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Alfred also has clipboard history, but you need to pay for the PowerPack to get it.

That’s a pretty good summary. It is an odd product. Who is the 13" M2 MBP actually for? People who can’t wait a month for the Air to come out? Touchbar enthusiasts? Seems like a rare misstep for Apple to release it at all, honestly. I guess their internal sales metrics predict it to be worthwhile.

Couple of points not covered in the article.

First, the M2 MBP (and Air) can only run with a single external monitor. This matters to me, as I use two at work. Pretty silly on a "pro" machine.

Second, the M1 Pro MBP has a number of advantages over just the faster CPU, GPU and more ports. Of course it can support more than 1 external monitor, but also the built-in screen is 120Hz and variable refresh rate, and it’s a mini-LED for vastly improved contrast. It’s just much more pleasant to use.

Lets be honest, here, right? You don’t want the base models. 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is simply insufficient. The 16GB/512GB 13" M2 MBP is $1700, compared to $2000 for the 16GB/512GB 14" M1 Pro MBP. And that’s what you should buy. The $300 is certainly worth it.

If you are happy with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage, buy the M2 Air.

Speed doesn’t matter. If it can stream HEVC video without stuttering, it can do this. There really is vanishingly little local processing happening, everything is on the server side.

Everything has HEVC already. AV1 will require a hardware update when that finally happens, but given the market penetration of HEVC I have no doubt MS (and Nvidia, and Sony, etc) will still support HEVC for many years to come.

This could be interesting when/if it’s full-featured, but I’m sure they’ll lock the really cool AI upscaling and fill stuff behind a paywall.

Unless you’re on a Chromebook it’s competing with stuff like the GIMP and Paint.net, which are full-featured, run locally on your computer not in slow javascript, and is completely free. I’m sure Android has similarly feature-rich photo editors too, ChromeOS could probably run them.

Yeah, I disagree with that, app developers should be free to release for whatever platform they like. I do hate meta (even more) for not giving Instagram a tablet UI, though.

There’s no real need for a standard, really. Apple just needs to say "users only have to authenticate to SIWA via 2FA once per device". Or perhaps even as often as once every month. Not pretty much every time.

Oh no, it’ll absolutely be everywhere. MS is just taking a surprisingly long time to get there.

It doesn’t take any power. You’re just streaming video and passing along bluetooth input. Anything can do it, down to a raspberry pi.

That’s a shame, Nobody ever bought the thing, but I truly enjoyed all the comments from people vitriolically against letting Zuck look into their living rooms over the years.

It’s kind of shocking it’s taking so long. I expected there to be Roku, FireTV, AppleTV, AndroidTV, and various smartTV apps everywhere by now.

My guess is MS is being conservative about capacity, they don’t want to overload their resources.

It all works great on Apple devices and apps. No problem at all.

Problem is once you step outside that garden— even if it’s just to a browser other than Safari, even on MacOS. Then it’s terrible.

Make sure you’re locked safely inside Apple walled garden before using this.

I signed up for a website using Sign in with Apple and find it extremely annoying on a Windows computer. The site prompts me to sign back in every week. When I do, it pops up a 2FA on my iPhone, then I need to tap accept, and copy the code. It should only do this once per device, but it doesn’t. I find this really irritating.

Coming in 2026— a calculator!

Then in 2052— Instagram!