I think I'm falling in love with Android over Apple and am waking in the night with dreams of working with a PC/laptop again.

The Alienware 16 Area-51 and Asus Z13 look lovely machines. The Alienware has a mechanical keyboard option just like a blue planck keyboard I lost with low profile MX cherry switches, high specs and it being a laptop that can be configured to 12TB of disk makes me want this as my next machine over an apple macbook pro, that just seem the same today, just stale. The Macbook Neo feels like a money grab and slow progress, where is touch screen on the operating system and why didn't they just ship that for the iPad Pros, they are now defunct and really there has been no drawing applications that have harnessed the power of touch on the Apple devices. Where as with the Asus Z13, I want to get to work with new methods of drawing and modelling science on a portable powerful machine.

The areas that I get excited to review on Microsoft/PCs when I get access to some fun money:

• Power consumption in the conventional windows kernel and operating system. Better understanding how AMD chips and the portabality of the Z13 can be used on a plane and remote work camping
• Copilot is exactly heading in the right direction as it's working private on machine AI compute on your private data. Specific features that excite me are the option of having the ability for the AI to search and reference content you have on the machine. One concept I see this being really fruitful is for photographers and illustrators such that they can refine their own local AI models to harness their distinctiveness of being unique and creative rather than large AI models that are centralized and all looking the same. The same can be then be said for computer programmers, scientists and other fields of specialization. ⦶
• Touch! This is huge for me and an attraction. I really want to play with music sequencers and other forms of joy creating tools for the platform that allows unique elements of fun that are larger than just games for brain development, for children and adults alike. My daughter loved the iPad when she was crawling around with the applications I was using for her early mental development, once she wanted to eat it in how it made her feel. ⧋
• Being able to review their progress with Linux subsystem and see if they've resolved issues that I've logged in the past with IO fwrite c mapping to ensure the IO is the speed it needs to be for Linux development.
• Even Linux has a lower power kernel with power optimized experiences such that being able to run the machine for 24+ hours if need be. I configured an old IBM thinkpad X250 back in Vancouver with Arch linux and a new window manager that only drew when it required for windows, and the power doubled from what I was getting in Windows.

It's been fun to be building with Kotlin and found that I was able to build what I wanted for my mind clock for my sun, moon, mars and jupiter number complications way easier than the Apple Watch. Check it out on Instagram

Brilliant that I could start developing for Android without having to pay for a developer license and it felt faster to develop with builds and deploys. The fact that google gemini is built in was great for detailed answers and scaffold construction to better come to terms with the design constructs of Boxes, Surfaces, etc of how an Android application is put together. The threading and system programming approaches feel more real to me as a computer scientist allowing to better read and follow the code and debug it.

I think this macbook air m2 that i'm using is going to be the last apple machine for me. It's a dead machine that all I seem to use it for is watching movies.