Monica Chin
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愛凌. writer and editor with words at @verge , @thisisinsider , @tomsguide and others. represented by @clarkliterary . mastodon: @monicawchin @masto .nu
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reporting live from Madison Square Garden, where
@TXT_members
just said “fuck” where the song usually says “frick” and the crowd broke into the most hysteric applause I have ever heard
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this was always my biggest issue. all the stuff Jesus did is also stuff they can easily do, so why would they be Christians?
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~Personal News~
I’ve made the decision to take a temporary step back from full-time journalism.
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I swear to god I am going to drain this M2 MacBook Pro battery if it kills me
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Here is my review of the MacBook Pro with M2. It’s fast! It’s a new chip in what is now a very old chassis.
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Probably the same as it is now. complaining about laptops with a 16:9 aspect ratio
if you lived in a medieval society what would your job be? i think i would have a pretty good time as a bakers wife and business partner
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I wrote about the state of accessibility coverage in tech journalism. First and foremost, it's not being covered enough.
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I’ve gotten six spam calls today. It is time to go back to the time when people couldn’t call you when you were on the internet
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Walked into Nvidia’s suite at CES 2023. Was sure I was misreading. I was not. This is an RTX 4090 in a 14-inch gaming laptop. Madness.
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Airport terminals need a “this is your last chance to get food, it’s barren from here on” sign
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I’ve finally, finally drained the M2 MacBook Pro’s battery. It was a long and arduous process that taught me a lot about myself. Read more about my quest:
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@jtemple
for people upset about fake beef being unhealthy, I have bad news for you about real beef
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Guy to my left on the plane is using a Surface Pro 8, guy on the right is using an iPad Pro. It’s an exciting race. May the best guy win
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Starting MacBook Pro 16 with M2 Pro battery rundown. Please wish me luck
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Perhaps unpopular opinion: A lot of laptop reviews (and this has included my own at times) treat their audience as necessarily in one of two extremes. Either they're only browsing in Chrome or they're doing heavy video stuff 24/7. I think most users are somewhere in the middle.
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Final battery life estimates, same workload on both:
M2 MacBook Air-13:15
M2 MacBoon Pro-16:30
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I’ve always wanted to see more of the world, and I’m going to be spending the rest of this year living, writing, and editing abroad — which will hopefully include some freelance journalism down the line.
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Starting this week, I'm planning to add dedicated accessibility information to each of my reviews. The specific information included and the way it's evaluated will be a work in progress at the start, and I welcome all feedback, but it's something I'm committing to doing.
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Have not finalized my Best of CES vote yet. However, this raccoon, who
@HP
has brought to their many CES events, is top of my list. He is my friend and we get each other.
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Harry Styles’ character just started crying in Don’t Worry Darling and the entire theater burst out laughing
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Why does everyone seem to have Microsoft Word except me. Did y’all actually pay $160 or whatever for it? Are you getting it through work? I will live in ignorance no longer
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If I ever went to Westworld I’d probably just hang out at the bar the whole time
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I was at The Verge for almost four years, which is wild to think about. I’ve learned and grown an unimaginable amount in that time. Thank you so much to my colleagues for everything—and thank you all, readers, for reading my work. I hope you enjoyed it and that I helped you.
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Love this idea of “un-launching”. What should be un-launched next? I vote all laptops that are 16:9
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Not Google Maps just casually forgetting that the east river exists?
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All my life I have tried desperately to like hiking, because it looks and sounds incredibly fun. Unfortunately, every time I go I am bored out of my mind
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I hope to be back doing this again very soon. But for now, I am excited to dive into all of your MacBook reviews!
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guess who has a contract? WE HAVE A CONTRACT
WE HAVE A DEAL!!!!! After an intense week of bargaining with Vox Media Management, we are thrilled to announce that we've reached a tentative agreement on our second CBA.
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If you are writing a laptop review angled entirely around how light that laptop is, you MUST tell me the laptop's weight by the end of the second paragraph (but preferably in the first). sorry, but rules are rules
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The Surface Book was a laptop unlike anything we'd ever seen before. I think it could've changed the way we use computers -- if Microsoft had been able to fix its problems.
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Positive reviews are infinitely more fun to write and unfortunately negative reviews are infinitely more fun to read
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Next time someone asks me to send them a high-res headshot I will just be sending this:
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Before I lose my blue check anyone wanna admit they got a crush on me
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My dream job is to be a showrunner so that I can say “this really is, above all, a show about people” in every single interview I ever do
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Being asked to name a “good computer” in my foreign language class. Please send help
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What I want to see on Instagram: The photos the people I follow have posted, in order.
What I see on Instagram every day now: One video that was posted two day ago, followed by a long string of ads that are also videos
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I’ve been finding that I prefer reading shorter reviews, so I’ve been trying to write shorter reviews. Do the people feel this way too, or is it just my tiny attention span?
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Continuously befuddled by the fact that everyone I know appears to go out much more than I do and ALSO to have seen way more TV than I have
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Gonna be Windows on ARM for Halloween and be the scariest one at the party
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“Wait, there’s a computer in here. Wait, there are two computers in here. Wait, there are three computers in here.” - the poor security staffer who has to search my bag every time I go to a concert after work
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Every time I accidentally scroll the “For You” tab without realizing it a part of me dies
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In case anyone is confused about how much better the M2 is than the M1, here's a helpful chart to explain:
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Duolingo literally has a better year in review than Apple Music
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I regret to inform you that the MacBook Notch is a big problem when you’re playing games that have stats at the top of the screen
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me every time anyone suggests a phone model that could replace my perfectly functional iPhone 8
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Is the MacBook Air a bad buy because it's not the best choice for VFX work? Of course not. Will some of its target audience occasionally want to edit photos and videos? Yes. Good reviews need to acknowledge that both of these facts are true.
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If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Instagram it’s that y’all spend way too much time hanging out on rooftops with huge groups of ecstatic people
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Here’s my review of the Dell XPS 13 Plus. It’s a neat computer that I don’t really think most people should buy
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someone said “iPad”
Being asked to name a “good computer” in my foreign language class. Please send help
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Apple: you have a solid three months left to make a Spotify Rewind competitor. I feel like that’s enough time even if you get started right now. It doesn’t need to be good. We just want something, anything
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just to be clear, I can very confidently say that do not plan on paying $240 a year for a sticker
People claiming blue checks won’t pay for this are fooling themselves. A small percentage won’t. Most of us will pay this without blinking. And I say this as someone who has been verified for a decade and who never had to “apply” to begin with. Even more will pay to get this.
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I am not good enough at this language to explain what the proliferation of the Intel P-series and AMD’s struggle to provide supply has done to the current PC landscape
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If you are not famous you do not need to make “new post!” Instagram stories. Sorry I said what I said
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Dual-screen laptops are an interesting idea, but it can be hard to wrap your head around how you might use one. In this video, I walk you through my typical day using a Zenbook Duo as my primary driver and the various ways I took advantage of both displays
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You can say "This is an adequate laptop if you only ever watch Netflix, and an inadequate laptop if you are a professional video editor" about like 80% of laptops on the market. It's not a false statement, but it's a largely unhelpful thing to say.
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I am finally watching the old Snow White movie since I never saw it as a kid and figured there must be a reason it’s so beloved. This is truly the most bizarre shit I have ever viewed
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The new 10th-Gen iPad is 36 percent more expensive than the last year's model. I will be shocked if it's 36 percent more iPad.
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My favorite type of article is when the headline is "Should you do X?" and then the conclusion is "Do X if you want to. If you don't want to, don't do it." Brilliant.
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TikTok is now banned on the Wi-Fi networks at public colleges and universities around the US. Students are using VPNs, downloads, and massive amounts of phone data to get around them.
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Why are people even photographing the moon? Photograph something else. Follow me for more deep photography takes
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If I’ve unfollowed you on Instagram recently it’s because you regularly post video and thus have become my entire feed and I just want my photos back. Promise I will re-follow you when Instagram figures its shit out
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*fingers crossed so tightly they are turning white* please include Ticketmaster, please include Ticketmaster, please include Ticketmaster
BREAKING: At a White House event, President Biden announces new plans to crack down on junk fees across the economy — including bank overdraft fees, credit card late fees, cell phone termination fees, and airline ticketing fees.
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It's time that whoever keeps making new episodes of Riverdale is held accountable
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If your movie is over two and a half hours you should have to write everyone a letter justifying why
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Last time I had to cancel a gym membership, I went to the location and was told that the person in charge of membership cancelations was on vacation and I’d have to come back another time 🙃
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Game of Thrones episodes were an hour long because there were countless intricate and intersecting plot lines occurring at once. House of the Dragon episodes are an hour long because every time a character walks from one room to another it takes like 25 minutes
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An iPad is not a computer
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friendship ended with blue check. now no check is my best friend
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Whoops, I'm irrationally angry about a tweet that has nothing to do with me from an account I don't follow again
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Twitter should be like Instagram where everyone makes like three posts a year and they’re super high quality and laboriously edited
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I recognize that this is a niche concern, but I am growing weary of movies/shows where a character is meant to speak something not English as their native language but is then only ever shown speaking English (even at times when there's no reason they would need to speak English)
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Sometimes I briefly flirt with the idea of grad school and then I remember that I would have to write Papers again
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If you ask someone who’s not wearing a jacket “omg aren’t you cold??” what exactly r you hoping to achieve
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I apparently have a repetitive strain injury from touchpad use, so my touchpad impressions will be somewhat more limited than usual for the next few weeks. On the plus side, you can look forward to my thoughts on the various ergonomic mice I've spent far too long researching
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It's here! Our video review of the MacBook Pro. I got this one done in under 10 minutes, which I think might be a new record.
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one of these not being a laptop and a couch is erasure
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WWDC is happening on my birthday so Tim Cook owes me a present
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my secret is that I’ve started trying to think of image captions the way they use descriptive captions in Asian variety shows—it has opened all kinds of doors for me
I love the image captions in
@mcsquared96
's review of the new 13-inch MacBook Pro (which has the same design as the previous model) for
@verge
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"We could've just shot the M1 MacBook Pro for this — you would have no idea."
"This could be, like, any number of MacBooks."
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liking my tweets is now optional, but still strongly encouraged
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I just realized there is going to be a day when a laptop with no ports is released and I am already pre-emptively mad about it
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Re-reading the Game of Thrones books and deadass forgot that Ned Stark is supposed to be 35 years old lol
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Back in my day, Christmas was just watching hundreds of “X downloaded Facebook for iPhone” notifications appear on your Facebook feed all day
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What is the purpose of the “there are falling rocks here” road signs. Tf am I supposed to do about that
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Whoever came up with the idea that the JFK air train should cost 8 dollars needs a stern talking to
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Wrote up some thoughts on macOS Ventura.
Continuity Camera seems handy!
I don't love Stage Manager, but possibly I'm getting old and crotchety.
Mail...apparently didn't allow you to schedule messages before?
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