Looks like AirJet is sending out these things with sample modified MBAs so YouTubers can destroy functional computers and turn them in to e-waste to sell Air Jet’s products. As somebody else pointed out, PC World did a similar video on the same topic at almost the same time.

It was on LTT months before that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdD0yMS40a0

It’s clumsy over a LAN, nevermind the Internet. Apple’s VNC is not a patch on something like Microsoft’s RDP. It’s a poor solution, and depends on you having a good connection at the remote end. And you’ll also be using a tiny iPad screen. If you buy an iPad Pro and Magic folio and a Mac Studio then you’ve probably spent as much as a MacBook Pro.

Same, these are Pro machines designed for Pros who need performance. I have an M1 Pro 16" machine and the battery life is already more than enough to get me through the day.

Are you being deliberately facetious?

Optimised battery charging never correctly figures out my habits which are very random, so I use Al Dente.

I never said they don’t want you to buy it, I said they design their pricing structure so you spend more. The prices for upgrades don’t often reflect their true value, but a carefully chosen price point by Apple that leaves you in a position to justify spending a little more.

This is exactly why Apple carefully designs their pricing strucutre. They want you to think that.

It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership

Snow Leopard was a huge update for my MacBook, fixed a load of issues, and was screaming fast. This isn’t my faulty memory. That’s how I experienced it at the time. Just because Snow Leopard didn’t fix every single bug ever, and needed bug fixes itself, doesn’t mean it wasn’t a bugfix release because it fixed a lot. And those bugfixes that came after Snow Leopard’s release weren’t necessarily fixes for bugs that were introduced with Snow Leopard, they were just fixed in a Snow Leopard update.

Zero new features. Bug fixes and performance improvements only.