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  • Hands on with the new features of Apple Watch Series 7

    saareksaarek
    CheeseFreeze said:
    saarek said:
    I appreciate the fast charging, really, I do. But why can’t they just improve the overall battery life?

    Apple finally seemed to get the point on iPhone and really pushed overall battery life on the new iPhones.

    Many here will say something like “oh well I get all day battery life and just charge when in the shower so what are you moaning about?!”

    I enjoy hiking and sports such as skiing and want to leave my iPhone at home.

    On my AW7 it’s the perfect device to load on a trail, throw in the AirPods Pro and just go. But without my iPhone the Apple Watch dies within 6 hours, usually less.

    A bigger battery giving me up to 10 hours would be game changing for me and others like me.
    How much more additional weight and size would you be willing to accept for a 10 hour battery life? 
    The current form factor may not suffice.
    Well, the iPhone 13 is 3% thicker and gets 25% better battery life. I think I could happily live with that, how about you?
    williamlondon

  • Hands on with the new features of Apple Watch Series 7

    saareksaarek
    I appreciate the fast charging, really, I do. But why can’t they just improve the overall battery life?

    Apple finally seemed to get the point on iPhone and really pushed overall battery life on the new iPhones.

    Many here will say something like “oh well I get all day battery life and just charge when in the shower so what are you moaning about?!”

    I enjoy hiking and sports such as skiing and want to leave my iPhone at home.

    On my AW7 it’s the perfect device to load on a trail, throw in the AirPods Pro and just go. But without my iPhone the Apple Watch dies within 6 hours, usually less.

    A bigger battery giving me up to 10 hours would be game changing for me and others like me.
    williamlondonguyr

  • Hands on with the new features of Apple Watch Series 7

    saareksaarek
    eightzero said:
    A few comments on the AW7 that I received today:

    1. It was a gift for my wife, hence the 41mm version. She liked the blue aluminum and abyss blue sport band. They look spectacular, although she will stick with her custom band from the watch she agreed to let me trade in. Interestingly, the trade in does not require return of the band.

    2. The set up is slow and disappointing, and it took about an hour. First step was to unpair her existing AW3 from her new iPhone SE. Took a while. Then, while the pair of the new allows set up from a backup...no sign of the backup we just made on unpairing. I *think* we selected set up as new, but it didn't ask the usual new questions, so somehow we selected a backup. Oh well. I figured we'd let it set up, then unpair, and go look for the backup made...oh and hour ago. Next came the software update to 8.0.1. That took about 30 minutes. This simply takes too long, and Apple needs to rethink this.

    3. So after about an hour, the new AW7 comes up, and it appears that the old watch info is in it, including the status of todays activity rings. So far so good. Maybe dodged a bullet, as losing that would be disappointing.

    4. Some new apps appear, including some that were deleted on the old watch. Go figure.

    5. Here's the bad part: my wife is a doctor, and often needs to look at her watch to take a vital sign like a pulse. The AW3 display would dim and rather piss her off. Ah, sez I...the new AW has an "always on display" she will really like. Little did I know that when the screen dims....the second hand disappears. Ugh. The one feature I wanted for her...doesn't work...and there was no mention of this in any of the promo materials. But you folks with a AW5 and later knew this, so I'm the idiot here. No need to remind me.

    6. It is a nice watch. She likes the size, color, screen. It was a nice gift. I'll get one too. I just wish...oh...some of this didn't happen.
    I totally agree with the lengthy and frustrating setup process. An hour to an hour and a half is just ridiculous and it affects all models.

    Software updates are just as annoying. Most, thankfully, process over night, but if you want to manually trigger an update it can take up to an hour from start to finish. Maddening! 
    williamlondon

  • New Apple Watch Series 7 with more durability, larger screen area revealed

    saareksaarek
    Really boring update, had expected something big following the so so upgrade of the Series 6 over the S5.

    I guess it's a mature product line now and basic updates are all we can expect.

    On the bright side there is no major reason for my wife to upgrade her S4 and my S6 should go for the next 2-3 years.
    williamlondonpulseimageswatto_cobra

  • 'M2' chip to arrive in early 2022 in a colorful MacBook Air, says leaker

    saareksaarek
    aderutter said:
    red oak said:
    Hard to believe Apple would launch M1X MacBook Pros and then 6 mo later launch M2 MacBook Airs 

    Does not add up 
    An M1X would be faster than an M2.
    Totally adds up.
    M2X a further 6 months later would subsequently be faster than an M2 of course.

    It’d make more sense to release a M2X alongside the M2. I appreciate that Apple tends to release an “X” CPU in the iPads a few months after the iPhones and that these chips are as good, and frequently better, than the iPhones that then come out 6 months later, but telling a consumer that the M2 is inferior to a M1X is going to be hard.

    The M2 is a bigger number so it must be better is how the logic will go.

    I suppose you could argue that the M1X won’t be aimed at consumers, but real Pro’s who’ll know the difference.

    Still, seems weird that they’d not use the best chips on the Pro Mac’s and then filter down to the base consumer models. M2X followed by M2.
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