Full frame DSLRs are heavy because of the big mirror box. Mirrorless full frame cameras are a lot lighter. An APS-C Canon R7 is bigger than my full frame Canon RP. Coupled with a light prime it's almost indistinguishable from a compact camera and delivers better image quality than most of those.

While I agree the missing MST support complaint is valid it seems very far fetched to me it's a deal breaker preventing Mac adoption. Most people only use 1 screen, a fraction of people dual screen (especially laptop users) and only a tiny fraction have or really need more screens.

Doesn't seem to prevent half of the world from buying iOS devices with equally inflated prices.

Except Apple laptops usually aren't subsidised by mobile phone operators, offered for free in exchange of a five year contract, where the owner is actually the mobile operator due to device locking.

That's not been the case here (the Netherlands) for years since the 'hidden loan' of the phone was outlawed. Yet everybody under 20 aspires to have an iPhone.

Where is Netherlands located?

Then go back to my original comment.

Additionally, do you happen to know even in Europe, what is average salary of the southern countries and why so many folks try to move into central and northen Europe?

Naturally buying an iPhone, or anything Apple, with a Dutch salary doesn't need hand holding.

Not surprised. It's almost as expensive as a Tesla Model 3 in the Netherlands.

It has to be less if they don't want to spoil the in-game 'insert disk 144' joke ;)

Seems they are using kilometers of fibre optic cables, so they fly tethered and communication can't be disrupted.

I'd hate to be part of the clean-up crew when that war ends. Broken fibre is nasty stuff.

I believe they’ve also deployed hybrid solutions: FPV fibre drones launched and piloted via link to an unmanned platform.

So a drone boat with good/secure signalling pulls up and a bunch of fibre optic drones launch from that point penetrating inland.

I'll gladly take up the fibre clean up. You deal with the mines :)

> Sennheiser provides replacements should you need them.

Not anymore for my old 380 pro. Had to settle for aftermarket versions that feel a little softer but also sound a bit different.

Yeah, i got couple of third party replacements recently for my 2 hd380pros.

The leatherette one was useless within 2 years. Outside became slimey / sticky, the inside just shrunk.

The velour one works fine but feels different to original. I just ordered a mesh one to try too.

Most flash memory will happily accept writes long after passing the TBW 'limit'. If write endurance would be that much of a problem I'd expect the second hand market to be saturated with 8Gb M1 MacBooks with dead SSDs by now. Since that's obviously not the case I think it's not that bad.

> Most flash memory will happily accept writes long after passing the TBW 'limit'.

That's the problem, isn't it? It does the write, it will read back fine right now, but the flash is worn out and then when you try to read back the data in six months, it's corrupt.

> If write endurance would be that much of a problem I'd expect the second hand market to be saturated with 8Gb M1 MacBooks with dead SSDs by now.

That's assuming it's sufficiently obvious to the typical buyer. You buy the machine with a fresh OS install and only newly written data, everything seems fine. Your 30 day warranty/return period expires, still fine. Then it starts acting weird.

> That's the problem, isn't it? It does the write, it will read back fine right now, but the flash is worn out and then when you try to read back the data in six months, it's corrupt.

SSD firmware does patrol reads and periodically rewrites data blocks. It also does error correction. Cold storage is a known issue with any SSD, but I don't have any insight in how bad this problem is in reality. Of course it will wear out eventually, but so will the rest of the system components. There's nothing to be gained by making SSDs that last 30 years when the other components fail in 15.

> Then it starts acting weird.

Is that speculation or do you have any facts to back that up?

Yes, and on many samplers too. The linked website looks like a 'lite' version of the slicer on my Elektron Octatrack ;)

Depends on the course I think. But 8Gb is more than enough to run a Java 'Hello World' GUI app or even something heavier. Students don't - as a rule - get to deal with millions of lines codebases.

I don’t know if you’re serious but a Java Swing all that’s simple should not consume more than 8 Mb, let alone GB!

Just tried out a simple Java Swing popup and it uses 6Mb of heap so that's allright then ;). (on my machine it will reserve 160Mb of memory for thread stacks, code caches, buffers and GC but that won't be a problem unless you use it) In the 90s I also thought that was wasteful (my first PC had 32Mb). Nowadays with Electron apps taking up gigabytes it doesn't seem that bad anymore.