hypoluxa

fastasleep said:

hypoluxa said:

I just bought an OWC 13 port dock, as I have a FW800 HDD as my backup. I sold my 2012 15" (non retina) MBPro yesterday, and bought the new 15" MBPro 2.6Ghz. The dock is a tad pricey, but will be worth the ports and peripherals I have to use that were lost with the new laptop. In for the long haul here. 

Why on Earth would you continue to use FW800 over USB? A USB 3.1 gen1 (5Gbps) or gen2 (10Gbps) enclosure is going to be a helluva lot faster than FireWire at 800Mbps. What a waste of a 40Gbps TB3 port.

I still use FW800 hard drive enclosures/docks but only because I'm still on a 2011 MBP, and USB 2.0 is only 480Mbps. I absolutely cannot wait to finally upgrade this year and recycle all of that garbage and move to USB 3.1 gen2 enclosures.

 Just cancelled my order for the OWC dock.

This is a nice update. Glad they were able to get it up to 32GB in RAM. Long overdue. 

I am looking at the 15" 2.6GHz model to possibly replace my  2012 MBPro 2.6GHz (9,1) non retina. Just have to get a hub for it with all my peripherals I'll need to connect to it. Looking into the OWC TB3 13 port hub. It's a tad pricey but it's got all the ports I need.

sflocal said:

"I used to take my iPhone7 into the sauna at the gym, and it would sometimes overheat"...

Even those working at AI are sometimes are a few cards short of a full deck.  Many gyms, mine included have very restrictive policies about carrying phones around in the locker room areas.  If I saw someone at my gym with a phone in the sauna, not only would I shake my head in amazement that they would even do that, but I'd tell that clown to take it outside to an established zone and/or report them to management.

Saunas and electronics do not mix.  I must be getting old because this is crap that I would never do (I'm a software engineer) and must be more like a millennial thing with serious device-attachment issues.

My thoughts exactly. WTH was this guy thinking!?

Apple has already explained their reasoning in doing this. Totally makes sense if one were to think about it critically. Batteries age and go bad. Replace them when it is needed! It is not a f'n conspiracy. Granted they should have ben more transparent about it, but that's how they operate.

I have both Affinity Photo and Designer, don't use them a whole lot but am impressed by them. I bought them early on when they were initially released. I'm just waiting on a InDesign replacement from them to make the full switch. I get my Adobe CC apps through my work so I don't have to worry about the financial aspect of using them. However once that goes away, Affinity software and or Pixelmator Pro will probably be my goto replacement. For those looking for a good PS replacement, Affinity is a great option!