macOS showed 100% battery health every week. The underlying number read 98.71, 98.51, 98.22, 99.22 and 97.54 percent over 20 days. The week-to-week noise is larger than the whole 20-day change.
Apple cut the 2018 Mac mini from macOS Tahoe, then cut every Intel Mac from macOS 27. We checked what its update feed still offers, and measured how much machine is left: 9.18x slower single-core than an M5 Pro, no thermal throttling.
We had a Speedometer baseline on an iPhone 17 Pro the day before iOS 27 shipped. After the update it measured 9.5% faster, against a 5.3% noise floor. No battery data — here is why.
A 2018 Mac mini that will never get macOS 27 runs four AI coding agents around the clock. Thirty days up, no throttling, and zero swap-outs in an hour of logging.
watchOS 27 dropped five models at once. Ours still takes calls, tracks sleep and syncs to Health. Here is what you lost, what you keep, and the clock that is actually running.
Reports say identical runs can vary by over 40% on some M5 machines. We ran ours eight times back to back with every core saturated. Fastest to slowest: 2.5%.
Three devices in a fortnight, three missing pieces — a pointer, a spare port, somewhere to put files. None of them were on a box, and all of them were findable in ten minutes of use.
Two monitors into a DisplayLink dock, the third straight into a Thunderbolt port. The dock’s screens do not spend the Mac’s own allowance, so they add up. Works on an M1 Pro.
Shops can only discount the standard configuration. The moment you tick an option you pay full list price, so the upgrade costs the upgrade plus the discount you walked away from.
Same file, same volume, same noise cancellation. From 99% to 50% the 2019 pair lasted 158 minutes and the Pro 3 lasted 390. Then the old one fell off a cliff.