This is a brilliantly-written essay, and I recommend it.

[guyjantic@infosec.exchange]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/116216357692725093

This is a brilliantly-written essay, and I recommend it. It skewers the issues with the "I already have a $3,000 laptop so why would I want this one?" reviews. My only issue:

• Somewhere a kid is saving up for this. He has read every review. Watched the introduction video four or five times. Looked up every spec, every benchmark, every footnote. He has probably walked into an Apple Store and interrogated an employee about it ad nauseam. He knows the consensus. He knows it’s probably not the right tool for everything he wants to do.

• He has decided he’ll be fine.

That kid is actually a girl, she's my daughter, and yes, she's decided she'll be fine.

I assume the fact that the prototypical kid in the essay is a boy because the author is referring to his historical self. However, the generalized "he/him" feels like the old-school style of writing "he" as the prototypical person.

But yes, my daughter will probably get this laptop and have some of these experiences.