Its a Chromebook. Think about what's in a flagship phone and a top of the line laptop 10 years ago. Now think about what people are doing on laptops and whether or not they could use that 10 year old one just fine. The "power of a phone" is all relative - in this case it can service the needs of a cheapo chromebook type experience just fine. (Its apple so will cost 2x a chromebook).

I remember there was a phone laptop docking combo a while back that did just this - you plugged the phone into the laptop and just used it there, but it looked clunky as hell. That would be pretty cool, and Apple could probably pull it off pretty slickly, but the software is probably one of the most important things and I guess some of the recent ipad merging to macos things are making that more possible.

If its tricky because of specifying the location its probably going to work, you can set a pin to your desired pickup location. If its tricky because of the area Waymo will currently do worse because it generally isn't going to do the stuff a human is going to get away with like double parking, blocking a hydrant etc. Teaching a robot to follow the rules is easy because robots really want rules to follow. If you follow all the rules in a complex traffic environment, its likely you won't do so well, other drivers don't obey the strict rules of right of way, blocking the box, etc. Waymo does pretty well at this in some areas, but poor in others, and parking for pickup seems like one of them.

I can play Crysis on my expensive cryptomining/AI hardware now??? First DOOM on a refrigerator and now this!

Found the Kenny Bania fan. (What, you said you liked sitcoms! :)

I tend to find them 50/50, and certainly don't go by the critics scores either. Murder Mystery was a good time, and as with most sequels the sequel sucked. Haven't seen Happy Gilmore 2 yet but I probably will eventually just because of the original.

Your issue is that the state of the art is rapidly advancing faster than even 6-12 months for anecdotal experiences. I'm having AI build something for me while I type this, and I guarantee you its stringing more than a few lines together. I would not rely on second hand data for this, I'd go figure it out for yourself. Every single person that hacks out code for a living right now needs to go see what the stat of the art is and figure out how to deal with it. To me it sounds like you've chosen "door ostrich" as for how this is radically going to reshape how engineers work.

Skynet was the product, Cyberdyne was the company that created Skynet, so they'd need to change to that.

Excuse me! Excuse me! This person was OUTRAGED on the internet. How dare you attempt to add facts or reasoning into the situation! Its obvious that PG&E will force them into putting the battery on the wall and then use it any time they want at gunpoint! And even if it's not true, it _could_ be true because they imagined it, so that's just as good!

Come on, he's not giving away Alaska, they're just going to slice up Greenland and the rest of the Arctic. Then take a play out of Putin's book and get a little slice of Canadian bacon so he can drive home. (/s???)

You wouldn't steal a pizza! Why would you steal a movie!?!

Oh boy! And after I land that plumb job in the mailroom, I'll work my way up through the company management training program, become a Jr. account executive with my own secretary and order the boys down in the lab to get something going on the company mainframe. Say, where's the pneumatic tube around here, I need to get this inter-office memo out stat!

Don't worry, they'll use a medical grade straw that costs $600.

Come on, you meant dinghy. A fiscally sensible dinghy.

Hey, if you cheese eating surrender frogs want to keep people from knowing the truth that Globeheads keep hidden from you, please do, but I for one need a constant stream of unmedicated schizophrenic drivel to keep my world view intact!

So like 6 years old? What a joke.

What's the gap between Win10 supported hardware and hardware that Win11 doesn't support? Would a five year machine work? 10? Wondering what kind of treadmill they've set up.