I HATE APPLE

Yeah I went from 5S to 5SE and speed was the only difference I noticed, plus better camera I guess.

Yeah, design-wise isn't it pretty much identical to the 5s? Maybe meant 4S.

And the 5s has slo-mo too.

yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6

that'd be a 3GS then

My poor li'l 1st-gen iPad is stuck on 5.1.1 forever. It's still a good e-book reader and Words With Friends machine.

Yeah, I use mine for Kindle, Instapaper and Plex. It's amazing how quick the OS operates given how dog-slow a device it is. They really let that go post-iOS 7.

Starting to think sacking Forstall was a proper mistake

I'll take slowness rather than have to live the skeuomorphic life again.

yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6

― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, January 27, 2017 6:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that'd be a 3GS then

― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, January 27, 2017 7:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5

SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5

sorry for duplicate post

two days in, so far this touchbar is completely worthless and actually quite annoying. I have found zero use for it. I miss every single one of those keys that was up there on my older mbp

i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders

having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think

i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders

having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think

sorry

i use the brightness thing a ton but its not just permanently up there (unless im doing it wrong)

imo alot of the stuff the touch bar is currently utilized for is poorly thought out. for example, using it for tabs when browsing in safari. if you're browsing it's a lot faster to move your pointer to a tab or use the keyboard shortcut than to move your hand all the way to the touchbar.

you can customize the touchbar i think tho i don't remember how or if i did it

yah thats a big gripe xp. just pointless

It'll be good when the whole keyboard is a screen w haptic feedback imo

http://docs.bettertouchtool.net/docs/touch_bar.html

BetterTouchTool now supports the touchbar. I haven't used it for that, but it is an essential utility for the touchpad.

I like physical keys

what the https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/apple-lg-5k-display-issues/

why did they stop making their own displays?

they've stopped making anything that isn't relate dto the iphone

I know there's a separate thread for this, but while I've been (unusually) patient with iTunes all this time, it's been giving me grief lately. Anyone have a preferred and reliable alternative? This would be for a crazy big music library, please keep in mind.

what are your needs? For playing stuff at home, there's the nerdiest possible option

I have been poking around with some alternatives

all I've learned so far is that plex is acting weird about streaming flac files inside my house

Needs would be fairly simple -- it's mostly mp3s, some AAC/WAV/AIFF -- and just needs to play on my computer setup.

the nerdiest possible option

https://cdn.volumio.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/pi-2-design-503hta-i2s-dac-hybrid-tube-amp-for-the-raspberry-pi-VOLUMIO.jpg

Swinsian

Hmm, that looks like just what I would need.

there's a way to set it up so that it watches your itunes folder, so anything added to itunes is added to swinsian. You can't sync the playlists though, which is a bummer. One day I'll replace iTunes with it completely.

Hey, their website screenshots show Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Beefheart etc.

touch id kind of blows

it doesn't really work for me much anymore

now that you have to push home to unlock rather than swipe makes it an even bigger pain in the ass

really? might be worth blanking out your fingerprint in the list and adding it in again

only times I've had problems were right after getting out of the shower and trying to unlock, or the time I somehow added the same finger in the settings twice -- it would take forever or get confused

touch id is one of the only fancy apple doo-dads that has always worked perfectly for me. I hated the new "push home to unlock" behavior too, but luckily you can change it back to the old way: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/30/ios-10-tips-revert-touch-id-from-press-home-to-wake-back-to-rest-to-wake

Absolutely hated my phone until I found that article. Push home to unlock is some bullshit.

Thanks so much for that link, Dan.

i replaced the battery in my MBA with an anker replacement. it was easy! i hope this machine never breaks. it's the best model they've ever made.

ha i didn't know that was possible dan xp

So my Macbook is slowing like crazy... it beachballs every time I try to load a new webpage these days. Anything I can do about that, or is that just the cycle of life? It's about 6-7 years old.

Swap out the HDD for an SSD. That made my MacBook feel like 10x faster.

i wanna get airpods. sold out till april. :(

last night I took my parents Macbook Pros, a 2010 and a 2011 13" model, both with 4 gigs of ram, and swapped their drives with SSDs and upgraded them to 16 gigs ram each. They seem happier already.

Interestingly certain models from back then that apple claim can only upgrade to 8 gigs do support 16 gigs. Info on the OWC page.

I'm not a computer guy... what's an HDD/SSD? How much does an SSD cost?

And damn that jump in ram does sound nice. How much is that upgrade? I do feel wasteful getting rid of a perfectly functional computer just because it's slow