Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Old thread 14k posts so why not

WWDC is Monday, nobody seems to be expecting anything much. Maybe the Keynote will focus on Swift 3. OS X seems likely to get rebranded as macOS. Music on iPhone and iTunes will both change completely once again, infuriating everyone. New watch bands? Jokes about The Car? Does anyone even want a new Apple product at this point? Will Jimmy Iovine be allowed onstage?

when do they announce the new iPhone? i care about that

presumably September like all recent years

Nervous that the next MacBook Pro is going to max out at 1TB with non-replaceable storage. They wouldn't do that to us, right? Because when this thing ships in 2017 I'm going to need more than that.

"1 TB should be enough for anyone." -Apple, probably

As usual, my phone is kind of fucked up just in time for the announcement and I'm just trying to make it last. Screen cracked a couple weeks ago, and it's really hard to make it charge.

My partner picked up a new 2018 model 13" MacBook Pro and I'm jealous at a level I haven't dealt with since the Wall Street iteration of the PowerBook G3 finally got it right. My 15" is a goddamn barge and I'm finding that no model of iPad is an adequate travel substitute.

i got a 3400c just before that. jealous years.

I always thought the Kanga / 3500 / G3 PowerBook was the ultimate in heartbreak. I had a 5300 though, so I know the worst a PowerBook can be.

2018 seems like a good vintage of MacBooks to skip. I'm ready to order a 2019 model now, though.

*silently pours one out for my old 1400cs*

Apple announcement day. *self-flagellates*

https://www.famousmonsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logans-run-red_result.jpg

RENEW! RENEW!

Just tell me what the new Mac mini is...

excited for the redesigned spatial finder

I like my new MacBook Pro but am alternately cursing Apple for cutting HD space / not taking the +$400 hit and getting 1TB like my old laptop (a 2012 MacBook Pro).

Keyboard is fine but the trackpad sucks.

Touchscreen = I can summon emojis.

I took my '17 MBP in to get the left speaker fixed (apparently this is a thing) and got one of the new keyboards. I missed the press release on this: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-will-fix-broken-macbook-keyboards/

yeah glad I got one after that. the SSD is not replaceable?

Nope on the replaceable SSD.

I guess I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a fancy new Xs phone but can't make much of a compelling case when my 7 just keeps on going.

psyched for some extremely incremental improvements

Creepy new iPhone X scans your face to unlock, has built-in AI, thinks humans are obsolete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIo2Lj9xek

https://theporouscity.com/media/timtweet.png

It was already gone by the time I opened it.

ECG thing for the watch is pretty great

a little off topic but does anyone else use f.lux? it doesn't work on my new MacBook Pro and my eyes hurt

your new laptop should have that functionality built in!

yeah it's not nearly as good though, fluctuates too much, way too much blue at night. maybe i can monkey with the settings and/or just get used to it. apparently f.lux is working on a fix.

liquid retina huh.... maybe just call it plasma

Haptic Touch = long press

They're never going to do a watch with an always-visible time, are they? Fuck.

All I know is if they ever make an iOS release incompatible with the SE, and don’t update the SE, I’m outie.

this might be worth sending a CEO email about, what’s Tim’s handle again

Ugh you can’t buy an SE direct from Apple anymore, fuckin whatever dude.

no new macbook air?!?

:_(

sounds like they discontinued the SE

Macs TK

I honestly feel nothing for any products Apple makes these days, I’m not mad or anything it’s all just at a stable equilibrium and design differentiators are basically impossible, since all anyone wants is things built on the same lines as the products Apple introduced 2003-2007. They are still dragging their heels on a MacBook based on an Apple-designed ARM SoC and that irritates me a bit.

Shit, maybe I better grab one before it's too late. My 5s will be 5 years old in December. xp

Price drop on “obsolete “ phones always welcome after an announcement

Ok, so there's no longer going to be any retail model available with a headphone jack? I guess this really will be my last iphone.

either that or I invest in a good lightning DAC and just deal with the annoying bulk, I guesss

lol Apple now offering 7 different models at the same time

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1039962912805330944/sYRoV1Zg?format=jpg&name=600x314

hell yeah steve jobs would be proud

What customer is targeted by having a larger iphone 8 at $699 vs a same-size iPhone XR at $50 more?

They’re basically admitting nobody gives a shit about the phone hardware anymore. It’s just a collection of price points

I keep thinking "this is finally the release where people sour on Apple" and then their stock price doubles again.

xxp people who can't deal w/o a home button or hate the notch

Imagine what Steve Jobs would say about the "I Phone Ten XS Max."

http://blog.consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2018-04-11-at-10.39.01-AM.png

love how they used the planet image on the newer and pricier options so it's juuuuuust out of the way of the notch, attempting to fool us into believing maybe it's not there.

getting the max tho obv. my 6+ did it's job for four years.

Literally bought an 8 yesterday fuck

512 gb Max is $1449
LOLOLOL

increments increments increments

The monitor is a graphics tablet basically making it a touchscreen, right?

Studio Display for work was delivered today and I feel like whoever handles Apple's packaging doesn't get enough credit. The box practically opened itself.

It’s always fun opening an apple product

table might be worth trying this https://www.jimmiedave.com/2022/05/solved-2019-intel-i7-macbook-pro-16-throttling-overheating/, i.e. step 2 here https://www.ifixit.com/Troubleshooting/Mac_Laptop/MacBook+Fan+Loud/506012.

Thank you, William Shatner.

thank you caek! this seems to be exactly the issue. will have to get some tools and steal some canned air from work, but this (and cleaning out my downloads folder) seems to be a workable solution.

check your model on ifixit (https://www.ifixit.com/Search?doctype=guide&query=MacBook%20Lower%20Case) but you would probably also need a P5 screwdriver which you will not have lying around unless you have done this before. they are about $5 on amazon if you can't borrow one.

if you are morally opposed to capitalism, go to home depot and get this for the p5 screwdriver... most stores should have it

https://www.homedepot.com/p/iFixit-Mako-Precision-Screwdriver-Bit-Set-67-Pieces-IF145-299-4/308082198

return when done (generous 90 day return policy)

sorry that should have said 'morally opposed to amazon' but i suppose 'capitalism' works equally well for tabes

at the risk of turning this into the virtue olympics i will say that “if you are morally opposed to capitalism, go to home depot” is a strange locution

Did my first computer upgrade in over six years, switched from Mac mini late 2018 to the newest model that just came out in fall. Love it.

it's a modern machine

Not sure where else to post this, but a WaPo exclusive today disclosing a “secret order” from the UK govt demanding apple give it a back door into encrypted iCloud data for users worldwide
I’m attempting a gift link:
https://wapo.st/4k2AF5Z

feel like this one ends badly for the uk

Yeah I saw this. The UK government has been trying to do this via various Home Secretaries since about 2015 or so and the legislation in question was passed in 2016. I recently upgraded my phone and enabled end to end encryption for my backup - I’ve never used iCloud for much in a decade or so of having iPhones - and you have to actually enable this by rather than it being turned on by default.

This has been going back and forth for ages, the iCloud backups are the latest frontier but previously they were targeting iMessage and FaceTime:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/20/uk-surveillance-law-changes-could-force-apple-to-withdraw-security-features

One of the many “benefits” of Brexit is the lack of a supranational body that prevents national governments in the area from introducing this kind of fascist shit without attracting legal challenges, but alas! This is not me claiming the EU is flawless in this regard - there are always dipshits trying to introduce this kind of thing, but afaik nothing has emerged like this - but increasingly depressing how normal people just buy “we need it to catch terrorists/nonces” unquestioningly.

Would the only way to refuse compliance be for Apple to cease offering iphones in the UK?

the wapo article suggests that the ability to enable ADP (https://support.apple.com/en-us/108756) could be removed for UK residents, but apparently that would not satisfy the UK government.

so the answer to the question is ... maybe, but as gyac says various UK governments have being losing similar games of chicken with apple over successive e2e features for years, so I'd be surprised if it came to that. the wild card this time is that the US government is insane.

i was really hoping the 16e would be 50 or 100 bucks less. i do need to buy something to replace my se2 and its decrepit battery

I’m in the same boat, circles. I’m guessing refurb / secondhand 14 or 15. Do not care about the RAM needed to run Apple intelligence.

Also: ADP is now disabled on iCloud in the UK for new users. (I can’t honestly remember if I had it turned on but I certainly can’t now).

a refurb sounds good but i will never go back to lightning

Have just been reading about that ADP saga. The UK government or security service sounds out of control, including: they wanted backdoor access to encrypted files loaded by users worldwide, and Apple has been served with a "request" by the Home Office - a request that it is an offence for Apple to refer to publicly.

Bought the 16e, coming Friday

Anyone want to buy my 15 pro?

are you just swapping for the size difference? seems like a pretty hefty downgrade

Nah, I have the regular sized 15p

why are you switching from a regular sized 15p to a 16e?

I meant that it’s lighter and maybe has a bit more battery life. Other than that, it’s a downgrade from the 15 pro in nearly every other way

Yep

Lighter?
Better battery life?
Features to me

i remember when people would choose their iphone based on whether it had an intel modem or qualcomm modem. i’m gonna take a wait and see approach to this apple c1 modem

lmao it’s 0.5 oz lighter. Good luck telling which is which.

m4 macbook air just announced.

Wife needs a new computer. Has a 2019 macbook pro that's acting up. I opened it up in an attempt to clean out the fans. Now it's acting up even more. Normally I'd expect she'd get a little more use out of it, but we're worried and figured it's time.

So the age old question....Air or Pro.

She just uses google docs, web surfing, word and occasional powerpoint. I know in my heart of hearts that that is who the Air is made for.

But I also know pro is gonna last longer and after a while give less of a hassle if she ever pushes anything, or when Chrome inevitably acts up.

Taking the base model 13 and 14 in of both, bumping RAM up to 24 and storage to 512, the chip is the same, the air is 1400 and the pro is 1800.

With the 400 dollars the benefits of the pro are a better display, more ports including HDMI (could be useful for presentations in a meeting or something, but she does have a simple hub) and fans which will make it less likely to throttle. On the OTHER hand, fans that can eventually clog up and make a lot of noise and slow things down.

Not sure of the size/weight difference. IIRC the difference is negligable and it's not like the older super slim airs.

What would you do?

Pros are heavier and have fan ports and better sound. No hub required for hdmi and peripherals.

I think if throttling is even a question, then you get the Pro. Otherwise, I'd consider bumping the screen size up on the Air. The price comes in lower than the Pro and the day-to-day difference coming from a 13" is huge.

...and look at a refurbished 15" M3 Air, which at those specs is less than 1300.

Air Air Air. It is no longer some kind of halfway machine

My wife has an M1 Pro with a big screen and it is really surprisingly heavy!

would come down to size and weight for me, the 15" air is actually slightly lighter than the 14" pro, 15" screen is perfect for me, that'd be my choice

thanks all, leaning towards 13" air in that case. May look into refurb but prob go new. She used to have (and love) one of those tiny 11" airs, so the smaller the better.

Air Air Air. It is no longer some kind of halfway machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaqLrw8sp78

thats right

air is the answer. wait for the m4 air due this month.

ymmv, but i give presentations all the time and i don't think i've given one by connecting a hdmi cable to a laptop since covid started.

as mentioned, that m4 air is here now.

and it's blue!

I want the new Mac Studio with 96GB RAM by default (only $4k)

xp apologies I am out of the loop, get the blue m4 air then!

i was really hoping the 16e would be 50 or 100 bucks less. i do need to buy something to replace my se2 and its decrepit battery

I ended up getting a regular 15. idk, i take enough nature pictures that extra camera versatility is nice, and some of the dynamic island stuff is genuinely useful. my case hasn’t arrived yet, so I am still handling it very gingerly

probably the M5 Air is going to be faster at everything than my M1 Pro (currently M1 still has a GPU edge)

at that point it's gonna be tempting

New M4 air with 32GB Ram just arrived this week it’s glorious. My first Apple silicon Mac and I’m coming from the dreaded butterfly keyboard pro so it’s great to be actually able to type properly on it.

I had a brief moment of madness and tried to use Nix as the package manger and then decided it was too daft and went back to brew - for some reason I wasn’t going to waste time finding out they have some philosophical aversion to you using pip and won’t install it with python.

Once I work out what in the ESP32 toolchain is stopping me from compiling anyone I’m all set for the next 8-10 years.

I’m surprised by how much Rosetta stuff is still knocking around.

Sweet!
I am running a 16” M1 Pro
Feels weird but great to be able to crank music a bit and actually have it sound dece