Black Friday (read: Month) brought about all kinds of ridiculously cheap MacBook deals. These were the Arm Apple Silicon models with the formidable M1 and M2 chips. $600 for the M1 at Walmart was tempting. So very tempting. Let's back up. I'm a long time Android user. After Palm's failed attempt to enter a renewed smartphone market, I switched to a Moto Droid 2 Global (Walmart still sells a dummy version for unknown reasons). Looking back, that phone was terrible yet it started a nearly 15 year stretch of Android phones. I had one brief encounter with iPhone. My ex-wife was a big fan while I stayed on Android. I ended up with an iPhone 7 in rose gold. What a color. I gave Apple a real shot. I swapped the SIM from the OG Pixel Really Blue into the iPhone 7 for a month. A very long month. There were a few things I enjoyed on it. Apple had more apps at the time. Most ap...
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