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  • iPhone fold predicted to launch in late 2026 with no Face ID

    SuntanIronManSuntanIronMan
    It would be shocking for Apple not to have FaceID on a foldable iPhone in late 2026/early 2027. The Oppo Find N5 is a foldable phone available right now. When folded, the Oppo Find N5 is almost the exact same dimensions as a iPhone 16 Pro Max. Meaning it’s quite thin for a foldable phone. And the Oppo Find N5 supports fingerprint recognition AND facial recognition. It would be tough to justify the exclusion of FaceID in 2027 when a very thin foldable phone in 2025 can manage it.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Air update arrives with lower starting price & M4 performance boost

    SuntanIronManSuntanIronMan
    Ironic. I commented about another user not understanding a user’s reply, but I just realized that I misunderstood entropys’ comment about the Back to School Program sale. 

    Immediately I did that! Immediately!!! I feel quite silly right now, haha. 

    (I’m commenting about my mistake now before someone else rightfully calls me out on it, lol.) 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple finally accepts that 64GB is inadequate for iPhones and iPads

    SuntanIronManSuntanIronMan
    Xed said:
    You hear a lot more complaining about this on tech sites than in the real world. I'm using about 60 GB on a 128 GB iPhone which means 128 GB is ideal for my needs, but I know a lot of normal users who are doing just fine with 64 GB, especially on the iPad. These are people that only use it for basic consumption. You probably won't even find them keeping bookmarks in Safari in many cases.

    That said, I do think that 128 GB should be the minimum moving forward as iOS and iPadOS increase in size each year.
    Having 60GB out of 128GB used is WAY (!) different than having 60GB out of 64GB used. Fill your 128GB iPhone with 124GB worth of data and then try to update iOS. See how well that works out, lol. :D (Spoiler: Not well, haha.)

    I have a 64GB iPhone and I’m consistently hovering around 60GB used (give or take a few GBs). And a lot of the time that’s fine. But anytime I need to upgrade iOS, it takes some creative offloading of apps and deletion of data to get my phone to have enough free space to actually do the update.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Air update arrives with lower starting price & M4 performance boost

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    longfang said:
     Once again Apple teases with a low price for a crippled SSD of 256GB.  Apple is such a fraud when it comes to their environmentally preaching since they install small SSD that makes their device obsolete too soon and thus enters the landfill.  How is that good for the environment?  
    How is it fraud?  The prices and options are listed for all to see. Fraud is advertising 512GB and giving you 256. 
    Libertyandfree specifically was talking about Apple’s environmental record. I’m honestly not sure how you missed that unless you started typing immediately after you saw the word “fraud” and didn’t read anything else after. Some might disagree with what libertyandfree said, but what was said was quite concise and clear. 
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondonronnwatto_cobra

  • MacBook Air update arrives with lower starting price & M4 performance boost

    SuntanIronManSuntanIronMan
    Xed said:
    I shouldn’t be surprised (and I’m not) but: +$200 to go from 16GB to 24GB. Sigh… lol

    16GB is probably fine, but I wish the memory upgrades were a little more reasonable. $200 is 20% of the base model price.

    But you do just three free months of Apple TV+ with the purchase of the MacBook Air, so that’s good. :D

    Although I just redeemed three free months of Apple TV+ the other day with no purchase necessary, lol.

    Incidentally, I never really gave Apple TV+ a good try before. But when I found out that Ronald D. Moore had a show on it (For All Mankind), I activated the trial and started watching. It’s an amazing show!

    Apple TV+ has this great show created my absolute favorite sci-if TV writer… and it’s been on since 2019… and I had no idea.

    But anyway… $200 for 8 extra GB and a free Apple TV+ trial with a purchase, lol. 
    Or you can go from 24 GiB to 16 GiB to save $200.

    You need to look at the product category as a whole. Apple is offering the base model at less of a profit specifically to entice new and more buyers. There's a reason why Apple only sells the base model RAM configurations at stores instead of only having the maxed out RAM options available.

    The bottom line is whether it works for your needs. I can find a much cheaper Windows notebook but that doesn't work for my personal needs regardless the amount of RAM installed.
    Oh, I get it. I understand what you are saying. I’m just commenting about the memory pricing. No matter what though, +$200 for 8 extra GB is tough for me to justify knowing what memory prices actually are. It makes me feel like a stupid-idiot for even thinking about maybe considering the possibility of buying the Air with 24GB, lol.

    Just to be clear, I’m not calling anyone else a stupid-idiot. Just me personally. I’m the stupid-idiot. That’s how I feel when I hover over the +$200 configuration box, lol.

    (Actually +30,000 yen. I’m in Japan, but I’m typing the prices in USD since not too many in the comments section are from Japan.)

    I’m honestly thinking about a Framework laptop. Something that I can literally replace any and every component in it. I do like what Framework (the company) is trying to do. That Framework 12 that the company introduced a week or so ago looks really interesting. “12” for 12 inches. I do prefer small laptops. Man I miss that MacBook Air 11”. What an amazing laptop that was (for its time).

    I don’t think a price has been announced yet for the Framework 12, but I’ll be keeping my eyes out for it for its expected April preorder date. It’s annoying that Framework still doesn’t ship to Japan yet, but I can order one and pick it up that next time I’m Stateside. 
    I've jumped ship from MacOS to Asahi Linux, and I thought about leaving Apple hardware behind. I also love the modularity of Framework's machines. They're just so soul-crushingly ugly.... But it's true that it's the way computers should be built.

    As an aside, if I were in the market for a desktop, I'd definitely go for a System76 machine.
    I’m not too concerned with the ugliness of the Framework. The ugliness brings with it a certain charm. It gives it character. A wabi-sabi type aspect to it, lol.

    Although have you seen the colors of the recently announced Framework 12? Still has that modular-ugliness, but now with fun colors. That pink and teal Framework 12 in their blog post about the announcement… that’s fun.

    When was the last time Apple gave us a fun MacBook color? (iMac, yes, fun colors. But MacBook?) With the new Air we have a “Sky Blue” that looks like a gray color. And a silver that looks like a different gray. And a “Starlight” that looks like… a sandy-gray, lol. And then black.

    Even the recent iPads… I have the new purple iPad Mini. And it… looks gray, lol. A purple-ish gray. Thankfully I was able to find a clear-purple case for it that makes the iPad look like actual-purple now. 
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