Apple want 19 quid for a piece of cloth. The Apple tax is real. I also love how dollars = pounds. Why do tech companies not know about exchange rates?

Overview - it’s a fucking cloth.
What do I get? - A fucking cloth.

b0r1s wrote:

poprock wrote:

Boo. I love the touch bar.

It could have been so much better but Apple hobbled it by not making it user customisable. I would have used it far more if they had.

Yeah the gf has a MacBook and I’ve been impressed with what it can be used for. Even as a quick way to adjust volume it’s neat but the integration with the apple software is solid

monkey wrote:

That’s brilliant.

Product Information Overview Made with soft, non-abrasive material, the Polishing Cloth cleans any Apple display, including nano-texture glass, safely and effectively. What’s in the Box Polishing Cloth

I want to try it out on a non-Apple display and watch the universe implode, or something.

You really don’t like that notch eh? I’m guessing it’s setting up the form factor when they release Face ID next year. Won’t have to machine the parts twice then.

b0r1s wrote:

You really don’t like that notch eh? I’m guessing it’s setting up the form factor when they release Face ID next year. Won’t have to machine the parts twice then.

That has to be the plan.

Yeah I really dislike it. It’s ugly and creates a format that helps no one. It’s idiosyncratic for no benefit other than messy lines and seemingly now “brand identity”.

I genuinely can’t believe there’s anyone in Apple who thinks it’s the best solution.

mistercrayon wrote:

b0r1s wrote:

You really don’t like that notch eh? I’m guessing it’s setting up the form factor when they release Face ID next year. Won’t have to machine the parts twice then.

That has to be the plan. Yeah I really dislike it. It’s ugly and creates a format that helps no one. It’s idiosyncratic for no benefit other than messy lines and seemingly now “brand identity”. I genuinely can’t believe there’s anyone in Apple who thinks it’s the best solution.

OK I have no skin in the game here but I don't get this. Check the screen pixel resolution. You'll note that the space either side of the notch is "extra" screen real estate. That is to say: it's an extra place to store stuff like the menu / status bar, which generally has a big space in the middle anyway, and gives you more vertical space to fit actual stuff into.

You can see this in action with the "full screen" mode, which fits the top of the display in a straight horizontal line below the notch.

The problem was bezels too thick, but thinning them out too much meant not enough space for "advanced camera" bollocks. The solution (hacky as it is) is notch and slightly more screen real estate. That's a positive trade off for my money. Design schmesign

I have just been electro-shocked by my Apple Watch. Not cutting through a mains cable bad or owt but a definite pop and ow wtf?!?

It’s a new defibrillation feature. Still in Beta.

My daughter wants an ipad for chrimbo (just the base one). it should be more than enough spec for what she wants (and better than anything else in the house so i can borrow it too!), but as well as gaming and media, she wants to be able to draw on it.
i've seen some reviews for the logitech crayon as a good and slightly cheaper alternative to the apple pencil (1st gen)...has anyone here used it and could offer an opinion on if it would be suitable? she'll want to draw and scribble, but she's just 10 and not a budding professional artist so i'm not sure pressure sensitivity etc is that big a deal for her

16GB of unified memory running at 200GB/s.

Apart dick waving numbers don't really matter, it's about performance. Apple proved it on phones and tablets despite having less memory than the equivalent Android flagships. 

I've got an 8gb M1 Mac mini that runs far far faster than my 16gb ram MacBook Pro 2017 did.

I must admit... from the reviews I've seen so far, I'm very very tempted to get the Pro Max.

Partly because it will save me a ton of editing/rendering time and partly because my current 2018 Macbook needs a keyboard & battery service (which would be free) and I would need a machine to replace it as I have so much work on atm... and I'd sell the old one once its fixed (definitely not trading it in... despite Apples tech supports best efforts).

The only thing slightly putting me off is the perceived bulkyness / weight of the new one. Some reviews have said a specced up Pro Max 14 inch performs just as well as the 16inch variant but with the slightest of differences in performance while properly retaining its portability. 

I think i need to see them both in the flesh before making a decision.

An alternative view of the Pro Max by my fave tech reviewer:

https://youtu.be/pwa58qfsd9M

x

Or are you? It's late, sorry.

drumbeg wrote:

I just need someone to tell me 16GB RAM is gonna give me enough headroom, given that spinning up several VMs/containers in parallel is part of my day job.

Of course, in the past when these laptops were upgradable, it wasn't so much of a consideration.

Here’s a comparison vid. Doesn’t cover off your specific use case but it does stress the systems.