Day one of Ultra Music Festival Photos are up - www.flickr.com/photos/ad…
Miami. Day 2
Thanks Carrot Weather. :(
South Beach
Alabama.
Clothes shopping
Photos from the past 24 hours are up - flickr.com/photos/ad… Leaving the people out of the pictures like usual even though there are some good ones.
Supercross.
3 days in Birmingham AL. BMW MOA strategic plannning session + BBQ.
Birmingham, Alabama for a few days.
I’m traveling for the first time in a bit and I’ve seen 3 MacBook Neo notebooks today alone. Also a non-computer nerd I personally know just bought one without consulting me first. They’re going to sell millions of these things.
Heading to Boston for the day where I will work from my hotel. Long day ahead harbor freight, followed by eight hours of work than a nap and four hours of teaching tonight.
Five Days with the M5 Max + 128GB of RAM. Loading up 70B LLM Models along with 25 other creative / office / production apps is remarkable. No more RAM compression or Swap compared my 64GB setup and this thing is blink, you missed it, fast. Zero regrets.
March, April, May.
Late-May flight to Nevis booked! First real vacation in a while.
Nano texture.
I put together an AppleCare+ 3-Year blog post for MacBook Pro on how to get coverage. Essentially, call AppleCare, be put on hold for 35 minutes and you can buy it: adamchandler.me/blog/2026…
SUCCESS! Attached a 3-year AppleCare+ Plan to my MacBook Pro. It required 35 minutes on the phone with AppleCare team to purchase. 3 reps so far had issues finding it but in the end $11 a month versus $14.99 a month ($539 over 3 years). WOOT.
The house is looking AMAZING:
I pressed a bit more and I think I might be able to attach the 3-year plan. Apple is going to call me tomorrow and the rep on chat cited a $399 price. Annual is $149 so maybe a 3-year plan does exist? More tomorrow.
Here’s Apple’s matrix of plan prices published for all products.
Sharing the AppleCare Support Team’s message. I have an M5 MBP but I assume this is ‘normal’ now that 3-year Macintosh plans are indeed dead and the 2 year costs more than 3-year.
I’ve covered this on my blog but Apple will no longer let you buy more than 1-year of AppleCare+ for Mac via their site or settings. If you chat with them, you can buy 2 years, “Upon checking with my resources, I will be able to help you with purchasing 2 years of annual plan for …
Pretty stark difference to what I’d see previosuly with a lot of compressed ram, full time efficiency cores pegged at 100% and even some swap memory during regular daytime work on my M1 Max w/ 64GB.
NOICE. I received it at 3PM, MIgration assistant was done by 5PM (1TB total), I was teaching my PMP class by 6PM and just finished at 10:35 PM. I can say CPU/RAM load are so insanely low compared to what I had before. It’s beautiful. 50GBs of RAM, 18% CPU load concurrently