Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

I was wrong, but most often September and almost never August

f hazel yes - not the current 13” one

Apple is selling refurb 256GB iPhone 11 Pro for $899. Feels like quite a good deal - I need something to replace the XR that employer will soon take away from me when I change jobs. Any thoughts?

$849, rather

I have an 12 pro and it’s the best phone I’ve ever had but then so was the original X so I think an 11 pro, especially at that price would be great. I’m not sure I’ve ever come close to hitting the limits of the 12.

i want touchid, but has anyone typed on this new external keyboard yet?

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/apple-begins-selling-touch-id-equipped-magic-keyboard-new-mac-pro-gpus/

I used one briefly when setting up my folks' M1 iMac, it seemed very like the previous wireless keyboard (with the Lightning charge port).

they're pricey but I really want one. Don't have an M1 computer though. yet.

$149 for the wired one, jeebus. And that's the one without the numpad!

well I guess it has to have an actual computer in it to process the fingerprint and deliver an encrypted unlock code, in addition to the matrix decoder and USB chipset.

down 15 and cant score....

People pay a lot more for keyboards and my last Apple keyboard lasted 10 years and still going, but yeah that’s a spicy price to be able to auth with touchid in clamshell mode.

i'm not even about clamshell mode! I just don't want to have to reach over to my laptop to use touchID!

i’ll get one for my mini, that’s for sure…

you have an m1 mini?

this is my twice-monthly apple thread post where i pop in to say that yes, i have a m1 mac mini, and i love it :)

I'll probably get an M1 Mini for my next Mac. The only thing giving me pause is the 16GB max on memory. The 32GB on my 2012 iMac has been worth every penny.

Ram hits different on the m1s or so I’ve heard

yup

my use cases are about as demanding as you can get without hitting the GPU, and at no point have i felt like ram was a bottleneck. (i got 16G)

i just bought a new magickeyboard (to replace the fucking butterfly hinge one my mac came with seven years ago) and an apple tv so that i can use my pods with it; i am fully on the ecosystem and ashamed.

my magic keyboard is an old one that uses batteries :( it doesn't seem "magic" when i have to replace the batteries apple

having the plug in option (along with a balky space bar) was the main reason i bit the bullet

however, i will say that i am currently looking at my MAGIC trackpad, which is rechargeable, and i cannot find whatever the cord is anywhere, despite having every usb/micro/firewire/thunderbolt/etc cord of all time

i think my realizable dream tech setup is that there are no cords, and that there is a big surface that just recharges everything and keeps it topped off, and it's all powered by my solar panels on the roof

and when the sun shines harder, my performance of the devices get even better

i don’t have an M1 mini. it only works on M1 machines?? lol oh well

Can someone recommend a good USB-C hub, not necessarily for speed but for charging lots of things. My monitor doesn’t have enough ports anymore.

the keyboard works, but the touchid bit doesn't on intel macs IIUC.

get the anker one that has the ports you need.

usual deciders are whether you need 1) unusually many (3+) usb-a ports 2) ethernet 3) sd reader. if you need one of these three you basically have to get one with all three of these three.

other thing to watch out for is power delivery. if you have an m1 this shouldn't be an issue (they draw like 30W) but if you have an 16" intel mbp then you'll need 100W.

e.g. one of these (there are others)

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerExpand-Adapter-Delivery-Ethernet/dp/B087QZVQJX/
https://www.amazon.com/Anker-PowerExpand-Ethernet-Delivery-MacBook/dp/B08C9HZ5YT/

is this steve jobs insult response of the highest quality?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o

also, what is the quality of the insult?

not an entertaining response or insult, but he handled it pretty well

would've been easier to just go with "what the hell is going on with your pants"

I expect that was the highest quality response Steve Jobs ever gave to someone who tried to insult his representation of Java's level of integration into the concept of Open Doc during a public Q&A.

So I guess everyone else is pretty nonplussed by the event today? I think I'm still gonna stick with my 11Pro.

I am waiting for ilxor Jeff’s assessment before making any big decisions

so did they end up not adding a temperature sensor to the watch, or did it just not make it through federal approval yet? I want it to alert me if I might have a virus

iPad mini looks perfect for me, except the mini 5 is perfectly fine and so I don’t need it. It’s so hard to care about the rest of the incremental grind on show

I'm probably going to trade in my Xs for a 13Pro, but enh... no big hurry at the moment

Yeah... also XS owner here, if the trade-in is good enough I'd be tempted to bite on a 13 vanilla or mini

I’m only interested in camera sensor size. So the question for me is whether there is again a difference between the pros.

Guess they’re the same. and the regular models get last years pro max sensor, nice.

https://i.imgur.com/qQPKPMQ.jpg

From anandtech

sticking with my 6s until they really change something

i am disappointed TouchID isn't back in the phones yet though

actually excited for this one...

coming out strong with, er, "voice plan"

they always start with the worst stuff but good grief

mac pros or gtfo (i will not buy a mac pro)

they cannot resist keeping old products around these days, it's segmentation all the way down with this crew

32gb booooooo!