A short note — while Apple is dragging its feet releasing the new MacBook Pros with M1X, I’m suffering with an old 2013 laptop that is struggling badly with today’s demands. A video call in Teams or Skype, and especially in Zoom with a virtual background overlay, slowly melts it, despite the thermal paste having been replaced twice (and I might do it a third time, who knows). Even ordinary browsing lags, stutters, and glitches.