PhineasC Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 If you are Macbook user, you need to upgrade to the M1 chip MacBook. The battery life is next-level. It's not just a small upgrade. It's a game changer. All day and then some. Full brightness and all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 25 minutes ago, PhineasC said: If you are Macbook user, you need to upgrade to the M1 chip MacBook. The battery life is next-level. It's not just a small upgrade. It's a game changer. All day and then some. Full brightness and all. What’s the price ballpark? I’ve been wanting to upgrade for the past 6 months. Although the battery isn’t much of an issue but if I had multiple meetings back to back without the ability to plug on it may work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PowderBeard Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 20 hours ago, Bostonseminole said: I’m riding that pony till late next week then out.. . Elon Musk hosting SNL, already making "Doge-father" jokes on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if it was >$1 come Sunday morning. I had fun from .08 - .35. Problem is so many people use Robinhood they will turn off buying again/say there are technical issues like they did April 15-16 when it peaked. That would be my primary concern. January 27th still haunts me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 2 hours ago, weathafella said: What’s the price ballpark? I’ve been wanting to upgrade for the past 6 months. Although the battery isn’t much of an issue but if I had multiple meetings back to back without the ability to plug on it may work. A MacBook Air starts around $900 with that chip The 13” Pro starts at $1300 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted May 2, 2021 Share Posted May 2, 2021 2 hours ago, PhineasC said: If you are Macbook user, you need to upgrade to the M1 chip MacBook. The battery life is next-level. It's not just a small upgrade. It's a game changer. All day and then some. Full brightness and all. M1 chip should be using TSMC's latest technology which is more advanced than Intel currently. Also Apple design their own chip instead of using Intel's technology, this probably helped to improve performance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, weathafella said: What’s the price ballpark? I’ve been wanting to upgrade for the past 6 months. Although the battery isn’t much of an issue but if I had multiple meetings back to back without the ability to plug on it may work. Was just looking 999-1400 but I heard new upgrade coming in the fall, with a 14" screen instead of the 13.3" so I'm holding off till the fall if the price is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bostonseminole Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, PowderBeard said: Elon Musk hosting SNL, already making "Doge-father" jokes on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if it was >$1 come Sunday morning. I had fun from .08 - .35. Problem is so many people use Robinhood they will turn off buying again/say there are technical issues like they did April 15-16 when it peaked. That would be my primary concern. January 27th still haunts me. yes, that is why I'm holding it.. I think it will be risky to hold till Sunday but this stuff trades 24hrs so yeah, can get out anytime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhineasC Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, weathafella said: What’s the price ballpark? I’ve been wanting to upgrade for the past 6 months. Although the battery isn’t much of an issue but if I had multiple meetings back to back without the ability to plug on it may work. The difference is incredible. If you are a light user, you can probably go days between charges. It's that much of a difference. I have the MacBook Air. Plenty of power for native apps, and the Office suite is native now. I have been sitting outside by the pool working on my laptop since 11 AM with backlight at full power and streaming music to Bluetooth speakers and still at 60%. No Intel MacBook could keep up with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STILL N OF PIKE Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Intel is an embarrassment last few years regarding their corporate leadership causing them to be leap frogged by many . Their lagging chip technology has them left in dust . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powderfreak Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 A friend shared these. Bear clans wandering neighborhoods in the Green Mountains. With Vermont's Compost Law, everyone has a separate compost bin (that looks like any other suburban trash can)... it's easily figured out by bears as they just knock it over and smash it around a bit. The dumpsters get the bear proof bar across the top. They can sometimes beat that bar with brute strength. It's definitely an on-going problem. Bears are learning that these human trash caches provide food. Even if they don't "learn" it, they can smell it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weathafella Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 5 hours ago, PhineasC said: The difference is incredible. If you are a light user, you can probably go days between charges. It's that much of a difference. I have the MacBook Air. Plenty of power for native apps, and the Office suite is native now. I have been sitting outside by the pool working on my laptop since 11 AM with backlight at full power and streaming music to Bluetooth speakers and still at 60%. No Intel MacBook could keep up with that. Man that sounds enticing! I’ll probably do it or kick myself daily whenever I use the old one. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amarshall Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 My dad has a new Volkswagen ID4. I go in it expecting Tesla Plaid acceleration being it was the first time I drove an electric car. What a complete dog. The acceleration is borderline dangerous coming out of intersections. My car has a supercharger and a turbocharger (Volvo t6) so I'm biased. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whineminster Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 13 hours ago, PowderBeard said: Elon Musk hosting SNL, already making "Doge-father" jokes on Twitter, I wouldn't be surprised if it was >$1 come Sunday morning. I had fun from .08 - .35. Problem is so many people use Robinhood they will turn off buying again/say there are technical issues like they did April 15-16 when it peaked. That would be my primary concern. January 27th still haunts me. you'll be alright. If RH did that again I think they'd be all done. Plus fewer people are in the crypto game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 57 minutes ago, amarshall said: My dad has a new Volkswagen ID4. I go in it expecting Tesla Plaid acceleration being it was the first time I drove an electric car. What a complete dog. The acceleration is borderline dangerous coming out of intersections. My car has a supercharger and a turbocharger (Volvo t6) so I'm biased. Which Volvo model? Are the new ones still as reliable as the old ones now that it’s owned by a Chinese company? The newer V60 CC T5 looks so, so good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 Visa buying in: https://decrypt.co/69718/visa-outlines-five-ways-its-pushing-into-crypto?&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_source=coinbase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moneypitmike Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 16 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said: I see that being kicked down the road for at least a little while. Agreed 100%. Dollars are a greater concern than the environment. It's more about the money the the environment. The US gets nearly $50B a year in gas tax. The state (MA) gets about $750M/year on gas tax. As people move to electric and as efficiencies increase, governments will not tolerate a drop in revenue. They will raise the taxes to the point they can and will be adding a 'miles-driven' tax to everyone. Similarly with cigarette taxes. Ostensibly those revenues (close to $1B per year) are intended to focus on targeted causes, e.g. anti-smoking efforts. In reality, the vast majority goes to the state's general fund and not any 'targeted cause'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 21 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said: Stay over in Portland one night and hit all the breweries. It’s just not a single day trip route Lot of breweries in that area. Better limit tasting to shot glass size or one would be visited the last few in a shopping cart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 40 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: Which Volvo model? Are the new ones still as reliable as the old ones now that it’s owned by a Chinese company? The newer V60 CC T5 looks so, so good. I agree. I see those every so often and wish we had looked and driven one before settling on the CX5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HIPPYVALLEY Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 25 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said: Visa buying in: https://decrypt.co/69718/visa-outlines-five-ways-its-pushing-into-crypto?&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=feed&utm_source=coinbase The European Investment Bank is supposedly going to put digital bonds up for sale via the Ethereum blockchain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damage In Tolland Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 7 minutes ago, tamarack said: Lot of breweries in that area. Better limit tasting to shot glass size or one would be visited the last few in a shopping cart. Lol. Nah can hit 5-6 and be ok 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 16 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: I agree. I see those every so often and wish we had looked and driven one before settling on the CX5. The CX5 is a nice vehicle too. I would only spend V60 money if the reliability is still there and I’ll be able to drive it hard for a good 10 years at least. I own a Jeep now and I know I’ll have some issues within a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, NorEastermass128 said: The CX5 is a nice vehicle too. I would only spend V60 money if the reliability is still there and I’ll be able to drive it hard for a good 10 years at least. I own a Jeep now and I know I’ll have some issues within a year or two. Ha, funny you mention the jeep. My wife rented a wrangler 4-door for a few days and fell in love with it. So much so, she wants to possibly trade the Cx5. I've never been a jeep guy, especially wrangler, but a few people she's asked about it said they really liked theirs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorEastermass128 Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 27 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: Ha, funny you mention the jeep. My wife rented a wrangler 4-door for a few days and fell in love with it. So much so, she wants to possibly trade the Cx5. I've never been a jeep guy, especially wrangler, but a few people she's asked about it said they really liked theirs. My cousin owns a 2 door, manual transmission Wrangler with massive off road tires and loves it. He’s up in NH every weekend, so it suites him well. Those Wranglers do hold their value since they do have a loyal following. Not the most practical car, but it certainly evokes emotion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Lava Rock said: Ha, funny you mention the jeep. My wife rented a wrangler 4-door for a few days and fell in love with it. So much so, she wants to possibly trade the Cx5. I've never been a jeep guy, especially wrangler, but a few people she's asked about it said they really liked theirs. I might be in the car market soon. I keep going back and forth between Forester, Outback, and CX5. Currently have CX3 and love it, but too small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon Tip Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 I feel ashamed every time I turn the starter and settle the wah-wah to hear the purr of the internal combustion engine's toxic fart factory's slow poisoning dose-contribution of the hour. It's just something we don't consider - like ... "flying" to a destination and then "riding" in a cab, to an auditorium that took a giga ton of carbon foot-print to power all aspects of overhead for ... just to rail as an environmental activist about a fossil fuel driven society. We are walking talking and "breathing" ( puns always intended just because I find pleasure in being annoying...) balls of toxic hypocrisy. Hypocrisy more than anything else is the lubrication of society. Like ...pounding away on a key board connected to the WWW ... to rave about the pitfalls of an impersonal social medias tearing at the fabric of culture. Most vegetarians ... they don't seem to be aware that they can be that way because they are couched in a societal machinery geared along by the majority - the enemy blood thirsty cheeseburger mongers. That's a particularly "delicious" hypocrisy right there - that whole holier than thou bag of shame and shade about eating meat. I guess if the majority cogs in the gear box decided to go vegan... maybe, but that wouldn't suffice the caloric needs of 7.5 billion mouths to feed - a purely agrarian species from orbit ... heh, probably in some super advancing counter-supplemental technology whence we are not there yet, that might be possible. It is an advancing environmental science problem but intuitively .. trying to turn the daily page of Earth's humanity on farming likely does not provide enough ... When it takes a 2 acres to raise a cow... that balloons to a requirement of arability land for growth that exceeds availability.. Animals concentrate nutrients into packets for redistribution - as coldly metallic as that sounds, it is a true. And then when aspects of climate and climate change get in the way... and crop vitality is not as dependable as the nutrients packed in Tenderloin, it just doesn't map out as very realized. Out here in reality, the point is, vegetarian cannot do this alone. Meat eaters can. It's called a gun or arrow, and camouflage. But most can't - hence the creation of Industrial abattoir scaling. That form and structure provides the provisional access convenience that delivers unto the moral high road's plate, the calories they will need to ablate our value as human beings for not being as morally priceless as they are.. Isn't that special - And on and so on.. You know ... despite all religions of the world and vicissitudes of history ... there is only one commandment that has prevailed for a million years: hypocrisy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, Lava Rock said: I agree. I see those every so often and wish we had looked and driven one before settling on the CX5. Well, to be fair, base price is 10k more for the Volvo than the Mazda... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lava Rock Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 1 minute ago, HoarfrostHubb said: Well, to be fair, base price is 10k more for the Volvo than the Mazda... true and it's hard to justify that kind of premium, but I've had audi's and would sound like a hypocrite if I said it wasn't worth it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoarfrostHubb Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 5 minutes ago, Lava Rock said: true and it's hard to justify that kind of premium, but I've had audi's and would sound like a hypocrite if I said it wasn't worth it. Absolutely... if you can swing it, def worth it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 2 hours ago, HIPPYVALLEY said: The European Investment Bank is supposedly going to put digital bonds up for sale via the Ethereum blockchain. That’s big. It’s coming which is why I don’t want to miss the ride. I’m not claiming to be a crytpo expert but everything I read says to buy in. Play money can turn into some nice profit if it pans out and if it doesn’t, it was just play money I would have lost at the Casino anyway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUNNAWAYICEBERG Posted May 3, 2021 Share Posted May 3, 2021 49 minutes ago, BuffaloWeather said: I might be in the car market soon. I keep going back and forth between Forester, Outback, and CX5. Currently have CX3 and love it, but too small. When you’re making $2k/wk on crypto lol, you should. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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