Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Check out Swappa for an iPhone 8; I’ve had good luck with them. New and used.

thanks for the tip! I found a new-in-box iPhone 8/256 on Swappa, bought it, and now I'm living the dream of dumping my entire music collection onto it without having to pick and choose! and for half the cost of an iPhone 11 Pro. I can live without the sexy camera.

Has Jeff posted lately? Wondering if we’re trading up to this sucker

I missed the shipping window to ensure I’d get it before a vacation but may do so on return

The three-lens camera thing is pretty ugly

new MacBook Pro with physical escape key for Vim users

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/

Look at the max ram and hd in this thing. I don’t need it but I want it.

it has a keyboard my god the misery ends at last

that Esc key is gonna cost you

cant believe they are sticking with the touch bar

I can't believe that on that giant laptop they are sticking with a few TB3 ports and nothing else.

I was cackling after reading that the only processor options are i9

Go big or go home, I guess

8tb on a notebook is bazonkers, just give me an extra port instead

I could see the dudes I work near who have huge data sets, or maybe someone wanting to edit a bunch of video, using that much on the fly. But yes, 8TB built in is nuts

at least they didn't update the 13" with a new keyboard, i just got one a few weeks ago :-/

i would take all of these bytes and love them and hug them and take care of them

that Esc key is gonna cost you

― June Pointer’s Valentine’s Day Secret Admirer Note Author (calstars), Wednesday, November 13, 2019

i mean... it'll cost you the same as the previous model, with better specs?

at least they didn't update the 13" with a new keyboard, i just got one a few weeks ago :-/

― gbx, Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:52 AM

that's the one me and my 2013 15" are holding out for. 14" screen, new keyboard, three pounds and able to open on an airplane would be perfect

I'm tempted to trade in my iMac and MBP for the new one and finally settle down with just one computer I can take back and forth to work, but it's hard to think about giving up the iMac's sweet monitor

Wait for the desktop pro is my thinking
I need power to convert vaporwave flacs into wmv

Depending on whether you need to trade in your iMac you can use it as an extra monitor

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/how-to/imac-secondary-display/

14" screen, new keyboard, three pounds and able to open on an airplane

*tears of joy*

I'm sad that the 5k iMac can't do target display mode due to.. a number of reasons

otherwise, waiting for someone to dump one of those suckers when the hardware becomes underpowered would be a great source for a nice display

this seems like a good opportunity to again complain that I can't use my LG 5K display to play a Switch on

how long til the 16 inch MBP shows up in the refurb store

Finally had to throw in the towel on my cracked, shitty 6s. I got an 11 and have been using a dragonfly mini amp through a lightning to USB adapter to power my headphones. It sounds great tbh, unwieldy but the improved sound is worth it. The 6s didn’t work well with the dragonfly for some reason.

microcenter has the base model ipads for $260, and i'm tempted to get one just to stream basketball games while i'm making dinner or whatever.

Thought about getting the watch today
Don’t really have a use case for it
Maybe just keep it in my pocket without a wristband?
What is it good for?

Very good at making you look like a dweeb while wearing it.

It’s nice for when you get a notification instead of pulling your phone out if your pocket to discover it’s a worthless message you can just glance at your watch. That and 2 year old kids love looking at pictures of themselves on it.

it’s only really useful on your wrist tbh

how is it for porn

having looked at such content on nearly every device imaginable, I must admit I have broken the trend and it’s never been viewed on my watch

I guess, worn on the correct wrist, it could track related activity

Thought about getting the watch today
Don’t really have a use case for it
Maybe just keep it in my pocket without a wristband?
What is it good for?

just to show the losers how it's done

my iPhone SE is now randomly showing me the shutdown screen and not recognising my fingerprints. The Internet says this is probably because of a damaged 'flex cable' connected to the power button.

This ever happen to anyone else? Really don't want a new phone but I don't want to pay big buxx for somebody to fix that cable.

Sounds like you may not have a choice. Is battery ok?

Yeah got it replaced like 6 mos ago. Gonna see what the iSmash boys have to say

My wife dropped her iphone SE a week ago and since then the display has been kinda wonky but still usable. The problem is also that since then, the phone won't connect to her iCloud account (hence no iMessages) - the phone just hangs for a while before diplaying an error message. Seems very odd since I can't see how this could be linked to a physical hardware issue.

they do security stuff based on the hardware, like Touch ID disables itself if it thinks it has been tampered with, in case someone's trying to hack the secure enclave. That's where the iCloud credentials are stored, so I could see a weird alignment of things causing that.

I still have an SE for my personal non-work phone but my Apple buddy says a replacement is coming in March. Let me see if I can find a leak page.

voila:

https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/iphone-se/

Calling the iPhone an iPhone SE 2 brings to mind the iPhone 5-style design of the iPhone SE with its small 4-inch display, but this new iPhone is expected to look more like an iPhone 8 than anything else. In fact, based on the rumors we've heard, this new device is going to be an updated iPhone 8.

Hmm.. iPhone 8 form factor. Kinda lame. I wish they’d keep the existing SE case. IMO the most ergonomic iPhone form factor and most attractive as well.

Yeah the size/weight of the SE might be the biggest reason why people love it (incl. me):

SE
h 4.87” (123.8 mm)
w 2.31” (58.6 mm)
d 0.30” (7.6 mm)
weight 4 oz (113 g)
battery life: 13 hours (lol, I'm very lucky to get 8 hours)

SE2 (rumor)
h 5.45” (138.4 mm)
w 2.65” (67.3 mm)
d 0.29” (7.3 mm)
weight 5.2 oz (148 g)
battery life: 13 hours

Seems like there’s an opening here for an Android manufacturer to scoop up some of Apple’s market share. The Sony XZ2 Compact is intriguing though still a bit too bulky.

just want to be able to use phone one handed

and fit it in my pocket. SE is ideal sized

I thought apple was (again) in the habit of making products wants these days. come on tim

otm

they do security stuff based on the hardware, like Touch ID disables itself if it thinks it has been tampered with, in case someone's trying to hack the secure enclave.

This jives with my situation - a side-effect is that it wants my PIN every time