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Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by et2o »

jinto36 wrote: post #284
hnlmorg wrote: post #255

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> And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff? I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too. Such as - The butterfly keys being extremely easy to break? (I have a few keys on mine that don't work properly any more) -…

Indeed there are plenty of examples of suboptimal Apple designs. 2015 Retina MBP, the trackpad cable runs over the battery, and the heat from the battery means I have to replace the trackpad cable every 6-12 months. Earlier Intel aluminum iMacs would literally toast the LCD if you ran Windows on them, because the fans wouldn't ramp up enough, even if you had all the Bootcamp drivers properly installed. Sometimes this…

You’ve replaced your trackpad cable 6-12 times? That’s is incredibly uncommon. I never had any problem with mine.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by sundvor »

james_in_the_uk wrote: post #220
sundvor wrote: post #177

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The engineering of the X1 Carbon is amazing. Durability is a design goal, it even has channels for directing liquid ingress away from the most vulnerable parts. Whilst not a guarantee against failures, it certainly doesn't hurt! My own OG X1 Carbon (i7/8/256) still works today, and, amazingly, receives firmware updates. It is 9 years old.

Lenovo have massive presence in the corporate market. My experience of their ThinkPad range is that they are built to withstand the type of abuse that comes from being used by people who have no emotional attachment to them whatsoever. My shop has started refurbing and recycling machines between staff, as a cost cutting measure. My last device came complete with someone else's Coca-Cola residue all over the internal…

Thanks! That's an interesting perspective, and helps explain how it's lasted as long as it has when bought with own money and cared for as a personal laptop.

Great to hear you managed to salvage yours from liquid sugar! Most laptops would struggle with just water alone.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by cloudengineer94 »

Absolutely love the AirPods family of devices I have own every single one of them but sadly the AirPods Pro are not compatible with me because of the tips which hurt my ears.

Currently using the new Gen 3 and they are amazing! I do have a full life inside Apple ecosystem besides my Gaming Rig and Gaming Laptop.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by jaclaz »

ericbarrett wrote: post #51
reaperducer wrote: post #28

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do human ear canals vary that much to need a mic? Based on the number of online complaints that AirPods slip out of people's ears, and the equal number of people saying they're rock solid, even while working out, I think the answer is "yes."

I've tried all three gens of AirPods and none will stay in my right ear. Same is true of the old wired earbuds. Everybody's a little bit different—sometimes on the same human!

With hearing aids part of the (very expensive) all-inclusive packet is - besides the hearing aids themselves and the endless sessions to fine-tune them - an actual mold of your ears.

At least last time i saw the procedure the "take the mold" part could well be a DIY job, you have two small bags of (silicon/resin/whatever) A+B, you mix them together in your fingers into a small putty-like ball and then insert/press the ball in your ear, that's it.

This latter procedure only takes a few minutes (time for the silicon or resin or whatever it is to harden) then a counter-mold is made and finally a final piece is produced out of the counter-mold, then it is like 10 minutes of testing and removing (if needed) the excess with a small Dremel like mini-tool.

I am pretty sure that the cost of the whole operation, including materials and workmanship is below 40-50 dollars/euros and probably a lot of people would be willing to pay double that to have their earpieces (be them airpods or conventional wired ones) confortable to wear and "safe" (in the sense of not falling down at every movement) to wear when jogging or exercising.

Taking the mold as DIY, then send it to a laboratory and getting back your custom made earpiece adapter could be doable, but also a complete DIY kit could be used by many, it is not anything too difficult.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by dkonofalski »

ValentineC wrote: post #326
kalleboo wrote: post #268

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> I'm not going to argue that many of Apples products aren't well built but MBPs have had their share of problems too Yep Apples stuff definitely has a lot of build problems as well. You can also watch one of Louis Rossman's rants for perpetual internal design issues that cause machines to be more fragile than they need to be. Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so…

> Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so many of the same machines that when one of these major design issues pop up, it's likely to build up enough steam and bad publicity that they fix it/implement an extended warranty repair program Apple has never admitted fault for their shoddy MagSafe charger cable insulation, which always end up disintegrating and spewing blu…

I hate to say this but I've been an Apple user my entire life and have always had a work and a home Macbook (amongst other machines) and also manage an entire team of Macbook users and we've never had the problem you're describing even once so it seems like either you have really bad luck and have gotten these repeated failures by luck or Apple was right and you're not taking care of these properly.

I'm talking over 200 Macbooks over the course of the last 14 years and not a single one has done what you're saying Magsafe, USB-C, or otherwise.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by nunez »

GhettoComputers wrote: post #170
nunez wrote: post #134

I think the AirPods Pro were a regression from the OG AirPods for four reasons: - Idle life took a huge dive from the originals. My OGs haven't been charged in something like six months, and the case is still at something like 20%. Meanwhile, the case holding the APPs would die in less than a week and the buds inside of them a week after that. My wife's APPs have been lost for a while because of this. - Noise cancell…

Try the galaxy buds plus they’re much better at everything for me. This firmware update probably kneecapped the pros too, either a patent issue or worries about people walking into traffic. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21069953/apple-airpods-pr...

I did. I got the Galaxy Buds Pro. They are excellent. They don't have an app for iOS, but I used an Android phone to configure them.

Something changed in their firmware earlier this year that made noise cancelling imbalanced (for me). After replacing them for a new set, I landed up getting Sony WF1000XM4s, which have also been excellent and even better at NC than the Pros were.

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Post by spicybright »

poopooracoocoo wrote: post #74
Gigachad wrote: post #69

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Yeah it just doesn't make sense to be upset at airpods here. The airpods are smaller than the AA batteries which are often just disposable after a single use.

But I'm pretty sure Samsung Buds (perhaps the first gen?) use some sort of standard battery.

I don't know much about the samsung buds, but I imagine you'd be pushing out all the nice hardware and features the air pods have from doing that.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by ValentineC »

dkonofalski wrote: post #335
ValentineC wrote: post #326

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> Although the one thing speaking in favor of buying Apple despite this is that they sell so many of the same machines that when one of these major design issues pop up, it's likely to build up enough steam and bad publicity that they fix it/implement an extended warranty repair program Apple has never admitted fault for their shoddy MagSafe charger cable insulation, which always end up disintegrating and spewing blu…

I hate to say this but I've been an Apple user my entire life and have always had a work and a home Macbook (amongst other machines) and also manage an entire team of Macbook users and we've never had the problem you're describing even once so it seems like either you have really bad luck and have gotten these repeated failures by luck or Apple was right and you're not taking care of these properly. I'm talking over…

> we've never had the problem you're describing even once so it seems like either you have really bad luck and have gotten these repeated failures by luck or Apple was right and you're not taking care of these properly.

Well, I'm not the only one around me who's faced such problems, and they aren't caused by stress because the cables disintegrate at various points, not just near the MagSafe connector.

My guess is that it's humidity at work, since Singapore, unlike Cupertino, is ridiculously humid all year round — whoever sourced the white insulation for MagSafe cables probably didn't test them in high humidity environments.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by 72deluxe »

notinty wrote: post #254
72deluxe wrote: post #238

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The touch strip turns off if you don't use the keys for a few seconds. So if you are programming and thinking during debugging, you might want to press a function key to step into/over/continue. But the touchbar has turned off, so you need to press another key on the keyboard to wake it up (fn perhaps) and then look down at the touchbar to find the F key because it is impossible to locate as there's no tactile sensat…

A few grand is nothing to scoff at, but if you use it for half as long as your older one then a reasonably kitted-out 14" would work out to ~$80/month. I didn't know that about the touchbar, that's pretty awful. It's also a shame they couldn't manage to integrate their fancy taptic engine stuff. Ports are back on the new machines tho--removing them seemed so braindead, but then again I'm not an industrial design mach…

Yes the lifetime out of my old one has been great, so I am pretty confident I'll get the same lifespan out of my other 2016 one no problem.

I'll ponder what device to get next since I might just get a Mac Mini at home. I already have a gaming/development PC and a Linux Pi so I can keep up to date on each OS/system and just use a very cheap "stealable" laptop for out-and-about but can connect home.

Re: CT scans of AirPods evolution

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Post by hk__2 »

MaKey wrote: post #282
hk__2 wrote: post #214

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This has nothing to do with some evil planned obsolescence, it’s just that you can’t make a device that small while retaining (easy) battery replacement capability. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/your-wireless-earbud...

Turns out you can: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Live+Tea...

They have a 10-steps guide of "moderate" difficulty to replace the battery, and it may damage the water resistance of the buds. That’s definitely not what I’d call "easy" battery replacement.

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Samsung+Galaxy+Buds+Live+Batter...

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