cougarmeat

Any time you make a list, one item will be at the top and one item will be at the bottom.

Long ago, before there was dirt, I was in a High School Latin class. My daily test scores put me 3rd from the bottom. Eventually, the two students below me dropped out. In the next test event, I appeared at the bottom of the list. The teacher asked why my performance had dropped. I told him my "level" had not changed. It was just that the two people below me had dropped out. The teacher didn't bother me again.

(Note - I had a profound hearing loss that no one told me about until I failed my Army Physical during the Viet Nam ... police action. Reading/writing different languages is a normal challenge. Hearing a foreign language is a no-go).

So it doesn't matter if items are at the top or bottom of a Gross Sales list. The important thing is they are selling. An iPad Mini may be at only 9%, but how is it doing compared to its competition. ... Oh, that's right, there is NO competition for that handy, very portable, device.

Seems like all you mentioned was the cosmetics.  A wire is a wire. Perhaps you can add a bit about why the electrons like the Thunderbolt 5 wire more than the Thunderbolt 4 wire. What is it - not the external braid or the plastic or molded cover on the plug - that makes the electrons travel faster (trick question)? And why does that process cost $70?

You like it so much you gave it two Pros?

Though I appreciate the info about much older machines and OS's, I'd think that info would be in a side article about older systems. When dealing with versions of OS X, I didn't see any mention of the commercial back products Carbon Copy or SuperDuper - both of which create a bootable volume. Also, it's one thing to create a bootable volume; it's another to boot from it. Maybe it was mentioned in the article, but I believe there's some combination of keys that must be pressed at startup, in order to boot from an external source.

I miss the days when I could simply select the StartUp Drive from system preferences. I'm sure IT departments are pleased that it isn't so easy anymore. But that was always the philosophical conundrum. In its early days, it unshackled the user from the IT department. Perhaps that's one reason, besides cost, companies opted Intel/Windows computers. The Mac gave users too much freedom.

What does being a "Tiktok User" have anything to do with this? It sounds more like the author is (not so) subtly trying to throw shade on TikTok. If the user had eaten oatmeal for breakfast the article title could have read "Oatmeal Eater Got conned ..." i.e. a hidden warning not to eat oatmeal.