Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

yeah, it does have an HDMI port but it behaves oddly with my old computer so I switched to the old thunderbolt ...

but the ports are all changing all the time and I'm becoming too much of a fuddy duddy to be able to know how to deal with any of it ...

It is a baffling mess. Currently VGA (still hanging on by a frayed wire in corporate world), DVI, DP, HDMI, USB-C all in everyday use, and that's just the basic physical connectors.

Then Mini/micro/dual-link versions of some of those, different versions of protocols, layered protocols....

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What model is that? Does it also freeze when you do other stuff? And does the beach ball appear more often than it should?

Folks who use Affinity, care to share your experience in more detail in general?

I am seriously considering switching, I have a free adobe license from work and that’s great but the fact that they have changed the function of the shift key in Photoshop has finally annoyed the hell out of me... so I am considering switching!

in more detail in general

ha

they have changed the function of the shift key

can't you assign everything just the way you want though?

it did kind of annoy me that they changed the undo/redo behaviour after all those years though to be fair, but I'm not using PS seven days a week any more so just thought fuck it

I know... it doesn’t make sense, does it?

Probably yes but I try not to change these things so I don’t forget what they are supposed to be when teaching.

And it seems Affinity is gaining a big fan base so to make myself more valuable, it wouldn’t hurt to start using in so I can also teach it.

Also interested to hear experiences with Affinity Photo. Just switched to an iPad Pro 11 and thinking it might be the way to go.

Micro alterations of reality and the death of truth etc:
https://bgr.com/2019/07/03/ios-13-beta-3-facetime-update-eye-contact-attention-correction/amp/

Can’t be long before the adverts know when they have our attention right? #minorityreport

I was reading about affinity, you can take stuff straight into illustrator from it which sounds class where as procreate isn't as easy plus everything being vectors is infinite scalability too.

So I have been reading a bit about Affinity this evening, they do sound very good. It's the price tag that's really good. Affinity Photo also works with Lightroom so that's good.

Just shot them a cheeky email to see if I could brag a free license that I intend to learn and then teach their software.

If they send you a free thing and it works on multiples feels free to share it ;)

Don’t wanna spend £20 on it to hate it

Ha... to be honest, I don't think they will, they look a bit tight with educators and students...

DL the free trial?

Probably and definitely the wrong thread but sod it. Anyone uses Unity here? This is a very long way away yet, if that, but I was proposed by someone that if I put in some hard work to learn the software to a point where I become a competent user then they want to support me to do the Unity training the trainer programme...

I have precisely zero experience with game design and very dated experience with coding...

And Chris, can I bother you with building my super duper PC? Or how are you getting on with your Man Mini plus eGPU?

On iPad?

I don’t think there is a free trial for iPad but have you got a computer? Download the free trial on your computer and see if you like it? It sounds like their iPad and computer versions are very similar... so you should get a good feel.

I try not to change these things so I don’t forget what they are supposed to be when teaching

yea this makes sense
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actually I did just look into it out of curiosity and as it turns out it's as simple as checking one little box to use "legacy settings" (I feel old now : )

Legacy setting has been around for years now... it actually causes a lot of problems for us at work when our students have no idea what it is and when to use it! 🤣

No I mean there's dedicated legacy settings for the "undo" behaviour now.

Had Affinity Photo and the Publisher beta on MacOS for a little while, and recently picked up everything else in the sale (Photo, Designer, Publisher on MacOS and iPad).

In general, very impressed. Runs well, does everything I've wanted so far, and has some nice thoughtful touches - especially when it comes to trying the make tasks less clunky on the iPad (failing to think of examples at the moment, but they exist).

The iPad apps are full-fat versions. This is great, because it means you can do everything, but I've found it easier to learn on the MacOS apps then transfer to iPad rather than trying to start on the iPad. They (the Affinity people) recently posted some videos of how the apps will work with Sidecar when the new MacOS/iPadOS come out, and that looks like it'll be excellent.

And Chris, can I bother you with building my super duper PC? Or how are you getting on with your Man Mini plus eGPU?

Consider something like the Alienware Aurora's from Dell Outlet. this for £1080 (after VAT and the 25% off code, DOBFGAM25)
link...

Alienware Aurora R8 Desktop
Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-9600K(6 Core, 3.70 GHz, 9MB Cache, 95W)
Windows 10 Home (64bit)
16GB (2x8GB) 2666MHz DDR4 UDIMM Non-ECC Memory
256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Class 40 Solid State Drive
1 TB SATA3 512E Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 OC with 8GB GDDR6
Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1
Liquid cooled

Which I'm not sure you could build for cheaper.

If you want something super powerful and custom built, you really should consider using the 3XS service from Scan!