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I upgraded my 2019 iMac i9 to almost the same configuration as Gallagher did. My work flow is easier but occasionally I have some heavy lifting to do. I am amazed at how powerful this is. The Affinity apps are great but took a while to load and were a little balky on the Intel i9. Now they load really fast and work like butter. After decades of struggling with slow computers and limited storage this is really a dream machine. 

I added a USB-A dock for a number of small accessories I use off and on. I got a Mac Studio display which has fairly nice speakers.

This setup may seem expensive but that is only because every other computer has become so much less expensive. In the year 2000 I got a Power Mac and LCD display for about $6,000. According to inflation calculator that would be ~$11,000 today. 

I’m old so I started with small computers that probably had less power than is in my mouse or Apple Pencil. I just got an M4 Max Mac Studio and it is beyond awesome. Kudos to everyone at Apple, especially to Mr. Srouji’s group.

I really wonder what happed to Intel. It is amazing to see a company own the market and then fritter it away through bad decisions. I think part of it was that they were wedded to high clock speeds, all else be damned, so they lost big time on power consumption. 

I also heard some rumors that a highly placed exec pushed hard for some specific process recipe that never panned out and that cost them several years of lead time. Incredible. 

This really brings to mind Clayton Christensen’s ideas about the attacker’s advantage.

Looking forward to this. I like Clooney in almost everything he does.
Severance is good and I can't wait for the next season. Some stuff on Apple TV+ I don't care for (like Palm Royale) but I'm happy that other people like it.

We've enjoyed a number of items on Apple TV+
Lessons in Chemistry (I wish they had another season)
Sugar
Slow Horses
Dark Matter
Silo
CODA

Foundation was good but somewhat disappointing. I think it is a bit dated and hard to bring to a film.
For All Mankind is interesting but the timeline is way too compressed. They are way too optimistic about how long it would take to build all that stuff. I'll add a personal complaint common to almost all sci-fi. They always show the pilots flying these ships by hand. In reality, computers are needed to switch things on and off and steer with the needed precision.

Or you could watch Tubi or Pluto TV for free.

I use Concepts a lot. I’m not an artist, but with the tools and great layer support I find it very useful for sketching the layouts I need. This is a very well supported app that is worth checking out.