cy_starkman

davgreg said:

The market is saturated.

I would rather the devices have a longer life cycle by having things like user replaceable batteries. The trade in values of Macs seem to be pretty lowball.

-eyeroll- you can get any Apple battery replaced easily any day you want at very affordable prices; and out of warranty even cheaper.

if you really want your device to last longer, then make it last longer instead of pretending you can’t.

Fatman said:

No computer should be sold in 2020 with anything less than a 1TB SSD drive - period. Please manufacturers just stop making anything smaller! Apple are you listening? I looked into the mini ... add a 1TB SSD and you’re now at $1399 - that’s a deal breaker. Ended up buying an iMac on sale for not much more, figured at least I get a nice 5k display out of it (plus the keyboard and mouse) ... but still a lousy 1TB mechanical drive - spin spin noise noise! Cmon do I have to wait until 2025 to get the drive I need at a decent price!

Fatman said:

No computer should be sold in 2020 with anything less than a 1TB SSD drive - period. Please manufacturers just stop making anything smaller! Apple are you listening? I looked into the mini ... add a 1TB SSD and you’re now at $1399 - that’s a deal breaker. Ended up buying an iMac on sale for not much more, figured at least I get a nice 5k display out of it (plus the keyboard and mouse) ... but still a lousy 1TB mechanical drive - spin spin noise noise! Cmon do I have to wait until 2025 to get the drive I need at a decent price!

you have a way of using things - this does not make it “the way”

i often look for and recommend the least amount of storage. I would need to see a very good reason for any client of mine to need more than 256gig.

the business i work with at the moment barely uses 4gig of space for their files... unless you are hoarding vast archival music, image and video content... space is irrelevent. 

Eric_WVGG said:

cy_starkman said:

looks at the space taken up by a charge cable or two vs this monster slab vs how slow it will charge vs the cable and still has no idea why people bother.

seriously, why not just plug a cable into the 60w brick and power your device at the maximum rate.

smaller, faster - in every way better.

Good question.

Why would I want one power brick and one cable instead of three power bricks and three cables?

Hm.

hmmmm

first - chances are you don’t have 2 iphones and your partner wants their iphone on their side of the bed. so let’s scratch 3 power bricks.

second - you can easily buy quite powerful bricks with two ports. so let’s scratch the one versus two power brick argument.

which leaves us with two small cables. yes they are messy, but they are longer, lighter, more flexible, smaller, more portable and can charge other things, like your Apple TV remote.

for $180 this costs at least 3 times the price to give a bulkier, less useful, slower charging solution.

call me in another 5-10years when this stuff works and is useful.

StrangeDays said:

mpantone said:

rbnetengr said:

It’s really stupid that they came up with that lame “WiFi x” naming convention to make it easier for people to understand, even to the point of re-naming the older WiFi standards. And then...WiFi 6E?

Quite the contrary, the older naming scheme was totally obtuse for Joe Consumer.

Hey a name like 802.11 is really useful to the average person and is also super catchy and sexy. Then you get the different flavors: ac, b, g, n, x, whatever.

Do you think Joe Consumer can put those in order of release date, speed and security? Which one introduced access to 5.6GHz frequencies? When did the various security protocols first appear?

The average person isn't an electrical engineer.

Some technologists are so myopic they can't see the forest for the trees.

Agreed! Recently I had AT&T Fiber installed, which comes with a mandatory gateway/wifi-router (these a-holes charge you $10/mo for it indefinitely). I asked the installer which wifi versions it supported, 802.11ac, etc, and he had *no idea* what I was talking about. So if an internet router installer doesn't even know the different flavors of 802.11, who can expect the public to keep track of them?

Simpler naming is better naming.

a network installer does not know about the technology they are installing? this is a disturbing reality.

looks at the space taken up by a charge cable or two vs this monster slab vs how slow it will charge vs the cable and still has no idea why people bother.

seriously, why not just plug a cable into the 60w brick and power your device at the maximum rate.

smaller, faster - in every way better.