New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Your biggest concern I think is that the battery will conk out in which case you can pay ~$80 USD or so to get it replaced by Apple

If that happens in all likelihood you'll get a nice refurbished 3GS

If the phone is bolloxed just make sure you have enough set aside to buy an off-contract new iPhone

Then you won't be locked in to a contract

A 5s with no contract appears to cost around $840 here... I don't think I could face it! Good point about the battery being the most likely problem, it's already not great. Hmm.

My iPhone 3GS would randomly shut off and not turn on again until plugged in

This was exactly a year ago

There are places, probably in Chinatown, that will replace your battery for less than $80. But if you're committed to using the phone until it is wrest from your hands by fate then I would go the Apple route as you'll most likely get a brand new old phone

You don't have to pay an off-contract 5s. You could buy a 5c (lol) or the 4S (which they still make)

if you have the cash, and if you're planning to leave a country just owning your phone makes life much simpler, and will probably save you money in the long run, especially if you leave lol north america. but yeah, a new 4s will feel very snappy to you, and is much more affordable.

if you've got a steady hand, you can replace an iphone battery yourself for about $20 http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iPhone+3G+Battery+Replacement/577

oh jeez let's find something else to talk about

heh, sorry markers. yeah, I might look at a 4s or maybe I'll bite the bullet and get the damn contract so that I own a phone by the time I leave. I think the real reason I don't want a contract is that I might murder my supervisor and have to flee the country.

If you can afford the initial outlay you should buy it outright - you'll end up saving money in the long run

yeah i know this sounds like one of those "rich people do this" quiddities, but just buying it is simpler and long run cheaper.

oh my god, I just did the math on a cheaper, non-contract phone and data plan over a 30 month period, and of course you're right. How did I not notice this? Now I hate the whole industry and want to cling onto the 3GS till the battery only lasts 25 minutes. Caek, this is a N America thing, isn't it? In the UK the diff between the cost of a contract and off-contract monthly plan wouldn't be so large.

my pay-as-you-go phone deal in the US is $40/month. that's about as cheap as you can go. i get the impression canada is about the same. same thing in europe is about £/€10, but contracts are also much cheaper, so i think the difference between contract and pay-as-you-go works out about the same.

i already owned my phone when i moved here. i think if you include the original phone cost, i'm not saving an enormous amount compared to being on a contract, but i travel/move often enough for it to be by far the best/simplest thing for me.

but imo, even if you don't travel, own your phone. i don't think you can find a contract+phone deal where the saving is worth the bullshit of having a two year contract with the worst consumer-facing industry in the developed world.

not true have you had the opportunity yet to deal with time warner cable

pay-as-you-go is not cost effective for me. It only takes a few long-ish (more than 10 min) phone calls a month to make it worth getting a contract here. By non-contract I mean a rolling month-to-month plan, which is what I have now (cheapest I could get for an iphone without ridic limitations on minutes/data was $57)

Anyway, sorry - I'm dragging this thread down!

by payg i just mean there's no contract, not your paying per call/text/mb. payg is usually unlimited minutes/text in the US. my 40$ plan is.

you're

yeah, I'm currently bouncing between prepaid plans and they're all unlimited talk/text with diff data caps

What is the appeal of not being locked in a contract? Don't you have to buy phone service anyway?

For me, it's partly honestly in case I kill my supervisor and have to flee the country (or at least roll my eyes at her and leave the lab). But also because if they suddenly start screwing around with your billing, service, etc. you can just dump them and go elsewhere.

It divorces phone price from service price, meaning you can swap either at any time should a better deal or situation happen

I think iPhones are now universal (i.e. you can use the same phone on either AT&T or Verizon, maybe Sprint) so it's a good proposition

Not sure about the politics of using an unlocked phone on Verizon

But it's great if you're moving between countries

Since I upgraded my iMac to Mavericks, apps (Excel, Dymo Label Writer, etc.) open fairly small every time I use the program.

I don't remember needing to do it before but is there a way to get OS X to automatically remember window size?

I don't think iPhones are universal yet or maybe the geek at best buy told me they only had the verizon 5S for some kind of geekysquad fun?

http://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

Still different models for CDMA and GSM in the US plus sprint and Verizon need different phones as they have different LTE bands.

The rest of the world has yet more models.

AFAIK All iPhones support GSM and full HSDPA/HSUPA so they get the fastest 3g technology wherever you are in the world but you are limited on where you'll get LTE coverage.

Looks like the A1533 does ATT, Verizon and tmobile

unless you're on sprint or a regional carrier they're all that model in the US

most likely they only had verizon-allocated ones, sunny

Ugh

Wow 13 page Macrumors thread on this issue

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1637205

Your biggest concern I think is that the battery will conk out in which case you can pay ~$80 USD or so to get it replaced by Apple

If that happens in all likelihood you'll get a nice refurbished 3GS

Are you sure about the refurbished thing? When my battery conked out and I agreed to pay for another one, they just opened it up and replaced the battery (within an hour or so). Battery replacement is one of the things they have the tools and expertise to do in the back room.

I just got the battery on my 5 replaced after a diagnostic showed that it was malfunctioning badly (it would drain 40% during a 30 minute commute)

xp That's what I've heard but it probably depends on what they have on hand

Sounds like you were unlucky

How much does a battery replacement cost? Mine is wack. Last night it went from 88% to dead

~$80 out of warranty

my battery has been wack for a bit, took it in, turns out i was a MONTH out of warranty. they gave me half off the replacement after i grovelled though.

well: so a year ago or whatever when they announced the new mac pro, i thought it looked cool enough. now tho i am in the position of actually needing to buy a new mac computer for pro audio + possibly video use and am finding myself just bewildered by what professionals apple thinks they are targeting with this computer. you have to add thousands of dollars in accessories to have even close to the same level of connectivity as one of the towers, what with their preponderance of things i need, like pcie slots and hard drive bays. dammit.

Thunderbolt NAS, buddy

You can probably pick up a old one for cheap tho

http://i.imgur.com/ZL8Qbba.jpg

New Mac Pro looks like it was made out of science museum gift store hematite

more like fleshlite

A still from the new Mac Pro commercial..

http://www.filmgazette.de/filmkritikbilder/f172.jpg

long live the new flesh indeed

is that lana del rey

Jennifer Jason Leigh

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7603/mac-pro-review-late-2013/

Anandtech review of new Mac Pro out

Pulled the trigger on a space grey 5s today. If I'm going to be stuck with a surveillance device it might as well be a tricorder.

I saw the Mac Pro in person

Never wash your eyes again

the batteries in my magic trackpad just gave out so now i have a microsoft mouse hooked up to my imac

classic mouse imo

Tragic mouse.

markers why do you not have apple rechargeable batteries and apple rechargeable battery charger?

aren't those just rebranded eneloops or something

http://i.imgur.com/4jM7GzE.jpg

Glad that all my people agree the 5c is a shit trash ugly piece of shit phone

So Apple's genius move is to give it less storage and sell it for more than an iPad mini.