Hi everyone, I am planning to get a Macbook Air, and at the same time get the tax relief for this year. However, it seems that the new macbook is only for pre-order now and I never pre-order via Apple official store/machine/switch. Just wondering, does anyone know if the receipt shows the date I made the payment, or the date I get the laptop?
From my experience of buying through Apple Online Store, they will email you the receipt upon confirming delivered to your doorstep. Dated on the day of you receiving the parcel, or some times +-2 days. You definitely wont be able to declare the tax for Y2020 reduction for this purchase.
From my experience of buying through Apple Online Store, they will email you the receipt upon confirming delivered to your doorstep. Dated on the day of you receiving the parcel, or some times +-2 days. You definitely wont be able to declare the tax for Y2020 reduction for this purchase.
Thanks for the info. No choice, then I will have to use the receipt for Y2021 tax relief
We need to separate mobile and immobile device consumers, eg consumers who use mobile battery-powered smartphones and immobile AC-powered desktop workstation computers. . . Actually, data-centers prefer to use less electrical power as much as possible. Data-centers or data-servers are usually not low power consumption devices. .......
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/06/18...hats-a-problem/ - 2019/06/18/134902/icelands-data-centers-are-booming-heres-why-thats-a-problem/ - Bitcoin miners and data scientists love cheap, green Icelandic processing power. Maybe a little too much. Life on the North Atlantic island tends to be chilly, foggy, and windy, though hard frosts are not common. The annual average temperature in the capital, Reykjavík, is around 41 °F (5 °C), and even when the summer warmth kicks in, the mercury rarely rises above 68. Iceland has realized that even though this climate may not be great for sunning yourself on the beach, it is very favorable to one particular industry: data.
Each one of those Advania buildings in Reykjanesskagi is a large data center, home to thousands of computers. They are constantly crunching away, processing instructions, transmitting data, and mining Bitcoin. Data centers like these generate large amounts of heat and need round-the-clock cooling, which would usually require considerable energy. In Iceland, however, data centers don’t need to constantly run high-powered cooling systems for heat moderation: instead, they can just let in the brisk subarctic air. Natural cooling like this lowers ongoing costs. .
https://www.t4.ai/industry/server-operating...em-market-share - server-operating-system-market-share - 30 April 2020 The chart above shows the Server OS market share of global shipments for enterprise Server Operating Systems in 2018. Microsoft Server was the market leader with a 48% share of the total server Operating System shipments while 34% of the shipments were for Red Hat's Linux based Server OS. Red Hat is far and away the leader within the Linux Server OS market. While Red Hat and Microsoft are the most popular operating systems in the server OS market, the "Other" section contains additional well known products and brands. They include Apple's OS X Server to manage Mac computers and iOS devices on a network, and many Linux kernel based operating systems such as Ubuntu and Chrome OS for servers.
Servers = data-centers or data-servers = nearly all of them are powered by x86/CISC processor-based OS. .
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. ARM/RISC processors have been around since the early 2000s, eg .......
If ARM/RISC processors could replace the x86/CISC processors in data-centers/servers, they would have done so long ago, eg from 2010 onward.
Note that during the 2000s, the ARM/RISC processor was purposely invented and designed for mobile battery-powered, fanless and small smartphones = the processor had to be power-sipping(= purposely crippled) so that the battery would last longer, it produced less heat and could fit inside a smaller space. .
At this point you might wonder why this lonely individual is going against ALL the professional tech reviewers recommending you buy this device - why I think I’m right about this. Tech reviewers who make a living from reviewing tech products have a vested interested in positively endorsing a product. It’s not just about commission on sales (which can net some Youtubers millions per year) but it’s something much, much simpler - Early Release.
Apple, Microsoft, Dell and many more tech giants have a long list of reviewers, influencers, Youtubers who they give their products to about a half a month before the public. This is so that reviews of their products from prominent individuals come out on launch day. However for a tech reviewer this is crucial - because who ever gets their article or video out first will usually make the most amount of views and clicks.
In a lot of cases, the rule of thumb is, if four people have released their videos/reviews, you’ve already missed the train and the youtube algorithm will favour those four vids over yours. And you can see this for yourself, a handful of videos on any device will see millions of views whilst the rest will be lucky to break 100k views, most hovering around 40K. As such, tech reviewers will always want to finish their review on a positive note, telling their viewers to buy - no matter how critical they are in the first half of their review, so that they remain on the Early Release lists. Ask yourself, when was the last time someone reviewed a major tech product and told you not to buy? .
... Two weeks after the launch of Apple Silicon, Anaconda 2020.11 is not yet compatible. The installer asks for Rosetta. On the other hand installing Python 3 is quite easy. Simply open a terminal and call python3. This installs the XCode command line tools including Python 3.8.2 compiled for Apple Silicon. But this is quite useless for the moment as trying to install numpy fails with a compilation error. JupyterLab can be installed but fails to run any notebook, causing kernel issues. ....
Regarding TensorFlow, it’s too early for doing any reliable testing today as there is still too many issues, especially on GPU. Even on CPU we observe a strange underutilization with only 4 cores used at 50% or less each. ... .
From my experience of buying through Apple Online Store, they will email you the receipt upon confirming delivered to your doorstep. Dated on the day of you receiving the parcel, or some times +-2 days. You definitely wont be able to declare the tax for Y2020 reduction for this purchase.
Interesting, I thought the receipt is attached with the product. If I could miss YA2020 tax relief might not go for this haha..
ok but i use my personal laptop only for web browsing occasionally and minor video editing if i feel like it, for work use office laptop
. For such a casual use case, most people do not need to buy the over-priced or price-gouging high-end/specced Apple Mac laptops, ie they only need a budget Intel/AMD laptop or Chromebook.
Macbook Pro laptops are supposed to be for Professionals or power-users, ie not for Casual or non-power or non-Professional users. ....... Imagine an office-worker foolishly buying a 4WD vehicle, eg Isuzu D-Max and Mitsubishi Triton, to commute to work daily in the city. ,
Thanks for the info. No choice, then I will have to use the receipt for Y2021 tax relief
Unless the estimated delivery before 31 Dec 2020 or earlier, you would still able to claim for relief this year. Usually Apple will sent invoice to you via email after the item has been shipped.
This post has been edited by gizmodo: Dec 15 2020, 05:31 PM
. For such a casual use case, most people do not need to buy the over-priced or price-gouging high-end/specced Apple Mac laptops, ie they only need a budget Intel/AMD laptop or Chromebook.
Macbook Pro laptops are supposed to be for Professionals or power-users, ie not for Casual or non-power or non-Professional users. ....... Imagine an office-worker foolishly buying a 4WD vehicle, eg Isuzu D-Max and Mitsubishi Triton, to commute to work daily in the city. ,
But screen is very important for me. I'm not into low resolution laptop so surface or MacBook are my only option. Other than that it has to be able to edit video. I can edit 4k video using iPhone but not surface pro laptop.
This post has been edited by faizalmzain: Dec 15 2020, 05:36 PM
I just bought MacBook air 512gb at switch low yat plaza.
Anybody wants MacBook air 256gb i pre ordered with itworld do let me know but you need to pick up at cyberjaya outlet. Otherwise i will cancel the pre order
Macbook air 512gb only available at lowyat outlet. Bb park and mytown only MacBook pro.
This post has been edited by faizalmzain: Dec 15 2020, 07:46 PM
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