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New comment by windowsrookie in "Red Hot Chili Peppers ink $300M deal with Warner Music to sell catalog"

windowsrookie — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:04:59 +0000

Most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers hit songs are pushing 30 years old. Their songs have already hit their peak popularity and will only be declining from now on.

This along with AI generated music flooding the market. An AI generated song has already been #1 on the iTunes Charts. AI generated music is only going to get better and more popular.

Future TV shows/movies/etc. will likely just be generating their own music, rather than paying royalties for "hit songs".

New comment by windowsrookie in "Chrome's AI features may be hogging 4GB of your computer storage"

windowsrookie — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:14:23 +0000

AI companies bought up all the NAND manufacturing capacity, limiting the available manufacturing capacity for consumer products. These data centers also use hard drives for some of their data storage.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

windowsrookie — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:18:24 +0000

Ars Technica Made a guide:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/what-i-do-to-clean-u...

New comment by windowsrookie in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

windowsrookie — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:30:53 +0000

I'm not really sure why your neo is performing better than the M4.

The M4 and the neo share the same CPU architecture but the M4 has 4 performance cores at 4.4ghz, while the neo has 2 performance cores at 4ghz.

The neo also does not have any CPU heatsink so it thermal throttles after only a few seconds:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/MacBo...

New comment by windowsrookie in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

windowsrookie — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:30:19 +0000

There's really no reason to be scared working on your car. I have no formal training and I have never paid a shop to fix my car in my 20 years of car ownership.

The mechanical parts of a car haven't changed much in the last 25 years, and are easy to understand just by watching a few YouTube videos.

The electronics have certainly gotten more complex, but if you can understand basic computer networking and low voltage electronics it's still quite simple.

If you are interested in learning how to fix your own car, there is a great guy who runs an auto repair business on YouTube and his tagline is: "Remember folks If I can do it, you can do it."

https://www.youtube.com/@SouthMainAuto/videos

New comment by windowsrookie in "Filing the Corners Off MacBooks"

windowsrookie — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:52:24 +0000

Seriously, I have several mac laptops dating back to 2004 and they all have less wear than that.

New comment by windowsrookie in "NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough"

windowsrookie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:04:24 +0000

People making $80-90K can live a similar lifestyle to the people making $125K+, they just aren't saving any money. I know people that do this, live their whole life with less than $5k in the bank.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Technology: The (nearly) perfect USB cable tester does exist"

windowsrookie — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:07:05 +0000

The reason it is thick is because it supports 65W charging. Apple did the same with the USB-C cables that shipped with the pre-MagSafe MacBooks. It was a thicker cable that supported 100w charging but was only USB 2.0.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Professional video editing, right in the browser with WebGPU and WASM"

windowsrookie — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:51:58 +0000

Black Magic gives video editing software that actual professionals use away for free. They sell professional grade equipment that regular consumers can afford. They also offer a ton of training videos teaching you how to edit professionally....for free. A ton of independent filmmakers have started their career using Black Magic software/devices.

They are absolutely not anything like oracle.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Apple announces new Mac sales record following MacBook Neo launch"

windowsrookie — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:48:12 +0000

The profit margin is probably better than you think. The iPhone 17e sells for the same price, and the neo is certainly less expensive to manufacture.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

windowsrookie — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:48:29 +0000

"How many M1 mac will still be functional in 20 years?"

Probably quite a few, MacBooks have had soldered SSD's for over 10 years now. My 2018 McBook Pro still has a perfectly functioning SSD. I still see people using 2015 and older MacBooks all the time. There is no widespread SSD failure issue after 10+ years of Apple soldering the SSD's.

For most people the SSD's are lasting longer than the useful life of the device.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

windowsrookie — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:01:42 +0000

The reality is most 8GB M1 Macs are still working just fine 6 years later. Power users know they need more than 8GB of RAM and will buy a MacBook Air or Pro with 16GB+.

The MacBook neo is for students, grandparents, travel, etc.

Hell, even if it dies after 6 years it was still a better experience than using a $500-600 windows PC and the cost comes out to ~$8/month spread over 6 years.

New comment by windowsrookie in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

windowsrookie — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:45:23 +0000

You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles"

Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?

New comment by windowsrookie in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

windowsrookie — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:29:07 +0000

Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.

New comment by windowsrookie in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

windowsrookie — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:24:34 +0000

I replied to somebody else earlier, but the 11" air and the new neo are very close in physical size.

The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".

New comment by windowsrookie in "The New Apple Begins to Emerge"

windowsrookie — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:22:45 +0000

Definitely not typical, the 11" MacBooks had terrible screens by modern standards and have no hardware acceleration for modern video codecs.

It really is too bad they never upgraded that 1366x768 LCD in the 11" MacBooks otherwise I think they could be great linux devices today.

New comment by windowsrookie in "The new Apple begins to emerge"

windowsrookie — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:15:25 +0000

The 11" MacBook Air was 11.8" x 7.56" the neo is 11.71" x 8.12".

It's extremely close in physical size, just with a 2" bigger display.

https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook...

https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/specs/

New comment by windowsrookie in "MacBook Neo"

windowsrookie — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:29:16 +0000

Seriously. I mainly want to use iPhone mirroring for when my iPhone isn't sitting right next to me. It then nearly always asks me to unlock my iPhone first before I can use it....

New comment by windowsrookie in "MacBook Neo"

windowsrookie — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:59:34 +0000

There are millions of people using 8GB or RAM with MacOS without issue right now. I would bet 80% of all MacBooks in use right now have 16GB or less of RAM.

New comment by windowsrookie in "MacBook Neo"

windowsrookie — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:47:33 +0000

macOS has been running on A series chips since the beginning of the transition to Apple Silicon. The original developer Macs had an "A12Z" CPU.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer_Transition_Kit