I gotta check eBay for what it’s worth before the SB discount, DM me if you have an idea of an offer
As for why I’m always flipping hardware
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is it all clear to upgrade to big sur now
assuming createinstallmedia finishes sometime this decade (i swear it’s been running for over an hour)
I’ve been on big sur since the last beta after skipping Catalina and it’s all good except for blackmagic support which I’m really hoping someone fixes, it’s the sole additional downgrade on a release that frontloaded a ton of bad shit
visited my folks and have a big stack of dead five-plus-year-old iPhones. I wasn’t sure if replacing the batteries in them was worth the part costs but I checked sold listings on eBay and people are paying up to one hundred dollars for an iPhone 6 in 2021
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The 6s was my favorite iPhone of the ones I’ve had so that reads.
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Make your own airtag key ring hole with a 1/16” drill bit
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are there any windows laptops that compete (esp wrt build quality) w the m1 air at a similar/ lower price? m1 looks ace but yrs of small macos grievances have accumulated
honestly no – xps 13 was largely competitive with the preceding few years of shitty macbooks but apple had an open goal
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Surface Laptop build quality (the non-fabric ones, anyway) is great but price/perf is worse than m1 MBA.
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ugh. im happy to compromise on performance (i dont have extravagant needs), i just want good build quality and to not have to spend like 2k+ aud
if it helps there’s a lot of evidence that the baseline 2022 computer is going to be much, much faster than the baseline 2017 computer – lots of architectural improvements have unstuck themselves. everyone keeps quoting like 50 single precision tflops for mid-end GPUs by the end of next year, apple has a ton of headroom for the m1x and m2, 5nm ryzen is gonna be really great, etc
there’s stuff worth upgrading to now but it’s pretty $$$, I think january 2023 or so should be a free for all. I don’t envy the AUD situation though, every time I eyeball your prices they seem disproportionately worse even than canadian prices, which are already disproportionately worse than american prices (though that’s partially because australia actually has its own MSRP, unlike in canada where half the time it’s just “convert your money to US$ and pay the import charge, or go buy it down south.”
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yeah I feel like now is an awful time to buy a laptop that isn’t specifically the m1 air. like, you could pay more to get an xps 13 with an oled, and get terrible battery life, a loud fan, and shitty performance for your trouble. then you could look around and replace “oled xps 13” with literally anything else and the equation ends up the same.
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Yeah Australia has like the Alberta resource export powerhouse situation squared and likewise the currency variation is even crazier
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i was so ready for our dollar to soar vs the US given our relative pandemic experiences but if anything it’s worse than ever for us
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you’re cresting a six year high on a steady upward trend like we are at the moment, it’s just that it was shitty for so long after a decade of being pretty competitive, and dove again at the start of the pandemic
it’s buoying my mood to a greater degree than I like, I’m so weird about money in the first place that having to do any kind of border dance in order to pay the price that’s in my head for my favourite things seriously gets me down. at this rate I should actually be willing to convert a chunk of savings by the end of this year that would last for the next however many big dumb tech purchases, and if I do move back in 2022-2023 the way I’m feeling like I still may want to do, it’ll be the best time for that in ages.
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The pandemic impact has been so complicated that any economic expert that dared to make predictions was inevitably proven wrong several times. And the ones that got confident from being right about the initial events got cocky and were super extra wrong later
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Except economic genius Larry Summers of course who always says there is a one third chance of anything so he can never be proven wrong
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Selling proprietary wired wireless charging to preserve a peripheral licensing business is an Apple crime I want stopped but I would like a magnetic ZIF connector on my next laptop
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maybe i should make a new thread to ask questions about the 2007 white intel imac i got from my parents that i’ve been fixing up. trying to figure out the best version of OSX to put on here. it supports 10.4.7 up to 10.7.x, i think. doesn’t seem much benefit to tiger on paper since intel macs can’t run the classic environment. guess 10.6.8 might be the final destination so i can retain rosetta support? trying to find software that works on this is going to be horrible, isn’t it. all mac search terms seem permanently poisoned
definitely run snow leopard on a 2007
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