I find your lack of faith disturbing.

I seem to recall a space battle station with a parabolic dish that could emit around 6.20*10^32 watts.

They work both ways.
See the photo.

It's called "intimidation".
You don't want to fucking go to war with us,
because we are ready for war.
Even though for the past 9 months we've been
doing everything we can to stay out of the wars.

"Don't make me come back there. You'll be sorry."

We are currently involved in TWO actual
shooting wars, one of which is Russia
trying to start World War 3.
Meanwhile, we are in a cold war with
China, who is sabre rattling and trying
to coordinate and bankroll an Axis of evil.

We renamed the WW-2 War Department back
to it's original name. "Defense" was for when
the World Wars were over. Now they are back.

It is pretty normal during wartime for the military
to restrict what the press is allowed to report,
and to expect them to be on our side,
which includes not reporting military secrets.
The press has always cooperated in the past.
This time around, they seem to have forgotten
the rules. Mainly because they hate Trump so
bad that they would be disloyal and treasonous
to their own country.

What part about this is hard to understand?
(Answer: The part where you are fucking deranged
and hate your country.)

My iPad Air from 3 years ago has the M1 chip in it.
That's the chip that was in Macbook Pro (and the
desktop Macs) not that long ago.

So we're talking about an M1 (or better) laptop.
So this new entry-level Macbook doesn't so radical
now that you know that, does it?

It will be like an old refurb Macbook Pro off Ebay,
same price point -- except it's new, and updated
in many ways, even probably a refresh of the
Silicon ("M") CPU. And you can get AppleCare.

This will help differentiate the Macbook lineup.
(Just above, someone was saying that have a
Macbook Pro for development and everything,
but they think they could have gotten away with
a Macbook Ait.) This new laptop will be what the
Mac Mini originally did for Apple. Provide an entry
lrevel for those who are more cost sensitive,
but want to use MacOS rather than Windows.

And do bear in mind that normal computer users,
which is not you (nor your Uncle who you do tech
support for)., never upgrade their machines.
Especially their laptops. They just buy a new one.
Or, in the case of Apple, discover that their computer
is good for 10 years rather than 3 years.

To do fancy photo editing in high def instantly.
Not to mention AI photo editing.

Don't really need it for text messaging,
or even for streaming video and games.

I guess.

Because they are saying it is not an iPad, but rather a "Macbook", and Macbooks run MacOS, not iPadOS?

The CPU in the iPad is perfectly capable of running MacOS, but it doesn't, because it's an iPad. If you stick that CPU in a Macbook, it will run MacOS. Because that's what Macbooks run.

Ir's not an iPad.
We already have those.

If I have to lug around a screen (and full keyboard),
might as well call it a laptop. And the CPU is not the
issue anymore: the hungriest apps are not going to be
the "desktop" apps, it's the "mobile" apps that it's
already running.

Now fix the keyboard and make the screen fold out
to be about double the iPad size, and increase the
storage significantly... and you get the device they
are advertising (except unfortunately the screen
and keyboard don't fold and not touchscreen mode).

Maybe 6 years from now, though.

That would work, except the SSD is too small,
the screen is too small, those aren't full keyboards,
and uh oh yeah WRONG OPERATING SYSTEM.
Phones won't run 90% of the apps I use.

But CPU-wise, it would be plausible.

My main computer is a Mac Mini from 2009.
Does everything I need, including my little
software development projects.
Syncs with my (new) iPhone and iPad.
The only problem with it is no (security) updates.
But I run Firefox, live behind it's firewall, and the
most dodgy thing I ever do is trust the Python repos.

I'll upgrade when the main board someday croaks.
At which point I'll buy another one (maybe new,
maybe a has-been refurb off Ebay), plug my Time Machine
drive into it, and pick up where I left off the day before.

So that's 20 years with no upgrade.
Friends of mine have similar aged Macs.

CPU power is not the issue. I would buy one to
have a device with a full keyboard and the ability
to run arbitrary (not App Store) programs.
This under-powered laptop will run all these
things just fine: Emacs, Audacity, VLC, Firefox,
Google Earth, LibreOffice, Zoom, and the native
MacOS apps including Mail, Music, and Preview.
It should also do fine with SBCL (Lisp compiler)
and databases like Sqlite (and my little programs).
It will do XCode and GCC for all the Linux apps
that I use: mostly utilities from Homebrew.
I also run Wine for a few little Windows apps.
That's everything I ever do, and it will all happen
with the Apple ecosystem that seamlessly syncs
(Photos, Contacts, Notes, etc.) with my iPhone
and iPad. No heavy lifting required. I bet it will also
have the AI chip and modem that the others have.

Sounds perfect.

Nobody thinks they are stupid.
We think they are inscrutable.

Ah, so, dats four shure!

No. Differential Pressure most likely refers to Bernoulli's Principle, but that is not how ice skating actually works. It is the explanation often given, but it's incorrect. The skate flies over the ice simply because your foot is pushing against the ice. There is some melt happening but that does not involve the laminar flow to create lift. However, when the pressure of the ice moving against your blade equals the pressure of the ice going into your skull is equal, we call that an aerodynamic stall which is why you stopped skating. This can happen when your feet slide past each other at the Nyqist Frequency.

Dive Deeper Into AI Mode

All these ice worlds are yours, except Europa.
Attempt no landing there.

Jesus Christ, it's right there in the name!
A natural resource screaming to be used.
Annex the island, save the planet.