Apple: Now Gaming -- The Best Game Console Is The One You Have With You -- September 18, 2023

Locator: 45675AAPL.

Updates

September 16, 2023: Apple is not ceding anything to anybody. Now gaming. What they're saying about this over at social media:

Original Post

Locator: 45665AAPL.

Apple's A17 will be tracked here.

Link here.

Speaking of "Arm," the new Apple A17 SoC is ARM-based. Whoo-hoo! See below.

The more I read, the more impressed I am with the "15."

I've never upgraded to a current model but I am seriously considering doing something really, really crazy.

But for now, from the linked article: --

-- oh, before I go there, important links -- 

Tech: link here.

Apple Silicon here.

Tech: CPUs, GPUS, cores, threads and all that jazz --

• part one: link here.
• part two: link here.
• part three: link here.
• part four, part four.

How many transistors on a chip?

 Look at the size of those chips. Down to 5 nm.

Intel gave up at 10 nm.

5 nm is pretty impressive.

But now, Apple is mass producing the iPhone 15 with the A17 -- a 3nm-chip manufactured by TSM.

Same link as above.

Look at this:

But let's back up:

 The Apple A17, at wiki.

The Barron's Edition -- September 16, 2023

Locator: 45674INV.

Seniors: front page story -- more seniors working into their 70s and 80s. 

According to Barron's: people aged 75 and older are the fastest growing slide of the workforce.

Didn't we just read that all those seniors left the workplace during Covid-19 lockdown and never returned? My memory escapes me. 

Not working after retiring at age 55 sounds great until you realize you don't have a hobby or you don't have money, and/or you also realize your spouse also stays home all day -- watching shows on television you don't want to watch.

Tech trader Eriv Savitz: the way he "sees" Apple is the same way folks who valued the Chrysler minivan based on the number of cup-holders it had. No clue. Lousy grammar but hopefully you get the message.

A pretty lame print edition for Barron's today. Time to move on.

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The Book Club

Edith Wharton, Hermione Lee, c. 2007. BWHA. Notes.

NYT Book of Mathematics: More Than 100 Years of Writing by the Numbers, edited by Gina Kolata, c. 2013. 510NEW. Notes.

 

Seems Like A No-Brainer -- September 16, 2023

Locator: 45673LAW.

... but are you allowed to yell "Fire!" in a theater that is not on fire?

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The Midnight Special

Flashback.

It's hard to believe that this was the line-up for the pilot, The Midnight Special.

Premiered August 19, 1972. 

Wow, what a great country.

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Flashback: House of Extremis -- Saudi Arabia

Link here to May 9, 2016.

For the record, WTI, this week, is at $91.

Law Of Big Numbers -- September 16, 2023

Locator: 45672ECON.

Undocumented visitors: 10,000 per day.

• low estimate: 2,000 per day
• high estimate: 12,000 per day
• in general: seems to be running about 7,000 per day

Back-of-the-envelope:

• 10,000 x 365 = 3,650,000 per year
• 3,650,000 / 330,000,000 = 0.011 = 1.1%.

US birth rate: exactly 1.1% -- link:

Peter Zeihan.

Apple iPhone 15 Pre-Orders -- Opening Day -- Wait Time Pushed Out To The Holidays -- September 16, 2023

Locator: 456725AAPL.

So many orders, Apply has had to push wait time out to November. By Christmas there will be a shortage. Prices will come down quickly at Walmart, Best Buy, Amazon -- if one is willing to wait -- but if one wants one now, it's gonna cost you.

Again, the top end "15s" have the new 3-nm chip, and only TSM makes that chip. 

Saturday Morning -- September 16, 2023

Locator: 456724ARCH.

Beautiful, beautiful weather in north Texas today.

• quick bike ride this morning to Starbucks; cannot believe how nice this weather is;
• then a shsort car ride to Trophy Club for soccer with Sophia
• I'll be off the net most of the day
  

Trophy Club: one of only four towns in Texas that exceed 10,000 in population.

the other three are also in the DFW area -- master-planned; very, very wealthy; very interesting; the two best brunch restaurants in Texas are in Addison and Colleyville (right across the street from us) -- family owned; Asian, from California; taking business away from First Watch, also down the street. Brunch District has a very, very interesting "business model" -- more on that later, perhaps. Too busy now ... but wanted to get the date-time stamp

Hurricane season: where art thou?

Coincidental? Both released this year--

• best laptop out there right now, the MacBook Air 15":
• best smartphone out there right now, the iPhone 15:

NASCAR:

• nice race last night -- the "junior" series
• the varsity tonight -- late evening; Bristol
• on our cross-country trip we drove right by Bristol
• DFW - Nashville - Knoxville - Bristol - Gettsyburg - Pennsylvania
• what a great country

That cross-country trip -- DFW t0 Philadelphia and back -- quite a trip -- in FIVE DAYS in a Toyota 4Ruuner

• one birthday party -- purpose of the trip
  
• two museums, including "Whistler's Mother"
  
• Amish country
• two Buc-ee's
• two Civil War sites (Gettsyburg, PA and Shilo, TN)

Disclaimers apply. 

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