Recent content by christopher.andrew.carr

There have been expensive flagship Android devices for quite a long time now, and not just Samsung devices -- Pixel 9 Pro XL 1TB is $1,350. Pixel 9 Pro Fold 500GB is $1,920. Huawei has a tri-fold device that costs > $3,000

" ... The Chinese government has also thrown support behind Deepseek ... " Their purpose in this venture is not to make money.

" ... superior performance compared to OpenAI's best .. " No, OpenAI 's best is o3. It is not superior to that. It's about on par with o1. And it's neck and neck with Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking (but Gemini is much faster) -- and Google has the larger base model 2.0 Thinking coming soon...

😁 excellent 👍

I seriously doubt awareness is much higher among early 20-somethings in the USA, many of whom also have zero understanding of something as basic as heirachical file structure.

Inadequate RAM for my needs.

Something that's "simplistic" is too simple for the intended purpose. A simplistic thing is inadequate in its simplicity. Were the processors really too simple? The word you were looking for was just plain "simple."

Can't (easily) run Linux on a M-series MacBook. And I would hate to be stuck with MacOS.

In that case they would not be able to get the performance/power usage which is the entire purpose of their new SoC. I imagine they will come to some arrangement with ARM. High-performance RISC-V laptops will be nice, some day.

You *can* use a separate Bluetooth speaker -- not via Bluetooth, but with a Chromecast Audio.

For under $70, Cowin E7.

Chromecast capability is already integrated into the apps/services on my phone that I want to use. And there's quite a lot more stuff I can cast from my desktop browser to a Chromecast than to a Roku stick.