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I suspect it was a matter of supply, more than demand. Lots of iPad SKUs, from the mini to the Pro, were sold out in November and December at Best Buy, the Apple Store, B&H, Adorama, etc. My stepdaughter and I both got new iPads in January, bec…
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If you can live without 4k there’s always the Lenovo ThinkVision M14 for about $100 less; it also has USB-C power pass through with connectors on the left and right sides.
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rcfa said: Much more useful would be an e-ink display on the back of iDevices: personalized appearance, reading, (subway)maps, QR codes (tickets, vaccination certificates) on the phone in an always-on (even without battery charge left) state.…
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We have one of the first-generation Beams, and we've been pretty happy with it. In our case, it's connected via optical to the television (an antique, pre-ARC 32" Panasonic LCD TV) and the audio connection has been stable and reliable. Using it as…
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I guess I'm not surprised that Apple is in third place behind Amazon and Google in this race, given that Amazon relentlessly pushes really inexpensive Echo speakers on their website - Echo Dots are often available for $30, vs $100 for a HomePod Mini…
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A number of the other "mac mini docks" that have internal storage have a bad habit of disconnecting the drive when the host computer goes to sleep, which tends to make macOS pretty unhappy. Would be interesting to know if this enclosure/dock has the…
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For All Mankind is the only thing I've watched on AppleTV+. Looking forward to Season 2.
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Had a touchbar 2017 MacBook Pro...and honestly, I couldn't see the point in it. I constantly triggered things on the touchbar as I was typing and could never figure out what was going on with it. But I'm also one of those people who feels customiza…
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Compared to a typical 20,000 mAh battery pack, the Flash 2.0 is larger (18.24 cubic inches vs. 14.26 cubic inches), heavier (17oz vs 14oz), and about four times more expensive. It seems that the other claim to fame for this battery pack is charge/d…
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tmay said: ARM is intended to drive costs down, with better battery life, for a lower price point. That says Mac Book or Mac Book Air, not desktops. I'd argue that there is a significant proportion of Mac users who have never needed X86 compati…
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Personally, this thing seems more like "the charger you leave on your desk at home" to charge your laptop, not the one you put in your laptop bag and grunt around with you all the time. I use RAVPower's 61W 2-Port USB-C/USB-A charger with my 15" Re…
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I hear every day that their Windows-based Surfaces are the bomb, and that any day now they will put Apple out of business by stealing iPad and premium laptop sales...this news confuses me! But really, seriously - Microsoft already has a mobile OS …
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Something else worth considering is that they found a security issue or vulnerability with the reviews system and removed it until the problem could be triaged.
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I have to admit that I'd be more inclined to subscribe to Adobe's software if they offered an annual discount - $9.99/mo or $99/yr. It somehow grates on me to see an annual price that's "monthly price x 12".
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The real question is what is the authors opinion of the KEF LSX speakers in the background of the photos? I auditioned them a couple of months ago and was underwhelmed, which shocked me, given that I’ve been a KEF fan going back to the late 80s. The…
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At this point, we've been waiting for an iPad Mini update since, what, 2016? I stopped holding my breath last fall and bought one of the "standard" 9.7" iPads. To be honest, I don't really like the larger size, but it would be tough to justify pur…
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It's a shame that the user ergonomics of Podcast consumption on iOS have fallen off a cliff. I used to use podcasts as entertainment while working out, etc, but since it's basically impossible to select a podcast and have the episodes automatically…
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vmarks said: Velop didn't take 45 minutes to get nodes talking to each other. If it had, the review score would have been a lot lower and I'd have talked about it as a real problem. Velop of June is way better than Velop in January must h…
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From my own personal experience, Netgear Orbi has been more stable than Velop - I've had significant issues with the stations in the Velop system "losing their lunch" and having to be power cycled to get them working again. That said, the Velop of …
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I like Pandora, and have used it for a long time, but... They really need to expand their song library. I use Pandora primarily for music discovery, but I feel like I've found the limits of their music selection. I'll come back to 'stations' I ha…