This season is filled with moments that celebrate independence, creativity, and new beginnings—from Canada Day 🇨🇦 (July 1) and Independence Day in the US 🇺🇸 (July 4), to Marine Day in Japan 🇯🇵, UK summer traditions like Wimbledon 🎾 and community festivals 🇬🇧, and upcoming milestones like Independence Day in India 🇮🇳 and National Day in Singapore 🇸🇬 🌟

Across regions—from Germany 🇩🇪 to Australia 🇦🇺—one thing connects us all: the spirit of building, creating, and growing something of our own 💡✨

Every entrepreneur, creator, and innovator in our community is shaping their own path—and that’s worth celebrating 🙌

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What’s one idea, project, or milestone you’re proud of right now?

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Halfway through the year is a good time for small businesses to pause and ask: Is our tech still helping us move forward, or is it creating friction?

A few questions worth asking:
👉 What’s working well?
👉 What’s slowing the team down?
👉 What should we invest in next?

Quick question:
What’s your top tech priority for the second half of the year?

💻 Hardware refresh
☁️ Cloud/storage
🔐 Security
⚙️ Automation
👥 Training/support

Drop your answer below — curious to see where other SMB leaders are focusing next. 👇

こんにちは！コミュニティマネージャーのMariです。
ジメジメしたお天気が続きますが、皆様お元気でしょうか。

本日は日本の皆様もお申し込みが可能な、スペシャルプレキャンのお知らせです。
Creator Community 内の企画となるのですが、日本も対象国となっておりますためぜひクリックしてみてくださいね🎉

各地域に１台ずつご用意がありますので(全部で3台)、日本のお客様にも必ず１台当たるようになっています！
インテリアにもいいですし、スクリーン画質が非常によい製品となっております。

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That is all

Does anyone think the RAM crisis is going to get worse by years end? I saw Apple finally increased their prices, but I'm wondering if they will be increased even more before the end of the year. It is somewhat encouraging that Apple is at least trying to get a third-party producer to bring costs down. Thoughts?

プレミアムプレゼントキャンペーン 

生産性を高めるAI搭載ノートPCが当たる！ 
今回のプレゼントは、オンデバイスAIを搭載のThinkPad E14 Gen 8 AMD！ 

長時間バッテリー駆動とスマートな熱設計により、安定した生産性を実現。高度なセキュリティが、データとプライバシーを保護します。 
1名様にプレゼント！複数エントリーで当選確率アップ！さらに、毎日応募も可能。奮ってご応募ください！ 

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I realize this may be an unpopular opinion, but I liked Windows 7 back in the day before we switched to Ubuntu when I worked at Amazon. I haven't ever really been a big fan of Linux personally.

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As I get older, I begin to think more seriously about efficiency hacks, in particular how to self-structure my day so I get the most out of myself. I have heard different things about whether to do rote work early or late, similarly for work that requires research or problem solving. I have even seen hacks that concern the order in which one reviews material over the course of a week for purposes of optimizing memory. Who here has had success with anything like this? It's time I stopped taking the brute force approach for granted.

Considering options for my new laptop, would you go for the new Thinkbook 14 or Thinkpad X1 carbon?

Hi,

ich frage mich, welche KI-Modelle bzw. Anbieter ihr in euren Unternehmen nutzt, um damit produktiver zu sein und was genau die Stärke dieses Modells aus eurer Sicht ist?

How has technology helped your business?

使ってみたい！😊

👍

During your schooling, what one or two classes would have been most beneficial for you in your career? Whether is was secondary or post-secondary education,, I find many people wish they had taken X or Y instead of something that seemed interesting at the time.

For me, it's an odd coupling of accounting/budgeting/finance to help me read & understand & act on much of the financials in my work. Another would be, philosophy, in order to better guage the signs of the times and anticipate directions for acquiring books we publish.

What are yours?

How has the increasing prices of computing components affected your businesses?

I like the setup!

https://youtu.be/BR6WsGB4QL4

What skills did you learn early on that ended up helping you in your career?

In high school, we spent part of class running through a typing program every day. It didn't feel important at the time, but it's something I'm constantly thankful for now. Public speaking is another one - I absolutely hated it back then, but being forced to do it regularly ended up helping with meetings, explaining ideas clearly and client communication.

Curious what others would include. Sometimes the smallest or most random skills end up being the ones you rely on the most later in life.

What happened to the Trackpoint keyboards? I see that replacement key caps are available, but I want to purchase a few more of the keyboards themselves. I find it provides far more convenient mouse control.

先日、BIOSバッテリーがダメになり、リチウム電池(CR2032)を交換した
2008年製のThinkCentre M57 Towerですが、
Linux Mint OSで、まだまだサクサク現役中です✨ 👍
実は、Vista～Win10まで使ってましたが、Linux Mintへ昨年移行♪
数あるLinux群の中でも、Mintが古いPCでも一番軽く、安定しています❣️

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まもなく締め切りです！あと3時間しかありませんので、まだご応募されていない方は、ぜひ今すぐお申し込みください！

[German]
Beeilen Sie sich – die Bewerbungsfrist endet bald! Wir haben nur noch 3 Stunden, also bewerben Sie sich jetzt, wenn Sie es noch nicht getan haben!

A few months ago, the MacBook Neo hit the market with quite a splash, given that it offered an attractive, premium-feeling design for quite a low price, compared to its often cheaper-looking entry-level PC competitors. While prices have risen on it now, presumably due to Apple running out of binned A18 Pro chips, it absolutely had most other companies scrambling to make some kind of response, especially since the <$700 laptop segment is about 40% of the notebook market.

It does have tradeoffs that make it non-ideal for being a daily driver for businesses, but it is certainly a capable enough model for travel, which might threaten the niches of companies making ultralights (it certainly isn't as powerful as say, the Thinkpad X1 Carbon, but is that power necessarily needed? It depends on the application one is using it for - your standard business traveler might not need something so mighty, if they're mostly keeping in touch with the office).

So I suppose my question is: what other changes / consequences do we anticipate coming up in the next year or so either in the entry-level market segment or the upper-end as a result of the Neo shock? Do you foresee further disruptions across product offerings in the Industry?