Welcoming Sydney's PC & Technology Users for over 40 Years

  December was a very busy month, with a combined Main meeting, Christmas party, and our 40th Birthday celebration. For this special occasion, a number of our zoom attendees, joined fifteen “live” members, at our SMSA headquarters to celebrate this significant 40th milestone.
  Alex, was regrettably unable to attend, but provided his recent video interview with Allard Rustenhoven discussing Nextbase’s Piqo dash camera, and viewable on Main Meetings page. This was followed by the “Lucky door” raffle, with five members winning valuable prizes. Then it was time to Party, Party, Party.

  This month, Alex reported on the new AMD chips and AI, at their launch, that he attended in San Francisco last month. He also discussed Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite processor for smartphones, plus Apple's new M4 Macs, and what Apple Intelligence looks like and how it works on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Alex spoke briefly on Google's new Chromebook Plus, and how they different from regular Chromebooks, and why would you buy one?

  Items presented and discussed by Alex at this month's meeting included, iPad mini, iPhone 16 & 16 pro, Apple intelligence on iPhone, Hearing Aid for Air-Pod Pro 2. He also compared Microsoft vs Qualcomm, AMD vs Intel, Windows 11 – Copilot for PC, and then showed Mark Zuckerberg's recent video of unveiling ‘Orion’, Meta’s First Pair of AR Glasses, as shown above.