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Nah, just regular power strips. The odds this happens again seem fairly low but I'll look into surge protectors from now on, for peace of mind after finally seeing what damage a thunderstorm can make. But luckily the bigger stuff escaped unscathed, including the TV, Nintendo Switch (that would be a hard one, to lose the saves just one month before cloud saves :D), and even the iPhone and Apple Watch which were charging when it happened.
Need help with something.
I bought my mother an iPad, apple charged my bank account, the iPad arrived about 3 days ago.
Now they have put the money back in my account and its just sitting there.
What do I do? Just keep waiting?
I bought my mother an iPad, apple charged my bank account, the iPad arrived about 3 days ago.
Now they have put the money back in my account and its just sitting there.
What do I do? Just keep waiting?
My wife's Ipad mini 4 keeps resetting - I think it's just the springboard, you get a spinner and then about 10 seconds later it's back at the dock so doesn't seem like a full reboot. Most often happens when she is in chrome (but that can be because chrome is almost all she uses on it). Any thoughts before I give up and try a backup/restore out of desperation?
They're definitely gonna take their money eventually.
Yeah that's just a respring. No luck doing a normal shutdown or hard reboot?
att selling the iphone se for $100. i think i might just finally upgrade my 5s with no small phone upgrades in sight and the battery kaput at 50% capacity :|
Have retailers started discounting the 8 and X ahead of Apple's new announcements next month ?
Was thinking of upgrading (rocking a 5).
Was thinking of upgrading (rocking a 5).
Not yet. You might want to wait for pricing on the 6.1" LCD model in any case.
tbh the most exciting thing about the iPhone refresh this year. How will the general audience possibly fathom the smaller 5.8 will be more expensive than the 6.1? Even if it will only have one camera (likely) and no 3D touch (unlikely imo; not that it is a 'status' feature anyway).
The fact that they made clearing all notifications and using the keyboard cursor no longer require 3D Touch in iOS 12 are pretty clear signs they plan to ship a new 3D Touch-less phone soon imo
I use 3D Touch a lot, but the feature was never discoverable, could never really be "unique" as non-3D touch screens are still very much supported (older iPhones, all iPads), and felt like it never really was able to take off. I wouldn't mind if they dropped it not just for cheap phones, but for all. They let us enter trackpad mode without it now, and I can't say I find myself using peek and pop or app icon shortcuts a lot. Wouldn't mind a non-3D touch analogue for those, but wouldn't lose sleep if they went away.
The number of people upgrading from a 6 who have no idea that their new phone is even pressure sensitive is astounding, like far far above 50%. It leads to a lot of frustration and thinking the phone is doing something wrong when it's not.
The number of people upgrading from a 6 who have no idea that their new phone is even pressure sensitive is astounding, like far far above 50%. It leads to a lot of frustration and thinking the phone is doing something wrong when it's not.
From the day they announced it I thought it was a bad idea.
Just going by my parents: I spent ages explaining to them to not push or press, just tap and then Apple comes out and some features require preassure...
See also: force touch trackpads.
The only device they sell that I think truly benefits from all this is the Watch, since it essentially acts as another button, on-screen or physical.
The only device they sell that I think truly benefits from all this is the Watch, since it essentially acts as another button, on-screen or physical.
what gets me about 3D touch is that 90% of the cool interactions you do with it are just replicated on iPad with long presses, so what was even the point?
It's slightly faster, but yeah. Functionality is mostly duplicated with long presses, and I don't think most people understand the difference for them to make them do different things.
Big a'yup. Confused the heck out of my family, especially since it never came to the iPad.
Speaking of bad changes, the new way of opening tabs in background on iOS stinks for me. The two finger tap never works for me, and the long press to get the menu to pop up takes forever. It's really hurt my productivity when browsing Safari on the iPad.
New eGPU stuff in latest build of Mojave: https://www.macworld.com/article/3294696/macs/macos-mojave-egpu-macbook-pros-display.html
Caveat:
Caveat:
Games will always take a noticeable performance hit like this because the image has to be pumped back up the TB3 port then run through the MBP's own GPU for final output to the internal display, so it's having to make a roundtrip and is taking up TB3 bandwidth at the same time. The performance drop for raw compute stuff that can largely run entirely on the GPU will be notably smaller (such as FCPX renders, neural network training, etc - stuff that doesn't require the eGPU to actually output to the internal display).
Still, an external display will always be best with an eGPU. No way around it. Direct feed from the GPU to the display.
I swear though, the more I look into things the more I get confused. I started browsing the egpu.io forum as well as the subreddit on egpus and now I'm reading about people talking about port bottlenecks and whatnot and I'm reminded why I moved towards macs in the first place. And now I'm reading a bunch of people saying the Razor Core X is too loud and ahh!
how does it do the trackpad thing? No space for two fingers. (only have ios 12 on my ipad, not updating my iphone just yet)
Port bottlenecks aren't an issue on the current MBP lineup. Every TB3 port on every current MBP is full speed.
Long-press space bar to initiate it.
Yeah, but I'm seeing people complain about the CPUs, but they're not specific so I don't know if theyr'e talking about the old dual cores or the new quad cores. It's a mess.
Edit: It seems to be mostly people who are fiddling around at the margins. "what does this cpu give me that this doesn't?" or "will I see a 5% drop in FPS if I go with this setup than the other?"
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It sometimes takes a while to populate after an update. Worked fine for me when my iPad was on 12 and iPhone on 11
Buying a 17" Macbook Pro is probably a bad idea, right? My boss really wants a 17" Macbook Pro because he "can't see too well" and is adamant on it despite me telling him that they haven't been produced in almost a decade.
Tell him to buy an external monitor. No don't buy an ancient 17. The 15 is pretty big and you can make the text bigger.
IOS 12 lets you hold down on the space bar to invoke it.
Doesnt sound normal. Is it the getting an email chime? You may have a chime setup.
No it is the "Charger plugged in" chime.
It only happens when it is fully charged, and mainly when I've got the lid closed. It also happened when opening the lid one time.
There seems to be no irregularities with regard to charging.
It sounds like you might have a flakey connection with your power cord.
It does not sound normal at all.
If I were you I would make a video of it on my phone and take it to a Genius Bar or call Apple support.
Picked up one of the new MBPs. 13 inch. I don't need that much power. My 2012 MBP served me well, but it was time to upgrade. Still not a huge fan of these models. But Apple has me locked down lol.
I do love the lightness and much slimmer design.
I do love the lightness and much slimmer design.
Hmm.. there are no Genius Bars where I am, but I might contact support by email or something.
The weird thing is that I cannot provoke the sound by messing with the cable.
Anyway, thanks.
Hopefully, we'll see an Apple Watch redesign in the september event.
I've been thinking if they will remove the digital crown and just make each side active to touch for a simpler design.
As many others, I was sorta down on the first watch. It seemed unfocused. But Apple has been smart in focusing on its more successful points, like fitness and quick commands.
I've been thinking if they will remove the digital crown and just make each side active to touch for a simpler design.
As many others, I was sorta down on the first watch. It seemed unfocused. But Apple has been smart in focusing on its more successful points, like fitness and quick commands.
Hopefully Swiftkey adds this too.
Shame the cursor scrubbing is kinda shit on Swiftkey, though. Way jankier and imprecise than Apple's. Can't go back to the default keyboard either cause its Finnish autocorrect feature is absolute garbage (i.e. pretty much nonexistent).
So is there a known bug with TimeMachine in MacOS High Sierra?
My TimeMachine seems to be working but it backs up infrequently. To be precise it tries to back up on the usual schedule but it cancels many back up attempts. It is backing up now, but before that it hadn't backed up in two days.
I don't think I have a failing HDD because it tried several different HDD's and experienced the same problem, also all the HDD that I tried had passed Disk Utiiltes tests.
My TimeMachine seems to be working but it backs up infrequently. To be precise it tries to back up on the usual schedule but it cancels many back up attempts. It is backing up now, but before that it hadn't backed up in two days.
I don't think I have a failing HDD because it tried several different HDD's and experienced the same problem, also all the HDD that I tried had passed Disk Utiiltes tests.
can we talk about Macbooks here too?
(any thoughts on whether the Keyboard/Trackpad is still good for Office Productivity? - is it a matter of getting used to?
or would we an external keyboard/mouse be better for productivity in a fixed space)
and what's a good USB-C hub/adapter (was looking at the Satechi ones)
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(any thoughts on whether the Keyboard/Trackpad is still good for Office Productivity? - is it a matter of getting used to?
or would we an external keyboard/mouse be better for productivity in a fixed space)
and what's a good USB-C hub/adapter (was looking at the Satechi ones)
:3
Since getting my 13" MBP I've been finding myself using the trackpad most of the day and ignoring the mouse. That may be the feel - the slightly smoother slidey feeling vs the glossy but slightly stickier surface on the magic mouse when scrolling.
so I think I'd adapt to an external magic trackpad well.
Google's keyboard (Gboard) has had this feature forever. In fact, I prefer it due to the shorter (non-existent) delay before activation and the 1 dimensional limitation (only left/right cursor movement).
https://www.att.com/prepaid/iphone-...MI0fetrI683AIVw7XACh2OhQEOEAAYASAAEgJTFPD_BwE
Basically the phone is 49.99 but you have to purchase a new line. You can do that for $30 if you select autopay and just turn it off afterwards. If I don't like the offerings that Apple announces next month I'll probably just do this and swap out the SIM. Offer looks like its good through the end of September.
i think with any of those phones locked to a specific provider, you'd have to keep the line active for 6 months and you can contact them to unlock? someone else can correct me though. i've personally never done it.
edit: these look like the general terms: https://www.att.com/esupport/article.html#!/wireless/KM1262649
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