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The current MacBook Airs are literally exactly the same as they were 6 years ago, including the price. I don't know if they're going to update them soon, but I broke my 2011 one a few months ago and when I went to get a "new" one I found out that it was literally just an exact replacement in every spec and it cost exactly the same. even though it had been six years. The only thing they changed in the Air lineup is that they got rid of the 11" since it was so similar to the new MacBooks, because of course they would stop making the worlds best computer in favor of a gimmicky piece of poo poo. I would not get her a MacBook Air, at least not until they update it. The new MacBook Pro's with the TouchBar are okay, I got a 13" one of those instead. If you really want to get her a computer get one of those. Not that the TouchBar does anything except make the escape key a little screen button that has no haptics which sucks for coding. Get her an iPad Pro, a stand, a bluetooth keyboard, and the Apple Pencil. IOS is way easier to learn than MacOS, the Pro has a big screen and is quick so it seems like a laptop (probably why she doesn't use her smaller slower iPad now), and it will be way easier for her to do things like Paint or photo editing or word with a touch screen I'd think. Plus all that is probably still cheaper than any laptop they sell.
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PokeJoe posted:i have a touchbar mac and don't like it. i wish i had the 2015 one with buttons back but it broke yeah I’ve found like one thing that is maybe cool at best, which is the color bar for terminal windows. otherwise it is completely a gimmick and it crashes so much that I had to make a bash alias for fixing it.
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giant Jenga is actually pretty fun and not that hard to make. don’t lacquer the 2x4s though because then they get sticky and the game impossible.
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