Hope the 140W update kills random disconnects people reported.

Golden Gate on my M2 Air has been snappy. Spotlight finally feels useful again.

Firmware for a power brick is peak Apple. Wonder what they fixed.

Taking notes

Intel holdouts delay for battery. Silicon tax already paid off for me.

There goes my wallet.

Desktop Macs still win when you want ports, thermals, and upgradeable storage via enclosure workflows. Laptops win when you actually leave the house. Most YouTube comparisons pretend everyone has the same life.

Apple Intelligence on Mac is uneven. Some workflows magic, others slideware.

M6 'weird' usually means packaging or cache changes that don't show in Geekbench headlines. Real story is thermals in thin chassis and sustained performance after twenty minutes. Synthetic peaks don't pay rent.

Insane timeline

If Studio ships more TB ports without a hub tax I'll consider it.

Dead serious.

Golden Gate's Intelligence pitch only lands if on-device models stay private and understand local files. Indexing is better, but I still jump to ChatGPT for nuanced stuff. If Siri-style recaps hit Mac notifications, that might change daily use more than flashy image toys.

I'd rather better Final Cut sustained perf than another Intelligence demo.

M5 Ultra Studio numbers look absurd for video. Price will match.

Continuity clipboard with iPhone is the underrated Golden Gate win.

Top 10 lists bury Time Machine reliability, which is what I care about.

Hard pass.

M5 Ultra Studio makes sense for colorists and 3D people, not family video editors. Marketing will blur that. If you aren't saturating the GPU for hours, a base Mac Mini still punches stupidly hard for the money.

Updated mine via System Settings this morning — brick still runs warm under load, but no more flaky reconnects so far.