Meet “Slopportunity,” my new M5 MacBook Pro, purchased with the assistance of the home office stipend that my new employer, NetFoundry, provides. It has lots of RAM and drive space for running and storing models, and it runs circles around my old M1 machine. But I can’t help being reminded of Angelina Jolie’s line from Hackers: “It’s too much machine for you.”
Hopefully, that won’t turn out to be true.
Here’s Slopportunity on the Primary Processor Perch in my home office:
And what of my old laptop, an M1 MacBook Pro with still-decent specs? I’m hanging onto it, I’ve rechristened it as “Sloperator,” and will be my OpenClaw/long-running agents machine:
When the M1 was my main computer, my prior computer, an Intel-based PowerBook, was doing yeoman service. It will live forever, as it’s going to my mother-in-law, who needs a better computer than her old 2009 laptop for browsing, email, and so on:
