I wondered what the picture of people standing around an Apple monitor stand was about that was posted recently...
Apple's (Doomed) Tablet - Old man yells at icloud
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the title of this engadget article sums it up perfectly.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/04/apple-pro-display-xdr-stand/
https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/04/apple-pro-display-xdr-stand/
Russian iPhone User Sues Apple for Turning Him Gay - The Moscow Times
A Russian man is seeking more than $15,000 in damages from Apple after claiming that the U.S. tech giant drove him to homosexuality, the Govorit Moskva radio station has reported. The plaintiff, identified as D.
www.themoscowtimes.com
Russian iPhone User Sues Apple for Turning Him Gay - The Moscow Times
A Russian man is seeking more than $15,000 in damages from Apple after claiming that the U.S. tech giant drove him to homosexuality, the Govorit Moskva radio station has reported. The plaintiff, identified as D.
And they've sold all 360 million of those iPads to a total of 47 consumers. Planned obsolescence at its zenith!
Sounds like those silly Airpods are working out well for longevity.
Have they lasted more than 90 days?
If so, I believe that they have met Apple requirements.
Would consumers pay 2x as much for them to last 2x as long? 1.5x as much? Where’s the breaking point on price for lifespan?And they've sold all 360 million of those iPads to a total of 47 consumers. Planned obsolescence at its zenith!
Mine have been going strong for a year of daily use.
They owe me nothing and I'll buy another pair without hesitation.
We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune
Spare a thought for the lives of the creative accountants
www.theregister.co.uk
I do love me some slave labor electronics.
9to5mac.com
Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through barriers - 9to5Mac
Video footage (below) has been shared, showing hundred of MacBook Pro workers breaking through COVID barriers intended to keep them inside ...
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Civilization as you (we?) understand it, is just skin deep.I do love me some slave labor electronics.
Hundreds of MacBook Pro workers break through barriers - 9to5Mac
Video footage (below) has been shared, showing hundred of MacBook Pro workers breaking through COVID barriers intended to keep them inside ...
There is 2.5+ billion people in china and india. Another 1.2 billion in south east asia and latin america, and another 1.2 in Africa.
Thats about 2/3 of the world right there, where that video is the "normal".
Can you buy a laptop that isn't made using slave labor?
I was looking at the VAIO ones because some production is done in Japan but I can't get them here.
My last three have been Fujitsu as they did final assembly in Japan but they are now majority owned by the shady cunts at Lenovo so I won't buy another.
I was looking at the VAIO ones because some production is done in Japan but I can't get them here.
My last three have been Fujitsu as they did final assembly in Japan but they are now majority owned by the shady cunts at Lenovo so I won't buy another.
I need a new laptop, mine is 10 years old and as of this week the current battery won't charge to more than 40%.
Probably going to go with something from Dell outlet.
Wow, is that with the original battery?
If everything else is okay you could do a new battery an SSD and it may still be quicker that most entry level ones now.
But at 10yrs I would call that a great run and go for a new one.
I despise my Dell based work laptops. Partially because of the crappy corporate image but thermal management is non existent and the chassis is incapable of supporting the power of the processor and they seem to suffer a hardware failure of some sort on an annual basis. That being said you can probably get a good Dell if you go with the higher end models just don't go with the turbocharged V-8 spec in the Pinto chassis.
Second battery, it's already SSD with plenty of RAM.
It's my old work laptop, so it owes me nothing.
I got a Dell Precision 7760 recently and am quite happy with it.
I think my current work one is a similar model #
Every major brand has crappy laptops and good ones, so you'll almost inevitably get good and bad stories from each brand.
Generally, if you buy a laptop from a big box brand, stick with the flagship series - for Dell, that would be the XPS series. The business-series laptops can be great, too, and often come with better tech support.
Generally, if you buy a laptop from a big box brand, stick with the flagship series - for Dell, that would be the XPS series. The business-series laptops can be great, too, and often come with better tech support.
That's what I've always had, because it's always been a written off old work laptop when a new one has replaced it. This current one that's on a downward slope is a Latitude E6430 from Aug 2012. Current work one is a Precision 5520, just passed its 5th birthday.
I just replaced my well aged windows laptop a few days ago, doubt it had 6 years on it but it was rendered useless via outdated software versions and current version compatibilities.
I literally use a windows laptop only for radio programming, firmware updates and fuel injection/mapping usage so it may see the light of day 2-4 times a year. The cheapest and smallest device I could find that still had 8 gig of ram and an SSD was a Lenovo Yoga but was stoked to see it folded into a tablet and had a touch screen.
On the other hand, I still have a Macbook from 2009 I keep around and it runs flawlessly
Paying for a virtualization software like Parallels might be cheaper than keeping both a Windows and MacOS laptop.
My work laptop is a Macbook because I can run both MacOS and Windows side by side.
edit: also I'm surprised that there were actual version incompatibilities. I wonder if they might have been able to be resolved; nearly anything from the last 10 years can run Windows 10.
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Certain things like old unsupported net frameware versions, old hardware drivers and the specific outdated software that is specific to most of my interfaces or devices inhibits the use of any emulator or parallels for mac, believe me I have tried many workarounds and have found its just easier to have a cheap windows laptop around.
For example, one piece of software I use monthly for radio programming uses Net frameware 2.0, the programming itself is 15 years old and is still being updated monthly as well but no new suite will be added due to the ancient methods of comms between the software and devices such as USB to 3.5mm plug then is when the old obscure hardware drivers enter the chat. Same goes with my diagnostic software for the motorcycles when changing or tuning maps, throttle position sensors or doing anything with ECM/ECU work. Still to this day when you enter a reputable moto shop they are stuck using a windows machine with old plugins to make things work.
On the plus side things are slowly evolving to a wifi/bluetooth interface but it cant come soon enough.
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I sold a very old laptop with a fresh install of XP on it a year or so ago because the guy needed that platform for ECU flashing.
Even running a 64 bit windows machine with the newest versions I still have to load old unsupported net framewares and drivers that I have saved on thumb drives since they are getting harder to find anymore. I fear this may be the last modern windows machine I was able to use and dance around compatibility issues. Luckily I see the wireless movement taking on momentum.
Go ahead and update all of your apple devices
Working on it. Also ordered a new Macbook Air M2 today. The old one is bogging down with Teams and crappy battery life.Go ahead and update all of your apple devices
Good to know its not just me. If I have people on with video my Mac goes bananas so I normally run presentation mode to avoid it. Lets see if M2 will do better. At least there is no fan that can start running.
Is it that much better on Windows? I fucking hate Teams.
Don't like Teams, but it's at least working better now in year 3 or 4 or whatever it is for us. We still use zoom a lot, especially to talk to people externally, it seems to connect better. In general though, we are able to do a lot of stuff that used to require a lot of face to face. The dumpster fire is how much security stuff is loaded on our computers and trying to use Adobe products. I've watched the computers just never load stuff on co-worker's computers, same model as mine.