The Infrequency of RAM Updates in Consumer Mac Laptops

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• Follow-up:
  • Face ID is also an accessbility affordance (via Todd Scheresky)
  • Uses for 🛢️👃🏻 (via Jamie West)
  • Microwaves
    • The modern knob (via Nate)
    • There’s such a thing as too much (via Kieth Bradnam)
  • Scanning old photos
    • Ryan’s procedure
    • Todd Vaziri’s advice
      • ScanCafe
  • Possible laptop improvments (via Nathaniel Velez)
    • CNET review
    • Mr. Clean Magic Eraser
    • Melamine foam
  • Apple explains dynamic caching (via Gokhan Avkarogullari)
    • Metal Profiling Tools
    • Performance Best Practices for Shaders
    • Memory is now unified within the GPU (via Jonathan Ragan-Kelley)
  • M3 SSD speed vs. M3 Pro SSD speed
  • SSD price graph (via CG)
  • Mac laptops have had the same base RAM since 2017 (via David Schaub)
    • Jobs vs. Cook
• Marco and Casey’s new laptops
  • MaxTech video on M1 vs. M2 vs. M3 speeds
  • Other Video Transcoding
  • Migration Assistant
  • Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable
  • Jason’s cursed screenshot
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  • Is there a way to get Photos.app’s geotag metadata into the actual files? (via Santiago)
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