My sister lives less than half a mile away and can get gigabit fibre but our area isn't scheduled for completion until Winter 2022. We can see her next door neighbours house from our driveway ffs.
Still don't get how they couldn't just use the iPhone notch hardware. The front camera on the new iPhone is somehow better as well. Hope someone lost their job.
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostI hug my 2016 Macbook pro every day.2016? Do you mean the 2015 one? Because the 2016 models started that awful Touch Bar shit and are pretty much universally maligned.
By diehard Go To Postjust got my new 16''laptop, monitor?
this screen is so awesome
By s y Go To Postlaptop, monitor?sorry, the 16'' Macbook Pro
By Perfect Blue Go To Post2016? Do you mean the 2015 one? Because the 2016 models started that awful Touch Bar shit and are pretty much universally maligned.
No, I meant the 2016 one with the touch bar that I love.
The touch bar was the absolute worst shit ever, I can't believe it went to mass production in a flagship Apple product
By Shanks D Zoro Go To PostI absolutely love it.
Works great and looks great for me.
Well it's pretty redundant to prefix every post with "in my opinion" I suppose. But yeah, every time I've had to use my girlfriend's MBP with touchbar I've accidently touched it. every. single. time. Very glad it's gone, just need to convince myself the new 14" is a purchase I need to make now...
By Laboured Go To PostHow are the bezels, brother?I really haven't been bothered at all by it yet. Don't even notice it between running dark mode and fullscreen video.
By Laboured Go To PostHow are the bezels, brother?Why aren't they fixing the UI to accommodate? I guess that'll happen later
I've tried looking for problems but i don't have any apps that have a huge menu bar. Also i lowered the scaling to fit more items.
Ignoring notch vs no-notch, this is very nitpicky that'll be fixed. But it's Twitter so outrage culturez and cloutz.
By Laboured Go To PostCommunity ruined
The metaverse as an idea isn’t new, but it wasn’t thrust into the mainstream conversation until Zuckerberg started talking about it publicly earlier this year. The concept originates from Snow Crash, a dystopian novel from the 1990s in which people flee the crumbling real world to be fully immersed in a virtual one. While he acknowledges that the origins of the word are a “con,” Zuckerberg is trying to reclaim the metaverse as a utopian idea that will unlock an entirely new economy of virtual goods and services.no thanks, ya nerd
In the next decade, he thinks most people will be spending time in a fully immersive, 3D version of the internet that spans not just Meta’s hardware such as the Quest, but devices made by others.
Someone should let Zuck know there’s a reason all of these concepts only appear in dystopian novels. Zuckerberg read these books and went “wow I want that in real life” and completely missed the point that these always-on/always-connected VR spaces were killing society. Thanks, bro.
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Copped a Pixel 6 drunkenly a few nights ago. Going to take till mid November to be delivered though. Paying $300 extra for the pro just didn't seem worth it to me.
Amazon Canada sure is taking it’s time to send my the new Paperwhite. It’s kind of hilarious that Best Buy down the street has it and I can grab it now, but Amazon is late by 2 days.
But be warned that the ports aren’t top-spec: it’s an HDMI 2.0 port, not 2.1, and the SD card slot is only UHS-II, not the faster UHS-III or SD Express.Bit of a bummer to hear but I imagine that's what a mid-life cycle refresh is for
The good part is that all of this works really well: HDR video works in every app I tried, including YouTube in Chrome and Safari, and it looks terrifically bright with great colors and saturation. The HDR brightness levels even follow the content around the screen seamlessly, showcasing that Mini LED backlight in action. On a technical level, this display is extremely impressive and way more seamless than any HDR support we’ve seen on the Windows side.
The big caveat about all this performance is that you need software optimized to take advantage of it, and we’re still in the middle of the Apple Silicon transition. For example, Adobe’s software isn’t nearly as optimized as Apple’s. Final Cut Pro is heavily optimized for these chips, and it was over 10 minutes faster than Premiere Pro exporting a 14-minute 4K clip in ProRes 422.
Although parts of Adobe’s flagship creative software suite have been partially updated for Apple Silicon — Apple even pre-installed Premiere Pro on our review units — some important apps are not yet updated. This was underlined sharply by an After Effects update that arrived in the middle of our testing, which enabled better multi-core acceleration. After Effects is still an Intel app, which runs in the Rosetta emulation mode on these machines, but the update allowed the app to light up all 10 CPU cores and all 32 GPU cores, cutting export times on our test from 4:29 to… 41 seconds. (It also substantially sped up performance on our Intel-based Mac Pro, which is nice.)
All that performance is excellent, but here’s what’s really impressive: the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro ran for 16 hours on its battery during continuous use, making it the longest-lasting laptop we’ve ever tested.Battery life, display, keyboard, ports, performance, seems to hit all the notes
I do wish The Verge would focus their “Pro” benchmarks on more than video encoding, especially given Apple’s chips are specifically good at those jobs. Just a bit of variance from “here’s the people in our office who most tax a computer”
Idk if I'm misremembering but I thought Apple added a feature to have a fake number similar to the Hide My Email?
I'm very impressed with Xiaomi's Wireless Charger. Charging at 55W without wireless still seems like science fiction.
Build quality is incredible. Really feels like a luxury phone, camera is really good as well man. Happy with it so far, just happy to have a phone that can last a day lol.
Upgraded from iPhone 8 to the 13 Pro recently.
Primarily decided to go for the higher end model for the high refresh rate display, and lads… I’m not sure it’s worth it.
I’ve heard years of tech YouTubers evangelising it and I’m wondering if it was all bullshit. Send help.
Primarily decided to go for the higher end model for the high refresh rate display, and lads… I’m not sure it’s worth it.
I’ve heard years of tech YouTubers evangelising it and I’m wondering if it was all bullshit. Send help.
By Andrew Go To PostUpgraded from iPhone 8 to the 13 Pro recently.Damn, this is exactly what I’m gonna do next month lol.
By Andrew Go To PostUpgraded from iPhone 8 to the 13 Pro recently.It was immediately apparent at first but I just realized I forgot about the high refresh rate until your post. You get used to it super quick. I also use my wife's regular iPhone 13 a bit and I don't think I've noticed the difference. It could be due to the VRR probably mostly catering to 60hz depending on context.
Primarily decided to go for the higher end model for the high refresh rate display, and lads… I’m not sure it’s worth it.
I’ve heard years of tech YouTubers evangelising it and I’m wondering if it was all bullshit. Send help.
one of the best quality of life improvements there is, but probably not worth paying hundreds for unless it's a gaming monitor.
By s y Go To Postyall got mad at me when I said the high refresh rate in the Ipad wasn't worth the costThe higher refresh rate would cut the response time down for a pen input by a lot, for an artist it should be one of the best features you could ask for.
By s y Go To Postand yet, it really isn't that noticeable at all.you've tried the pen on an air? Is this like when people say they don't notice a difference over 60fps in games?
I've tried it. Not worth the extra dough at all. The normal pen lag from using a first gen ipad pro(or any decent wacom cintiq) is only noticeable in slomo videos. It's not something that you notice while using, ever. Most reviews from artist say the same(timestamped)
I'd never recommend the 120hz Pro over the Air to an artist. Unless they were loaded.
I'd never recommend the 120hz Pro over the Air to an artist. Unless they were loaded.
I actually argued with Smokey that 120hz for day-to-day UI use isn't worth writing home about.
But in situations as diehard describes where input matters it is. Videogames and pen use being the obvious examples.
But in situations as diehard describes where input matters it is. Videogames and pen use being the obvious examples.
By s y Go To PostI've tried it. Not worth the extra dough at all. The normal pen lag from using a first gen ipad pro(or any decent wacom cintiq) is only noticeable in slomo videos. It's not something that you notice while using, ever. Most reviews from artist say the same(timestamped)I just feel like if your an artist, even if it falls down to "can barely tell the difference" that it's still worth it. People out there paying hundreds for single digit performance gains in productivity applications. Anything that can help you do your job just slightly better is worth a lot.
I'll get a Pixel 6 Pro next month for free.
Kinda curious since I never had any experience with google hardware products so far.
Kinda curious since I never had any experience with google hardware products so far.
I've had my Pixel 6 for a couple days now and I love it. It seems obvious to say, but bringing the chip design in house makes this feel like a really cohesive, smooth experience, which they've never totally had from either their Nexus or Pixel lines before. The performance is a step up over the previous Snapdragon chips they used and the phone feels so snappy. The magic eraser, when it works well, is pretty impressive, too, and I suspect it'll get better with more software improvements.
But boy, that fingerprint scanner can be pretty slow, sometimes shockingly so.
But boy, that fingerprint scanner can be pretty slow, sometimes shockingly so.