I know lots of people - older mostly - with computers that only have internet access on their phones.

exactly. you can use your phone to go to the windows activation site. you don’t need the PC you’re activating to have internet.

this isn’t about microsoft accounts or local PC accounts. this is just about activating the OS which you can do on a provided website (without an account).

intel airs did have fans anyway. when they switched to apple silicon they removed the fans.

The 12” macbook (not air or pro) was fanless but it was a severely gimped CPU and had major issues.

look fuck microsoft, but - who is trying to activate windows without any internet access at all?

and that thing was a disaster.

“built well enough to hold for years” is the bare minimum in laptop build quality. sure, lots of crappy flimsy laptops will last “years” but they are still crappy flimsy laptops.

also tons has changed in laptops over the last decade, particularly in efficiency.

no, even in 2020 Intel Macs were noisy compared to apple silicon Macs.

well more noise usually goes hand in hand with worse battery life.

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beginning of this headline got my hopes up that he finally croaked. fuckers.

how is it not?

are you talking about the Air? last time i checked all iphone models have a camera bump.

let’s assume 100% of this CO2 was generated from fossil fuels and eventually will be released into the atmosphere.

is that any less green than grid storage batteries built from massive amounts of mined metals with an enormous CO2 footprint?

how do you propose removing it?

there are two options, 1) using a smaller,shittier camera, or 2) making an extremely thick phone. neither option is very “apple”, especially for a flagship model.

considering the vast majority of people use phone cases and will never notice the bump anyway, i think this whole thing is blown way out of proportion.

are we really going to start counting who stole what in all smartphone design.

then they would have presentd as Micron, not Crucial.

This is not even close to being a general solution. Lots of places do not have water loop radiators and it is not an easy retrofit at all. Lots of people cannot even afford additional insulation for their domicile. Telling the average person “don’t be a wuss” is not a viable strategy to get them on board with supporting green energy.

Also heat pumps are the most efficient form of heating we have. They work best at a constant low/mid level, not completely shutting off for half a day and having to work extra hard to catch up in the morning.

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deal with the fact that we’ll have power outages during sleeping hours.

let me guess, you live somewhere winter doesn’t exist.