For one, I laugh at Bose's prices too. And two, Apple has never made a pair of headphones that comes anywhere close to the sound quality of Bose's most recent product lines.
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I wanted to reinstall macOS. It failed at 99%. Some AFPS error. So I started restoring from my TM backup and went to sleep. Today, when I turned on my Mac, it booted into Windows, and the Mac volume is gone. Fun.
edit: Internet Recovery recognizes my TM backup, but doesn't do anything when I enter my NAS credentials.
edit 2: Installing Lion right now..
edit 3: Apparently, I have to update to El Capitan first before I can update to Catalina. But I can't log in to the MAS. I'm supposed to enter my 2FA key, but there's no field to do so.. 🤦♀️
edit: Internet Recovery recognizes my TM backup, but doesn't do anything when I enter my NAS credentials.
edit 2: Installing Lion right now..
edit 3: Apparently, I have to update to El Capitan first before I can update to Catalina. But I can't log in to the MAS. I'm supposed to enter my 2FA key, but there's no field to do so.. 🤦♀️
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As for the last edit, I think I have run into this issue once back when I started using macOS. Turns out I had to append the app key to my actual password i think. Perhaps it helps. Kept me busy for a few good minutes too ...
Correct, I just figured it out. El Capitan is downloading right now..
I paid about that for the Wireless Power Beat's Pro. No regrets. If they have longer battery life and noise canceling and who knows what else then...
I tried those too. Overpriced for that sound signature and battery life. For these prices I'll gladly deal with the hardship of having a head band and just go for the infinitely superior Solo Pro. That's just me though. For buds there's not enough difference between what Apple offers and what I can get from thirty dollar knockoffs.
Yeah but now they are making a 16" MBP and they have been supposedly trying to listen to "pro's" asks recently.
So please keep the 3.5mm jack. Leave the four USBC ports, add a USBA port and add an SD Card slot.
I am venting on this message board about the things that I would prefer in a new 16" MBP.
Ok maybe you technically have a point. But I was comparing the rumored 16" MBP to the current offerings. The most reasonable comparison of the 16" is the current 15" or the top end 13" that contain four USBC ports.
Can any of you honestly tell me what you can do with SIX USBC ports that you can't already do with four USBC ports? (Can we also expect that the 16" pro will only have 2-3 of those USBC ports being full TB3?)
You say that as if I think Sony's offering isn't laughable. Spoiler - it is
You're paying for true-wireless technology, and in this case for the noice-cancelling technology as well. They're all priced this way
I really don't know what you're expecting.
I don't buy the marketing bullshit. And no, truly wireless doesn't necessitate a high price. I own thirty dollar Chinese junk buds that sound better and have longer lasting batteries. The extra 100+ is for name alone. Some are fine with it, some aren't. You won't change my mind and I won't change yours. It's fine.
Big oofs all around, best of luck getting that sorted. I've been kicking the can down the road on a daily basis in regards to doing a clean install for close to a week now. Hella worried that something's gonna go awry even though I plan on having both a Time Machine and a Carbon Copy Clone to work from.
I went ahead and made a Catalina USB installer, so I can avoid recovery mode altogether.
I like using "Apple Refurbished Stock Checker" but finding the product you want in the drop-down is a bit of a pain. They're generally fastest on the draw in regards to alert e-mails though.
"Refurb Tracker" is my backup and it's easier to find the product you want to be alerted on in their interface, but I find it takes them a bit longer to get alert e-mails out.
what buds do you own? Where did you buy them? Is it ok to ask for a link ( I want to see them)?
Is it easy to switch your buds to and from different devices?
my power beats pro battery allows me to listen to music all day long without charging them.
That's pretty much the going price for good noise cancelling headphones but it looks like you're just here to troll.
Yes having an opinion contrary to yours is trolling. Brilliant logic. Never mind all the Apple products I own and love.
That time will likely drop. When moving files from an older USB 2.0 drive recently to a newer drive the ETA initially said "About 1 Day" but finished in about four hours.
Man I miss Firewire.
You say Bose has good sound quality, then say $30 earbuds sound better than AirPods. I'm inclined to think your preferences are not in the mainstream.
Pretty much everything sounds better than Airpods. That's not a niche opinion.
You are losing the battery on your AirPods instead of on your phone. Generating sound out of the speaker uses battery. Transmitting signals over WiFi or bluetooth uses much less battery. Not sure what else there is to say about it.
Stop shitting up the thread with pointless "AirPods are overpriced and sound like shit" "No they aren't and no they don't"
They're reasonably priced and they sound reasonable. There, now shake hands.
The speakers and the internal DAC are probably consuming way more power than the iPhone streaming the signal to your AirPods over low-power bluetooth. 1% every 3 minutes doesn't sound that unrealistic.
They're reasonably priced and they sound reasonable. There, now shake hands.
The speakers and the internal DAC are probably consuming way more power than the iPhone streaming the signal to your AirPods over low-power bluetooth. 1% every 3 minutes doesn't sound that unrealistic.
I've been trying to find out about the Apple Music battery usage from other users to compare to my own because it seemed like that much battery drain is pretty excessive, and this is the first time I've listened to music from my AirPods for that long so the difference surprised me
Well, sounds like I'm gonna use my AirPods more often from own, thanks ;p
Was your device recently charged? Apple devices take forever to drop from 100 percent to 99 and then they drop rapidly.
This is true as well.
Just like with installation bars, the 1% between 99 and 100 tends to be way ... uhm ... "larger" than the one between, say, 61 and 62.
I'm gonna Test this tomorrow though. Never really listen to music via the iPhone speakers for such long durations and I'm really really curious now
I should clarify that it isn't just 100 to 99 that takes forever. If you stop charging anywhere, it will take forever before it drops one. It's just how they do it.
So I've generally been against putting stickers on your computer as I'm so afraid that it'll forever be gunked up, but I'm tempted to do so soon. Any suggestions on how to clean up the surface before application? Is rubbing alcohol safe to use or is that a no-no on a Macbook Pro's aluminum surface?
I'd be interested if they increase the audio quality to be lossless. Not a fan of how bluetooth audio sounds.
I do hope they start to support some of the better audio codecs for BT that have been available for a while now.
I don't think there's anything that's truly "lossless" though but with stuff like Apt-X et al no one will notice.
Yeah, it would be a start. Given it's Apple though, I'm surprised they haven't come up with some sort of proprietary, industry-pushing format that they could then spin with H1 chip.
It was sitting at 44% when I started and 42% when finished, and I think it was last charged the day before (when I listened through the AirPods), if that's what you were asking
Did you happen to test it already? would like to hear your results
nah, i'm in the office right now and i don't feel like blasting tunes for 30 minutes.... :D
I think in Apple's mind 256kbps AAC is audibly transparent, which is not far from the truth. You can see it with the "Mastered for iTunes" marketing they created a few years ago.
Sold my AirPods in anticipation for the upcoming ANC AirPods.
Can you elaborate a bit on that?
I know the recent Sony ones let you turn it off. I'm sure most do.
Bluetooth recompresses audio in a pretty horrible way unless both source device and playback device support a more advanced codec, such as the one that Sony and a few others have put out. In either case, it's still recompressed, which isn't ideal. And I'm not talking "only weird audiophile on the Internet would pretend to notice it"-bad. It's pretty obvious in any serious A/B comparison. Bluetooth sounds flatter.
This article explains it somewhat decently, though there's a bit more to it, with a history of different companies coming up with custom codecs that try to address the issue.
Does Apple use a good custom codec with say the PowerBeats Pro or AirPods?
Edit: HomePod must use WiFi
Wait, the article says "Thus, if you're listening to MP3 or AAC files that you have stored on your smartphone, tablet, or computer, Bluetooth doesn't have to degrade the sound quality if both devices supports that format."
Everyone's favorite YouTuber checks out the new Beats Solo Pro. I got a pair of red ordered from Apple's military store. Can't wait. Only question I have is if they power themselves down if you plug in a lightning audio cable. And speaking of Apple's lame pricing of peripherals, the lightning to 3.5 cable is 35 dollars. Or buy one from a third party on Amazon for 12.
yeah, Apple used AAC as the codec for all their W1 and H1 headphones, which is also what iTunes and Apple Music is encoded in, so there shouldn't be audible quality loss on that front at least
IMO AirPods shouldn't just sound "reasonable"; Apple since the original Macintosh has strived to bring great-sounding audio that's not normally associated with consumer gear. I hate to say this, but if Steve was alive their audio offerings would sound better than they do. I don't think anyone in the top brass (except maybe Craig) care enough about good audio quality to make it a priority anymore.
I still lament the fact that Apple moving from an audio jack to the Lightning adapter on the iPhone reduced the dynamic range of the audio output.
Apple computers still have best-of-class built-in speakers.
Besides,
2 dB is not much of a difference. https://zh.ifixit.com/News/apple-audio-adapter-teardown