For me right now, there are a bunch of Strix Halo unified memory laptops offering 64 to 128GB of unified memory that are the current best value. This will probably spill into next generation (Strix Medusa IIRC).

They're just very versatile and performant, and they're usually very good value. As a big plus you can run very decent models locally.

Framework are among my current top choices. Hearing good things about the Lenovo Yoga Pro 7a as well, and HP rather surprisingly. But there are a bunch of Ryzen AI Max+ 395 based laptops supporting up to 128GB of unified memory, and it looks like you can hardly go wrong with these.

I see your post as a pretty strong refutation of OP's premise.

Unless for those who can afford not worrying about money, of course.

Back in 1995-1998 or so, Lotus 1-2-3 was the price of a mid-range computer and Wordperfect was about half that. People were seriously invested in them, in several ways.

I remember resisting myself as a kid the change from DOS to Windows versions of apps. Practically I was more productive with my memorised key combos and found it extremely annoying to switch. I also had an Amiga background that "workbench" and mouse point-and-click interfaces in general were meant for design and authoring applications but not for documents. Coming to think of it, I still feel this way - which perhaps is why I'm so naturally inclined to use stuff like vi(m)/emacs and tiled window managers.

there's pros and cons

using the same directory drastically reduces the amount of assumptions about your system's permissions and your own installation (or lack thereof)

old school *nix editors typically do something like emacs and vi typically do, whereas old WinDOS/Mac single-user systems would have an installation file and a cache system-wide, and post NT and OS-X they have roughly the same but in a centralised user directory that is not system-wide, but is located as if it were (different evolution path)

it does have a similar problem to other systems in that it's so free-form there is no cohesive experience

deleting published stuff in any sort of decentralised network is always going to be limited at best

there is just no way to police what happens to data that is broadcast, which doesn't remove control away from the reader

it's annoying because in the abstract it's something everybody has the potential to need and need badly, but if you're afraid to put something out there to your name/pseudonym you really shouldn't

always knew him as C.A.R. Hoare, takes me way back to freshman college years

RIP good sir

> no one on HN cares whether I fixed up the blinds or cooked pork steaks

lies

where do you post your home DIY and grill updates?

Hahaha - thank you for making me laugh AND for being supportive all in the same breath

Yep, my experience is that cheaper scopes are so shoddy I've regretted giving them away.

it's Apple and they don't like to adjust prices to the market

other companies would have just hiked the price of the 512GB model to reflect the lack of supply and to allow people who really need that model to pay for it dearly

but that comes with some PR damage that Apple would rather not deal with

But they did raise the price of the 256GB model.

Yep, but it they had to double or triple it on short notice, they'd have just removed it from the store instead, and I imagine that the RAM is going into 256GB systems for more $$$ but still nothing really that alarming for the consumer.