I wondered why I wasn’t getting any notifications. I kept checking my mute switch.

As a guy in Japan, same.

Obviously it’s not a problem when I’m typing in Japanese, but I frequently use Japanese words in English… because I live in Japan.

Names make me absolutely insane.

If only they had a nice photos app. One that had all the features of Photos, but also dealt with DSLR imports better. Maybe a way to hide unnecessary pictures of something without deleting them… Maybe allowing you to just advance through your photos and categorize them with a couple keystrokes, etc.

To differentiate it from Photos, they could make a name that had something to do with cameras instead, like “Shutter,” or “Lens,” or maybe Aperture.

I’d pay money for that.

Oh wait… I already did. I wonder where it went?

Wow, that was a very long “ackshully.”

I just bought an M2 MBA for work. With my budget (which I don’t control), I had to choose between not having enough RAM or not having enough storage. I chose to slim way down on what I have on the laptop rather than sacrifice memory, since I can use USB storage if I really need to.

But the real question I have is why I had to make the choice at all. 16GB is the absolute minimum I can accept because I need to run a Windows VM (which now takes up 10% of my hard drive) fairly frequently. Nothing should be sold with 8GB. I should have been able to get the 512GB storage and the 16GB memory for what I paid.

In unrelated news, this is my first Air since they went to the new design.

Do not like.

The tapered edges of all previous versions of the Air made it really easy to slip into a bag with a bunch of papers or whatever; now it gets stuck on things like a Windows laptop.

It wasn’t “ahead of its time;” it was several years after everyone knew the idea was crap.

Lenovo had a touchbar on ThinkPads for one year (IIRC) prior to the MacBook Pro, and then it was removed because no one liked it or used it.

It’s a dumb idea that solves no problems, and making us choose between F-keys, which are actually required by some apps, and an emoji picker was inexcusable.

Good riddance.

Well, if you’re silly enough to buy a keyboard or pointing device from Apple, I don’t know what to tell you.

(Okay, okay, they’re the only ones who make a decent trackpad, but come on; their keyboards have sucked since the demise of the chicklet, and their mice have always been garbage.)