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Microsoft is the king of announcing unpopular decisions and then reversing course, getting themselves all of the bad reputation of that decision and none of the intended business advantage.

WTF is a metaverse?

As an owner of both a TouchID MacBook and a Windows Hello Surface, it seems crazy to me that Apple would choose a fingerprint sensor over face detection for a laptop. Microsoft’s computers just unlock themselves like magic with no interaction from you at all. Apple’s ask you to raise your gorilla arm up and press a button in a somewhat precise way to unlock them manually.

They both get the job done, and at the end of the day they’re both better than typing your password, but it’s the difference between a really great experience and a merely adequate one.

I wouldn’t normally be tempted by a $3500 laptop, but with the specs on this thing I could probably plan on using it for ten years before worrying about an upgrade.

Meanwhile I’m just sitting here waiting for colorful MacBook Airs. Portable M1 iMac please!

Including the Animal Crossing DLC is kind of a big deal. I have three AC players in my house so it was going to cost me $75 to buy three copies separately anyway. For 80 I get everyone’s animals crossed and all the other stuff too.

I still play from time to time. Plays like a dream as far as I’m concerned. Make sure you’re using controller layout 1.2 and using a real N64 controller and I’m not sure what the problem would be.

They do have online multiplayer, which is a legitimate value-add. That’ll enable me play Mario Kart 64 with the same people I used to play with back in high school. That’s worth the price to me.

Okay, having a dedicated screen to control music while GPS is running on your phone screen is actually an incredible use case. That’s a frequent frustration when I’m driving that’s easily worth $80 to fix.

I love the 3D ones but I suspect they were illegible at 12pt on a 1080p screen. It would be cool if they swapped in the 3D ones for users on high density displays, but if that’s not practical it does make sense to go with the more versatile version (especially since Windows could be running on multiple densities at the same time across monitors).

Will it at least boot up Spotify on my iPhone automatically? The biggest problem with my car’s Bluetooth is that it’ll auto-play the last YouTube video or sleep-aid app I was using and then I have to pull my phone out to hit play on Spotify to actually listen to music.

There’s quite a few wired third party controllers for Xbox. I suspect it has something to do with licensing for the proprietary wireless protocol.