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I know everyone wants the fastest speeds possible, but a number of network factors often limit these speeds anyway.  I think for those that have Intel vs Qualcomm modems in their iPhone 7's, you wouldn't even know the difference in real-life scenarios.  Most of the time, my iPhone 7's cellular connection is faster or as fast as any WiFi network I can find anyway.  I now keep WiFi turned off and most of the time just connect my laptop to the phone for tethered access.  Have you used public WiFi anywhere lately? It's terrible and insecure.

I just checked (because I never cared before) and I have the Intel modem.  Works great!  Again, it's typically faster than I could care for it to be (About 36Mb download and 16Mb upload with 3 bars).  I guess maybe I'm just still amazed that I get that sort of bandwidth on a device that fits in my pocket no matter where I take it.

I'm not buying the 13.5 hours of battery life though.  The claim is that this is with video playback without WiFi and screen on low brightness.  However, that's not typical usage.  I know for a fact that I can get 12+ hours from an iPad with it actually being used.  I

This device is about 50% thicker than the iPad Pro and the latter has more pixels.  Notice how they compared it to the 12" MacBook instead of the iPad Pro... why are we comparing laptops to tablets exactly? Why isn't the iPad Pro considered a computer by statistics companies again?

The thing also weights more.  I'm not saying it wouldn't be a great device, but I don't think it's all that much better than the existing iPad Pro lineup and Apple is set to announce something new in less than two weeks...

Cue the trolls bemoaning Apple as selling antiquated hardware at overhyped prices...

Their latest keyboards/mice/trackpads are rechargeable.  I assume they stopped selling the rechargeable AA batteries now.

Soli said:

jbishop1039 said:

They used to sell batteries
Apple MC500LL/A Battery Charger with six NiMH batteries https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003XIJ566/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_nIYhzbT1VCTQW

Did they stop selling those for their keyboard and trackpad? Note those are AA, so they won't work in these headphones.

So... catching up with iOS then?  I'd say picture-in-picture in apps can be cool, but I'm also concerned that it would be too small to be useful.  Maybe mapping would work, but I don't know about other things.  It would seem to me their would need to be the ability to alter the app interface for a smaller size.