Some day will we look back on Cinco De Mayo 2025 as the date it all started?
#SkyNet

Straddles the boundaries between software and hardware

And yet everybody involved in the lawsuit still buys food packaged in plastic, with drinks in plastic, buys their kids toys of plastic, and drives a car that couldn't function without plastic.

This is assuming Apple is sitting still. Which they are not. They are claiming to beat the M3 Air (fanless) which is a shipping chip, and not even their highest performing variant; but it's not a stretch to assume Apple is working on an M4 that will outperform the M3 and therefore the Qualcomm. But hey, I'm good with these two companies taking turns leapfrogging each other -- consumers win.

I'm interested in giving this laptop a try, it seems to be the most like a MacBook Pro, at least from a hardware perspective. I love that it has a GTX 1060 in case I wanted to try out some VR or do some gaming. I'm most worried about Windows 10 being suitable to replace all my workflows in MacOSX, to be honest, than I am about finding suitable hardware. Since you own the Razer Blade 2016, can you please give some candid feedback on what you consider to be the biggest drawbacks, if any? Is the trackpad as good as the Mac? How's the palm detection for accidental presses? How's the fan noise? Can you post more about the Win 10 alternatives to Mac programs that you found?

The MSI you linked is a great spec laptop for the money, it beats the heck out of Apple on the GPU and on ports... but I would expect a touch screen for this price, even if I didn't plan to use it. The screen is absolutely gorgeous though, better than Retina quality. (One big keyboard nitpick though, the Windows key is on the wrong side of the keyboard -- very infuriating.) I ended up buying but then returning this laptop to Fry's because I just couldn't abide with Windows 10. I ended up buying a refurbished MacBook Pro from 2015, the last sane model.

VMware isn't spelled with a capital "W". #pet #peeve

Right out of Serenity / Firefly
#browncoat

It's VMware, not VMWare. #pet #peeve

I'd also consider bringing back Jonathan "cowboyneal" Pater. Seriously.

I once accidentally left my door open so the neighbor called the Police. When the cops got here, my office was so messy they thought the place had been ransacked!

Don't under-estimate the power of Office 365 to draw schools back into the fold... one of the local systems here just rolled it out county wide.
I think the appeal is outsourcing the day to day management and administration of Exchange email... and well... Office just rides along for free.
Many systems also seem to feel compelled to teach Office because that's what businesses use, and they want to prep the kids accordingly.

You can get a nice Samsung from Best Buy for less than $800. The specs are good, and the design is nice.

Samsung - Laptop / Intel® Core i5 Processor / 14" Display / 4GB Memory / 640GB Hard Drive - Aluminum

(Disclaimer: I do not work for Best Buy, I do not work for Samsung. I don't get compensated one way or the other if you buy this unit. I'm a Mac guy too, and recently went through this same decision, and this is what I found.)

I'm a fan of the cloud services from Peer 1 Hosting, particularly their CloudOne Storage offering that is based on EMC Atmos.