not_anton

My wife uses a 2014 Air for writing 2-page Word documents, uploading photos to Facebook and showing cartoons to our daughter. The important things are low weight, good battery life and ability to close laptop any time then open it later and continue working, well also a durable metal frame - nothing to do with the specs. And all the wifes/girlfriends of my friends are the same, like still using 10-years old laptops.
I thing you are overestimating the performance needs of non-technical people. Nothing wrong for the companies to have a base model $500 cheaper by using i3 and 4GB RAM.

I really fail to understand people who complain about specs of the base model. Macbook has 1.5TB SSD and 16GB RAM if you need it. Not enough? A 15” gets you 32GB RAM and 4TB SSD. I bought a 2016 15” with 1TB storage cause 512GB would force me to use external disks and 2TB would be an unused expensive dead space. Now it totally fills my needs. What is the reason you cannot do the same?

Does Apple use GaN in 18W iPad Pro charger?

Teardown photos of Anker and 18W iPad charger show very similar controller, and both are lacking large transistors with heatsinks.

Anker:


iPad 18W