Fun thing I discovered today, that £9 3.5mm jack to lightning converter that used to come with iPhones actually contains an audio/digital converter as this is no longer in the iPhone itself.
I forgot what a pain it is transferring your iTunes library to a new Mac when you want a clean install rather than a transfer of everything from one Mac to the next. Took me all of last night.
Yep. Or in my case plug the big external HD in and point iTunes to the existing folder there. Then you lose all your play counts (fine), all your playlists (bit annoying) and all genre metadata resets to what the iTunes Store thinks your songs should be. That last one I can’t live with and have to fix. Manually. About half the time you click to play a song and it jumps back to it’s proper genre on click. The other half you actually have to re-enter by hand. My music library runs to about 20,000 songs …
Probably not at that price. I haven’t noticed it being any worse than what was already in the iPhone, though.
I've not compared myself, just going by the comments on the Apple Store. A lot of hate for them - worse sound quality and keep breaking seems to be the main concerns.
I have the option to replace my work 6 with an 8 so I was researching the dongle. Decided not to bother as I like my headphone sockets to be integrated. Fed up with dongles - my laptop has too many already.
I haven’t had those issues, certainly the sound quality seems identical to me.
Personally, I’m looking at investing in a pair of lightning headphones. You should be able to get much better sound quality through those than you’d be able to get through a headphone jack.
Probably but it depends on how good the old apple inbuilt dac was compared to the headphone's dac (I assume the headphones' will be better - certainly for the expensive ones), but the headphones will be useless with other devices.
As a general point, it also makes me laugh how Apple want people to go bluetooth but don't support the 'not complete crap' codec that makes bluetooth acceptable now, presumably forcing peope into getting bluetooth headphones that support Apple's codecs. Yet more tie in.
OK, a while ago people said they were looking for Mac minis to use with their TVs. I have one I've been thinking of getting rid of for a while, and I've finally got my arse in gear. Here's the specs for mine. It's one of the ones where you can open up the bottom and upgrade the internals. I've doubled the installed RAM and put in a second HDD.
BOOTCAMP and Macintosh HD are the internal HDDs; ignore the others, they're either USB sticks or backup drives. The machine also comes with an external Super Drive for DVDs and CDs, a security cage, and an Apple Remote. If anyone is interested, let me know, I'm thinking of something around £200. I'll have to hose my data off each partition, but other than that it's ready to go. Full disclosure: the wifi is a bit iffy, so it might need a wired connection.
For those with an open mind, wonders always await! - Kilton (monster enthusiast)
Oh, ignore the fact that it says it's my MacBook Pro. That was my previous Mac, it just kept the name after I transferred everything when I bought the mini.
For those with an open mind, wonders always await! - Kilton (monster enthusiast)
Would anyone like to take an iPhone 6S 128GB Space Grey off my hands?
Screen is in perfect condition, battery health is 100% - just had it replaced by Apple. The metal back has some wear but is generally excellent for a 3 year old phone. screen protector and gel case included.
I saw one sell for £195 on eBay last night. however, as I don't have the box or any accessories, I'd be looking for £140 for the phone only.