I have a semi-decent Lenovo Thinkpad T14 and its still meh. Prefer my M4 air.

My M4 Air was $750 on black friday 2025. I bought it after I cracked the screen on my M1 and the cost to repair was half the cost of the much newer computer.

Its slightly worse in my opinion but I don't have huge issues with it. Still way better than Windows 11 on my work computer.

I guess if a single cavity mold costs $30,000 and a 16 cavity mold costs $110,000 you have an additional expense of ~$80,000, divided over half million parts is 16 cents. So lets say somewhere from 5-10cents per part to go 16x faster. My numbers might be off a bit but seems in the ballpark. I also don't know much a lego brick costs to make in terms of materials/opex.

I liked my old magnesium Thinkpad T41p but it was a different aesthetic.

Then Windows 11 came along to slow everything down and we are back to the stoneage.

Got recently a new surface laptop at work - windows 11 gives me the same feeling I had from Vista. Hilarious how modern computers are more powerful than ever, but windows 11 now feels worse than windows 7 ten years ago.

I set up an old instrument in the lab and the computer is running Windows 7 and it feels better than the newer machines running 11.

Won't the effective index of all materials be basically 1 for the high energy electrons involved here?

Seems not in this case. But I believe the use case was deep brain tumors, like the hippocampus, where any beam alignment problems could be life altering.

I also moved from Kodi to Jellyfin. I have an ubuntu machine as the server and an Nvidia shield with Android connected to the TV as a client. Works great and was much simpler to keep working right than Kodi. Although Kodi didn't need any server side software except SMB shares.

There is an annual citrus festival in Riverside, CA where many hybrids are developed.

Yes! And every day the California Citrus State Historic Park is open for tours and tasting of various citrus varieties:

https://www.californiacitruspark.com