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Mac PC or Chrome book

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The future sometimes has many a strange path, for me, it's my Mac, its 6 years old, and has a few years left on it, but will I replace it, good question, with a simple answer, repacing it with a PC is just not an option, having used them at various workplaces,  I am burned, so my options are a Chromebook or Mac. Google Chrome gives almost all I need, except for CAD, Vectorworks my preferred package runs on Mac and Windows, and as the latter will not ever enter my thoughts, I have to look at Mac, the new Macbook Air is a huge pull.  My Asus flip just works, and its almost a 1/4 of the price of my Mac, so you might think its a no brainer, besides, I have a Pixel 3 and at least two Google speaker things that I can talk to, plus Google cast on the TV, so it's my prime platform, I tried to do everything on the Asus flip, and to a large extent I achieved it, but Chrome OS is not as slick as the Mac OS, and I just crept back to the Mac OS because it was simpler to do things. Openein...

A Greater Understanding of the change in global weather warming and the effects on Architectural Detailing, Material Choice & Human Interaction. A change to Adoptive Architecture

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  A Greater Understanding of the change in global weather warming and the effects on Architectural Detailing, Material Choice & Human Interaction.  A change to Adoptive Architecture 2021-10-27 Prof Stephen J Scaysbrook FCIAT ACIOB Chartered Architectural Technologist Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University The evidence is there, Wildfires, high temperatures, high volume rain falls, large areas of the Arctic and the Arctic permafrost and Arctic Ice almost none existent, and glaciers almost gone, the planet is warming, and Global Warming is here, can we do anything about it, before the so-called Tipping Point comes into effect, and the knock-on where events caused by the primary cause takes over if they have not already done so. To be able to understand the complex relationship of all the causes, and there is no longer one, there are many, a comprehensive & relatively high understanding of the problem and related contributors is not just desirabl...