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Do you all use iPad for serious work? Curious what apps you use? Other than Apple Notes(with Apple Pencil), and watching NetFlix, I dont make good use of it. I'd love to get some recommendation for useful apps to try...
Killer app is (a) ultra portability with genuinely all day battery and LTE for meetings and commute with (b) every tool an office user uses.
Some if us also code (servers and infra not desktop or mobile apps), works great for ‘Git Ops’ workflows.
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I have an iPhone and a MacBook with USB-C ports, and my experience has been the exact opposite. The lightning port on my iPhone is really weak, all cords can way too easily lose a connection so my music stops or it stops charging. The USB-C on my laptop snaps in really nicely, I'm never worried about the cable not being fully connected.
Sounds like you’ve got some lint in your iPhone’s charging port. I recently used a cocktail stick to remove a big lump of it from my wife’s 6s where she had the same issues. Cable snaps in nicely now.
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I do feel it odd to say content creation will be done on a desktop OS rather than a mobile OS when it seems that more and more people are using their mobile OS as a primary means of creation and sharing. Maybe in a less powerful way, but mobile OS apps and hardware have really democratized content creation and I don't see that trend reversing.
> "mobile OS apps and hardware have really democratized content creation" ? Democratized? Is that because you perceive mobile devices as more affordable? Have you checked the price of a new iPad Pro?
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Bezels are smaller, and consistent all the way around, with no ‘chin’ or ‘forehead’ bars.
But they aren't even small bezels. There are still rather large bezels all around the "edge to edge" screen. This is just a blatant lie by Apple's marketing.
Reserve your criticism for companies like LG who actually lied about their monitors:
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...
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Dell doesn't call it edge-to-edge or all-screen in their marketing. Anyway looking at the dimensions of the iPad Pro 12.9" model it's 11.04 inches wide with a 12.9" 4:3 screen. The screen itself is going to be 10.32" wide as a result, putting the bezel at .36" or around 9mm. By comparison the XPS 13's bezel is 5.2mm.
Dell does call it edge-to-edge in their marketing - https://www.dell.com/en-my/work/shop/cty/pdp/spd/xps-13-9365... - "Real wonder. The revolutionary InfinityEdge display is now available for the first time on a 2-in-1, providing a virtually borderless edge-to-edge view, all in the smallest 13-inch 2-in-1 on the planet*." Note that they talk about the borders as being outside the edge-to-edge part. Lenovo also use it…
https://www.flatpanelshd.com/news.php?subaction=showfull&id=...
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While "intermittent refresh cycles" are certainly a thing for the Mac line recently, I think it's important to distinguish "new features that seem to be flops" from both "no new features" and "not caring about the Mac line." The Touch Bar may or may not be a dead end (I don't hate it the way many other people do, but if it went away I wouldn't shed a tear, either), but it represents a significant amount of engineerin…
Just a note on the T2: it's a variant of the A10, more specifically, it's basically an A10 running a custom operating system (BridgeOS) and with the high performance cores disabled. There might be other modifications, but it isn't the kind of thing I would hold up as a triumphant piece of Mac-specific engineering. Not that it is a bad piece of silicon, just repurposed silicon isn't the sort of thing I would put stock…
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It's called a "hand-built Linux desktop."
Typing this on a netbook, the only surviving Linux desktop I still use. For some reason most Linux conferences end up being about file systems, containers, device drivers and what not, seldom about desktop development.
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You can buy other keyboards... it's the specs that make it Pro.
Can you get a USB-C keyboard? BT keyboards are generally painful to use
But yes, it does look like it's a product you can actually buy
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Macally-UCKEYE-Keyboard-12-inch-Com...
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Typing this on a netbook, the only surviving Linux desktop I still use. For some reason most Linux conferences end up being about file systems, containers, device drivers and what not, seldom about desktop development.
Because conferences require money to run, and the kinds of people who back conferences tend to only run Linux on their servers, not their workstations. Enterprise Linux in general is happy enough being in the data center, and could have made harder pushes for the desktop for years now, but haven't.