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I find the whole thing so weird. Who is this PRO machine made for? It's overpowered and overpriced for home use but as a PRO machine it's a joke. Did anyone look at it with a critical eye before the pushed it out the door? It's almost as if they're trying to kill off their laptop branch. Not enough profit maybe? MacOS is stealing resources from iOS? Hopefully I can use this as a folded up desktop tower for five years and by the time I need to upgrade next time either Apple has done right or I'll just have to learn how to use Powerpoint. |
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Tonka 31,980 posts
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beastmaster 22,373 posts
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Registered 17 years agoI was thinking of going full blown MBP but someone here suggested going for an iMac if physical space wasn’t really an issue. I got the iMac 4K summer 2017 tech refresh and it’s superb. Much cheaper, get more ports, none of this touchbar rubbish and a lovely 4K screen. Defo avoid the standard or hybrid drive and go full SSD.
Edit: No need for dongles
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spindizzy 7,755 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTonka wrote:
I've just got a new MBP through work and it's the first time I've ever updated when I actively miss the old one. The new keyboard is just much, much worse. I'm sure I'll get used to it, but I'll never think it's better. The Touch Bar is cool, but mostly just a gimmick. The fingerprint reader is cool I guess.
I find the whole thing so weird. Who is this PRO machine made for? It's overpowered and overpriced for home use but as a PRO machine it's a joke. Did anyone look at it with a critical eye before the pushed it out the door?
It's almost as if they're trying to kill off their laptop branch. Not enough profit maybe? MacOS is stealing resources from iOS?
Hopefully I can use this as a folded up desktop tower for five years and by the time I need to upgrade next time either Apple has done right or I'll just have to learn how to use Powerpoint.
The USBC ports can fuck off though - I want HDMI and at least a couple of USB B. It doesn't seem any faster either. -
Dr-Strangelove 2,309 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYes, only reason to have the touchbar version is for the fingerprint sensor which does make life easier (especially with the 1Password integration).
Otherwise its an irritating piece of tech that I inadvertently keep on touching with my fingers and not expected things happen.
I wouldn't recommend it overall as the additional cost is quite high. -
Bambot 2,076 posts
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Registered 6 years agoReading that Marco piece makes me sad. So many wonderful little touches that used to make Apple products feel like someone who actually used them had designed them, ditched. And so many relatively useless and badly-implemented new additions.
I had no idea that cable winder arms and the LED had also been removed from the charge cable along with the magnet. Unbelievable. Who the fuck is designing this stuff now?? -
spindizzy 7,755 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBambot wrote:
The winder arms and the LED are just weird - both were very useful and it's hard to understand what technical reason there could be to remove them. The magnet I can understand, and there is a benefit to it: as amazing as magsafe was/is it's apple proprietary tech, so the addons were very limited. However with USB-C you can use anything - you can even charge your laptop from a battery pack.
Reading that Marco piece makes me sad. So many wonderful little touches that used to make Apple products feel like someone who actually used them had designed them, ditched. And so many relatively useless and badly-implemented new additions.
I had no idea that cable winder arms and the LED had also been removed from the charge cable along with the magnet. Unbelievable. Who the fuck is designing this stuff now??
As Marco said, the fingerprint reader is surely temporary - face id must be what is coming in the next update.
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nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOr at the very least bake it into the trackpad. -
beastmaster 22,373 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAnyone going for a HomePod this Friday? -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThe reviews I've read pop a series of painful boners about the tech and then almost apologetically mention the fact siri is a bag of arseholes and it only supports Apple Music.
The tech sounds great, though. It's got an accelerometer so it can tell if it's been moved and then will automatically retune itself within ten seconds of the next song being played. No twatting around, wafting your phone around like youre spreading incense for an exorcism.
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Dirtbox 92,600 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMight make a good semen container for the prats that think it's worth bothering with. -
Dirtbox 92,600 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSo I'm reading a lot of homepod reviews and "halfbaked" and "should have been delayed for another year" seem to be the key takeaways. You can't set it up without an ipad or iphone and it needs apple music. On top of that, Siri is still a few years behind the competition so all in all it's really got a lot going for it yet. -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAs much of a walled garden as IOS is, you can at least use an alternative (google) app for almost everything, which makes switching between IOS and Android a piece of piss. I did it myself in just a few minutes, it’s pretty much seamless.
Releasing something that supports and, indeed, requires nothing but apple stuff is just mental. If you buy one, you can never change environments again otherwise your fucking speakers won’t work. I like the look of them and they are supposed to sound great. I would definitely be thinking about one if it didn’t mean I would need an IOS device for the rest of its natural life. -
Armoured_Bear 31,234 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDirtbox wrote:
Did you read those reviews with your tinkle in your hand?
So I'm reading a lot of homepod reviews and "halfbaked" and "should have been delayed for another year" seem to be the key takeaways. You can't set it up without an ipad or iphone and it needs apple music. On top of that, Siri is still a few years behind the competition so all in all it's really got a lot going for it yet. -
Tonka 31,980 posts
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Registered 18 years agoWhat all those reviewers are missing is that HomePod isn't a smart speaker. It's not even a SONOS styled WiFi/Bluetooth speaker.
It's an iOS+Apple music accessory and as such it's fenomenal. Everyone who buys one will know this and will be very pleased.
It will outsell the SONOS stuff and that cool alienskull looking speaker with a French name. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoIt looks great as a speaker but without being able to connect to anything but the Apple devices and music I'll never have an interest.
I have seen a lot of criticism of how bad Siri is now though. -
Not-a-reviewer 7,686 posts
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Registered 7 years agoStrange they can make a great sounding speaker but still put out terrible earphones too. -
elstoof 28,128 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOk, what am I missing with other music software that makes Apple Music so shit? All I do is put albums on and listen to them, don’t use Siri or anything like that, seems to do everything I want but should I be wanting more? -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt's not that it's shit it's just one of a hundred streaming services that everyone uses.
On an average day working from home, I'll listen to a bit of Spotify, a bit of SoundCloud, maybe a few mixes on mixcloud and some tunein radio, none of which it supports.
Hell, tunein is probably my most used streaming service since I just leave the radio on all day like an old man.
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nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI suppose it's like them releasing an Apple TV and only allowing content from the iTunes store -
elstoof 28,128 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAh, I’ve never been into streaming, probably explains it. Still buying albums and selecting them from the column view list like its 2003 -
erniewhatbert 3,131 posts
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Registered 18 years agoelstoof wrote:
I subbed Spotify Premium for 8 years and changed to Apple Music for a free trial six months ago. There’s nothing between them.
Ok, what am I missing with other music software that makes Apple Music so shit? All I do is put albums on and listen to them, don’t use Siri or anything like that, seems to do everything I want but should I be wanting more? -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoApple Music now beating Spotify in the US.
By all accounts the HomePod sounds fantastic, but yeah. I don’t want to stream Spotify over AirPlay from my phone: I want to get access to the whole shebang. -
Armoured_Bear 31,234 posts
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Registered 10 years agoelstoof wrote:
Nothing, I had Spotify then Todal, switched to Apple Music , it's totally fine and I like having one app that I use for listening to music whether it's my own or streamed.
Ok, what am I missing with other music software that makes Apple Music so shit? All I do is put albums on and listen to them, don’t use Siri or anything like that, seems to do everything I want but should I be wanting more? -
Tonka 31,980 posts
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Registered 18 years agoIs there a way to get photos and video onto an iPad that doesn't involve iCloud?
The photos and videos are currently stored in the Google photos cloud. -
You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoI think there’s a google photos app. And if not there’s a billion other photo apps. -
TheSaint 20,950 posts
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Registered 16 years agoVia the Google Photos app? -
nickthegun 87,712 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOr airdrop them from your MacBook. -
askew 24,121 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIsn’t there some dongle for the iPad that takes SD cards and will take your photos off it?
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You-can-call-me-kal 23,013 posts
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Registered 15 years agoYes. -
I have the dongle for the old port. Am currently using the Google photos app but it seems that Google didn't do a good job on the download part.
Wasn't there some new file manager app for iOS? Or was that only for the iPad pro?
Found it
https://m.imore.com/files-app
Edited by Tonka at 18:56:49 14-02-2018
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