#apple hardware

“Dang Youngsters and their Dang Haptics”

It seems the game of musical chairs within Apple’s top management has settled on a smart and strategic move, as the company announced that Johny Srouji will become the Chief Hardware Officer. In other words, the man who revolutionized Apple in the world of processors has now become the de facto ruler, applying his vision to every piece of the company’s hardware you can touch, managing both…

Apple Inc. has strengthened its leadership team with Johny Srouji as Chief Hardware Officer.

Srouji has played a major role in Apple’s hardware development, particularly in chip design. His work supports the performance and efficiency of Apple devices.

In his new role, he oversees hardware engineering and product development. This ensures that Apple maintains consistency and quality across its products.

Leadership in hardware is important for integrating software and hardware systems. Apple’s strategy relies on this balance to deliver reliable user experiences.

The appointment reflects the company’s focus on innovation and long-term growth.

While macOS is traditionally associated with creative professionals and productivity enthusiasts, its appeal among gamers has grown over the years. Despite the dominance of Windows in the gaming world, macOS has carved out a niche. But just how many gamers are using macOS today? Recent statistics reveal that approximately 9.8% of gamers use macOS. This figure reflects a slight increase from…

This is the Apple Superdrive (no relation to Super Driver). At the time it was released mostly to compensate for the then-new MacBook Air not having a cd slot. My parents bought matching airs and shared this thing between them.

That was 10 years ago.

Today as I was unpacking I found this wedged alongside the old printer. Now, I run pretty much only Linux so I wondered if there was a chance of getting it working.

Turns out there is. On arch it's

paru -S sg3_utils

And there are plenty of tutorials and copies of the manpage a web search away.

As I’ve said on more than a few occasions, I didn’t get into tech because I loved tech or gadgets. Number one it was the 1980s and I didn’t think I could afford what was out there and number two I was just looking for a better way to do my writing. Alas, it would be easy for someone looking at my home-office/tech set-up to misinterpret it as something someone with a tech fixation would have. But…