“This move reflects Apple’s ongoing challenges with component supply — particularly advanced chips — while underscoring the growing popularity of its desktop lineup in the AI era.“ Apple discontinues $599 base Mac mini – entry-level model now starts at $799 with 512GB storage amid surging demand

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Paul, since you are in Mexico, are you able to figure out a way to watch the NBA Playoffs? Or Baseball? I know your baseball guy. Do you root for Boston teams or PA teams? What do you consider the home team?

Microsoft just dropped a treasure trove of really early DOS source listings — like, pre‑PC‑DOS 1.0 stuff — and it’s basically software archaeology for retro‑computing nerds. https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2026/04/28/continuing-the-story-of-early-dos-development/

“Windows K2 isn’t a dedicated release of the OS. Instead, K2 is an ongoing initiative that will ensure Windows quality remains both high and consistent across current and future versions, building an OS that is always focused on improvements to fundamentals to ensure foundational aspects of the platform are continuously strong.” https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/what-is-windows-k2-everything-you-need-to-know-saving-windows-11

Before I begin to put my thoughts together about the totality of Tim Cook’s tenure, I want to say that I believe his even with the missteps I believe that overall that Tim Cook’s stewardship of Apple is a good one, but I feel early on his lack of an engineering background caused some long-term…