Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

New iPad Pro (small one) is £999 in Heathrow Dixon’s for the WiFi+cellular.

Am I better off buying here, or in Oz?

Hah, it’s £919 from Apple UK. Unless I got the capacity wrong.

Are you stopping in Hong Kong? Price it on Apple Hong Kong - significant savings.
I’ve got a watch and phone with no issues.

Stopping in Singapore but refueling on the runway and back in the air straightaway.

Someone could verify or correct this, when I was getting my Apple stuff from HK Apple store, they told me anything that has cellular function won’t be covered internationally due to different mobile devices / data whatever they are called laws.

I have no reason to think I was lied to as I was about to buy something more expensive but they told me not to bother in case of warranty claims

My current iPad Pro is wifi+cellular and I bought it in Sydney, works fine with a UK sim.

What’s a good wired mouse with buttons?

Am pretty impressed my nearly two year old iPhone 7 stopped working, sent it back yesterday and a new one is in the post to me already

My mate told me there may be a shorter warranty - 12 months and not 24. I broke my watch so didn’t get the chance to test that.
The phone I bought was on a credit card and apparently, that will give me 24 months warranty.
I phoned Apple when the watch was smashed and they made no comment about the place of purchase and they knew it was HK so I don’t think it is an issue.

It’s the 128Gb one in Dixon’s- a mighty £60 saving. They can ram it for that, I’ll buy in Sydney and claim the VAT back at the airport.

Last time I looked at prices USA was slightly cheaper than HK but the HK plug is the same as UK.
Ask around and see if you can find someone going to HK - it is worth the hassle for the savings. IMHO

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Found you one

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I use mine most where there is no WiFi.

Nineties graphic designer wants their mouse back

i think someone just unrolled an energy drink can and made a mouse with it

Tethering!

My phone is with EE - the worlds shittest network. My iPad is on Three, who are significantly less shit.

Wait, what? I was under the impression it was just TB3 from MBP to eGPU and same from that to monitor? If I can drive it from the laptop what is different?

Ok, not sure if I'm getting confused - but you are talking a MacBook Air and/or a MacBook Pro, the LG UltraFine 5K display, and an eGPU enclosure and GPU to fit, right? The only eGPU/GPU that can directly power the LG Ultrafine is the Blackmagic one as the 5K display is unique in the way it combines 2 x Display port signals into one TB3 connection. No GPU's come with TB3 connections. However... if you Apple I on an App you get a tick box in the info panel that sets "prefer external GPU" but you will lose some performance through bandwidth.

So...

eGPU <>MBP <> LG 5k
Whereas normal screens with egpus would be...
MBP<>eGPU<>Screen

The performance loss will be somewhere around 10%.

The real problem is buying them all in the same place as BTO Macs can't be bought in most places - maybe a Mac specialist will be able to supply?

@CYOA the new Macminis are made for you... base model with 16GB of ram and top CPU, all storage through Raid 0 Nass and a Vega 56 in a Core X or Sonnet. The latest 13inc hMBP's are also pretty punchy due to their quad core and not that far behind desktops when coupled with eGPUs.

You jokers just missed out on my spare eGPU - Sonnet and an RX570, sold for £250.

https://store.klimtechs.com/products/klim-aim

That thing looks ridiculous.

What’s a good wired mouse with buttons?

Might call me old-fashioned but I still use standard optical wheel mice.
They just work great, are comfortable even if using for hours, and I like the design as well

Maybe I'll just stick with the BlackMagic. I just want less jitters in Sketch.

Lol! He didn’t ask for a good looking mouse ;)