Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Would you mind explaining what you mean please. On my Series 3 you manually start the activity and stop it.

PPC > Intel transition took at least a year as the rosetta software was built into that years OS release and emulated PPC on Intel.
PPC chips were not suitable for Apples sub 100w laptops, hence no G5 MacBook Pro so they made the move.
Same thing is kinda happening again, Intel are pretty stagnant on the CPU front.
Windows has builds that run on ARM so Bootcamp should still be possible for that sweet PUBG action.

Same thing is kinda happening again, Intel are pretty stagnant on the CPU front.

Intel's 8th series processors were a significant jump. A lot were double the power for a similar kind of price.

They've been left behind on the super low energy, always on kind of stuff though

Would you mind explaining what you mean please. On my Series 3 you manually start the activity and stop it.

With my Garmin 935 then you select run and the watch sits there for a moment acquiring a reliable GPS signal. It then tells you GPS is strong and you're good to start running.
If I just start running then I often get a couple of minutes of wobbly tracking at the start of the run while the GPS signal is sorting itself out.
Same with swimming. It struggles to get a lock when underwater so you'll always see everyone at the start of a race waving one arm around out of the water to get a decent signal before hitting start.

Apple watch seems to hide this bit from the user - so you may get a great signal right away (if you start in the middle of a field for example) or you might get a crap one (maybe if near a few tall buildings), but you wont know til you upload. And may be the start of the run has you zigzagging through buildings while it's figuring out where you actually were.

Ok, thanks. I haven’t experienced this issue with my Apple Watch. I will check next time but it seems to start when I hit start and the map etc seems accurate enough.

Yeah I mean if you want to sport hard get a sports watch. Anyone who has the dorrah to do so can ask afford both Garmin and Apple watches.

Ok, thanks. I haven’t experienced this issue with my Apple Watch. I will check next time but it seems to start when I hit start and the map etc seems accurate enough.

As Duncs says really - HR and GPS take a while to acquire but the watch pretends it has them from the off.

Click on "HR Accuracy" in the navigation for this review to go straight there: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/11/apple-watch-series3-cellular-fitness-sport-review.html

Thanks for that. Interesting review and I learned a couple of things from it. I have had a look at my walks and they show me starting at my front door. I start the app and after the beeps I go but there seems to be no lag for me. Maybe I’m lucky?

Do you live directly underneath a constellation of GPS satellites?

are we explicitly discussing series 3? Series 4 is extremely good then and I have hairy arms .. I have compared the data with wahoo tickr, it all checks out.

Looking up now. Hard to say but I doubt it - we barely have a mobile signal!

It looks like Series 4 is obsolete now. They have the new 5 and are keeping the 3 which is now great value.
It’s still an awful looking watch though - that is my biggest annoyance.

An iPad Pro 12.9” with apple keyboard and pencil would be functionally indistinguishable to most silver surfers and likely easier to maintain. Will probably be around the £500-700 mark all in I guess. That or a used windows laptop, perhaps a Thinkpad t440 or smth similar (~£150). There are iPad versions of pretty much any software on a Mac or PC.

That said I think this story is probably a rabbit hole - who buys a new top spec MPB for email and web? It’s so idiotic it might not even be worth trying to get involved.

Some people just get a bit funny about their elderly loved ones being miss-sold products.

It sounds more like he (the buyer) is just being incredibly belligerent. Which is fair enough as long as he’s aware that there’s probably a £2-2.5k tax on choosing to be so inflexible. I wouldn’t suggest a used MBP in case it fails. With people like this there’s no real upside, they’re not grateful for advice but if the advice is wrong you’ll never hear the end of it.

Dark mode everything is a fad and is bad for useability.

There I said it.

When you have a final salary pension scheme who gives a fuck

Never understood why devs prefer dark mode. Every time I try and switch over to something ‘normal’ the whole world goes stripy

I’ve been running the iOS 13 beta for the past few months and dark mode has been switched on from day one. Can’t see myself wanting to turn it off.

I’m always one to switch to dark mode on any app or website that has the option too. I’d say less blinding white negative space, is a better user experience in a lot of apps.

Hello hivemind,

I have a late 2011 MBP that's been upgraded as much as practical - new logic board, better screen, upgraded RAM etc etc. I'm looking to sell it, but not sure what to ask. It's still in great shape - the only reason I am getting rid is because I'm going back to uni and need something that has a dedicated GPU. Do you think £250 is reasonable? Specs are attached.

Thanks!

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13"? if so I may be interested at that price.

15". Call it £600 ;)

Seriously though - I've only seen these sell on eBay for what I thought was stupid cheap or not sell at all - so I'm not sure what a good price is. I bought it for £1000 in 2014 and it hasn't missed a beat really - other than the whole logic board thing, but that was a known fault that was repaired FOC by a certified Apple dealer. I'd be keen to sell on here, though.

good price, I need a 13 not a 15 sadly, glws

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I need to check but I'm pretty sure official support for 5.1 will end with Mojave, Catalina starts at 6.1.

I've had the 6 core 5.1 since 2010, they are great machines.

PM’d!

I stand humbly corrected. Forced myself to use dark mode for a couple of days and it’s actually quite nice.

For context, I’m a designer and inverse or “dark” layouts are notoriously troublesome. Can’t say why but they rarely look “right”. Apple seem to have pulled it off. I’m impressed and confused and full of self doubt, as usual.