davgreg

Using a Satechi hub right now that is a legacy from a MacBook Air and everything works fine from a Focal speaker set to a M-Audio keyboard to a Plugable HD unit, etc. 

Having owned or currently own a Surface Pro, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iPad Pro, Mac mini, iPad Mini, etc. 

Unless you just absolutely need a Windows PC you are far better off with an iPad Air or iPad Pro if you want a tablet device. iPad OS is simply more stable and the devices more powerful. They also have better resale value when you are done.

Parallels Access will allow you to run Windows app remotely on your iPad as if they were native apps on iPad OS.

With Office and many other suites of SW having migrated to cloud computing the reasons to buy any Windows PC continue to diminish. 

Not a fan of Oops! (UPS).

Not sure why Apple uses them instead of FedEx and DHL. I would like it if Apple offered us a choice and it would not be Oops.
My “signature required” $2000 + laptop was left with no signature at my neighbors house and not because there was nobody home.

This is just the kind of service often seen from Oops in my area. With numbers clearly on the house in broad daylight in 70 degree sunshine they managed to not get the delivery right.

Grrr…

Things HAVE gotten better since Ive left.

Form should follow function and under Ive, Apple was on a jihad to remove every port.  Phil even was in videos talking about how Apple wanted to get to port free devices. We all remember the horrid trashcan “Mac Pro” as a replacement for a proper tower with internal expansion.

The new MacBook Pros show a decisive move away from that nonsense. I would much rather ports on my devices than a spaghetti bowl of breakout devices plugged into a single Thunderbolt or USB C port.

In the end a computer is a tool and fashion should not tackle precedence over function. Make it look good but do not sacrifice performance for styling.

I switched from AT&T to T-Mobile earlier this year and the transformation of the network is very noticeable.

I travel around a lot and at first I considered switching back as the 5G was worse than AT&T LTE, the LTE was not as good as AT&Ts and there were still many places with no service. For a little cushion I activated the built in AT&T hotspot in my car for wi-fi calling backup on the road.

About 6 months later the network is very different. Rural areas and cities alike have solid service to include 5G. There are areas previously without signal on T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon that now have T-Mobile 5G service - pretty remote areas.

The only area rough around the edges is the millimeter wave 5G which is still problematic. I was in Nashville near Vanderbilt Thursday and the millimeter wave was up and running but the network not well optimized - crazy fast signals outside and nothing inside a simple brick restaurant. It was like this in Memphis recently as the same tech was rolled out but was much improved within a month or so.

T-Mobile’s network is noticeably changing very fast.