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FW 12 Wildcat Lake
Looks like a solid update, double the battery life with a good performance update. Sadly no upgraded display, yet.
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New Amazon Alexa tablet devices have (optional) Pro Pen
Apparently the pen needs to be charged, so I'm guessing USI or something along those lines:
Apparently annotations made in a book will show up on a Kindle Scribe.
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What's the deal with Surface Pro 10 prices?
I'm looking at Surface Pro 10 price on ebay & abase with the 16gb of storage more or less is going for the same price base Surface Pro 11 intel. Does the 10 have something(besides more complete drivers for Linux) over the Intel 11 that I overlooked that warrants the similar price?
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Keyboard mess
Soo, I was sitting next to the beach, replying to a bunch of e-mails in the early morning as the sun was rising over the ocean. Quiet, beautiful and at peace with myself.When out of the sky a huge birdshit landed right on my keyboard. Apparently those are nasy acidic things. Two minutes later, despite immeditely turning of the keybaord and cleaning it, five keys (EDFGR) no longer worked. Time to go to the nearest temple and buy a curse of avian flu on all the birds in the neighborhood.
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Sometimes You Just Can’t Say No
I’ve had my M4 Pro Mac mini for almost 1.5 yrs and it’s been great. But I have been pushing its limits lately (heavily modded Skyrim SE in particular—there’s always a neat new mod that taxes performance a bit more) so I took a look at potential upgrades.
Apple offered to take my mini as a trade-in for only $150 less than I paid for it if I got a new M5 Max Studio. How’s that for holding its value? You really need to take that into account when getting Apple sticker shock…
Windows gaming alternatives to the base M5 Max Studio ($2500), spec and performance wise, are ~$500 more whether desktop or laptop (RTX 5070/5080-ish, 32GB RAM). At MSRP anyway. So we’re not talking a huge difference and after trading in the Mac mini it’s half the price of a Windows equivalent. About $1500 spread over 12 months, interest-free,…
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Dellaster
5 days ago
This was more of an "adventure" than I bargained for. UPS' routing got terminally confused and it took a week and a half before Apple & UPS investigations could sort things out. The original order needed to be returned to Apple and a replacement was sent to me overnight. I received it yesterday.
Super easy setup from the Time Machine save from my outgoing traded-in M4 Pro Mac mini. Finished in half an hour. It's as much of an upgrade as I expected.
In October 1984 I bought my first Apple, the 512K "Fat" Mac, for $2500 USD. Here I am 42 years later with an immensely more powerful and capable Mac for the same USD price, though not the same cost--that first $2500 would be $8000 in today's dollars. What a bargain! 😺
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Small Pen for the Duo gets Axed.
Noooooooooooo! OMG. Nooooooooooo! Apple scrapped a shorter Apple Pencil for the Apple Duo, report says
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dstrauss
Sep 25
WHY are pen users always the runts of the tech litter? I'm in for a Duo even if I have to carry a Bic pen...but you are so right Bronsky - "I think the Duo is a great looking device (I also thought it was great when Microsoft designed it the first time)." In fact, I've been hunting for it and can't find the article, and even Zac Bowden back in 2023 said the Microsoft Duo 3 would be a folding screen. https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/microsoft-scraps-plans-for-dual-screen-surface-duo-3-pivots-to-new-foldable-screen-design
PS - wasn't that about the time Panos was playing footsy with Apple???
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Refurb Surfaces?
What were those sites that had corporate/business refurb & open box Surfaces? I'm looking at getting either the SP10 or SP11 Intel(not the SD) variant. I remember CDW, but forget what the other sites were.
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darkmagistric
Sep 12
CDW is the big fish, but other ones woud be Insight, SHI, and Connection. CDW is sort of unique since they are both a Commerical Reseller and a Distirbutor, whereas the other three are purely Commerical Resellers. Refurbs and Open Box's however are not that common to find.
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Tablets & 2in1s under 13"?
It's been a moment since I've been here. Surface Pro 7+ has been doing well after 5 years(well technically 3 years as this is a warranty replacement). Today I the camera drivers caused the device to crash. That usually happens like twice a month. Then later today I noticed a diagonal hairline crack on the display, only noticeable at certain angles. I think these are signs it's time to upgrade.
I like the 12" size. Besides the Framework 12 & Surface Pro 12" what are the other pen enabled options in the under 13" size? FW 12 looks very good, but the upgraded display probably wont be out until another year. The 12" should offered the Snapdragon X Pro cpu over the plus & user swappable SSD(like my 7+). Would rather do X Pro cpu if I am going to try another ARM Windows device. Yoga 11 ARM flashbacks(no pen…
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iPhone Duo
Pot Committed...just saw Gurman's final rumor mongering on the iPhone Fold/Ultra - it will be named iPhone Duo (sorry Microsoft, you blew it AGAIN). But more importantly, it will support Apple Pencil. So now I have about 30 days (not showing up until October, and waiting list likely to go to Christmas) to get the kidney sold - starts at $1999 (actually better than I thought - see how "raitonalization" works), but my guess is 512gb storage is a minimum of $2400. Just checked my 3 year old iPhone 15 Pro Max and it is only using 107gb of its 512gb...hmmmmm
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nyb72
Sep 12
The USB C version of Apple Pencil has no pressure sensitivity, right?
I hope Apple markets the heck out of having Pencil functionality, and like others said, forces Samsung to bring the SPen back into the Fold.
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The GSMArena article confirms USI:
https://www.gsmarena.com/amazons_new_alexa_tablets_use_the_google_play_store_and_are_more_capable_than_fire_tablets-news-74965.php