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  • iPhone 14 Pro models may be more expensive than iPhone 13, Kuo says

    saareksaarek
    Price increases will make them a tough sell for the rest of the world.

    The USD is massively inflated at the moment, so the two combined could be as much as a 30% price gouge for people outside of the US.
    williamlondongrandact73waveparticlecaladanian

  • Apple TV with A14 & new HomePod with Apple Watch S8 chip rumored for 2023

    saareksaarek
    The Apple TV could easily be a great gaming platform. But until Apple releases a gaming controller for it it’s not going to happen.

    Yes, I’m aware you can add existing Bluetooth controllers, but it’s a faff that the average person isn’t going to do.
    williamlondon

  • Apple Studio Display review: How badly do you want an all-Apple experience?

    saareksaarek
    It’s a 6 year old LG ultrafine display in a much nicer overall package.

    I was seriously looking forward to this display, had hoped to pick one up, but I’m not going to and for me it’s all because of the lack of height adjustment as standard.

    Such a shame they decided to not include tilt and height adjustment as standard, £400 extra just to change the height when most monitors put there have it by default is just crazy to me. My £600 LG has it, why does the £1600 Apple display need to cost an extra £400 for this basic functionality?
    williamlondonkestrallewchenko

  • Leaked M1 Ultra Mac Studio benchmarks prove it outclasses top Mac Pro

    saareksaarek
    darkvader said:
    melgross said:
    Well, I was hoping to be able to test this myself soon, but apparently, even though I ordered a couple of minutes after the store went live, I’ll be waiting sometime into April for the monitor and until late April and possibly early May for the computer.

    i’m using the 16” Macbook Pro with 32 graphics cores and 64GB RAM now, so I’m really interested to find out how close to a doubling in performances I’ll see with this. Double the rendering engines as well. That should prove interesting.

    I'm a bit disappointed in the monitor though. I was hoping for a model that was somewhat more expensive, with miniLED, and possibly even 6K, as I’m hoping the new higher end monitor expected to come out will also use MiniLED, an advance over what it has now, and possibly go to 8K, though now I’m reading something about 7k, which is an odd resolution. But I bought this new one anyway. From what I’m reading, it should be somewhat better than the present iMac versions.

    MORE expensive?  $1,600 starting price isn't highway robbery enough for you? 

    No idea why you bought one of these then.  Apple's got you covered, they can rape your wallet very effectively with their other stupidly high priced monitor.  Might as well option it up, with the stand and the VESA mount (why not have both, since you're so filthy rich) it's only $7,197.00

    For the rest of us, $500 is a very high end price for a really good 27" monitor.  My eyes can be perfectly happy with $300 one.
    The display is actually very good value for what’s being offered. The cheapest 5K 27” display is around £999, the LG UltraFine is usually around the £1150 mark.

    On paper, at least, the new Apple display is quite a bit superior to the LG. So it is priced quite keenly for this grade of monitor.

    Where Apple loses people, and rightly so, is the £400 add on for the height adjustment. They’re just taking the piss at that price point and they know it, it’s just like the wheels on the Mac Pro.

    Really the height adjustment should just be standard, even if it meant a charging $50 more to everyone. But Apple is Apple and they pull this crap a lot.

    Still, as a monitor, forgetting the “optional extras” it’s a good price.
    sconosciutomelgrosswilliamlondon

  • Apple announces 'Tap to Pay', lets users take payments on iPhone

    saareksaarek
    Sigh, US only. Just like Apple Cash. It’s such a shame that Apple doesn’t bother to make things like this available to their other big markets like the U.K.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra