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I’d be surprised if thumb rejection/palm rejection isn’t close to perfect by iPadOS 18.
I’m forever triggering the camera app, while locking the device, on my iPhone 15 pro max. Every day, regularly.
Same.
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Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.
I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.
Unfortunately with DDR5L speeds, they need to be embedded to keep signal stability, so you need to find at least a 16GB laptop which is STILL pretty gatekept with a higher chip like i7 so you have to pay $300 more for that extra 8GB, pulling a page from Apple. Luckily m.2 is still a thing and 99% of Windows still use it.
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Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.
I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.
Why do you need 150G of mail locally? and why did you think it sufficient to bug the absolute minimum spec available?
I’m afraid though that the core premise of your comment is flawed. Storage and especially memory are increasingly soldered to thin and lights. Even professional grade laptops such as the Thinkpad X1 Carbon have soldered memory.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-scourge-of-fully-soldered-...
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> It makes sense to update the model with apple intelligence but that might not be enough for a lot of people to upgrade. that's fine? it's a very mature segment - medium-price small screen tablet. it hasn't even really been updated since 2021, and that was basically new case+usb-c.
The iPads are basically appliances. They release a new model of fridge every year but I've never once considered "Upgrading" my existing one. My 2014 ipad air 2 is only just starting to feel old.
The base models maybe, but the Pros have crazy OLEDs that almost have me drooling. The speed hasn't changed much, i just got a 11 Pro with M1 and it isn't any faster in normal stuff than the A12 on my 12.9". I always get my Apple devices from used shops and got my 11 Pro for $250 when it was 2 gens old and feel I won't get the OLED one till I find one for $300ish.
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#245Why is the bezel so thick? A 1-2cm bezel around the entire "mini" device seems a bit odd, given that the iPad Mini is a relatively tiny device and phones these days come with a 1-2mm bezel (10x less useless border). Is it a cost saving measure / sneaky margin increaser, or what might be the motivation? Edit: Touch interference is a good idea. Still, from the picture, it looks like the bezel could be half as thick and…
>Why is the bezel so thick?
So you have somewhere to actually hold the bloody thing.
Bezelless gadgets look great in photos but are impractical as fuck to handle.
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#247Can I just get a a flagship iPhone sized like an iPhone SE please?
Rumor has it that the SE 4 will be released in early 2025.
It will have the new flagship A18 processor and adequate RAM for Apple Intelligence.
Unfortunately, it will be larger (6.1") than the SE 3 (4.7"). Probably with a notch and Face ID as well. :(
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I have a mac, absolutely love it, hate windows and yet my next laptop will be windows because of that. You don't realize how much it matters until it does, and then it changes everything. Always having to carry an external drive just because my email takes 150gb of the 256gb MacBook storage is even more annoying than windows puting candy crush saga on the start menu.
> just because my email takes 150gb You have a very different email life than me. Is that like, all emails received in your life, or just huge attachments?
He's replaced Github repos with local email archives because a Medium article said "One trick to enhance your version control"
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So that they can release a successor model with thinner bezels. In reality this may be to (1) to keep costs down and (2) to distance the iPad mini from the more premium iPhone Pro Max. All in all, this device leaves me wondering who this is for? iPads are mostly used for media consumption, no matter how Apple wants to position them. Not sure why this necessitates AI hardware, but perhaps people really start using iPa…
Lots of aircraft pilots love the iPad mini. Ideal sized tool for having strapped to a yoke, or to one's knee.
I plan on buying one for exactly that use-case. I have a mini 5 that's showing its age and doesn't have enough storage (downloading flying charts takes up a surprising amount of space) and I didn't want to upgrade to the mini 6 considering how long in the tooth it was getting. The mini 7 isn't some massive improvement, but it's improvement enough in a very good niche for flying.
Edit: For the non-pilots reading this, it's also worth noting that the most popular flying app by far for general aviation at least, ForeFlight, is iOS only. So your choices are generally small iPad or big iPad, and a lot of people don't like big iPad in a small airplane cockpit.
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You can safely put 'no pun intended' after actually having no puns in the text. It can be disorienting but such is truth sometimes.
typeof(x) y = (typeof(x))x; // no pun intended
Back when I was coding for a living, I tried things like that almost a dozen times to see if they would make anyone laugh, but no pun in ten did.