dan Seifert

Deputy Editor

When he isn't dwelling on the latest tech news or trying to figure out how the latest gadgets work, you can usually find Dan choking down far too much coffee than one person should consume in a given day. He also has an unhealthy obsession with computer and camera bags.

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The Verge
Deal Alert: free polishing cloth with Vision Pro purchase.

Apple’s new Vision Pro headset may be expensive, but if you act quick and place a preorder for the $3,500 device on Friday, January 19th, the company will throw in an Apple Polishing Cloth, a $19 value, for free.


The Verge’s 2023 in review

It was the blurst of times.

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Curious how the new Beeper Mini iMessage app for Android actually works?

Then you should watch this excellent video from Quinn Nelson at Snazzy Labs. He breaks down exactly what it's doing behind the scenes and why it will likely be a challenge for Apple to stop it from working.


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The Sony Vaio P series was the sickest laptop of the late 2000s.

Too bad it was “damn near useless,” as Colin from the This Does Not Compute YouTube channel put it in his look back on the P series and some other Weird Sony laptops from the early 2000s.


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The gang gets cordyceps.

Something I’ve long wondered about is how The Last of Us would look if Frank Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia was in it.

I need wonder no more.


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Verge Score

Apple iMac M3 review: searching for a purpose

The latest version of Apple’s venerable all-in-one desktop is an excellent and beautiful computer. It just doesn’t fit most modern computing needs.

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Actually, yes, a brand-new $1,600 computer should come with more than 8GB of RAM.

Apple’s stinginess with the amount of RAM in the new base model MacBook Pro 14 continues to be a story, with news today that vice president of worldwide product marketing Bob Borchers defended it by saying “8GB on an M3 MacBook Pro is probably analogous to 16GB on other systems” with no actual evidence to back that up. This is the same amount of RAM found in a $600 Mac Mini or a sub-$1000 MacBook Air, but here applied to a $1600 MacBook Pro.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Apple silicon and unified memory is impressive but it’s not magic and working memory is still working memory. If you are doing any sort of multitasking, like one might expect to do with a $1600 laptop that has Pro in the name, you will quickly run into limits with 8GB of RAM. Don’t buy the hype.


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This isn’t the Streisand effect I’m familiar with.

But hey, if you’ve got Tim Cook’s number, might as well use it. (For the uninitiated.)