Yeah, I use mine for Kindle, Instapaper and Plex. It's amazing how quick the OS operates given how dog-slow a device it is. They really let that go post-iOS 7.
Starting to think sacking Forstall was a proper mistake
― stet, Friday, 27 January 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link
I'll take slowness rather than have to live the skeuomorphic life again.
― Jeff, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:18 (seven years ago) link
yeah i may have had a 4s not a 5s. it won't upgrade past Version 6.1.6
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, January 27, 2017 6:53 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that'd be a 3GS then
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Friday, January 27, 2017 7:24 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― marcos, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:22 (seven years ago) link
SE is a good phone. not noticeably different from my 5s but im happy that i was able to get a new iphone in the same body as the 5
― marcos, Friday, 27 January 2017 14:23 (seven years ago) link
sorry for duplicate post
two days in, so far this touchbar is completely worthless and actually quite annoying. I have found zero use for it. I miss every single one of those keys that was up there on my older mbp
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:00 (seven years ago) link
i don't use it very much except for typing emojis and also the volume and brightness sliders
having the volume and brightness sliders is actually kind of dope i think
― the late great, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:18 (seven years ago) link
sorry
i use the brightness thing a ton but its not just permanently up there (unless im doing it wrong)
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link
imo alot of the stuff the touch bar is currently utilized for is poorly thought out. for example, using it for tabs when browsing in safari. if you're browsing it's a lot faster to move your pointer to a tab or use the keyboard shortcut than to move your hand all the way to the touchbar.
― the late great, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:20 (seven years ago) link
you can customize the touchbar i think tho i don't remember how or if i did it
yah thats a big gripe xp. just pointless
― Spottie, Saturday, 28 January 2017 04:22 (seven years ago) link
It'll be good when the whole keyboard is a screen w haptic feedback imo
― slathered in cream and covered with stickers (silby), Saturday, 28 January 2017 06:01 (seven years ago) link
http://docs.bettertouchtool.net/docs/touch_bar.html
― Jeff, Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:27 (seven years ago) link
BetterTouchTool now supports the touchbar. I haven't used it for that, but it is an essential utility for the touchpad.
― Jeff, Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:28 (seven years ago) link
I like physical keys
― mh 😏, Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
what the https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/01/apple-lg-5k-display-issues/
― just another (diamonddave85), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:11 (seven years ago) link
why did they stop making their own displays?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
they've stopped making anything that isn't relate dto the iphone
― 龜, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
I know there's a separate thread for this, but while I've been (unusually) patient with iTunes all this time, it's been giving me grief lately. Anyone have a preferred and reliable alternative? This would be for a crazy big music library, please keep in mind.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:10 (seven years ago) link
what are your needs? For playing stuff at home, there's the nerdiest possible option
― softie (silby), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
I have been poking around with some alternatives
all I've learned so far is that plex is acting weird about streaming flac files inside my house
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
Needs would be fairly simple -- it's mostly mp3s, some AAC/WAV/AIFF -- and just needs to play on my computer setup.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:17 (seven years ago) link
the nerdiest possible option
https://cdn.volumio.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/pi-2-design-503hta-i2s-dac-hybrid-tube-amp-for-the-raspberry-pi-VOLUMIO.jpg
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Swinsian
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 19:56 (seven years ago) link
Hmm, that looks like just what I would need.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:14 (seven years ago) link
there's a way to set it up so that it watches your itunes folder, so anything added to itunes is added to swinsian. You can't sync the playlists though, which is a bummer. One day I'll replace iTunes with it completely.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Hey, their website screenshots show Go-Betweens, Orange Juice, Beefheart etc.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 20:26 (seven years ago) link
touch id kind of blows
― marcos, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:40 (seven years ago) link
it doesn't really work for me much anymore
now that you have to push home to unlock rather than swipe makes it an even bigger pain in the ass
― marcos, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:41 (seven years ago) link
really? might be worth blanking out your fingerprint in the list and adding it in again
only times I've had problems were right after getting out of the shower and trying to unlock, or the time I somehow added the same finger in the settings twice -- it would take forever or get confused
― mh 😏, Monday, 13 February 2017 20:46 (seven years ago) link
touch id is one of the only fancy apple doo-dads that has always worked perfectly for me. I hated the new "push home to unlock" behavior too, but luckily you can change it back to the old way: http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/09/30/ios-10-tips-revert-touch-id-from-press-home-to-wake-back-to-rest-to-wake
― Dan I., Monday, 13 February 2017 20:53 (seven years ago) link
Absolutely hated my phone until I found that article. Push home to unlock is some bullshit.
― Millsner, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 06:22 (seven years ago) link
Thanks so much for that link, Dan.
― willem, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 08:37 (seven years ago) link
i replaced the battery in my MBA with an anker replacement. it was easy! i hope this machine never breaks. it's the best model they've ever made.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 20 February 2017 20:03 (seven years ago) link
ha i didn't know that was possible dan xp
― marcos, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:04 (seven years ago) link
So my Macbook is slowing like crazy... it beachballs every time I try to load a new webpage these days. Anything I can do about that, or is that just the cycle of life? It's about 6-7 years old.
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link
Swap out the HDD for an SSD. That made my MacBook feel like 10x faster.
― DJI, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
i wanna get airpods. sold out till april. :(
― Mordy, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:10 (seven years ago) link
last night I took my parents Macbook Pros, a 2010 and a 2011 13" model, both with 4 gigs of ram, and swapped their drives with SSDs and upgraded them to 16 gigs ram each. They seem happier already.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link
Interestingly certain models from back then that apple claim can only upgrade to 8 gigs do support 16 gigs. Info on the OWC page.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
I'm not a computer guy... what's an HDD/SSD? How much does an SSD cost?
And damn that jump in ram does sound nice. How much is that upgrade? I do feel wasteful getting rid of a perfectly functional computer just because it's slow
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
if it's unusable, it might be worth taking to the apple store for repair. for a flat rate of around $200 or something (give or take, i can't remember) they will fix or replace anything that's broken. last fall i brought my 2012 macbook pro, which was painfully slow until finally it wouldn't turn on, and they essentially replaced all the major parts and it was akin to getting a new computer.
it's a good idea to back it up if you haven't already obv
― marcos, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:15 (seven years ago) link
HDD=Hard Disc DriveSSD=Solid State Drive. SSDs are flash-based, so they have way lower latency than HDDs. Things like booting, opening files, changing apps (when virtual memory is being used) become much much faster with an SSD. All Macs are SSD-based now (I think?).
― DJI, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:20 (seven years ago) link
Samsung 850 EVO 500GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-75E500B/AM) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OBRE5UE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_K-0QybXRAMGS4
― DJI, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:21 (seven years ago) link
Cool thanks!
So the other takeaway here, too, is that any new Macbook I get now would also be much faster than one from 6-7 years ago, too, right? (It's kind hard as a non-gearhead who doesn't know how to read the numbers. Like, I know more ram is faster in general, obviously, but I don't have a frame of reference for how specific numbers of ram correlates to speed)
― Evan R, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:25 (seven years ago) link
Any new macbook will be much faster.
― dan selzer, Monday, 20 February 2017 20:33 (seven years ago) link
yes 6-7 years is quite long, even the lowest end machine now will be faster than the highest end machine from then unless some serious weird shit happened
― mh 😏, Tuesday, 21 February 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link