Gaby

MplsP said:

Gaby said:

Almost everyone I know who has had one of these has either seriously regretted the purchase or returned for something else entirely. And how people can still talk about “apple tax” in 2019 and keep a straight face comparing to some other brands really surprises me. Don’t get me wrong apple products are in general by no means cheap but I personally find them worthwhile overall. 

Historically, the 'Apple Tax' has largely disappeared when you look at product life. My 2011 MBA was still doing fine until the screen started to go out about 6 months ago.

I haven't owned a windows machine in years, so my info may be out dated, but I remember the days when 3 years was pushing it. Regardless, $3K is a lot of money for a windows machine with mediocre performance

@MplsP Oh I know that, My Fully loaded 2013 retina MacBook Pro is still perfect, and can still handle most things i throw at it with ease. Granted I’ve found myself using it less recently as am finding I’m content using my 2018 iPad Pro for more and more to my surprise. So much so that I don’t think ill bother upgrading my Mac any time soon now. I worked with windows for years many moons ago and owned multiple pcs back as a kid and into late teens when i was working with them and enjoyed tinkering, and from personal experience as well as many many friends the average cost was between £4-500 every 2-3 years.(for pretty basic laptops) I had a very high spec laptop and even that was useless after 4 years. And its not that alone, but all the constant work involved for anyone who like me could maintain a pc longer than average. If i were billing for the hours I had to put in on a weekly basis to keep machines running as they should it would really add up..... Thankfully thats much less of an issue - if at all with mac, nor is the necessity to be running antivirus and trawling your registry for malware. Obviously desktops can be upgraded to some extent but one still has to factor in the maintenance, the naff OS and cost of upgrades..

Almost everyone I know who has had one of these has either seriously regretted the purchase or returned for something else entirely. And how people can still talk about “apple tax” in 2019 and keep a straight face comparing to some other brands really surprises me. Don’t get me wrong apple products are in general by no means cheap but I personally find them worthwhile overall. 

A rather curious turn of events considering both google and amazon had been reported on many months ago and yet at the time they felt no compulsion to halt or review their respective systems of ai/voice review. All I have to say is
Baaaaa!!!! 🐑 

I’ve been able to do this for about 18 months unless I’ve gone mad..... I’m sure I set up my last iPhone this way. Why is it being touted as a new feature ?

This crap drives me insane. Complete and Utter b*llocks!!! These lazy, Incompetent, Arrogant Cretins need to remember how to do actual police and detective work. The establishment has become so used to being able to eavesdrop and snoop on every aspect of an individuals life and delve into ones most private and intimate of thoughts, that they now labour under the delusion that they are entitled to do so. And put quite simply, they are not.