New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

ty for humoring my lack of reading comprehension

caek, when I got an iPhone 6 last year it was via my friend with a Verizon plan. at that point, Verizon had stopped locking their phones completely. I think that's still the case. as far as it being a CDMA phone, it was no prob because there are no "CDMA" phones anymore -- they just support the most common bands for the region you're in but I've used both Cricket and Rogers sims in there with no issue.

Euler, you should be able to request an unlock from Verizon, I think, since you've had the phone long enough

How portable is the Mac Mini, and how possible is it to use it in some situations in lieu of a laptop, assuming you have a portable display? I mean obviously you can't like use it on your lap on a bus, but would it be realistic to carry it around with a portable monitor and set it up in a café where it can be plugged in?

Why would you want to do that

I think there is a device you are looking for, called a laptop

http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/13/friday-face-off-mac-guy-at-starbucks-with-desktop-vs-dell-guy/

It seemed like maybe you'd get better specs for the money than with a MacBook, but yeah that looks fucking ridiculous, the mini is bigger than I thought.

mh, in north america there are two models of every iphone, one is GSM-only and one is GSM and CDMA. afaict you can only get the CDMA by choosing verizon or sprint as yr provider when you buy from apple, or by buying from verizon or sprint. i want the CDMA+GSM one "in case", but i will probably end up on t-mobile or an MVNO or whatever. i asked on metafilter too and consensus seems to be nothing to worry about. thx all.

good luck lolmerica

oh, they did some weird shit where the same model number has a CDMA variation, how nice (what a clusterfuck)

so this is the "support matrix": http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/
but this is the actual list of model numbers: http://leimobile.com/iphone-6-model-numbers/

for ref I have a MG602LL/A and I use it with the aforementioned carriers. should also work on verizon, but whatever.

and it works fine on GSM despite being a "CDMA/LTE" model

btw it's probably stupid new version confirmation bias, but iOS 9 does seem speedier on an iPhone 6

probably hitting that 'Metal'

will the next version be iOS X??

I really do kind of feel like Apple is overloading us with new shit compared to the Steve Jobs era, like people are still trying to digest the watch, which is an entire new product category, and now at the same time as the latest phone there's also a new category of iPad and some sort of pencil thingy on top of all the other updated products and a supposedly very different Apple TV, and it does feel a little fatiguing.

wasn't it just a few months ago that people were like "what have you done for us lately, apple??"

how long out are we from the MB12" being viable? played w/one today for the first time and it is gorgeous

not this guy, but I don't have that Apple everything kind of money, and I have a limited tolerance for gadgets so maybe I'm just not the target market. I was pretty psyched about the iphone 6, and I still like mine a lot, but I'm still using a 4-year-old $400 Dell laptop and I don't have any other apple products. My wife does actually have an ipad mini but I never touch it -- after playing with it a good amount I just don't have any situations where I would use it over either my phone or laptop.

But still, from an outsider's perspective, I really liked the clean, minimal product line that Apple used to offer.

they still basically just have a pro + consumer model of each thing, apart from the ipad line, the overlapping distinctions of which are become, how you say, nutso in the butso

They have three different lines of desktops -- imac, mac mini, mac pro, and that's not counting the separate imac vs retina display imacs as delineated on the website. They also have three different lines of laptop -- MacBook, MacBook Air, and MacBook Pro, and the "Air" designation has become confusing given that the regular macbooks are actually lighter.

ha i forgot about the regular old macbooks

i guess you're right

I actually had no idea that MacBook Air was the cheaper model until I just looked on the website -- I thought MacBook was sort of the "student" model, but that does not seem to be the case. I guess Airs are for casual users, Pros are for Pros, and MacBooks are for...?

macbooks are their labs model

The keyboard on the newMacBook is basically unuseable.

the new Macbook is amazing, I'm three weeks into a work trip with it as my only machine right now and it's doing absolutely fine. Also being able to charge off USB turns out to be pretty great for traveling - just one adapter for everything.

keyboard is different, but I can type on it as comfortably and as quickly as on any other mac keyboard.

Pencil demo video may have convinced me to buy a iPad po po. It's kind of a new experience to draw digitally for most people.

Apple.com down?

ios9 keyboard seems much easier to type on

And 3rd party keyboards seem to work much better now.

the font is weird..!!! it's freaking me out!! is it the same font that youtube just changed to? i dunno.. i'll forget anything even changed in a couple of weeks but right now i feel like i have to get used to my phone all over again

I turned off the caps-shifting keyboard - felt weird to me.

The new font is nice, but the tracking on the reading text on some apps is making me crazy, especially Facebook - needs to be tightened up!

Can't wait for 3D projection OS. 2023?

Thinking of replacing my 2012 Air with one of the newer models from the refurb shop, but I notice they've got a really wide range of options, from more powerful machines with more features that are almost as old to less powerful (I guess) models from as recently as 2015. I'm not sure what distinctions I should be looking for, since most will be better than the model I have, and not helping things the differences between the Air and Pro (expandability aside) seem to be increasingly slim (pun intended). They all seem OK, but they're all slightly different from one another (re: RAM, core I5 or core I7 processor, etc.). Any guidance?

For buying, be sure to check bhphoto and adorama. Last year I picked up a year old macbook pro that was new, heavily discounted and they didn't charge sales tax...

You can get a sense of speed for each model over time here:
https://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks

at bhphoto

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Josh if you're not sure what the spec differences mean, you'll be fine with a cheaper model

The more pricey models will be more suitable for professionals and gear geeks

Sorry, been away from internet. Thanks for the advice! I have a general idea what the specs convey, but I guess there is still some grey area. For example, irrc on benchmarks some mac airs perform better than pricier mac pros. Or, another example, typically maxing out on RAM is the way to go, which in Airs generally means 4mb v 8mb, but by many accounts the 4mb is more than enough, with the processor doing a lot of the heavier lifting. I'm sure all would offer improvements, though. These machines are just so ridiculously powerful.

You mean GB, not MB.

Yeah, sorry. I don't think it'd even be possible to install 4MB RAM! And if you could, the computer would probably just flip you off and then explode in disgust.

Just be sure to call up HIMEM.SYS in your config.sys file.

oh god lol

As predicted I love the new font now. Helvetica was always a little try-hard for a phone, especially such a light variant of it - it just wasn't visible and legible enough. The new font has a, for want of a better word, "fit and finish" to it that the iPhone has been lacking for a long time. (Remember when the '1' in '100%' battery life hung a little lower than the other digits?)

21.5" retina iMacs look super-appealing and only £1100. Wonder where the catch is

"1TB (5400-rpm) hard drive"

super odd, as switching to the 1TB fusion drive is $100 more and a much better option

qualifier: I haven't used fusion drive, although I probably will set it up via software on my desktop at some point. the hybrid drives the setup resembles are a good compromise and with the large caches these days you're going to get near-SSD performance (maybe better, considering they cheat and just wire the cache direct to the PCI bus iirc)

5400 1TB drive is ;_;