The Apple thread

[Deckard]

Having a clear out and so far found a R4 DS (which still works) and this -



My old iPod classic running Rockbox.

[Deckard]

Was out in the depths of Cornwall yesterday and I noticed a cool thing -

I had this appear on my iPhone Pro Max -



(Not my screen)

So if the locals attacked I'd be ok !

Does make you wonder when that might be capable of beaming 4 or 5g and skipping masts altogether.

[Vargol]

Does make you wonder when that might be capable of beaming 4 or 5g and skipping masts altogether.

I believe Starlink launched some direct to phone satellites just the other day. Ah, the 2nd of January.

https://direct.starlink.com

[Deckard]

If i had (a spare) 3k yep I would have one -

https://www.apple.com/apple-vision-pro/guided-tour/

[Deckard]

Big changes for Apple today - fort nite back on iOS and games streaming apps but no side loading for us in the UK - thanks Brexit !

[Deckard]

Well its a sad sad week here in my Cornish household - my old faithful 5,1 MacPro has been finally retired and is going to a new ebay home (he sent me the packaging and is paying for the courier !) and somehow after weeks of prevarication (Misfit knows !) I have also ditched my M1 MacBook Pro (virtually never used in two years and certainly never left the house) and gained an M2 Pro MacMini for a bargain price of 875 whole english pounds.

I am looking forward to seeing websites that will work on Safari rather than not loading on this one (version 13.1) and actual Chrome updates plus obv running lots of Switch and gamecube games in 4k !

Easily the best piece of hardware I have ever bought and the most reliable too.

[RiK]

and gained an M2 Pro MacMini for a bargain price of 875 whole english pounds.

I have an M2 Pro Mini as my office desktop now (with a Samsung 49" ultrawide), and a 16" i9 8-core MBP for all the fun stuff.

Still blown away by just how much grunt this thing has...

[WiteWulf]

I had cause to run Handbrake on my M2 MacBook Air the other day, probably the first time I've used it since my main work machine was an octo-core Mac Pro.

Could not believe how face-meltingly fast the M2 is at video transcoding...

[Misfit]

I had cause to run Handbrake on my M2 MacBook Air the other day, probably the first time I've used it since my main work machine was an octo-core Mac Pro.

Could not believe how face-meltingly fast the M2 is at video transcoding...

I think the M1 Air changed the game for laptops (outside of gaming). The speed (even unplugged), battery life and noise in the slim form factor just changed how we viewed and worked on laptops.

My MBP M1 Pro and M2 Air never slow down and I've never heard the former's fans and I can work all day away from my desk on both. It's like Magic. (of course my life is just web browsers, word, Excel etc so they aren't massively pushed, but every windows laptop I had would grind and kick in fans)

I don't follow too closely, but I think PC chips are starting to catch up, which is late to the party but a good thing for everyone.

[RiK]

It's rather nice having a desktop which fills my entire field of view...

[WiteWulf]

Yeah, my M2 MacBook Air is driving a Dell U3423WE on my desk at work. Lovely piece of kit (though I still miss the Retina display on my 27" iMac)

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/dell- ... tor-review

[Deckard]

It's rather nice having a desktop which fills my entire field of view...

Not a patch on a Vision Pro view though and not easy to get on a plane either .....I will have one at a 1000 - lol

[Misfit]

I've gone curved ultrawide too, but just 34". Not sure I could cope with Rik's monitor, but would like to try!

Much as I want a Vision Pro, I'm not sure my use case would be as a Mac screen right now, although I can see it being handy if you travelled lots andwanting to work.

Negatives...

-Currently, it only does one Mac screen and I've not seen anyone try and make it ultra-wide, but maybe it can.

-Battery life is significantly less than my Mac

-Working with that on my face all day seems very inconvenient.

Give me one for media consumption and recreational stuff, but I don't see it as a work device yet. My xReal glasses are much closer for this scenario as they actually feel like a pair of glasses and let me have 3 screens. If only they had the stability and clarity of the VP it would be great.

Give it a few years for the two form factors to merge, then we're cooking.

[Deckard]

Apparently apple engineers are running 2 at apple ....

Yeah give me a few gens later and a 1/3 of the current price and I am in baby !

PS Rik - yours will look similar to my set up this week as I will have my Mac Mini Pro set up with a logi keyboard and two displays - which of the several available expansion stands is sitting under your Mac Mini ? Satechi ?

New NVME one has just hit

https://www.macworld.com/article/167604 ... eview.html

[RiK]

PS Rik - yours will look similar to my set up this week as I will have my Mac Mini Pro set up with a logi keyboard and two displays - which of the several available expansion stands is sitting under your Mac Mini ? Satechi ?

Yes mate, it's this one: https://amzn.to/4bxtrSU

And I have a 2TB SSD in it as a data drive (plus I went 2TB in the Mini itself too)