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F1 Haptic Trailer

Fri, 13 Jun 2025 06:00:00 +0000

Today, I saw the new haptic trailer for the F1 movie. Not being the biggest F1 fan, this trailer - watched on a compatible iPhone - feels immersive. Recommendation!

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Three Years with M1 MacBook Air

Sun, 04 Aug 2024 19:00:00 +0100

Like Kev, I own a M1 MacBook Air since three years. And like Kev, I am still impressed.

This thing is absofuckinglutely phenomenal. (Kev)

It’s not the most expensive laptop I owned, but definitely among the top 3. With great invest, comes great expectations.

Changing the main operating system after 20 years felt risky. Before the M1, I only used a MacBook once as a work-machine.

But what can I say. Switching keyboard shortcuts between the private and work laptop is not ideal (I use Windows for work again), but I am still impressed with the speed and battery life of the M1. It can handle everything I request from it, boots in the blink of an eye and the battery lasts longer than in my most optimistic expectations.

Like Kev, after three years with the M1, I don’t feel like upgrading any time soon. It may be like the experience I made with mobile phones - the Apple devices are not the cheapest, but they last much longer in my service than other manufactures.

In general, I think I have never been this happy with an “outdated” tech stack before. The M1 is three years old, my iPhone is past its third birthday and my iPad is from 2017. The iPad is the only device where I recognize the age. It feels slow and I thought about upgrading it a couple of times. Not sure, however, if I will. I never found the niche for the iPad. It is too big for an everyday-carry and iPadOS has too much limitations to replace a proper laptop. If it was 100€, I wouldn’t think long about a replacement, but for the actual price tag, hm, I will most likely keep using it as long as possible.

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💻 My First Mac

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:00:00 +0100

The Mac celebrates its 40th birthday and with that comes another bandwaggon I’d like to jump opon. Everyone is writing about their first Mac.

I joined the party quite late. My first Mac was a 2019 MacBook Pro 13" that I got from work and used intensively during Corona lockdowns. It still had four Thunderbolt ports, the only thing I am missing on the M1 MacBook Air.

I was a Windows Users since I had my fist computer about 20 years ago, with some short excurses into the linux world, but always wanted to try out one of those “cool kids” notebooks. The company I worked for in 2020 offered a MacBook as a company notebook and I thought this is the perfect chance to try it out. You all know how this ends. I was impressed. Everything was so fast, the search did find what I was looking for, the keyboard shortcuts are so much more finger-friendly. The only down-side was that the company was using Microsoft 365 intensively and the Mac versions of Outlook and Excel - being honest - lack some functionality.

Nevertheless, even before I had to return it, because I changed jobs, I bought the M1 Air privately and didn’t miss Windows ever since. Using GeForce Now, it is also a great gaming device 🕹️ I do not see me changing systems any time soon.

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