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  • BBC cries foul over Apple Intelligence headline notification summarizations

    saareksaarek
    The truncated Apple News titles have been just as bad since its release. The amount of times that it has omitted key words is both hilarious, at times, and down right ridiculous in others.

    The BBC were right to call Apple out on this. Doesn’t matter whether you like the BBC or not, they are correct.
    williamlondonCheeseFreezebala1234

  • Future Apple Watch Ultra might get satellite emergency messaging & hypertension detection

    saareksaarek
    Xed said:
    saarek said:
    I expect I am in the minority here. But what I want most is an Apple Watch that will last the entire day on Cellular with no iPhone in range.
    My Ultra does.
    Interesting. I find that my Apple Watch Series 6 with AirPods Pro is a great combination. But the battery life is shit when I don’t have my iPhone nearby.

    If I’m out hiking, listening to music and using my watch as the GPS with occasional iMessage it’s dead within 3-4 hours if my iPhone is not present.

    If I could get 18 Hours+ with that type of usage I’d probably upgrade.

    A good friend who owns an Apple Watch Ultra told me that his watch does last significantly longer, but would also be dead within hours without his iPhone handling the cellular/GPS element.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Eero Pro 7 vs Eero Max 7: Amazon's Wi-Fi 7 networking, compared

    saareksaarek
    I can't help but feel that it would be much better to steer the average person to cheaper last gen system at a now discounted price. 

    I suspect that, for most people, the majority of their devices within their home will not even be Wi-Fi 6 at this point, let alone Wi-Fi 6E or Wi-Fi 7. Even if they do have a device that supports Wi-Fi 7, it would be a very niche case that would actually require that kind of speed.
    appleinsideruser

  • More M4: When the Mac will get upgraded with the latest Apple Silicon

    saareksaarek
    rpelleti said:
    I just bought a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro last year to replace the same computer that had an Intel i7 in it. I am happy with the performance boost and making my computer more inline with the future. If a MacBook Pro with an M4 appears, I will stick to my M3 Pro because it still works for me. Until I see something that the M4 does that my M3 Pro cannot do, I will be happy.

    I’m an old computer guy. I still remember the days when you buy an IBM PC compatible and, sometimes less than a year, a new model comes out that makes you feel like your current model is obsolete. It wasn’t obsolete, but you could not help but feel like it was.
    The last time I felt that way was with my 16” Intel MacBook Pro. 

    I’d just dropped £3000 on it three months before they announced Apple Silicon.

    A few more the later I was playing with my wife’s M1 MacBook Air and I immediately knew that that MacBook Pro was already obsolete and needed replacing.
    Chris_Pelhamjas99Alex1Nwatto_cobra

  • macOS Tahoe is the last big update for Intel Macs

    saareksaarek
    nubus said:
    saarek said:
    6 years is a fair timeline. They haven’t screwed over Intel users like they did with the PPC transition and Snow Leopard.
    Apple sold Mac mini with Intel as new in 2023. That is 2 years - not 6.
    We had 3 years between Snow Leopard (2009) and the end of PowerPC Mac sales (2006). This transition is worse than the transition from PPC.

    And Rosetta 2 won't be part of macOS 28 (2027). There will be no way of running Intel-applications on a new OS just 4 years after the last Intel Mac was sold.
    With the previous transformation Apple gave us 5 years.

    I'm OK with this. What I would like to see from Apple is a clear promise to keep computers bought in 2023 safe to at least 2030.

    They might have sold old stock of Intel Mac Mini's into 2023, however, it was originally released back in 2018. Bearing in mind that one could buy an Apple Silicon Mac Mini in 2020, well, the writing was clearly on the wall for anyone that bought one of the inferior Intel models after that date.

    Apple will maintain security updates on Mac OS Sequoia for another 3 years, so, your Intel Mac Mini would be good up to 2028. Not a bad run at all for a machine originally sold in 2018!
    williamlondonrezwitswatto_cobra

  • Apple's upcoming low-cost MacBook: Colorful and affordable

    saareksaarek
    As long as it has 16GB of Ram and a 256GB SSD I’ll order one the second they get released.
    williamlondonAlex1NnubusForumPost

  • Lightning iPhones get real USB-C support with custom case

    saareksaarek
    “ The company even promised, and upheld, that the Lightning connector would be in place for at least ten years.” 

    The frustrating part about lightning was that it could, and should, have been developed more. Apple left it to languish at shitty slow data transfer speeds, etc, allowing USB-C to become the clear winner.

    When the EU came looking at ports there was no obvious reason to keep Lightning around. Had it offered something superior to USB-C they’d have had a much harder time creating the mandate.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • M5 MacBook Pro now expected in the first half of 2026

    saareksaarek
    danox said:
    nubus said:
    danox said:
    Back to school and Christmas 2025 missed oh well….
    More of Christmas + end-of-year - but agree. There is no reason for the 3rd iteration of 3nm to slip.

    Let us rethink the next MBP.

    TSMC is on schedule to deliver 2nm volume production in 2nd half of 2025. Production started in 2024.
    Apple can't really use those chips for the duration of a year unless they go to iPad Pro, Mac Studio + Pro, and MBP.
    Tandem OLED is ready and the macOS 26 menu is designed for it.

    If the next MBP combines 2nm with OLED it wouldn't be late - it would be 10 months early.

    I was asked by a relative who is ready to buy a Mac PowerBook now and I told them do not buy now. Wait until Apple update’s to an M5 processor, what’s the point of buying an M4 MacBook Pro if the M5 version is right around the corner within the next three-six months?
    I’d strongly recommend against the PowerBook line, at 20 years old they really are only for the enthusiasts.
    Xedwilliamlondon

  • 'Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition' coming to Apple Silicon Macs on July 17

    saareksaarek
    apple4thewin said:
    saarek said:
    "will be playable on all Apple Silicon Macs" Except for the most popular, by sales, base models.

    I thought they were waiting for Mac OS Tahoe, I guess the new Metal features were not the cause for the delay after all.
    Could’ve been delayed to increase sales for the Switch 2 version.
    I’d guess not. It’s a SteamPlay title, so you can use it on Mac or PC. I’m not saying the Nintendo Switch users don’t play PC games too, but I can’t imagine many lost sales due to the PC port now supporting MacOS.
    williamlondon

  • New iPhone 16e offers Apple Intelligence at a low price point

    saareksaarek
    I feel for those poor iPhone 15 users. They got bent over and shafted with the deliberately nerfed RAM in their iPhones so that it wouldn’t be a competitor to this iPhone 16e.
    danoxwilliamlondon