How much I spent on the Mac mini
ISSUE 22.18 • 2025-05-05 APPLE By Will Fastie A surprising amount of interest arose about the cost of the M4 Mac mini I bought, both in the forums and via email. I had not intended to discuss costs...
View ArticleThe Windows experience
MICROSOFT By Will Fastie For decades, it didn’t matter which edition of Windows one used. Whether Home, Pro, Education, or Enterprise, almost any application written for Windows would run in all those...
View ArticleCopilot, under the table
AI By Will Fastie I’m used to getting regular updates to the operating system on my Android phone, Samsung’s One UI. That’s because I can’t do much about it. The phone gives me three opportunities to...
View ArticleAutoSave is for Microsoft, not for you
After 30 years, I get around the Microsoft Office apps pretty well. There are surprises from time to time. Yesterday, I noticed that AutoSave was not turned on for one of my Excel spreadsheets. I don’t...
View ArticleApps included with macOS
APPLE By Will Fastie Apple provides quite a long list of software applications that come with macOS at no additional charge. Of course, the question is not how long the list is but rather whether the...
View ArticleAskWoody at the computer museum, round two
HISTORY By Will Fastie The mailing list developed to manage tours of the System Source Computer Museum became longer than expected. As a result, I organized a second tour for AskWoody Plus members on...
View ArticleWho are you? (2025 edition)
EDITORIAL By Will Fastie Here are a few things we learned from our 2025 reader survey. First, many thanks to the very large number of Plus members who took the time to complete the 2025 reader survey...
View ArticleWho knows what?
ISSUE 22.22 • 2025-06-02 AI By Will Fastie A recent editing session for one of the newsletter articles turned up some interesting results, albeit confusing ones at first. In our normal editing...
View ArticleOS news from WWDC 2025
APPLE By Will Fastie Apple’s entire keynote for this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference focused on extensive changes to all its operating systems. There were no hardware or device announcements,...
View ArticleTerabyte update 2025
HARDWARE By Will Fastie Prices this year are so chaotic that there is no way to determine trends. There are many possible reasons for this chaos. Uncertainty about global semiconductor manufacturing is...
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