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cy_starkman said:

I seriously hope that unlike the article states it is not based on the same code as the desktop Photoshop. That thing is a giant bloated mass of slowness and ancient times, not as bad s some of their other apps to be sure.

i use it, a lot, and have done since 1993. so i love it and am not being rude, but it could do with a full rebuild with actual mac support.

I'd sure hate to be the jerk whose job it was to port that mess to iPad… I have heard that the UI (toolbars, palettes, modals) were all re-written in Adobe Air for cross-platform ease, back when they thought Air had a future, and that is one reason why the Mac version is such a kludge.

NY1822 said:

Can anyone speak to their real-world experience to the battery life on the Series 5 compared with other models....

The writer for Ars Technica says he got 32 hours by turning the screen back to “classic mode” or whatever you might call that. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/apple-watch-series-5-review-a-better-more-independent-timepiece/

My all-time favorite anecdote about the iPhone was regarding Blackberry's disbelief that the original iPhone could do everything promised and last longer than about an hour. “They were expecting a computer with a battery attached to it; they opened one, and found a battery with a computer attached to it."

This is utterly brilliant.

All that talk about the 16" MBP going back to scissor keys… since when has Apple ever gone backward on anything? Maybe they'll re-introduce SCSI ports on the new Mac Pro while they're at it. No, whatever sort of key mechanism the next Apple laptop has, it won't be "the old one."

The iPhone 7 haptic-feedback home button and the Macbook haptic trackpad button have been resounding successes. Nobody wants a purely haptic keyboard; an approach like this is very best-of-both-worlds. I just fear that patents like this are usually filed years before actual devices make it to market, so we'll have to file this one away in the "someday/who-knows" bin.

fruitstandninja said:

Nice article with good explanations. If I have an old MacBook that Apple can’t service anymore do you have a recommendation where to get a legit and safe battery? 2011 15” MBP. Thanks!

I've had excellent luck with various parts from Other World Computing.