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  • AirTag and Find My helps traveler bust Brussels theft ring

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    I use AirTag's religiously for all my luggage and certain high-value items.  I really wish that Apple's next-gen AirTag be even thinner and preferably flatter.  

    It would be nice if companies would start including AirTag-specific areas in their products that make it hard to identify/remove an AirTag.  Companies that make backpacks, even bicycle-makers can make compartments in the bicycle frames to install an AirTag and make it difficult to remove, etc... 

    AirTags have changed the game.  Even police departments have been recommending that people hide AirTags in their vehicles to help in finding stolen cars.  It's that good.
    watto_cobra

  • Oceanic+ Dive Housing turns iPhone into an underwater camera & dive computer

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    I'm a professional underwater photographer.  There's been quite a few underwater housing options for smartphones for a while.  I do like this version as it appears to be quite a more robust offering.

    That being said, I would never use my primary phone in one of these housings, simply because if I'm on some tropical vacation out in the middle of nowhere, my phone is my lifeline to the outside world and a flooded housing at-depth could result in a ruined camera.  This is a great option if one has a secondary smartphone to use.  I'd be curious if there are options to use strobes via optical cord.  Oceanic is really making a name for itself in the Apple ecosystem.


    watto_cobra

  • Upgrading an Apple Silicon Mac mini SSD is possible, but a slog

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    YP101 said:
    Apple should reconsider SSD should be replaceable. What a waste of money and landfilled.
    Over $1000 laptop or desktop died due to just SSD failure. Is this really green as Apple always claimed all their product made by recycle material but in the end they create more unnecessary.
    Mac mini, Pro, Studio, Macbook Air and Pro can be user replaceable like Mac Studio Apple's own form factor SSD.

    I am not asking Apple makes their computer use nVME PCI-E 4.0 or 5.0 SSD from Samsung or others.
    I am asking stop create products that force consumer to choose from the purchase and stuck with SSD.
    The RAM is already some what built in with chip so I don't care. the RAM rarely failed anyway. And soon or later Apple will bump base model to 16GB.   

    People will upgrade their computer anyway soon or later.
    However don't make them force to buy new computer and can not trade in if computer not functioning as not able loading MacOS due to SSD failure.
    Currently Apple only recycle it free of charge from you.
    Unless Apple pay trade in not functioning computer as long as no physical damage shown at least 50% what same model functioning computer trade in price.

    I am not sure why FTC does not look into this? This is more against consumer right then Microsoft and Activision merge. 
    This topic has been beaten beyond what can be done to a dead horse.  I'm not going to go through the effort of a link.  Go find it yourself.

    The majority of consumers will NEVER upgrade their system after purchase.  The only people that complain are minority (and loud) people like you, and YouTuber's like Luke Milani that depend on your faux outrage to drive viewership to their channels and make money from that faux outrage.
    watto_cobra

  • Apple's Mac mini has outlasted Intel's NUC

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    bsd228 said:
    The Intel NUC hasn't died.   Like the IBM PC, it has been coopted by legions of OEMs offering original NUC sized compute units for $200-500.   
    $270 got me a hex core AMD with 2.5gb ethernet, 16gbs, and a win 11 license to toss as I please.  Smaller than the Mac Mini of today, and in the same ballpark on power.  Takes an M2 and a 2.5" drive.  

    They won't have the GPU, but that's not what they're used for.   
    Smaller?  Does it have a brick for an AC adapter?
    williamlondonbloggerblogFileMakerFeller

  • Why Apple uses integrated memory in Apple Silicon -- and why it's both good and bad

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    lam92103 said:
    So every single PC or computer manufacturer can use modular RAM. Including servers, workstations, data centers, super computers. 

    But somehow the Apple chips cannot and are trying to convince us that it is not just plain & simple greed??
    Just stop.
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