Apple Page -- August 1, 2019

Apple: gets it right this year. Wow. MacBook Pro -- just in time for new school year and get this: starts at $1,299.

Apple computers at "this level" used to be be sold upwards of $3,000. A MacBook Pro for college freshman for $1,299 is incredible. It's now a more difficult choice for newbies and those who want to upgrade: MacBook Air or the new MacBook Pro?

That said, the 2019 MacBook Air weighs less than the older MacBook Air model did; 1.25kg compared to 1.35kg. In comparison the 13-inch MacBook Pro weighs 1.37kg. ... As both laptops come with Touch ID and things like the Force Touch trackpad, but the Touch Bar on the Pro is really the major design difference between the two.

And note, the price of the MacBook Pro, when reviewed in July, 2019, was $1,799 and $1,999 depending on the specs.

There is a huge difference between $1,299 and $1,799 when buying Apple.

And even a bigger difference between $1,799 and $1,099. 

If that's still the main difference between the two -- the Touch Bar on the Pro -- it's hard to convince me go with that instead of the MacBook Air.

MacBook Air: 2.75 pounds, starts at $1,099.

MacBook Pro: 3.02 pounds, starts at $1,299.

College students, limited budget:

• serious gamers, professional bloggers, serious graphic designers: MacBook Pro.  
• everyone else, 90% of those going to college, the MacBook Air

College students, unlimited budget:

• and don't mind the extra bulk (think backpacks): MacBook Pro

College student, limited budget;

• thinking about extra bulk; bohemians: MacBook Air

For me (backpacker -- weight makes a difference; no gaming; semi-professional blogger; no concern about graphics): MacBook Air is still the best choice -- mostly because of the weight and thinness (think backpacking).

One will spend an extra $19 for the required USB-C to Lightning cable.

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1922

From page 233, Kevin Birmingham's The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses, c. 2015:

People think of 1922 as the year modernism came of age because it was the year Ulysses and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land appeared. It was also the year Ernest Hemingway came of age. Posterity focuses on his fraught tutelage under Gertrude Stein, whom he met in February, but Shakespeare and Company did more to usher him into the literary world than Stein did. Hemingway met Ezra Pound by chance, also in February, at Beach's bookshop, and within a week Pound was reading his manuscripts and spreading the word about him around Paris and the States. Over the course of the  year Pound sent six of Hemingway's prose vignettes to The Little Review, where they were published in the spring of 1923. Later that year, Beach encouraged Robert McAlmon to publish Hemingway's first book. 

Hemingway met Joyce within weeks of meeting Pound, and before long the admiring young American began drinking with the great Irish novelist...

The Great Gatsby, the story was set in 1922 -- published in 1925.