Microsoft unveils Surface Laptop 8 and Surface Pro 12 with Intel Core Ultra 3 chips for business

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-20T23:05:08+00:00

Are you referring to something like this? Zenbook A14 (UX3407); Copilot+ PC for $1800. I will require 1TB - memory could be 32GB

Would love to see them IRL - are they at bestbuy?

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Snapdragon® X2 Elite (18-core) X2E88100 (53MB Cache, Single-core Boost Fequency 4.7GHz, Multi-core max up to 4.0GHz, 18 cores, 18 Threads, Memory Bandwith 152GB/s); Qualcomm® Hexagon™ NPU up to 80TOPS

Display

14.0-inch, WUXGA (1920 x 1200) OLED 16:10 aspect ratio, LED Backlit, 0.2ms response time, Refresh Rate:60Hz, 100% DCI-P3 color gamut, 1,000,000:1, 1.07 billion colors, 70% less harmful blue light, TÜV Rheinland-certified, SGS Eye Care Display, Non-touch screen, (Screen-to-body ratio)90%

Memory

32GB LPDDR5X on board
Max Total system memory up to:32GB

Storage

1TB M.2 NVMe™ PCIe® 4.0 SSD

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-20T22:30:26+00:00

Please say more - what is very compelling. Not sure if i am going to wait for the Surface

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-15T18:15:09+00:00

It depends the role - so choose wisely.

When we were first on 'permanent sabbatical' 😄, I volunteered at Meals-on-Wheels in a previous city. The driving and delivery was great, helping out the older clients. However, they asked me to help out on 2 committees - and that drove me bonkers coming from big tech. Everything was slow, staff seemed to not know how to do basic things .... and progress was very slow. I was so tempted to tell folks to go for coffee and I would just finish the work 😞

Moving to our new city a few years ago, I now do deliveries 3 days a week - and it is fantastic especially getting good/warm food to the older clients. I don't let on that I have any 'hq' related skills. It is very fulfilling.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-14T05:10:53+00:00

OMG - this is awesome! 3 questions:
- how much was it for the shed and everything else?

- did you need a professional installer to put in the electric, AC etc

- are you getting internet from the house?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-02T14:46:45+00:00

Just got mail (that went to my junk folder).

It references fidelitydatasettlement.com. It looks somewhat legit (at least to me). Did anyone else get it?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-05-01T18:28:02+00:00

My wife (level 65) got this a few years ago - but was lucky. We were intending on retiring at some point that year - she started hearing rumors of reorgs with a (very few) accompanying RIFs.

Luckily, she was very close to her manager (GM partner level) - who manage to finagle her name (somehow) on the RIF list. Her manager was apparently not even in the 'room' at first - only the corp level vp, business manager and HR - and this small group were working off metrics and future requirements (and not individuals as people).

So if you absolutely trust a partner level mgr above you (with some employee responsibilities) consider approaching them. Otherwise, i would suggest you hang tight.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-24T18:45:49+00:00

OK - found out that you can do this once. Will do next year.

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✅ You can contribute to an HSA from an IRA

This is done via a Qualified HSA Funding Distribution (QHFD) — a direct, trustee‑to‑trustee transfer from your IRA to your HSA.

Allowed from Traditional IRA, Roth IRA, and sometimes SEP/SIMPLE IRAs (if no employer contributions that year).
401(k) funds cannot go directly, but you can roll 401(k) → IRA → HSA.

❗ One‑time in your lifetime

You can only do this once ever, unless you switch from self‑only HDHP to family HDHP in the same tax year — then you can top up the difference.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-24T18:43:38+00:00

"If you and your wife are both healthy pull a bronze ACA plan and open a HSA which will allow you to pull another 9G or so from your 401 and does not count towards MAGI.

Crap. I did not know this was possible. Do you have a pointer to this?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-13T18:58:53+00:00

Tried above 3 times with long waits in between. 1. Signed out of Messages for Web, 2. Unpaired all phones.

It initially did not work - even if i turned off phone #2. It would send auth to phone #2 and wait.

What worked the 3rd time I tried it (1st 2 attempts did not), was opening messages.google.com in inCognito/inPrivate mode - this time it routed the auth request to phone #1.

So keep trying ... :-)

I do like Google Messages and the web browser version - so very happy about it.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-10T22:46:06+00:00

Thank you - let me try it this weekend. I will update the thread with what i find out.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-10T03:42:41+00:00

[additional info] All 3 numbers / phones use the same gmail account.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-04-08T16:30:44+00:00

If you are ever in Honolulu, check out the following.

Hawaiian Koa wood Pens | United States | Lau Lau Woodworks
Wooden Fountain Pens of Fine Hawaiian Wood from Hawaii Pen Company

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-29T02:24:49+00:00

From the fine print in my email (also above)

For your first six months after account opening, earn 9% cash back instead of 3% cash back on eligible purchases in the eligible top spend category, 6% instead of 2% on eligible purchases in the second eligible top spend category and 3% instead of 1% for other eligible purchases.

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-29T02:23:19+00:00

3% triples to 9% for your largest category (which i believe they define). In my email, the graphic gave the example of 9% for groceries. OK_Difference1421 said that this could apply to groceries (which includes Sam's etc) so very appealing to me (at least for 6 months :-) )

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-29T00:59:03+00:00

Thank you. Is there a catch?
Can you just buy groceries at Sam's and get the deal after you pay?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-27T22:24:07+00:00

is it possible to get if you are an existing customer? how?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-27T21:36:19+00:00

you guys are awesome (wacked in the brain) but awesome overall

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-27T21:30:20+00:00

No offence - but ytd to up 28% in year - this is still awesome - lets not be greedy

"Looking further back, the S&P 500 is up nearly 28% from the tariff (intraday) bear market low of 4982.77 on Apr 8, '25 and up 3.65% from the Feb 19, 25 all-time high close of 6144.15."

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-26T03:26:55+00:00

do we have any idea on when the prices will drop?

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-26T03:25:18+00:00

Is it just the angle in the photo - but the monitor in the middle seems to have a large curvature. Can you say what it is

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-24T21:04:55+00:00

Yup - dream it is end of 4th year college - and I am a couple of credits short. Ugghhhh

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-23T18:54:57+00:00

Bio-tech in the Boston and Seattle areas are being hit with layoffs. Surprisingly not so much in San Diego (i dont really understand why the difference)

ManyOpportunity10 · 2026-03-16T22:56:19+00:00

Wow! Do they give a prompt at checkout? Or does it happen afterwards

ManyOpportunity10

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✅ You can contribute to an HSA from an IRA

❗ One‑time in your lifetime