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  • Compared: M2 MacBook Air versus Microsoft Surface Laptop 5

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    The thing I never see mentioned in reviews is how little power Apple Silicon uses while in standby. I’ve been using Mac laptops for twenty years and now, after having my M2 Air for month or two, I can say that it’s absolutely game-changing. Even after several days left on standby (which is routine for me), the battery might have only declined by one or two percent; it really transforms the way I think about using my laptop. I tend to use it in spurts with several days between, and I never have to wonder anymore whether the battery will be dead or almost dead when I open it. I suspect that this has something to do with the low-power RAM but whatever it is, it’s fantastic. 
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  • Hands on with Apple's new Pro Macs -- Mac Pro & Mac Studio with M2 Ultra

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    darkvader said:
    Less RAM, no real graphics card, and Apple making wild performance claims without any actual benchmarks.

    I'm unconvinced.  I want to see real benchmarks vs current AMD and Intel processors, and current high end Nvidia and AMD graphics cards.  I want to see that because I strongly suspect Apple is just doing a bit of puffery.
    Geekbench 6 (My own):

    MacBook Air (2022)Apple M2 3489 MHz (8 cores)
    single core: 2587
    multi core (8 cores): 9631

    Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B660I AORUS PRO DDR4Intel Core i5-13600K 3500 MHz
    single core: 2544
    multi core (14 cores): 13362

    Apple doesn’t tend to exaggerate with their performance claims knowing full well that everyone will verify it eventually.
    jas99roundaboutnowwilliamlondoncharlesnStrangeDayswatto_cobra

  • Apple's new iPad mini 6 might have a scrolling glitch

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    Oh man that would drive me nuts lol. 
    williamlondon

  • Apple's ultra-thin OLED iPad Pro fails to spark sales surge

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    I just replaced my first gen iPad Pro with the new 13” M4 iPad Pro and pencil pro. I’m a musician and I use it to display and mark sheet music (forScore app), and that’s pretty much all I use it for. It’s phenomenal for that. 

    I remember back in the 90s people were wishing someone would make a device like that and if anyone could or would, it would be Apple. It’s funny to me that exactly this happened about 15 years later. 

    I tried the new 13” Air and was impressed but the new Pro has the superior display, which helps when viewing sheet music in a variety of stage and rehearsal lighting conditions. It’s also lighter and therefore less cumbersome to carry as well as less precarious on flimsy music stands. I exchanged the Air for the Pro and have no regrets. 

    I think the iPad generally shines best in niche applications like mine. It works so well, in fact, that I went a ridiculous nine years before upgrading because there was simply no justification until the OS and software became noticeably sluggish on the increasingly outdated hardware, and I suspect that experiences like mine have a lot to do with weird sales numbers. I can’t say that I understand everything about why Apple does what they do but I understand the logic in keeping a touch interface device separate from a laptop - it may not be for everyone but it’s fantastic in the right use-case. 
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  • Global chaos erupts as Windows security update goes bad

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    Several IT friends of mine have posted that this was preventable if their respective companies had heeded their recommendations but none had done so in an effort to pursue cost savings. 

    In essence, it could have been less of a clusterf**k but the companies were cheap so here we are. 
    radarthekatbaconstangwatto_cobra

  • Apple offering CBS, Showtime as a $9.99 Apple TV+ add-on bundle

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    Can anyone verify whether the CBS component is the commercial-free version or not?

    Thanks!
    Dogpersonjahblade

  • There are drastic steps to take, if your tattoo is hampering your Apple Watch

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    Ad hominem and straw man are the lamest of logical fallacies. You know nothing about me. theralsadurns said:
    No. You're just full of tats yourself. Which is your complete personal choice and decision. Over which, however, you feel attacked. So you try to move it into a "don't insult other cultures" category... which his comment clearly wasn't.
    @jdw You’re literally just trying to pass off your personal prejudices as objective truths. You took eleven paragraphs to say what can ultimately be summarized as “I don’t like tattoos because I think they are ugly and nobody else should either”, and you even acknowledge a total lack of respect for the fact that other people think differently from you and that their perspectives have objective merit. That doesn’t make a person smart; it makes one insufferable. 
    Spitbath