Stop me buying other Ipad Pro

[brewdexta]

My favourite was a Lenovo Yoga laptop with a touch screen. It folded so worked as a tablet or standard laptop. Decent battery life too. It eventually died but lasted 5 years, with Linux Oracle Virtualbox on it and Linux installed it did everything I needed.

It died just before the plague hit us and I was still commuting to London weekly. So needed a replacement but didn't want to spend almost a grand, I always buy a high end processor and lots RAM on a laptop so can be expensive. So I opted for a refurbished Acer chromebook Spin with touch screen, similar folding mechanism to the Yoga and double the battery life for half the price. It aso has a built in VM for Linux so I could write software on the train.

But I have hardly used it beyond browsing since March. The youngest daughter needs a machine for a school so she may end up with it.

Cheers
Andy

 

[Welderpaul]

The only thing that annoys me with I phones is if you plug it into a windows PC it shows it as a drive but won't let you do anything. My old windows phone was great for bulk transfering work survey photos etc.

My I phone battery is down to about 35 seconds now, more junk that needs replacing

 

[Ashley Burton]

@Welderpaul Only ever had 1 iPhone & the battery was junk on that also. Would never have one again unless it was given to me

 

[gaz1]

I'm so conflicted on this.

I love iphones, because they "just work" and I have faith in the walled garden of secured apps (tinfoil hat conspiracy theorists can look away now).

yeah your info is being sold without telling you

https://publictechnology.net/articles/news/regulator-claim-success-bid-get-apple-open-apps’-use-data

 

[Shox Dr]

If you want a phone with stoopidly long battery life get a CAT. My S61 lasts 11-15days. Last charge showed I been on the phone for 9hrs, plus other uses.

 

[Ashley Burton]

If you want a phone with stoopidly long battery life get a CAT. My S61 lasts 11-15days. Last charge showed I been on the phone for 9hrs, plus other uses.

Is it a smartphone or a Nokia 3310?

I bet it's a brick also isn't it?

 

[Pigeon_Droppings2]

Macbook Pro. The “Stella” of computer world. Reassuringly expensive but ultimately an obnoxious thug that’s stupidly expensive to repair.

Couldn't agree more...why use screws when you can use glue hey Mr Apple! Removing an LCD screen from a MacBook is not an easy task I can tell you.

But they work really well...while mine was out of action I had to surf on my windows laptop. My main gripe is the small stuff....like zoom. If I'm on eBay and I zoom it's pretty obvious that I want the picture to zoom too not just the blooming text. Just a small thing...but its incredibly annoying.

I have a supply of old MacBooks which I use for parts to keep mine going....hardest bit to get is the screens (I guess they get dropped a lot!)

 

[Shox Dr]

Is it a smartphone or a Nokia 3310?

I bet it's a brick also isn't it?

No, not big in the grand scheme. Sat next to a pair of glasses with 9days battery to go

 

[Gritineye]

Always had good service from Apple, maybe cos there is an Apple store nearby for humaniod contact.

They replaced my iPhone FOC when the sound went quiet, don't mention the grinder dust.

They replaced screen and loads of other stuff in my MackBook air FOC when it went all streaky, after it slid off the sofa cornerwise onto a wooden floor.

Cos my 2015 one has always been slow at video editing due to lack of ram, I've got the latest MacBook air with extra ram and storage, arriving on Monday.

Cos some newer apps aren't compatible with her old one, and she wants a retina screen, got a new Ipad coming for Mrs G on order as well.

My first computer was an Amstrad 6128, had many other types since, had no end of expensive trouble over the years with MS and Google, so avoid both as much as possible now.

Apple's expensive at first glance, but we haven't spent on holidays this year and need a treat, and if I hadn't been so tight and got the base model last time I probably wouldn't be changing, I really like using Apple stuff and it just works,

 

[Gritineye]

Their latest version of the software blocks any work around/use of a VPN even.

https://www.vpnfan.com/blog/macos-big-sur/

 

[angellonewolf]

what bugs me with apple products there operating system will only alow you to go so far years ago had leopard but only then could you go to lion

dont know about now a days

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

 

[earthman]

https://www.vpnfan.com/blog/macos-big-sur/

So that article is saying that you can still get around it by connecting to a certain VPN then??

 

[Gritineye]

what bugs me with apple products there operating system will only alow you to go so far years ago had leopard but only then could you go to lion

dont know about now a days

It's cos newer OS often can't run so well on older hardware, like I just installed Big Sur on my 2015 mac and the OS is just too big for it, uses up too much storage and RAM and really needs 64 bit rather than 32 bit.

 

[Shox Dr]

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I don’t understand that. Whats the y axis about

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I don’t understand that. Whats the y axis about

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

It's cos newer OS often can't run so well on older hardware, like I just installed Big Sur on my 2015 mac and the OS is just too big for it, uses up too much storage and RAM and really needs 64 bit rather than 32 bit.

See I can't fathom that.
PC I'd stick more storage in and upgrade the ram. Not brick the computer. Probably stick the best cpu available for that socket and chipset while I'm in there

 

[Shox Dr]

https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share

weird, the image you linkto first shows 10% all the way up

 

[Craig-SM]

Wifey needs a new tablet, she’s taken a liking to my 4yr old 12.9 ipad Pro. Doesn't want a new one. That’s cool
Problem is that leaves me with no tablet.

Cant fault fault it, wouldn’t be looking to buy a new one if our lass hadn’t nicked mine. I’m looking at replacing it with the latest ipad pro with 256gb 12.9" wifi only. I see on reason to buy a bigger drive, no need for sim, I hotspot from my phone if necessary. I will also treat myself to a genuine keyboard, as I cant hold on to it anymore. I currently use it for the web, youtube, and emails.

kicking the butt outta £1000. But Im easy with it, the android and windows had had before were always causing grief.

what else it out there? Mac Book? Air?

Dont know much about the other flavours.

worth noting I might buy into 3d printing. Are there programs available for Appke based products?

lots of questions

I have the original IPad Pro 10.9 inch and have it daily use. It’s mainly for browsing both internet and documents but also used signing off accounts etc as well scanning documents. I have toyed with getting a larger IPad Pro not for performance but just the larger screen and my poorer eyesight.

My main computer is a 16 MacBook Pro, again not for outright performance but the screen size. I also use a desktop PC but it’s mainly used to Remote Desktop into from the MBP, this is for software that is only available on on Windows. You can use Boot Camp to have your Mac (not latest M1 processor) run in Windows or use Parallels which allows Windows to run in the Mac OS. I’ve used both and Parallels was the better option but still not ideal.
I have also acquired a broken 27 inch iMac, it has now been repaired and is great to use but it is huge. The cost of repairing it was just under £100 and watching a few YouTube videos.

You may think that I’m all Apple at this point but I prefer Windows 10 and it’s still better than Mac OS but they are catching up. Both systems crash and none worse than the other.
The beauty of Apple is the way it all integrates with each other either through the Apple ID account or the connection tools making plug and play a reality.

Is the price for Apple products inflated? Yes and no, on phones and tablets the answer is yes but on computers and laptops they’re comparable with high end machines but still pricey so no'ish.

What should you get? Based on current usage and what you want to do I would say a MacBook.
Which one is more difficult. They’ve just brought out the M1 chipset and in single core processors it is blistering fast. The cost is no more than previous intel chipsets but there is a catch in most software is written for the Intel chipset and the work around is using an emulator. Most software is running without issue n it but there is still some that don’t. No doubt the software companies will be rewriting their software for the M1 and it will be sorted soon. You also have the problem of availability with the current supply issues cased by shipping and COVID.
I would suggest the previous Intel models as they’ve been discounted, still great machines but try and spec as much storage and memory as you can. If you want portability over power then go for MB Air but if you want a bit more power the MacBook Pro. The Touch Bar on the MacBook Pro I though of as a gimmick and not something I would use but it s really useful especially when you can customise it for use when you open a particular program. The trackpad is also larger and more precise.

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

weird, the image you linkto first shows 10% all the way up

Didn't notice that. Site glitch there end probably.

Didn't realise just how dominant android were