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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Integrating AI? (Roger Clarke)
2. Re: Integrating AI? (David)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 05:57:31 +0100
From: Roger Clarke <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Integrating AI?
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> On 6/24/25 00:23, Stephen Loosley wrote:
>> ... thinking of buying another laptop ...
On 24/6/2025 00:53, Tom Worthington wrote:
> I buy my laptops second hand, for about a third the new price. This way
> I don't have to agonize over getting the latest features. I have bought
> four from the same supplier, two for me and two for others, over four
> years, all good:
> https://blog.tomw.net.au/2025/03/refurbished-dell-latitude-e7290-for.html
I do the same, both desktops and laptops. Manly Laptops has been most
commonly the supplier - very reliable at least on Macs, but they also do
a lot of business in non-Macs.
My motivation is similar to Tom's, in that the last things I need are
yet-faster processors and more gee-whizzery. In the case of embedded
AI, I'll be seeking the most switchoffable versions. It's already
making a complete mess of human knowledge storage, use and generation.
FWIW, I have an iMac of mid-2017 vintage, and MacBook Pros 2018-19, all
running macOS 13.7. (Plus a 2010 on the kitchen bench, which is mostly
for recipes, weather and settling dinner-time debates).
They're approaching the macOS ceiling and are about the last of the
Intel-based models. I'm (again) in fear and trepidation about what
damage Apple will do to my partly-legacy working environment when I'm
forced up to another processor-base and macOS version.
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Roger Clarke mailto:[email protected]
T: +61 2 6288 6916 http://www.xamax.com.au http://www.rogerclarke.com
Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd 78 Sidaway St, Chapman ACT 2611 AUSTRALIA
Visiting Professorial Fellow UNSW Law & Justice
Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:02:34 +1000
From: David <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] Integrating AI?
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On Tuesday, 24 June 2025 14:57:31 AEST Roger Clarke wrote:
> My motivation is similar to Tom's, in that the last things I need are
> yet-faster processors and more gee-whizzery. In the case of embedded AI,
> I'll be seeking the most switchoffable versions. It's already making a
> complete mess of human knowledge storage, use and generation.
Hear! Hear!!
_David L._
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