Notes on AI, tools, and tech.
Ask a friend in the US to name the biggest phone brands in the world. You’ll hear Apple, Samsung, maybe Google, maybe Motorola. What you almost never hear is Xiaomi, which is strange, because by shipment numbers Xiaomi is the third-largest phone maker on the planet. It outsells almost everyone, and a typical American has … Read more
Apple announced the new Mac Studio with M5 Ultra yesterday, and my feed has been nothing but benchmarks and hot takes since. I was eating cereal when I saw the press release — not even kidding. I almost choked because the memory configs go up to 512GB now, which is insane for a desktop you … Read more
So Apple is finally updating the regular AirPods. Not the Pro ones, not the Max ones — the entry-level ones that most people actually buy. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to announce AirPods 5 at its September 9 event, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and that foldable iPhone everyone keeps talking about. … Read more
I’ve been running a SATA SSD in my gaming rig for years. Never thought much about it. It loads games fast enough, or so I told myself. Then I started seeing NVMe drives drop in price. Gen4 ones. The kind that promise 7,000 MB/s read speeds. My SATA drive does about 550 MB/s. That’s a … Read more
So Apple is really making AirPods with cameras. I know. It sounds weird. When I first heard the rumor a few months ago, I thought it was one of those “Apple is working on a car” type leaks — technically true but years away from anything real. But then a video showed up inside macOS … Read more
The first batch ships this month. The company says it can zap a mosquito in 0.003 seconds. And honestly? I’m not sure if I’m terrified or impressed. Let me back up. This runs into the same wall Xiaomi hits in the US, incidentally. The phones are perfectly legal, you just can’t buy one. A Chinese … Read more
Apple’s September event is coming, and this year’s lineup sounds different than usual. Based on what’s been floating around, we might see five new devices. But here’s the kicker – Apple might not show the full iPhone 18 family all at once. The standard iPhone 18, iPhone 18e, and the second-gen iPhone Air? Those could … Read more
Apple’s about to raise the price of the iPhone 17 lineup. Maybe as soon as August 10. That’s the word from supply chain chatter, and honestly, it’s not that surprising. Memory chip costs have been climbing for months, and Apple already bumped up prices on most of its other hardware back in late June. The … Read more