If you are treating Windows devices as much like chromebooks as possible (autopilot deploy into S-mode; fairly draconian setup) you can get away with not too much IT; but at that point you really have to ask yourself why you are using Windows devices.

Most of the things you actually need windows for don't play all that well with that level of lockdown; and between chromebooks being cheap and defaulting to that level of lockdown without additional effort and the low end Apple stuff being nicer than wintel hardware that costs the same it's a bit tricky to make a strong case for running Windows systems as 'edgebooks'. You can; but it's not a super compelling option.

That's exactly why it's sort of disappointing to see him promoted away from actually doing stuff; and showing off a one of the less interesting "do Doom in a technically weird way" demos around.

Plenty of c-suite are just "meh, nothing of value was lost" when the suit fully engulfs the human; either they never seem to have done anything of interest or were popped directly out of some viscous spawning pool at McKinsey or whatever; but Russinovich was really good for nasty NT crevices work, so it seems a real shame for him to be vague CTO of cloud stuff. I don't begrudge him the money the promotion presumably involved; but going from actually interesting things to sending copilot to double booked meetings is kind of grim.

You did not pay for the Platinum package? Fool!

The joke is that in the future, it will make you watch ads before it deploys an airbag in a crash.

And the point you are missing is someone who is reporting more than 5 bugs at one time is unlikely to be reporting real bugs.

The first sentence says that many AI bugs are "low-quality and sometimes entirely fabricated vulnerabilities generated by AI". It is unlikely that fabricated vulnerabilities will affect an OS.

Potential power generation does not mean solar and wind farms magically appear overnight. Infrastructure like transmission lines also do not appear out of nowhere. You're also talking about deep red Texas which cares little about regulation. The problem is not Abbott is against any data centers forever. The problem is even in Texas, the infrastructure is struggling to cope right now.

Apple uses 256 bit AES from what I remember. Theoretically using a single computer, it would take 10^59 years to crack a single key. Using all world’s computers including supercomputers, it will be less but not meaningfully less.

Yes, UK government wants Apple to modify their entire encryption scheme so that Apple can grant the UK government access to user data anytime that government asks. Existing data is protected unless Apple is forced to replace existing keys.

It would be interesting to know what the numbers look like in terms of schools that are actually doing something at least modestly Apple-specific vs. ones basically reusing chromebook-focused plans on Apple hardware.

Anything you hand out is going to be 'a platform' and normalize it for the students(not necessarily a point in its favor; people tend to resent the deliberate limitations of hardware that IT has been told to at least try to make less useful for porn and cheating); but there is a potential difference in versatility and vendor flexibility between people actually adopting some macOS stuff and people concluding that chromebooks have been getting more expensive at an alarming clip, without feeling any less cheap, so Apple is now genuinely competitive even if you are just going to slap managed chrome on there and reuse your existing, chromebook focused, IT and curriculum stuff.

Apple released the Neo at just the right time, at the right price, right when the market was stressed and looking for answers.

I've been ordering Chromebooks for my district for eleven years. Prices hit an all-time low of $227 per unit back in summer 2021. Since then, prices trended up for me year after year. Last year's units were $297. This year's were quoted to me in April at $430 each. I was able to find new-in-box 2025 models for $330 each and went with those instead. I was also warned that, if I ordered Chromebooks, it might take months before they would arrive. I have a neighboring school district that placed an order, then had it cancelled two months later because Dell couldn't fulfill the order. (There are supplies of Dell Chromebooks to be found, but at the moment, Dell is prioritizing supplying its biggest vendors like CDW. Meanwhile, many districts in my area typically order through smaller in-state vendors who aren't getting the same priority from Dell.)

The market is stressed this summer; supplies are low and difficult to find. Supplies that are available are 50% - 80% higher in price than last year. Apple comes along and says "You can buy an educational laptop right now for $500", and hell yea, the fish are gonna bite. It has nothing to do with people suddenly falling in love with Apple, and everything to do with constrains in the marketplace.

And I have no love for Apple either. Don't forget that schools have been begging Apple for a decade to release a $500 student laptop, and all Apple did was thumb their noses at us every single year. Why did they decide they now they need to release a $500 student laptop? It's only because they've been losing business to Chromebooks for a decade.

Every screener I saw was back in the day of DVDs. A friend of mine worked for a video rental place and they got screeners a once in a while. Most of them were B movies that may have not been released so it was not as if we got to see blockbusters early or for free.

What part of "Before Covid Dell had generous remote work policies" is unclear to you?

The people I know worked remotely for Dell a decade before Covid, and Dell had no issues with them living hours away from an office .

Wow you really don't understand the point. Team members live several states or countries from each other. When you have a large global company like Dell, that will happen.

WTF are you talking about "risk/reward" analysis. I'll say it again: Before Covid Dell had generous remote work policies. No one said Dell people lived in a cabin in Alaska. They just lived far away from a Dell office. People, based on those policies, lived a few hours from an office rather than 30 minutes from an office. And Dell encouraged it.

Affordable housing is just one reason why people would prefer not to live whenever you want them to live. Clean air, better schools. etc.

No you're not very smart if you think not living close to a Dell office == living in Alaska. Your entire assumption is based on very flawed logic.

Dell for one. I am sure you heard of that company. Before Covid Dell had generous remote work policies. So people moved to places they wanted to live rather than near a Dell office. Now they might have to travel hours to an office that will not hold everyone. Also Dell has many offices so team members may not be geographically located near each other. I know a few employees who have to drive hours into work so that they can attend Zoom meeting with their team who might be in another state or even country.

The Bright Angel trail starts from the south rim of the Grand Canyon. The starting point is where many people take pictures with tour buses stopping there. It starts the 2,000 foot (600m) descent into the canyon. I hiked it to the first campground and back up which is about 4-5 hours. You would be surprised how many people I saw start the descent with no water and unsuitable shoes. There is a ranger standing part way down to stop hikers who were not properly geared.

While some companies allowed employees more ability to work remote due to Covid, some companies had those policies before Covid as they did not have enough office space for their employees. Now those companies are mandating workers make long commutes just to fight for desks.