[LINK] Integrating AI?

[Roger Clarke]

> On 6/24/25 00:23, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> ... thinking of buying another laptop ...


On 24/6/2025 00:53, Tom Worthington wrote:
> I buy my laptops second hand, for about a third the new price. This way 
> I don't have to agonize over getting the latest features. I have bought 
> four from the same supplier, two for me and two for others, over four 
> years, all good: 
> https://blog.tomw.net.au/2025/03/refurbished-dell-latitude-e7290-for.html
I do the same, both desktops and laptops.  Manly Laptops has been most 
commonly the supplier - very reliable at least on Macs, but they also do 
a lot of business in non-Macs.

My motivation is similar to Tom's, in that the last things I need are 
yet-faster processors and more gee-whizzery.  In the case of embedded 
AI, I'll be seeking the most switchoffable versions.  It's already 
making a complete mess of human knowledge storage, use and generation.


FWIW, I have an iMac of mid-2017 vintage, and MacBook Pros 2018-19, all 
running macOS 13.7.  (Plus a 2010 on the kitchen bench, which is mostly 
for recipes, weather and settling dinner-time debates).

They're approaching the macOS ceiling and are about the last of the 
Intel-based models.  I'm (again) in fear and trepidation about what 
damage Apple will do to my partly-legacy working environment when I'm 
forced up to another processor-base and macOS version.


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