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Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by dubya »

JadeNB wrote: post #230
SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #224

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Apple has historically never been good at multiple users at the same machine. Even MacOS is still pretty bad at it. IMO incentives are not aligned here, they want everyone purchasing their own iPad, so i suspect that their strategy is to not invest too much into profile management as it risks cannibalizing their hardware sales.

> Even MacOS is still pretty bad at it. What problems do you see with multiple users on macOS? I don't use it intensively, but I've never noticed issues.

Non-admins getting prompts for system and app upgrades is mildly annoying. The bigger one in a family setting is the clunky sharing. There's no good way to share a photo library or music library between users. The Unix version of making a folder shared by a group doesn't usually work for Apple apps.

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Post by [deleted] »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #435
wffurr wrote: post #360

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1 car for our family of four seems to work fine for us in the city. Hard to imagine people with different living situations. I held off a while on giving my youngest child his own iPad because he and his brother were playing nicely together on one more often than not. It turned iPad time into social play-together time.

Wait until your kids are older.

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

atoav wrote: post #594
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #576

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Yes we should regulate that Apple fully support an iPad Air 2 with 2GB of RAM. My iPad Air 2 with 3GB of RAM barely runs iOS 26. While we are at, the EU should also force Apple to make macOS 26 run on an old Mac LCII from 1992

I am not sure if you are being sarcastic here (the tone needed to identify it doesn't work well in the internet). But yes. My view on the issue is: companies need to support their products with software for a predefined time and after that they should be forec to open source everything needed so people can keep the thing running themselves.

So a decade isn’t long enough?

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by tortilla »

nirav72 wrote: post #634
tortilla wrote: post #453

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This is the form factor I want in an iPad (full computer): https://www.sotsu.com/products/flipaction-elite-16?variant=4... Just let me use my own keyboard/mouse when I want to use it like a computer. Better ergonomics too as the iPad would be at a good height.

>Just let me use my own keyboard/mouse Isn't that already possible if you plugin a keyboard/mouse via a USB-C dongle/hub?

Yes, but I want it to act like a regular iPad when I’m not plugged in.

* I have 2 Sotsu Elites for my travel setup.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by zamadatix »

joezydeco wrote: post #2

The word "value" appears four times in that press release. I sense a theme in the marketing this week.

The next day and the cheapest thing seems to be $1k (base M5 MacBook Air) sitting alongside new MacBook Pro variants and Studio Display XDR :D.

I hope the budget MacBook appears this week nonetheless.

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Post by stingraycharles »

kristianp wrote: post #590
stingraycharles wrote: post #588

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Things are only to get more interesting with the MacBook with an A chip instead of an M chip, and the MacBook Pro with touchscreen later this year. I fear at some point we’re going to lose macOS.

Hopefully linux support improves by then to take the defectors if MacOS goes away.

macOS is the main reason I’m using mac, though. the whole integration with the Apple ecosystem is the important thing, the hardware itself is overpriced

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Post by CoolGuySteve »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #566
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #515

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My monitor has a powered USB-C port and USB hub built into it. It's one cable to dock a laptop, it's pretty cool. If I could plug my iPad into that cable to use it as a Mac I would do that all the time and buy a more powerful iPad. It would be an iPad for idle browsing and a Mac for the times I need a real computer.

I don’t see any reason you couldn’t. iOS supports all of the standard USB C protocols.

Because it's not a Mac even though the chipset is the same, there's no XCode and whatnot.

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Post by Huppie »

harry8 wrote: post #532
duxup wrote: post #510

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I’ve got an old iPhone 8 that runs great.

I've got an iphone 6 that doesn't, along with a couple of ipads that switch on but are useless and a couple of macs that now have to run linux to be useful in any way. I've also got an iphone 15 pro that has started on on the enschittification update path. Pauses after presses, many more typos and it's just not slick and nice like when it was new. But sure, in my experience, apple zelaots just won't believe it happen…

Man, the iPhone 15 Pro is the absolute worst iPhone experience I had thus far, really makes me reconsider if I shouldn't just get a cheap android next time. Most definitely not worth the premium.

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Post by recursive »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #569
Jeremy1026 wrote: post #358

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TVs are traditionally a shared experience. But even still, I have 2 TVs for every person in my household.

I’m 51 and I can’t remember ever going to a house with only one TV. Even my grandparents had multiple TVs and I definitely had one in my room since I was 4. A quick Google search says that 50% of households had more than one TV in 1980.

I don't think I've ever lived in a house with more than one TV, except possibly when a college room mate kept one in their room.

I now live in a household of four, and these TV stats are blowing my mind.

Re: New iPad Air, powered by M4

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Post by raw_anon_1111 »

recursive wrote: post #679
raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #569

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I’m 51 and I can’t remember ever going to a house with only one TV. Even my grandparents had multiple TVs and I definitely had one in my room since I was 4. A quick Google search says that 50% of households had more than one TV in 1980.

I don't think I've ever lived in a house with more than one TV, except possibly when a college room mate kept one in their room. I now live in a household of four, and these TV stats are blowing my mind.

https://www.nielsen.com/insights/2009/more-than-half-the-hom...
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