People who are using headphones jacks are people who probably do not care the DAC sucks or have high end headphones to use on a $699 laptop. For example for a video conference meeting, a headphone jack is fine for that fidelity.

I would say most people who are buying a $699 laptop do not know what a DAC is nor care about buying one. What they will see is this budget laptop requires an adapter to use wired headphones. Will it completely stop someone from buying this laptop over another model? Probably not, but it is a negative.

[sarcasm]But it will have Windows 11, the most beloved version of Windows right now.[/sarcasm]

WiFi 7 is more robust. The problem is if your network isn’t WiFi 7, then the benefits are negligible over WiFi6. But consumers can buy any new WiFi router right now so that shouldn’t be a problem . . .oh wait. Yeah . . .

Dell says the processor will be an Intel Core Series 3 for the budget $699 model and has up to 17 hours of streaming battery life. We will have to see if it lives up to battery life and performance tests. Noticeably absent from the advertisement was how well this laptop would do in benchmarks.

I saw the movie. It was fine. It was not the best, but it was not the worst. From my perspective the movie did not have a main singular plot but multiple ones; it seems to been designed to break broken into pieces for serialized content like TV episodes. My guess is that this was intentional so that Disney+ could have another season of The Mandalorian and a movie. Basically the movie is really to generate some box office revenue that it could not generate as a TV season.

They ignored it because they had so many other alarms. This is a general problem of an ideal scenario to present all information, and the crew should figure out the exact problem and solve it. The real world creates information overload in a stressful situation and the crew cannot process the correct information. After AF447, there was more training in this exact scenario and emphasis on which alarms to prioritize.

Why keep the name? It would be more spiteful to name it the Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton Golf Course.

No, the plane warned of stall many times. The problem was the plane issued many, many other alarms. It is surmised they were just overwhelmed by the number and failed to prioritize which alarm to correct.

Also Airbus only recommended replacement on the 320. AF447 was a 330 but used the same pitot tubes.

A contributing factor was the plane was giving contradicting speed readings and alarms. And there were a lot of alarms. The flight was at night during a storm so the pilots had few visual clues about how fast they were moving. Yes the pilots should have heeded the stall warning over the other alarms, but it was not as simple as the crew just ignoring the only alarm. After this accident, the scenario of contradictory alarms was added to pilot training.

The pitot tubes were known by both Airbus and Air France to fail due to icing. Airbus issued recommendations to replace them on the Airbus 320 not the 330 which was the model AF447 used. The 330 used the same pitot tubes.

Aviation experts have raised concerns about the over reliance on computers by younger pilots. The pilot that was flying the plane (PF) had the least amount of experience but was also the youngest of the pilots. He would have spent the less amount of time manually flying a plane. The older pilots would have manually flown planes more over their careers as computer controls were not as sophisticated as they are now.

The root cause of the crash was the pitot tubes icing during certain flight conditions that caused erratic speed readings. This lead to the conflicting warnings and alarms that led to the crash. Airbus was concerned enough to issue recommendations to replace that model of pitot tube for their Airbus 320 planes; however, AF447 was an Airbus 330 which used the same pitot tubes. Neither Airbus nor Air France felt it was a priority to replace the pitot tubes.