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Join the happy group watering on the Intel grave...

When I was active in Search & Rescue for missing aircraft, the doctors were the worst in flying as they thought the rules did not apply to them. So going lower than the published minimums would find them trying to fly through a forest as the plane broke into bits and pieces, just like their bodies.  Or they would fly into known icing conditions with a plane not approved for such flight. At least the bodies were still frozen for awhile, if the wreck was ever found....

The cure for stupid is very often fatal.

The top priced 13" Mac Book Pro is priced at $3,599. My 2013 13" top model was over $3,000. So allowing for inflation, the new price for the top model is actually the same or lower in purchasing power than my earlier version that I gave to a step-daughter recently.

In late December 2019, we decided to jump to a 16" Mac Book Pro fully loaded for myself and a similar model for my wife but with only 4TB of storage. We both still had the  last year of the 17" model tricked out with max memory that we retrofitted and SSD drives we retrofitted as we could make these improvements over time. Our 16" models are all soldered in place so acquiring a fully loaded model was to future proof as much as is possible.

My IIFx Mac cost over $6,000 at the time and then we needed a color monitor, video card, more memory and hard drive that pushed the price way over $10,000 in 1990s dollars. Those numbers make the new Mac Pro numbers almost seem reasonable.

Toilet paper? That would match some of their products well.

I have a 2018 11" iPad Pro 1TB + Cellure. I came home with it, a second generation pencil and an Apple iPad Pro keyboard. The next day I was outside and the iPad slid out of the keyboard face down onto concrete destroying the screen. I got a replacement iPad and returned the Apple Keyboard. I tied the Zagg keyboard and the foot extended out the back too much to use on a labor the airline tables. Acquired the Brydge keyboard and also their protective screen glass as the other designs do not work with the Bridge keyboard "grips". I have been most pleased with this combination. I ordered the Bridge Pro keyboard with track pad as soon as it was announced and it should be here in April and at significantly less cost that the new Apple version.  The existing Bridge will go to one of my step daughters, so all is not wasted.

I see the recent iPad models as a stop gap until 5G comes out and is truly operational and the new technology screen is available.